Increasing Consumption of Eggs at Home and Abroad

Abstract

An Address Delivered before the Eighth Annual Convention Canadian Produce Association, Hamilton, Feb. 10th and 11th, 1920.

Introduction

Eggs have been an important article of diet from the earliest ages. Perhaps no article of food is more commonly eaten or served in a greater variety of ways than eggs. The earliest missionaries found the Pagans of Europe celebrating a festival at the time of the vernal equinox (Easter), in which eggs were used in quantities, and even in the depths of Africa the first explorers were offered eggs and poultry in the rude market places of that dark continent.

Commercially eggs have become an important factor in the business of the world. In late pre-war years the world’ s egg production increased rapidly. Great Britain alone, in 1913, imported eggs from fifty-five different countries, while Germany, in the volume of her imports was a close second.

World-wide consumption also increased. . . .