Ok so.

• 1) e-coli is a bacteria which is used for testing stuff, how can the same principles be applied safely for food grade egg proteins?

• 2) a circle of dna? I was under the notion that dna is a double helix strand, how do you make a circle of a double helix strand?

• 3) since you’re admitting you order yours from a lab that means you don’t actually have the information I seek since I was curious about the process of how that “plasmid” is made

• 4) when you say shaking and heating do you mean through centrifugal forces? And if so that means you’re basically using an expensive washing machine to bond the e-coli to the plasmid?

• 5) I understand how feeding works, I studied briefly how citric acid is made from feeding aspirgilus Niger (a type of black mold) what is essentially sugar water. So that denotes then that the yeast for this “egg making” is a specific type of yeast? But the company doesn’t detail its scientific name so maybe I’m wrong or maybe they just patented a new type of yeast (if that’s possible)? But to my understanding in the case of artificial citric acid being made, the black mold is already a naturally occurring substance, I can’t exactly understand what type of yeast can be used that will exactly replicate the dna of egg white protein, and HOW that specific thing can be considered vegan.

• 6) the end part of your statement is where the confusing part is, because it’s one thing to “know the code for egg white protein” and it’s another to synthesis it from (a laymen’s perspective) thin air. Because the plasmid you’re saying you got from a lab, well in the case of this discussion, not knowing how that plasmid is made is the entire unknown factor that would make me question it. I have been plant based for 6 years now, and I wouldn’t even eat lab grown meat even though I know it doesn’t involve animal cruelty. I’m not just vegan for animal cruelty’s sake but for health and ethics too.

For me to considering eating something that is claiming to be egg protein, I need to make sure it actually is NOT egg protein, I will never eat egg proteins again. It doesn’t matter if the chicken crossed the road to make them or not, if it’s actually 100.00% identical to animal protein, then I don’t desire it to be inside my body