Chicken or the Egg?

First, I need to take care of some business... Everyone who has a blog needs to update it!  NOW!  If I know you and you have a blog, I check it every day.  Most of you do not update it.  I'm a nanny facing joblessness, people.  I need to have some blog posts to look forward to in my day.

On to more pressing issues:

Are we eating chicken embryos when we eat eggs?  My stepsister asked this question a couple of weeks ago and I have spent a while researching it since.  I still have no answer.  

I know that chicken eggs are fertilized as they are pushed out by the hen.  I also know that not all eggs a hen lays are necessarily fertilized.  And I also know that embryos don't start growing until the hen sits on the eggs.

All of these things are interesting conversation starters (or, you know, not) but they do not really answer the question.  Those facts make it possible that we're not eating chicken embryos when we eat eggs, but they don't really say for sure that we're not.  

So if anyone out there know what they're talking about when it comes to chickens, I'd appreciate an answer.  Not that it's probably going to change my egg consumption one way or the other, but I want to be an informed consumer.

Also, this is what happens when people don't update their blogs.  I have to spend my internet time researching stuff like this.  Help!

Bachelor tonight!  Eek!