Fake Egg Alarm?!

Many of you know of my love for eggs from my previous posts, and that I find Not Every Egg is Laid Equal.  But here in this post, you will find that some eggs are MADE very unequally, in a very literal (and enraging) sense.  At lunch today, one friend (thanks Jeanie!) brought up an incredibly disturbing, vile piece of news that in certain parts of China, there are people who man-make eggs!  They use a concoction of gelatin and chemicals to form the yolk, the white and it hardens to a shell.  And they say that it was because the materials were cheaper than actually raising a chicken to lay the egg.  The poor Chinese consumers who buy them and actually use them without knowing that they are about to consume a botch of harmful chemicals.  Simply outrageous. 
 
This video was from a few years ago, so I hope that things have changed, but be forewarned, especially when you are visiting China, that this is a possibility.  Of course, not every egg from China is fake, but better to be on the lookout for any suspicious egg formations.   

They say that a couple of ways to detect whether an egg is fake is to see whether the egg white is runny like water and whether there is a membrane layer beneath the egg shell.  The fake ones do not have the membrane layer beneath the shell. 

Investigation of fake eggs in China. by FujiTV, from YouTube