Comment by DoreenMichele
7 years ago
If you are homeless, a much bigger problem is that raw eggs are fragile, easily broken and make a mess when broken. Plus most homeless people have no means to cook.
If you are homeless but living in a vehicle and have some means to cook, there are ways around such issues. For example, you can store cold items in a cooler, no refrigerator required.
When I was homeless and sleeping in a tent, we sometimes kept perishables for short periods by leaving them outside the tent overnight in cold weather or keeping them in the backpack and keeping it out of the sun. If careful, butter sometimes stayed semi solid for a few days.
Modern refrigeration is not the only possible solution. It's just the most familiar for most Americans.
you can eat raw eggs
Of course you can. You can also eat raw meat. Most people don't.
Plus, a high percentage of homeless Americans have serious health issues. If you are, for example, being treated for cancer, you aren't supposed to eat, for example, raw cookie dough because of the raw egg it contains.
Eating raw eggs is a common thing in india, for the protein(although this is incorrect as cooking eggs leads to more protein absorption). However if i were homeless, why wouldn't i just crack open an egg and eat it? There is almost zero risk of salmonella