If I were to pose this question to fifty random people on the street, my guess is that the vast majority would say, "Of course not!" in disgust. And yet, these same people probably eat chickens' periods on a daily basis.
Not to get all menstrual on you, but a girl's period happens when an unfertilized egg and other tissue are discharged from her body, right? Well, when a hen lays an egg, it has either been fertilized, in which case a chicken will eventually come out of the shell, or it's unfertilized, and people apparently thought it would be a good idea to eat these eggs.
I used to eat eggs, too, but one day, I went to crack open an egg and found blood in it. That was enough to keep me from eating eggs only when they were mixed into other things (like cake, cookies, etc.), then a couple of months later I was making cookies and cracked open an egg only to find blood in that egg, too. It was pretty sickening, and then I made the realization that I found blood in the eggs because eggs are chickens' periods. Needless to say, I stopped eating eggs entirely after that.
I can't think of anything more gross than eating a period. Who wants scrambled chickens' periods? I'll take tofu scramble instead, thanks.
If you want to quit your egg habit, but aren't quite sure what to eat instead, here are some suggestions:
- Making cookies, cake, or some other baked good? You can use bananas or applesauce as a binder, or check out Ener-G Egg Replacer (Find it at a store near you here.).
- Or maybe you're looking to get all fancy on me and make something with eggs as a main ingredient? Try some vegan quiche, French toast, or chocolate mousse.
Seriously, look at how sad the egg industry is anyway:
And look at how delicious the egg-free, tofu-scramblin' industry is:
Comment below with what you like to eat instead of chickens' periods.
♥ Marta
PS – I was going to include a disgusting "chicken period" image that my friend Joel made in this blog, but I decided to spare you all from throwing up your last two meals. You're welcome.
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Fantastic Tofu Scrambler is BACK! I just bought 2 boxes of it. This is kinda lame since in its absence we all improvised and learned to make our own tofu scrambler! But with Fantastic Tofu Scrambler back on shelves, I can spend more time perfecting my soysage gravy!
wooow… thats seriously nasty! I haven't been eating eggs for nearly a year, and I'm glad! I like Amy's tofu scrambler. It comes in a cute little pocket sammy, too!
♥ – Mud
I only eat eggs cooked in things basically because I still live with my parents and they cook for me and buy my food and stuff. So even being a lacto-ovo vegetarian pisses them off. I'm starting to stop eating it because I'm against the cruelty involved with the industry but it's not happening overnight.
Thanks Marta for writing the blog and showing the picture of tofu scramble..it looks delish!
and definitely thank you for not posting the gross pic
So gross. Someone told me that a while ago, and it was what finally got me to cut out eggs altogether.
Tofu scramble = love.
Thanks for this article…..
I'm an idiot so I never realized that about eggs.
Although I don't eat store bought eggs(I have well cared-for chickens on my home), I think I might avoid them from now on.
Thank you very much for posting this. Could you post it on myspace?
haha!
great article! it ought to show those crappy egg-eaters what crap they're eating!
I have never liked eggs, I always thought they were an embryo or something, but this is even worse.
I am a vegetarian and I want to go vegan. I will try the tofu scramblers. I love rice milk!
man I wish my mom would buy me tofu eggs! I'm so getting them when I'm an adault at least ^_^
ewwwwwwwwwwwww i had no idea!!! that is quite nasty i dont think if ill be able to eat eggs now. that is just nasty i am definetly going to tell my friends about this you should definetly post this article in myspace or something
Egss are a byproduct of the bird reproductive cycle, I wish we could get people to realize this!
This is weird of me but just out of curiosity, I'd still like to see the image you guys came up with…
dats DISGUSTING….
I don't think eating a chicken's period is disgusting. I ate a lot of disgusting things; and tofu is one of them. I don't have anythings against the vegetarian, it just, it doesn't bother me at all eat chicken's period. And lastly, good luck on all pf you guys on making the world to respect the animals. They are living things too, am I right?
part of the process to produce eggs, is they have lay lots of chickens, the females go on to produce more eggs whilst they gas the males. So even if you can accept they are chicken periods, you want male chicks to suffer a horrifing death likes the jews under the nazi's
ewwww! omg thatz freakin disGUSTING! OMG! i might juss throw up, *gaggin* gawd, omg i luved eggs b4 this, but…come to think of it, i have noticed a little bit of red a couple of times, but i didnt think much of it. omg, ima try to avoid eggs as much as possible. =( i am not a vegetrain (srry i know, wrong thing to type, but hey at least i am being truthful) i rlly wanna become a vegetrain though, but…its juss soo hard! =( help….
the first picture could seriously have been taken in my uncle's chicken barns. i havent knowingly eaten an egg in just about two years; i despise the thought of an egg being used for anything else than to produce baby chicks. yet, my family is deeply opposed to my opinion. my uncle has six different farms with over three hundred thousand chickens in these small cages. sometimes there are three chickens in a cage that is no bigger than two feet in area. you cannot walk around a barn without seeing at least ten dead chickens. it makes me so sad.
IM SO GLAD IVE ALWAYS HATED EGGS!!!!! now i hate them even more!
I've never eatten an egg.
The texture weather over cooked, under cooked, or cooked just right never felt right in my mouth.
My mother would try to get me to eat eggs when I was little.
And I would spit them out at her.
Or I would throw them back up because my body didn't like the chemicals that were in them.
Hell I've never even been to a FARM on a school trip.
I would refuse to get on the bus and scream and cry and say I didn't want to see the sad animals.
My boy friend is a meat eatter.
I know this sounds odd since I'm so agianst eatting meat and animal by products.
But my boy friend respects me.
And he eat's alot of Vegan food with me.
He also beings me to Vegan places to eat and buys me Vegan food products for his when I'm at his house.
Anyway this brings me to the first time we went to breakfast with my mother before we started dating.
And in the car on the way to the dinner I asked him if he was going to get a plate of Chicken Periods.
He looked at me funny.
So I explained to him.
Now everytime he trys to eat eggs I scream think of that shell your cracking as the tampon to that chickens period.
Then I smile at him and tell him I love him.
And he puts the carton of eggs down.
It's a pretty good plan.
Works everytime.
Guys don't like to think about dirty tampoons.
I've never eatten an egg.
The texture weather over cooked, under cooked, or cooked just right never felt right in my mouth.
My mother would try to get me to eat eggs when I was little.
And I would spit them out at her.
Or I would throw them back up because my body didn't like the chemicals that were in them.
Hell I've never even been to a FARM on a school trip.
I would refuse to get on the bus and scream and cry and say I didn't want to see the sad animals.
My boy friend is a meat eatter.
I know this sounds odd since I'm so agianst eatting meat and animal by products.
But my boy friend respects me.
And he eat's alot of Vegan food with me.
He also beings me to Vegan places to eat and buys me Vegan food products for his when I'm at his house.
Anyway this brings me to the first time we went to breakfast with my mother before we started dating.
And in the car on the way to the dinner I asked him if he was going to get a plate of Chicken Periods.
He looked at me funny.
So I explained to him.
Now everytime he trys to eat eggs I scream think of that shell your cracking as the tampon to that chickens period.
Then I smile at him and tell him I love him.
And he puts the carton of eggs down.
It's a pretty good plan.
Works everytime.
Guys don't like to think about dirty tampoons.
<333 ThunderCHOP
Thanks for opening my eyes about what I am putting into my body. I dont think I can eye another egg.
ugh…thanks for bringing that up…
I think the problem is what grade of eggs you were using. I eat eggs A LOT, and have only had this problem with lower grade eggs.
How many of the animals that you're trying to save eat eggs?
Wait, who actually can afford to buy things to replace eggs with all the time? I mean, sure you can buy frozen vegan foods, and replacements, but those are not cheap and who knows what kind of chemicals are in those. Besides, if the chickens are treated well, it doesn't bother them. So, yeah I see no reason not to "eat a chickens period". (Very mature title.)
All the people grossed out by the term "chicken periods", don't you realize that eggs are exactly the same before and after you read that term? Seems a little weird to stop eating them based on that… People should be motivated to stop eating eggs because the industry is cruel to chickens, not because of some stupid gross-out term.
Did you know that flowers are plants' GENITALS? Is knowing that going to make you stop sticking your nose in them? If it is, you're not very smart. The same goes for "chicken periods".
I am vegan and I had read in a Hindu book called "The Crack In The Egg" that a chicken's egg is a reproductive system. The yolk is an egg and the albumin (the white membrane that surrounds the egg) resembles the discharge and tissues in womens
vagina. So erase and replace your chicken eggs with the tofu scrambler and tofu. It's delicious, its compassion, its peace and love!
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eww omg i never knew!
thanks for telling me this..
oh well im vegan anyway
Anyone who didn't know this before is kind of stupid, and no eggs aren't exactly a chicken's "period," they're eggs. They're the same thing they were before you read this. The stupidity of some people here bothers me.
Also, if everyone stopped eating eggs and other animal products, all or nearly all of those animals that are making those products will be killed. Some of this animal rights stuff really is bull-crap. i can understand asking for better treatment of animals but at a point it gets really ridiculous.
yyyyaaaaacccccckkkkk! i will never eat eggs never again now . And thank you for that pictures you show to as.
I didn't know that egg were chicken period?! Wow I think I'm going to stop eating eggs D:
That's really sick :S
I think I'm gonna stop eating eggs, fersher.
I remember, once, i got blood in my egg too… i was making a cake, and i cracked open the egg right into the dry mix… i started screaming and i had to get my brother to throw it out for me. definitely traumitizing.
I heard about what chicken eggs were in the diet book skiny bitch.I started to think about when i have my period i almost threw up that was enough to make me stop eating eggs.Ive even got my mom into not eating eggs as well.
What in the hell is that chicken on the bottom row looking at ?
ohh…nice post but really?/?
My understanding is more along the following previous comment:
"…no eggs aren't exactly a chicken's "period, they're eggs. They're the same thing they were before you read this…"
The bottom line is either you're a vegan or you're not. I can't anymore imagine eating an unborn chicken after learning from vegsource.com more truths about dairy…ewww yuck.
Don
Food for thought….by the way the chicken in the picture is not staring, poor thing is dead….
1. Chicken eggs dont have blood in them unless they have been fertilized…nope thats not coagulated menstrual mess your looking at its a fetus.
2. most eggs you get from the store are raised in industrial battery chicken farms like the picture above and it is unsanitary for both the chickens and humans.
3. fertilized eggs are more healthy for you than unfertilized eggs, and if you refrigerate them right away and dont let them incubate in the nest you wont be able to tell the difference, unless you know what to look for that is, but there will be no blood.
4. Some eggs prior to going rotten will turn a hue of red just before they turn greyish brown and start to smell putrid.
hmmmm could be just bacteria you are seeing and not blood at all.
These simple facts are the main reason I raise my own hens. They are cared for in much much much more sanitary conditions. My eggs are only a few days old by the time I eat them and therefore less chance of bacterial growth. Never once since I have had my own chickens have I gotten a bloody egg, a rotten egg or a dead baby chick inside an egg, all which have happened to me when I used to buy from the store. My hens eggs also taste better than store bought eggs, and I dont even have to wonder why, it is because they are fresh and I dont feed them yolk dye and hormones. Poor battery hens.At least my hens will have a full free range life ahead of them.
Like humans, chickens regulary ovulate. Like humans, chickens expel non fertilised eggs. The difference between chickens and humans is that humans will keep a fertilised egg in their body until birth. Chickens will expel both fertilised and unfertilised eggs, and only sit on the fertilised ones.
I don't know if, when a hen expels an unfertilised egg, if there is fluid accompanying the expulsion. If so, then THAT would be the chicken's "period". I would guess though, that since they have no uterus, neither would they have a period, since a period is the expulsion of the unfertilised egg and the lining of the uterus prepared for fertilisation.
i m shocked to know day