theShawnDavis

i had an egg with two yolks in it with my dinner tonight.  it was kinda gross and made me think about how it woulda been twins if it was fertilized and hatched.  i understand eggs are tottally ethical as far as hens are going to lay them regardless of if we eat them or not and if they are fertilized, but something about the two yolks got me thinking of them in a more real way than i have before.  i didnt feel guilty.  i didnt feel like i killed a baby, well two i suppose.  but it was a reminder that animals as food are unique.  chickens arent all the same, niether are cows or pigs or goats or ducks.  its easy to forget that each animal has individual qualities and characteristics when they are all cut up and packaged in nearly identical packages and preparations. 
the fact that i had two yolks in one egg, reminded me that these chickens would have been special, twins.  we all have something unique, special.  those things give us our humanity.  it isn't the fact that we breathe air, or drink water, or poop out our butts that make us fall in love.  it's the differences, the unique things that set us apart, for better or worse.  if we were all the same, there would be no reason for compassion.  you could go around choking people to death and no one would care because theres 8 billion more of that exact same guy laying around all over. even when we hear of someone on the other side of the world dying we understand the loss inherently.  to us, its not a personal, but we know that someone just lost a parent, a kid, a lover or a friend.  we know that death meant something.  if we were all the same why should we care.  some people dont.  and they are racist dick-sniffers.