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Omelettes, sauce and minks: What happens to BC's millions of extra eggs?
BC's egg farmers hope a proposed new processing facility in Abbotsford will allow them to cut down waste and expand what can be made with the province's 'surplus' eggs.
Tyler Olsen
October 16, 2024
Not all eggs end up in cartons bound for the grocery store. 📷 Light Field Studios/Shutterstock
This story first appeared in the October 16, 2024, edition of the Fraser Valley Current newsletter. Subscribe for free to get Fraser Valley news in your email every weekday morning.
The Fraser Valley’s egg farmers are planning to build a massive new facility to turn broken and surplus eggs into useful ingredients for people, and sometimes pets.
Egg Solutions - Vanderpols, a company partially owned by a farmers’ co-operative, has plans to build a 65,000-square-foot plant near Abbotsford International Airport.
The new building is part of the company’s plan to move its operations out of a dairy processing facility where it currently operates—and to give the company space to expand while solving other challenges. Among those challenges is the pending elimination of mink farms, which have traditionally served as the end of the line for the thousands of litres of egg waste each day.
The proposal to construct the new facility pulls back the curtain on what happens to the millions of eggs that never make it into a carton.
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