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The eggs we buy in supermarkets come from hens who have never seen a cock.

It’s basically bird menstruation in a shell.

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Well now I’m just hungry for an omelette.

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If you make it with ostrich eggs, is it called an omel?

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Pet peeve - chickens didn’t menstruate, they have no reason to. They do however ovulate, which is where we get the eggs from.

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Oh god…I need bleach for my eyes

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62 points

Yeah, looks like a lot of motherfuckers don’t know how eggs work. Absolutely not a gotcha.

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It’s about on par with the “every sperm is sacred” idea which to some extent is part of Catholic doctrine.

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Man God gets quite irate over that.

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Let’s face it, if gotchas ever really mattered the Catholic Church wouldn’t exist. Too easy to hand wave any real argument.

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11 points

Next explain why you can eat fish when you aren’t allowed to eat meat. It was always about money/scarcity/greed

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When god flooded the world for 40 days and 40 nights to cleanse it of sin, the fish were entirely unaffected and thus still full of sin. So they deserve to be eatened.

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Seriously speaking, does someone have an answer to the land animal meat vs fish thing? I’m curious now

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It was originally the Latin word “carnis”. They invented the fast from meat specifically to mean giving up the best food of, like, beef and chicken. When translated into English, “meat” was the best word they had to refer to the concept of land animal meat.

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But would they let you eat fertilised eggs?

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You wouldn’t want to, but if you want to, ask for balut.

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I wasn’t saying I wanted to, I was just asking if the Catholic Church would let one eat them on Fridays.

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It’s not a problem as long as the eggs weren’t incubated for too long. It will take for a while before anything visible developes

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I mean I get it but generally you don’t eat fertilized eggs

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Yea just like Catholics don’t consider unfertilised human eggs to be humans

The Catholics are consistent this time

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They don’t support birth control because of the potential, though, last I checked. Thank God my lunatic parents at least recognized that was too far

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You do if you have roosters

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How many people do you think own roosters compared to the number of people who eat eggs? It’s gotta be less than 1%

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Does the quantity of roosters determine the validity of the argument? How many fertilized eggs must be eaten to meet your metric?

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generally

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Those ones do it on purpose and are eating balut.

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beavers and capybara are classified fish by the Catholic Church

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Water creature moment.

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Hydrologic high ground

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TIL eating beaver is approved by the catholic church

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How about ducks?

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no, but alligators and puffin.

my basic understanding is that people wrote intentionally advantageous descriptions of the animals when submitting them to the Vatican for approval or something. like they just stressed how much time the animal spends in water and not much else, and the pope wrote back saying “yeah that’s okay”

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Iirc the capybara thing was a special dispensation to help out indigenous tribes in south America

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10 points

Witches.

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How do you know ducks are witches?

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Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?

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Yikes. Someone didn’t pay attention in school. They’re having a.fantasy gotcha conversation where they’re the hero, though…

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My guy have you seen Lemmy

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Not related to this point but also fish isn’t meat according to them.

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