Kosher eggs

[coco pops]

Are all white hen eggs classed as Kosher. The hens are commercial free range.

[Clanad]

Nothing is just "considered" Kosher. For the observant all foods must be certified Kosher. Eggs, for example, must come from farms that segregate (at all times) roosters and hens (to lessen the chance of a fertilized egg being sold). Any egg must be examined after cracking to determine if it has a blood spot. Brown eggs can be Kosher, but they run a higher discard rate since the brown outside coloring can cause small discolored spots on the inside, in which case the egg must be discarded...

[reachesme]

Did God tell them to be this wastefull with earths bounty, or did they just decide to do it themselves and work it in to thier holy scriptures and asumme everyone would be too brain washed to question it?

[coco pops]

Thanks Clanad .My son works at an egg farm at weekends.Today he was told to seperate the white eggs because they are being bought by an egg dealer who will be selling them to jewish catering businesses. There are no roosters at the farm. My son got someone else to seperate them as he thought the Jews would be eating something that might be wrong to them. He is not sure what to do next week hence the question.

[Clanad]

I wouldn't worry about it coco pops... no observant Jew requiring adherence to the Kosher laws (kashrut) would eat them without certification of Kosher. Many other Jews aren't observant of Kosher laws and wouldn't be bothered by it. Many non-observants will, however examine the eggs when they are broken and discard ones with blood spots... just as many other people do...

[coco pops]

Thank you.

[sosorry]

The Torah prohibits consumption of blood. Lev. 7:26-27; Lev. 17:10-14. This is the only dietary law that has a reason specified in Torah: we do not eat blood because the life of the animal (literally, the soul of the animal) is contained in the blood.

An egg that contains a blood spot may not be eaten. This isn't very common, but I find them once in a while. It is a good idea to break an egg into a glass and check it before you put it into a heated pan, because if you put a blood-stained egg into a heated pan, the pan becomes non-kosher.

[coco pops]

thank you