The shortage of eggs in China has made egg vending machines popular, and the eggs in the machines are often sold out.

(Photo by reporter Hong Ruiqin)

[Reporter Hong Ruiqin/Tainan Report] There is the only "egg vending machine" in the country located in the Chengda University District, Yule Street, East District, Nanshi. It uses a conveyor belt platform to allow the neatly arranged eggs to "roll" down safely without breaking the eggs. , 25 yuan each. Recently, due to the issue of "lack of eggs", the supply has been in short supply. Yang Huanjing, the founder of the Shi Er Liang You Chicken Life Project who set up the vending machine, said that the purpose of setting up the vending machine is to attract the public in an easy and interesting way. With young people attaching importance to food, agriculture and environmental protection, "change starts with an egg".

This vending machine is different from ordinary vending machines. There are text descriptions on the machine to introduce the pastured eggs produced by the friendly breeding methods of grandpa and grandma. There is also a promotional video. Consumers can click to buy 1, 2 or 3 eggs at a time. Then the eggs are "obediently" sent from the platform to the egg picker, and consumers squat down to pick up the eggs, as if they are experiencing the feeling of "waiting for the chicken to lay eggs and pick up the eggs", which is more interesting than gastronomy machines and claw machines.

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Yang Huanjing said that in fact, the machine has been set up for more than a year. Before that, it sold about 30 to 50 pieces a month. During the epidemic, it was even worse. It took about 3 to 5 days to check the replenishment. Group recommendation is the only Tainan check-in secret spot in the country. It became popular in an instant. It has to be restocked every day. It can sell 30 to 50 pieces a week, and the performance has increased by about 5 times. Eggs are only available from chickens, so there is no supply. There will be "empty machines"; in addition, pastured eggs are not compared with eggs produced by standardized chicken farms, and there are more differences in size. There have been "egg jams" on the machine, which made the buyer laugh and say: "It is very difficult to wait for chickens to lay eggs interesting".

Some people may find it expensive. Yang Huanjing said that the egg production process should consume the least amount of energy and be used to encourage some meat to be eaten. However, Taiwan is now raising chickens on a large scale, and 99% of them eat genetically modified feed and most of them come from chickens. Imported from abroad, the transportation process consumes a lot of carbon footprint, and issues such as genetically modified crops and the natural environment are also derived. The pastures participating in the friendly chicken life plan mainly focus on low-density breeding and friendly farming, and make full use of raw and cooked food. This is the reason why the chickens live happily under good natural conditions, the eggs are naturally healthy, and the thick eggs will not break when they come off the vending machine.

Yang Huanjing said that there are other cooperation platforms for the supply of pastured eggs produced by the Friendly Project. The vending machines have refrigeration equipment, and the cost is not cheap. In fact, it is difficult to even out the revenue. Stronghold, promote the concept of the stratosphere, buy 1 egg for the value of creating a friendly environment, then 25 yuan will feel cheap, once a mother took a train to Tainan to buy eggs from a vending machine, an alternative way to experience education in Le, it is a good thing that the grazing egg vending machine is widely known. I hope it can win the recognition of more people and young people, and use actions to support the practice of food farming and environmental protection.

Egg vending machine, eye-catching egg grabbing, "egg light" inside the machine.

(Photo by reporter Hong Ruiqin)

The only egg vending machine in the country is in Yule Street, East District, Tainan.

(Photo by reporter Hong Ruiqin)

The rows of eggs in the egg vending machine are transported down by the flat frame conveying track.

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