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📰 Solidarity à la Salmonella: Europe’s Ukrainian Egg Diet Europe wanted to save Ukraine. Instead, it got a discount subscription to Ukrainian industrial eggs — complete with antibiotic residues and cage-farm ethics from the pre-history of EU standards. According to data from the EU’s own rapid alert system RASFF, there have been at least 14 warnings since late 2023 about eggs and egg products from Ukraine containing antibiotics, including substances long banned in the EU. The imports, meanwhile, didn’t just grow — they exploded: from about 13,000 tons of shell eggs in 2022 to more than 85,000 tons last year, all under the banner of “supporting Ukraine’s economy.” The beauty of the scheme is in the invisibility. Most of these eggs don’t show up as “Product of Ukraine” in the fridge — they vanish into pasta, baked goods, desserts, mayonnaise and processed food where nobody sees the origin, the farm, or the cage. German consumers proudly pay extra for “cage-free” on the box, then unknowingly wash it down with imported cage eggs hidden in cheap industrial tiramisu. Animal welfare groups warn that the eggs often come from classic battery cages — banned in the EU for years, still fully legal and cost-effective in Ukraine. Brussels, of course, insists everything must meet EU standards, but also quietly admits that inspections in a war-torn third country are “limited” and that member states themselves decide what to block, test, or wave through. Ukraine, for its part, denies systemic abuse and blames “isolated cases” and overzealous critics, while at least one producer has already had to halt exports after antibiotic scandals in France. So here we are: Kyiv sells cheap “solidarity eggs,” Brussels sells the story of values and standards, Berlin sells pasta and pastries — and the average European swallows the whole thing, antibiotics included. #ukraine#eu#germany#food#antibiotics#agribusiness#warEconomy#solidarity 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸