- Chandelle: FYI, you can buy a version of Veganaise with grapeseed oil. Granted, not every store may carry this variety. But you can always ask for it!

- One of the problems with eggs, at least today, is that hens have been bred to grossly overproduce eggs. Hens’ un-engineered cousins in the jungles of Southeast Asia lay about 20 eggs in the spring, then give their bodies a rest. But intensive breeding has coerced modern hens to lay up to 300 eggs a year. This takes a substantial toll on their bodies (eggs come from calcium and other nutrients in the body) puts greater strain on their systems, and increases the risk of uterine and ovarian cancer and painful malfunctions such as prolapse.

So all you talented bakers, foodies, and recipe-thinker-uppers, keep up the great work on eggless baking, methodologoes, and meals, so that we can hasten the day when we can let all hens revert back to their normal body rhythms and egg production rate.

http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/9780061874338/The_Conscious_Cook/index.aspx

I’m not even sure I would eat an egg from a chicken that I kept as a pet though.

For more on protein needs, check out http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.htm. There’s also a good article about ‘Cracking the Egg Label Code’ at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-kanner/meatless-monday-cracking_b_416144.html, for ethics-minded egg consumers who don’t know any individual chicken-keepers.

i am so excited to try that pancake recipe! I am also going to start baking with more egg substitues.

One of my frustrations is that i am always looking for protein sources and while i do try to avoid over processed food, i love the pasta with the omgea 3 and protein – but it has EGGS!

And sometimes, you just want a fried egg *drool*

that said, i am lucky enough to live where i can get organic, free range, blah blah blah from a place i trust. i don’t support factory farmed ‘regular’ eggs.