Yeah. I think a lot of people get confused by battery hens - the chickens that lay commercial eggs for consumption. THOSE eggs are unfertilized. You don't need or WANT a rooster anywhere near laying hens, and anyone who has had eggs from someone who made just that mistake can tell you how nasty a fertilized egg looks in the pan ...
But a fertilized egg is, well, just an external womb with an infant growing inside of it. But humans don't lay eggs, and they just see "food", _even when the character in question is supposed to BE A PERSON, and not "an animal", which is a distinction that should be re-examined, because you know the Sentinelese? I don't see where they can be considered "people", beyond species supremacist assumption based solely on genetics.
Yeah. I think a lot of people get confused by battery hens - the chickens that lay commercial eggs for consumption. THOSE eggs are unfertilized. You don't need or WANT a rooster anywhere near laying hens, and anyone who has had eggs from someone who made just that mistake can tell you how nasty a fertilized egg looks in the pan ...
But a fertilized egg is, well, just an external womb with an infant growing inside of it. But humans don't lay eggs, and they just see "food", _even when the character in question is supposed to BE A PERSON, and not "an animal", which is a distinction that should be re-examined, because you know the Sentinelese? I don't see where they can be considered "people", beyond species supremacist assumption based solely on genetics.