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I feel like this revelation should be something I've seen before.

I haven't. Kudos!

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You haven't because it's not true. Eggs aren't meat.

What do you consider them to be?

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What do you consider blood and semen to be, meat? How about a toe nail?

What I consider it to be is irrelevant. It's has a definition, the flesh of an animal. Eggs are generally single cells and clearly don't fall into the 'flesh of an animal' category.

Considering the only thing that eggs have in common with meat at this stage is protein, by this logic then I'm sure OP would think beans are meat, and peanut butter is meat, but in reality the embryo hasnt developed enough to become meat.

In that case, eggs are attempted liquid meat.

Pre-meat but also pre-everything at the same time

Pre-meat-itated

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It's not meat, but what's crazy is that a collection of cells that aren't meat can become meat. Kind of like how it's crazy that a cells incapable of respiration individually, when combined, can form the lungs, which do respirate.

I myself was thinking that like isnt the "egg" technically just the embryos food source for the next month

Definitely more than one. To be the x of something, there has to be something else. Otherwise it's just the thing in it's entirety. But that is just the first obvious idiocy of the statement. Tons of stuff come from animals that no one would call meat. So a better question would be, whywould it be considered meat?

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Fuck your downvotes. Literal ass bitches.

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Meat is muscle. Eggs are not.

Eggs are not liquid meat. Eggs are eggs.

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If you consider semen as meat, then sure, eggs are also meat. And so is skin, testicles, eyeballs, intestines, etc

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Eggs literally have animal genetics though.

Except for the fact that beans don’t grow into meat, and neither do peanuts. Even if it’s an unfertilized egg, it’s still animal matter and not plant matter

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It has the genetic material to grow parts, not the parts themselves. Is the cell also blood? And eyes? And beak? It's got the genetic material to grow those as well.

This is why we have actual checklists for what qualifies as what with food. So twits don't look at corn and seeds, shrug their shoulders, and declare "well, when a chicken eats its it'll become more chicken, so I guess it's chicken."

I think you need to go back to school and learn more about eggs. The eggs part is just food for the embryo

flesh is tissue and sometimes fat, which are definitely made up of more than 2 cells

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Actually, eggs and meat share quite as similar nutrition profile. Both are a good source of fat and protein they have an equal ratio of both, along with iron, B6, potassium, and other essential nutrients.

Eggs aren't liquid meat, it's liquid food for future meat, which is the tiny whitish mass of cells you can sometimes see in the egg.