Aibu to think that wasting eggs in this way is wrong?

[WillyNilly00]

I'm a TA at a school and today the teacher was telling me about a Russian roulette style game she planned to play with the children before Easter. It involves the children picking 1 of 2 eggs to 'back', then the eggs are dropped to see which is hardboiled, until just 1 child wins. Apparently 10-15 eggs are used.

Now I am against encouraging children to throw eggs at all but aibu to morally object to this game? Surely in this age of encouraging children not to waste anything and teaching them to be environmentally conscious this is inappropriate?

The teacher I work with looked at me like I had 2 heads when I raised this point.

This is in the same league as cake smashes, for me.

Distasteful waste of resources. So thoughtless. And totally unnecessary. Plenty of other ways to teach probability.

Have your kids never made a glue/pasta picture?

I can't help but think what my parents went through during the war. Waste like this makes me sick.

I think it gives out the wrong idea on food waste, yes, and even free range hens eggs from the supermarket are dubious ethically. A ridiculous % of children go to school hungry, it's just not cricket to ruin food in front of them. And 10 points to the little darling that had such good fun he raids mummy's fridge and smashes a dozen all over the kitchen floor.

The painted eggs at Sunday school etc are either blown (and contents useable) or hard boiled and able to be eaten afterwards.

Some of these replies are wind up, right? The one about the War?

Will no-one think of the brave young soldiers and the hard working chickens...?

Oh yeah it's a right laugh wasting food

Nope, I as raised to consider wasting food to be a sin, thanks to parents and grandparents living through WW2 and rationing. They’d get one egg per week.

While I’m a little more unclenched about food these days, I just couldn’t bring myself to deliberately waste an animal product - be it meat, eggs or dairy. I eat all of them, but as a PP hinted, If I think of what animals in our food chain go through, I feel I owe it to them to make sure nothing is wasted.

So rubber/plastic eggs are better in egg and spoon races?

I agree it's unethical. 'Free range' doesn't mean living a good life out in a field I'm afraid, they just have to meet low minimum requirements on space and daylight. I think it's a bad idea to teach children to waste food, especially food that an animal has produced.

yep this is dumb on so many levels.

YANBU.

They aren’t wasting the food. They’re using it.

To engage children. It is just eggs. Really just eggs. (But what about the waaaaaaarrrrrr....?)

I think this is a mentality that has been passed down from people who lived through rationing.

Using resources to have a bit of fun is not a waste. I don't understand why food is so different to everything else. For example, nobody says red noses on comic relief are a waste even though the plastic probably has a bigger impact on the environment than a few eggs.

If anything we don't eat is a waste and shouldn't be done, we would all lead miserable lives.

A waste of eggs 😂 Are you all for real?

You're getting het up about 15 chicken periods being used for a fun lesson in chance and probability?

Really?
No... Really?

Omg eggs are not chicken periods 😳 please aquaint yourself with the abolute basics of science before making a statement like that

Do you think they let the kids play with rancid eggs?

Why does an out of date egg have to be 'rancid'?

Shall we ban potato printing as well? Or how about making rattle shakers with rice or lentils?

Vulpine, or making bracelets out of penne pasta.

What about fat people? When fat people eat two eggs are they wasting the second egg? Surely one is enough?

That hard working chicken and dead soldier’s life didn’t need to go towards the second egg.

Yes it's a bloody waste of eggs.

It's a fascinating divide.

I wonder about the background of for and againsts.

For me (as much as I like the idea of po-faced virtue signalling) I feel a touch of anxiety about food waste. I can tell you now I have a Gu choc melting middle in the fridge and it's 10 days over. I have thought about it every one of those 10 days.

I also rejoice at coming up with a meal that uses numerous on the turn things.

Serious.

Summer, that’s your anxiety, not a basis for not doing an engaging class with an egg.

Would you have been OK with a lesson with plastic eggs? Wooden eggs?

If you care about resources, the compostable egg is the best one to use. If you don’t care about global resources, then so what.

What about the heads or tails game?

Every child stands up. Each child chooses heads or tails (puts hands on head or on bottom)

Coin is tossed. If heads, all the children who have chosen tails sit down and vice versa.

Repeat until one child left standing - the winner!

Fun, quick, free and no food wasted.

Sorry, add me to the group who thinks that it’s wasteful, and that food waste is immoral.

I’m not a hippy, a vegan, or an animal activist. I’d just like kids to learn to be better at these things than my generation. So maybe we could role-play something in the right direction? Sheesh.

As a family, we look forward to an event in the countryside near us every year. It’s a Potato Harvest Festival (yes, really). There are all kinds of hilarious potato-related activities, and the kids go crazy for it. The only one that doesn’t use the potatoes afterwards (for stock feed, mostly) is the potato play clay one. My DD’s favourite is a big sand pit filled with tan bark and with potatoes buried in it. They give you little trowels to dig with. You take home any potato you find, in a little decorated baggie. You should see how excited the kids are by this simple activity, and how involved they get with prepping, cooking and eating ‘their’ spud. I swear you could offer them a free iPad and they’d still chose the potato dig.

Ending food waste neednt be the domain of the fun sponges. It’s not ‘PC gone mad’, it’s just common sense.

Plastic eggs - wouldn't have occurred to me as a problem.
Wooden eggs - lovely. Would remind me of school sports day. Those eggs got used every year though. They didn't bin them all and buy a fresh lot each year.

It's the waste part. If it was my lesson I would choose something else. Although I would be fine with gone off eggs that a supermarket would have to get rid of. Good compromise??

Food waste is immoral - what about fat people, are they immoral?

The best way to do egg roulette is to see which ones smash on your head, of course an adults game not kids 😂😂 a little competition never harmed anyone and unless your the one paying for the eggs don’t think you can say much.