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Does egg necessarily have to be in a shell?

Does egg necessarily have to be in a shell? Lately, I was watching a lot of videos related to cooking and one thing caught my eye. Does egg, which we consume everyday, has to be necessarily in a shell? Can it be mass produced with the required aspects and not be in a shell? This just came to my mind. Like, economies of scale, could there be a bigger egg, which is similar to that of 10 eggs? There are already egg whites available in tetra packaging. So, how is that made? Are the regular shells broken and yolk separated? Or, is the egg whites created as such? Maybe eggs can be made differently than with a chicken. Is that possible? Could be. Why or why is not being pursued? Cost efficiency? Feasibility? Or, is it just people like to break the egg to get the feel of it?

Mutual goals

Many conflicts across the world usually has same interests or similar objectives. As would it be for any goal or outcome, who is that going to benefit from a particular thing changes. Considering this perspective, you can often see many intangible conflicts, especially related to a piece of land, there would be mutually conflicting goals, not in terms of the final objective, but in conflict of who gets it.  This reminds me of the  famous example where the reply that Francis I of France gave in the early sixteenth century when he was asked what differences led to constant warfare with Spain's Charles V. He replied, "None whatever. We agree perfectly. We both want control of Italy!" As such, you can see both have more commonalities than differences. But, how can this change perspectives? What if something can be mutually used by both parties? or maybe more parties? What stops someone from doing that? It's a simple logic. The greed and possessiveness, whether it's fo...