VEGETARIANS: What makes eating EGGS right?
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Protein:
Eggs are an excellent source of protein. Egg protein is of high biological value as it contains all the essential amino acids needed by the human body. Eggs therefore complement other food proteins of lower biological value by providing the amino acids that are in short supply in those foods. 12.5% of the weight of the egg is protein and it is found in both the yolk and the albumen. Although protein is more concentrated around the yolk, there is in fact more protein in the albumen.
On the evaluation scale most commonly used for assessing protein, egg is at the highest point, 100, and is used as the reference standard against which all other foods are assessed.
Vitamins:
Eggs contain most of the recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C. The egg is a good source of all the B vitamins, plus the fat-soluble vitamin A. It also provides useful amounts of vitamin D, as well as some vitamin E.
Minerals:
Eggs contain most of the minerals that the human body requires for health. In particular eggs are an excellent source of iodine, required to make the thyroid hormone, and phosphorus, required for bone health. The egg provides significant amounts of zinc, important for wound healing, growth and fighting infection; selenium, an important antioxidant; and calcium, needed for bone and growth structure and nervous function. Eggs also contain significant amounts of iron, the vital ingredient of red blood cells, but the availability of this iron to the body is uncertain.
Eggs are an excellent source of protein. Egg protein is of high biological value as it contains all the essential amino acids needed by the human body. Eggs therefore complement other food proteins of lower biological value by providing the amino acids that are in short supply in those foods. 12.5% of the weight of the egg is protein and it is found in both the yolk and the albumen. Although protein is more concentrated around the yolk, there is in fact more protein in the albumen.
On the evaluation scale most commonly used for assessing protein, egg is at the highest point, 100, and is used as the reference standard against which all other foods are assessed.
Vitamins:
Eggs contain most of the recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C. The egg is a good source of all the B vitamins, plus the fat-soluble vitamin A. It also provides useful amounts of vitamin D, as well as some vitamin E.
Minerals:
Eggs contain most of the minerals that the human body requires for health. In particular eggs are an excellent source of iodine, required to make the thyroid hormone, and phosphorus, required for bone health. The egg provides significant amounts of zinc, important for wound healing, growth and fighting infection; selenium, an important antioxidant; and calcium, needed for bone and growth structure and nervous function. Eggs also contain significant amounts of iron, the vital ingredient of red blood cells, but the availability of this iron to the body is uncertain.
Well, people say they're bad because they are either babies or chicken periods. Both are not true.
Unfertilized eggs, like the eggs my pet chickens lay for me, are not periods because non-mammalians do not have periods. Unfertilized eggs like the eggs my pet chickens lay for me do not have babies in them because they are just the nutrition that the babies themselves would eat.
I'm not a vegetarian, I've heard many people say that there are hundreds of reasons why even non-vegetarians shouldn't eat them. One is that chickens take 34 hours to make an egg and a few hours to lay and it's very painful. Well, my chickens don't feel any pain when they do it and it only takes 21-25 hours to create a new egg. If I didn't collect them to eat them, the chickens would eat them out of instinct because eggs are just pure nutrition.
Plus, they taste good and can be eaten just as eggs or in cakes and stuff.
Unfertilized eggs, like the eggs my pet chickens lay for me, are not periods because non-mammalians do not have periods. Unfertilized eggs like the eggs my pet chickens lay for me do not have babies in them because they are just the nutrition that the babies themselves would eat.
I'm not a vegetarian, I've heard many people say that there are hundreds of reasons why even non-vegetarians shouldn't eat them. One is that chickens take 34 hours to make an egg and a few hours to lay and it's very painful. Well, my chickens don't feel any pain when they do it and it only takes 21-25 hours to create a new egg. If I didn't collect them to eat them, the chickens would eat them out of instinct because eggs are just pure nutrition.
Plus, they taste good and can be eaten just as eggs or in cakes and stuff.
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I am not a vegetarian b/c i think its wrong - i dont eat meat beacuse my body had a hard time processing heavy animal protein.
I eat eggs all the time.
I eat eggs all the time.
i believe that it is indeed almost as wrong as eating the animal meat itself. i say this because like any other type of eggs, these eggs contain a yet unborn baby chicken, and eating the egg means that you are also ingesting a baby chicken. many people will say that if the mother wanted to keep the baby she would have sat on it, but unfortunately they cant because they are fed hormones and as soon as the egg is laid it falls through the chicken's battery cage and onto a conveyor belt. the chicken undoubtedly wants to have its egg, but is forced to watch it leave the room and never to see it again. everytime i think of this, it reinforces my views of the subject.