Egg pollution. Never heard of it? I’m not surprised. Big problem…but no one ever talks about it.
Fortunately there’s Allantois. Very green. Completely natural and organic.
Literally.
In the shell birds don’t do much. Except make lots of uric acid and carbon dioxide. Both lethal to them.
So now what? What to do with uric acid? If they can’t get rid of it somehow they’ll be in deep—well—deep uric acid. So they simply do this. A part of their lower digestive tract balloons out to form a protective sac around them. Voila! A chick sewage disposal system. The sac eventually ends up pressing against the shell where it holds the acid safely until hatching. The membrane is called the Allantois.
But now bubble-bird’s created another problem. He’s surrounded. By the Allantois. What to do with CO2?
Easy. The membrane holds liquids but lets gases through. The shell too. CO2 gets out. Oxygen gets in. Problem solved. Environment saved.
But wait just a minute....
Things may be green inside the egg, but what about the CO2 from billions of chicks being expelled into our atmosphere?
Big problem…but no one ever talks about it. :)
