Widdershins Smith 🐘Mar 5, 2023
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: Correct—um, no, wait.
Show threadEllenJul 21, 2023
@juglugs Eggs are not chicken if you eat them, because then they're not fertilized.
Show threadWiddershins Smith 🐘Jul 21, 2023

@isisevrinen

How do you know? Ok, today in a store they're not likely to be fertilized, but when the rule was made nobody knew if they were...

Show threadKmac2025
@juglugs @isisevrinen @juglugs @TerrorBite Eggs (along with milk and other non-flesh animal products) were allowed in 1941. By then, we could tell. The fast has changed over time, and now we know that unfertilized eggs aren’t flesh meat, and they were eventually allowed
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