Egg Recall: How Would You Dispose of 500 Million Bad Eggs

Posted on August 25th, 2010 9:14am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under AgriBusiness, Politics of Food

I’m sure you’ve been keeping up with the outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis that has been traced back to bad eggs . So far, the recall is up to 500 million eggs. My question to my co-workers yesterday: “What do you do with 500 million infected eggs?” Has anyone read anything about the disposal of these eggs?

8 comments

  1. I can think of a really big house that could use some egging. Is anyone home?

    @ 9:42 am on August 25, 2010

  2. Drop them on Afghanistan.

    @ 9:45 am on August 25, 2010

  3. Egg shells make wonderful compost additives- they’ll probably sell them to a company that will grind them up and turn them into powder.

    @ 9:47 am on August 25, 2010

  4. cook them enough to kill the salmonella and then eat them.

    @ 10:45 am on August 25, 2010

  5. eggbeaters

    @ 11:51 am on August 25, 2010

  6. How about building an enormous slingshot with an extraordinarily gentle acceleration curve and shoot them into the sun? That would make some cool Youtube video.

    @ 12:24 pm on August 25, 2010

  7. Take them to the shooting range. Eggs make great targets. Visible from a distance and you can tell when you hit one.

    @ 1:49 pm on August 25, 2010

  8. Nancy, what was your search string to land that picture?

    @ 2:32 pm on August 25, 2010