CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?
CC: Correctβ€”um, no, wait.
@juglugs One typically eats unfertilized eggs these days. Admittedly, tough to know if there are roosters about, but for vast majority of eggs consumed, there weren't.

@walshman23

Today, yes.
But when the morons came up with the rules?