schizoidman@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoU.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this yearwww.ctvnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkU.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this yearwww.ctvnews.caschizoidman@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squarehybridep@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoWhat are they afraid of with foreign eggs? Bird Flu?
minus-squareCobblerScholar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoAmong everything else that could go wrong with eggs from an untraceable unknown farm with an unknown level of safety management
minus-squareGrimtuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoThey’re scared because other countries don’t wash them. They don’t realise that this keeps them fresherv for longer without needing to keep them cool.
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoEggs can contain invasive species. Chicken eggs can come in all sorts of shapes and colors. Hard to say for sure that an egg is definitively a chicken egg just on visual inspection. Of course, having the eggs in an incubator is probably a sure-fire way of telling they don’t intend to eat them…
What are they afraid of with foreign eggs? Bird Flu?
Among everything else that could go wrong with eggs from an untraceable unknown farm with an unknown level of safety management
They’re scared because other countries don’t wash them. They don’t realise that this keeps them fresherv for longer without needing to keep them cool.
Eggs can contain invasive species.
Chicken eggs can come in all sorts of shapes and colors. Hard to say for sure that an egg is definitively a chicken egg just on visual inspection.
Of course, having the eggs in an incubator is probably a sure-fire way of telling they don’t intend to eat them…