EGGS AS FOOD. 99 
teachings, cannot yet bring herself to eat meats 
or foods containing eggs. 
It has been said that “ there is no egg of bird 
known, which is not good for food, or which 
could not be eaten by a hungry man.” 
Fewer individuals have been known to have 
an antipathy for eggs than for most foods; no 
honest appetite rejects them. 
Liebig asserted that the eggs of birds furnish 
the most complete nutriment, since they contain 
in fair proportion, all the elements needed to 
sustain life. 
