Serious Eats New York - newyork.seriouseats.com

What can you do to be cruel to an egg and not break the shell? Shout insults at it?

I understand she means how the chickens are manipulated to produce more eggs. Come one though, she probably makes enough royalties from Clueless(sort of ironic?) to justify buying eggs from a source other than factory farms.

you get royalties from movies now?

@Kenji: groan.

Some people refrigerate their eggs without any regard to how this effects the baby chicken. How would you like spending your entire gestational period inside the fridge?

LOL

I just don't like eggs anyway. I don't care if it hurts the undevelped fetus or not though! LOL

Yeah industrial eggs are terrible and I don't miss eating them either. Now farm fresh eggs...Those chickens have awesome lives, make the best eggs, and make great soup when they stop laying.

@chascates - eggs are analogous to babies, its not the ass they come out of.

@hungrychristel - its not fetuses but rather the industrial laying hens themselves that live the most miserable existence. No LOLing involved in that mess.

Thinking about food and the mechanics of it's in-gestion and out-gestion could lead to the latest trend: pop-starving. It's all the rage in LA and NYC.The abuse of the chicken egg has led to many of these "starvo's" as they're called, to publicly harass the humble chicken rancher. Big Egg soon will be the focus of many articles as is Big Corn, Big Tobacco,and Big Sugar. I say it's about time.

I only eat chicken eggs laid by "wild" chickens on the south slope of a hillside in Maui.... I have them rowed across the ocean one at a time and then gently hand carried by virgins to my front door.... that's how much I care... If I don't have those handy I get a dozen from the frig section at the local supermarket and start cracking!

Seriously, how would you propose they "get rid" of the non-egg laying chickens? Let them loose on a mountain top sanctuary in Wyoming?

Free range, cage free, organic diet.... All B.S. marketing terms for the most part to make people feel better about themselves or better about what they are eating. If you're getting them from a farm... good for you... while you're at the farm, go ahead and find out what happens to their chickens when they stop laying or are born male. They are either killed or are bred for meat.

Large farm, small farm.. "the journey" for the chick is still the same. On a small farm it may be more humane and more practical to do such things with more dignity. But the end result is the same.

I love chicken, I love eggs... I have also been lucky enough to see first hand where my meat comes from and how it gets from farm to table. It's eye opening for sure. But it will make you respect and appreciate everything that you will ever cook, put on your plate and eat.

Think about the journey the chicken took next time you are going to throw out giblets or wings.