What Chickens Can Teach Us About the Constitution
Raising backyard chickens, you quickly realize that the strict uniformity of grocery store eggs does not reflect the actual reality of chicken biology.
In the grocery store, eggs come in cartons with eggs of nearly identical size and color. Most grocery store eggs are white. But even the brown eggs look just like every other brown grocery store egg in the carton.
Perfectly sized, perfectly colored, and perfectly matched eggs.
That’s not how real chickens do it.
The nutritional value of an egg has nothing to do with the color of its shell.
White leghorns, the most common commercially-raised laying hens, produce white-shelled eggs. But some of the strongest and hardiest chickens raised by backyard chicken enthusiasts lay brown-shelled eggs. Some have light pinkish-brown shells and others almost as dark as chocolate. Some chickens lay eggs with blue-green shells.
The shell and its color have nothing to do with the nutritional value of an egg.
It’s what’s inside that matters. The concept is simple.
Fourteenth Amendment – Equal Protection
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees to each person Equal Protection under the law, regardless of what the person may look like on the outside….
It’s what’s inside that matters. The concept is simple.