Well, when we kept chickens I would eat raw eggs without a qualm,
we bought our original stock from a hatchery that catered to labs
and had salmonella free chicks, and we fed with unmedicated pure
grain mash as well as free range.


The only time I eat raw eggs now is if I get them from a friend
who takes the same precautions we did - salmonella free chickens
and natural scratch and mash. The meat has an entirely different
taste and texture as well - way better than storebought.

I don't tend to eat store bought poultry or eggs raw, I don't
know their sanitation or feeding practices and I am very sure
that out standards are way higher than the governments!

I like raw egg in steak tartare, mayonnaise and salad dressings,
and my eggs cooked in runny/poach when I am not making an
omelette. I will throw an eggshell or 2 wrapped in gauze into my
cooking pots when I make soups or stews to get some of the
organic calcium benefits, and unlike many people I washed the
shells when I gathered them and keep the eggs in the fridge.

I have noticed that the shells on storebought eggs are
distressingly thin and frangible, probably because they don't
suppliment their layers as much as feeding the hens back the
eggshells in the form of crushed shells scattered on the ground.
Most calcuim suppliments I have seen at feed stores are crushed
clamshells, when in nature the hens will actually eat their own
hatchlings eggshells. I am not entirely certain they can digest
clamshells!

It does make sense that people are allergic to the white over the
yolk, the white is fairly pure protein, and as many people will
tell you it is the protein structures of foods that generate the
most allergic reactions, as well as the protein structures of
animal saliva. Personally, I have never found any allergic or
negative reaction to egg whites, but i prefer the taste of the
yolks and will save yolks when I am making something that calls
for the whites only and make a yolk-fortified omelet and enjoy
the extra richness ;-)
margali
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> summary so far:
> 1. some people allergic to raw egg white but not the
> yolk! interesting
> 2. to minimize health risk, stick with free-range
> organic eggs, veg fed as opposed to other chick fed.
> 3. egg shells are edible