Re: Entry 03

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! Thank you. I was talking about fertile eggs. In India, fertile eggs are also eaten and also in other countries. Besides, it is difficult to identify if the eggs are unfertile or fertile especially in India where they may not be sold separately. Fertile eggs are also sold and eaten in the West but they may be sold separately.

Most eggs sold in Super Markets and grocery stores may be laid by hens who may have never been near a rooster. Market production farms may not keep the young rooster chicks. They are either killed outright or sold off for meat production. On the reverse side, the eggs one buys at the local farmers market or roadside stands can be most likely fertilized. A fertilized egg takes about 48 to 72 hours under ideal temperatures and 80% humidity to start forming the embryo.

An egg consists of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, whose normal purpose is to nourish and protect a developing embryo (life) and its nutrient reserves. So it is originally meant to produce and protect life not for human consumption. The fertilized egg won't become a chick unless the hen sits and incubates it or one chooses to incubate it. But that does not mean the soul is not there in the fertilized egg. It is already present. For fertile eggs which are eaten, the killing of the embryo (life) is already done during refrigeration of the eggs. Fertile eggs will not contain a developed embryo in the final stage of availability, as refrigeration prohibits and kills cellular growth (life) since it is for an extended amount of time. So eating fertilized eggs amounts to killing or taking a life of a chicken and one will receive those reactions.

It is also difficult to differentiate between fertile and unfertile eggs. If not fertile, an egg has a blastodisc. If fertile, cell division prior to oviposition (laying) results in a blastoderm. As seen in the photo below, it is difficult to see the difference unless one looks very carefully. I don't



And finally, as you said, even unfertilized eggs are a kind of excreta or menstruation of the chicken coming from the same bowel hole where all the excreta is released. So it is in the mode of darkness and ignorance or tamo guna, to eat such an excretory product and thus Lord Gaura Krishna never accepts such a food offering. In the Vedic times, no one would even dream of eating such an excreta. But in Kali Yuga, so many unimaginable excretory items and edible things in the mode of ignorance are being accepted as a staple diet by the human beings due to a lack of desire and knowledge to avoid painful reactions in this life and the next. Many people in this world seem to like the taste of these things like eggs, fish, meat, insects, worms, reptiles, mammals etc., and absolutely anything else under the sun. No wonder the Lord will given them a suitable animal body in their next lives by which they can unlimitedly fulfill these cravings of eating these kind of foods in the mode of darkness which involve killing of other animals and life.

Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.

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