🚨 BRITAIN IS IMPORTING MORE EGGS FROM HENS KEPT IN CAGES WE BANNED HERE LookoLook at what has happened to UK egg 🥚 imports. In the first 5 months of: 🥚 2024: 0.1m dozen shell eggs came from outside the EU 🥚 2025: 6.9m dozen 🥚 2026: 11.5m dozen @Poultry_Network says Ukraine 🇺🇦 is by far the largest non-EU supplier, accounting for 9.3m dozen of those imports in the first 5 months of this year. And here’s the bit consumers need to understand. Most Ukrainian eggs are produced by hens kept in conventional cages 🔥 a system that has been banned in Britain and the EU since 2012. Picture it. We tell a British egg farmer: ❌ You cannot keep your hens in those cages. ✅ Invest in higher-welfare systems. ✅ Carry the additional British production costs. Then we open the door to millions of imported eggs produced using the very cages we prohibited British farmers from using. And much of this food disappears into catering and food manufacturing, where consumers may have little idea about its origin or production system. Now UKHSA is investigating a Salmonella outbreak involving 207 confirmed cases, 38% hospitalised and one death, which may be linked to imported eggs. There is currently no evidence British-produced eggs are affected. We do not yet know which country produced the eggs suspected in that outbreak. But Britain’s rapidly increasing dependence on eggs produced to standards we would not accept on British farms demands scrutiny. Don’t ban British farmers from producing food one way and then import the same food produced that way somewhere else. 🇬🇧 Food security. Food safety. Food standards. They are all connected. @andyburnham @labourlewis @fionaharvey