It depends of what society or community you talk
about when the concern is the animal products
consumption; if you know and interact, for
whatever reason, with one that uses animal
products as food, sooner or later this question
arises, why do you eat eggs?
As Vegan, nobody refers or talk of eggs as
things; but as English Speaker, everybody could
call them thing, that must be a normal expression
knowing the whole situation about eggs.
AND THIS THING, THE EGGS.