And Yet Still More Random Thoughts
November 5, 2007

Eggs

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Eggs freak me out.
 
I can eat eggs, and I like them, but I can't eat hard-boiled eggs unless I make them myself because they smell so weird, and someone could do something weird and gross to them and I wouldn't know it. And what's strange is that I don't have a problem with deviled eggs.
 
They are kind of gross when you think about it, and even when you don't think about it they're still gross. You just don't realize how gross they are because you're not thinking about it.
 
Eggs are not unborn dead baby chickens even though lots of people seem to think they are. Chickens make eggs all the time, the same way women do every 28 days. If a rooster gets involved, then the egg is fertilized and then it's a baby chicken, but if there is no rooster involved then the egg is just the result of the chicken's menstrual cycle.
 
I don't know if chickens get all moody and insane when they lay eggs, and come to think of it I don't know how you'd be able to tell. Chickens are always screaming and running around and from just what little I've been around them, I know they smell worse than any other animal. EVen worse than pigs.
 
Anyway, I don't get why animal rights people would be against eating eggs unless they, like so many stupid people all over the world, believe that by cracking an egg they're ending the life of a chicken. I don't think that animal rights activists are any more or less intelligent than any other segment of the population, although that's not really saying much, considering how ignorant most people are.
 
Kind of like how people really believe that George Washington's false teeth were made of wood. People just say that over and over, and more and more people accept it as fact, but it's not true. His teeth were made of ivory that, as it aged, started to look like it had rings in it the way wood does. Any false teeth are painful, I think, but wooden ones would be excruciating.
 
Anyway...
 
Eggs are not unborn baby chickens but they still freak me out. In fact, if they were unborn baby chickens they would freak me out less than they do, although eating them would probably be a lot more cruel to chickens. That's assuming that the chickens cared about their kids the way that humans do.
 
I only say that because I know that lizards don't care about their kids at all, and in fact are more likely to eat their own young than anything else, and I think birds have more in common with lizards than with us.
 
Maybe it's because they don't breastfeed. Breastfeeding is supposed to be so good for kids, and even though I'm very much in favor of breasts in every other way, breastfeeding freaks me out on so many different levels. I'm against breast cancer and I'm even against breast reduction surgery just on principle, but breastfeeding is weird.
 
I wonder if you could make cheese out of human breastmilk. If you could, someone could get rich marketing breastcheese for babies.

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