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Fake eggs in China was the one that really astounded me! http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/06/how-to-make-a-rotten-egg... Citing an anonymous source, the paper outlined how the fakes were made: prepare a mould, then mix the right amounts of resin, starch, coagulant and pigments to make egg white. Sodium alginate, extracted from brown algae, gives the egg white the wanted viscosity. Then add the fake egg yolk, a differ…
Ethics aside, I just don’t see how that’s cheaper than a real egg. That’s a lot of process and materials, mostly time consuming to pull off.
There might be con-artist idealists after all.