Entirely random fact of the day

[textualdeviance]

Because I get tired of seeing this in various places:

The eggs one buys in a supermarket are not chicken embryos. They are eggs. They are not fertilized. They are a chicken period, not a chicken miscarriage.

Eggs from free-range hens with access to a rooster may be fertilized, but commercially produced eggs are not. The hens don't have access to a rooster, and therefore it's impossible for rooster sperm to get in to fertilize the eggs.

Given that so many people don't even understand this basic fact of biology, I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that so many people don't understand the first thing about human reproduction, either.

Comments

[havdrake.livejournal.com]

"They are a chicken period, not a chicken miscarriage."

This completely made my night. I am still laughing my ass off.

[flippet.livejournal.com]

Nice. :-)

Yeah, I'm just waiting for them to criminalize ovulation without fertilization. Becuz ur allowing a potential life to DIE, omgz! :-P (While we naturally have a double standard for ejaculation.)



Sigh. There's got to be an idiot-free planet somewhere in the universe, right?

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah. This actually came up in a discussion about the contraception-as-abortion proposal. Made me wonder if people think that human women are miscarrying every month.

Sigh...

[hawkdancer.livejournal.com]

Mmm I want me some chicken menstruation on toast! Yes!