>Richard Keene wrote:
>> Eggs, like all seeds--animal and plant--tend to contain high toxin or
>> antinutrient levels to protect the egg or seed.    A plant whose seeds are
>> highly edible could not reproduce successfully enough to survive the
>> competition.

Iyla:
>I've seen variations on this repeated without being substantiated.
>An egg is NOT a seed. If one is going to go that route (comparisons)
>then the 'toxin' would be the parent animal protecting the 'seed'.
>In general, the idea that an animal embryo would be toxic to consume is
>silly as if these 'toxins' were poisonous to the predator they would
>also likely be poisonous to the embryo itself (think of the bird
>predator).

If something in the egg is supposed to be "protective" it fails miserably
since eggs are high on nearly every omnivore mammal's great things to eat
list. OTOH, there is a huge difference between the yolk and the white. And
the availability issue is perhaps important. Who knows? Mr. De Vany has
some interesting ideas but eating cooked egg whites probably isn't his most
useful. ;)

Cheers,
Kirt (who has yet to enjoy the heck out of an egg--raw, cooked or
dried--they are OK but nothing more :()

Secola  /\  Nieft
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