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When you eat eggs are you eating baby chicks?

I know that chicks hatch from eggs so when people make their scrambled eggs in the morning are they eating undeveloped baby chicks? And since women have eggs inside of their body couldn't we make eggs from them? Couldn't we have human scrambled eggs? I am not sure if undeveloped is a word. This is a serious question.

Public Comments

1. An egg is the same principle as a female egg, so when you eat it, you are eating an unfertilised egg, one that would never become a chicken.
2. The eggs you buy at a supermarket are unfertilized so no, there is not a baby chick in the eggs that people eat or a chance of one developing.
3. sorry, wrong forum, this is a vegetarian / vegan category... last i heard... eggs are animal.. NEXT!
4. The chicken eggs we eat have not been fertilized by a male rooster. And if we ate human eggs that would be a form of cannibalism.
5. They do not keep cocks at egg farms, without a cock the eggs are not fertile, fertile eggs don't hatch. The eggs you eat have no chance of becoming a chick.
6. no you are not it is an unfertilized egg. now if it was a fertilized egg yes but we eat unfertilized eggs. Not fertile eggs.
7. If an egg is from a supermarket it isn't fertilized and has no chance of becoming a chick. If you eat an egg from a hen who has been with a rooster it is fertilized, however doesn't have much chance of becoming a chick unless the hen goes broody and sits on it for 21 days or a person puts it in an incubator. Since the most common breeds of chicken have had the urge to brood bred out of them there's not much chance of the egg hatching. Incubators also have their problems, temperature, humidity, cost, so the chances for that egg aren't much better. So don't worry about it, eat the egg.
8. No, because those eggs are not fertilized.
9. When people have farms and they have chickens who have baby chicks, those eggs are fertilized- and you don't eat the baby chick. But, on some farms and in some factories people raise the chickens for their unfertilized eggs- these are the ones you eat. These ones don't turn into baby chicks. And I really wouldn't recommend trying to get an actual human being's eggs and eating them, but hey, that's just me...
10. Since everyone else answered that chicken's eggs are unfertilized eggs that would never become chickens, and because I agree with that, my answer is no. It would be very difficult for you to eat a human egg, seeing as it is very small (very, very small!) and difficult to obtain. Not only would eating one be cannibalism, but it would also be impossible to find it once you put it in a pan to fry it!
11. Technically, no. But eggs are VERY unhealthy. One egg has as much cholestorol as a double Whopper with cheese. NOT very healthy at all.
12. eggs for human consumption as far as I am aware are unfertilised and would never become a chicken, HOWEVER ! they are still produced by an animal and more to the point is HOW those eggs are produced, the cruelty involved in egg production is disgusting ! even many of so called " free range " involve cruelty and aren't free range at all ! " Around the world there are approaching 5000 million egg-laying hens. The latest numbers available show that China had the largest flock (800 million), followed by the European Union (271 million), the USA (270 million), Japan (152 million), India (123 million) and Mexico (103 million) (IEC, 2001). Globally, between 70-80% of laying hens are housed in battery cages. The proportion of caged hens in the EU is about 90% (Williams, 2000). There are about 30 million hens in the UK egg-laying flock. Some 66% are currently in cages, 27% kept free range; and 7% in perchery/barn systems (BEIS, 2005). "
13. No, you are eating an unfertilized egg.. Think of it like a chickens period.
14. The eggs that we eat are unfertilized, so it couldn't become a baby chick in the first place. It's kind of like we're eating a "chicken period." xD
15. No, its pretty much just baby food/nourishment, as the egg must be fertilized for an embryo to be present.
16. You are eating embryos not technically chickens.
17. no not exactly unfertilized eggs are not going to make life no