This is what happened last spring in my city. Several stores were subject to a health inspection, resulting in the removal of nearly 20,000 chicken eggs from the shelves. The reasons were the same: expired, improperly stored, damaged packaging. These eggs were deemed unfit for human consumption and sent to landfill.
I still remember the trucks arriving and unloading the cardboard into the biowaste area. It was raining at the time, and the cardboard quickly got wet and decomposed.
The eggs were mixed with other debris; some had been broken by rain, others pecked at by birds. Nothing unusual; a routine procedure that surprised no one. But after about three months, everything changed.
That morning, I was on duty at the dump. I noticed that the birds that usually come there to look for food were avoiding a certain area. Intrigued, I approached. And I froze. Something was moving among the waste.
