Up to 29% horse DNA found in beefburgers in UK and Ireland supermarket chains

[21merc7]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...h-contained-100-horseflesh.html#axzz2KdG16OjU

:thud:

Holy Moly! Can you imagine all the people that have eaten that and how they feel?! :what:

I'm sure it is safe to eat, but man oh man, I'll be thinking twice about any prepared meals now myself and I don't live near the Tesco products area. Bye bye speedy ravioli. That meat doesn't taste like ground beef anyhow.

 

[Donjeta]

Tesco Supermarkets is the anagram of "Steak seems corrupt", after all
I think they should retest the Findus Lasagne since its anagram is "slain deaf gnus".

http://www.excellentfuture.ca/sites/default/files/u6/Cartoon Horse Meat.gif

 

[Tugela]

Is there something particularly wrong with meat from horses?

After all, you feed it to your pets.

 

[Donjeta]

Generally horse meat in and of itself is safe to eat. In this case there are two concerns I think. One is fraud as it was not sold as horse meat but as beef. The second is that the origins of the horse meat are somewhat of a mystery for the time being and as such people can't be sure that there aren't traces of veterinary medicines in the meat. Some of them are not considered safe for eating, such as bute. I don't think it has been found in the lasagna so far but if you've got people who sell horses as cows they might not be too particular about this either.

Horses that have been treated with the drug phenylbutazone or 'bute' are not allowed to enter the food chain
http://www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/news/2013/jan/bute-horsemeat-update

 

[Elley Mae]

I'll have that burger with dressage!

I do every thing in my power to not eat a (slaughter house) burger. You know what they are. They are every burger that you have eaten at fast food restaurants, well just about, and the ones that sit in the meat case at the local grocery store that is in a long tube or already formed (patties) and ready to fry. It's those that have all the problems when they have a massive recall on burgers, the slaughter house burgers. I buy my ground meat (beef) where it's ground at the store for the most part. Oh and if there is a decent sale on say , sirlion steak/roast I will have the butcher/meat guy grind those for burger meat.


Top ten jokes.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/16/top-1...rgers-following-the-tesco-revelation-3354967/

 

[Elley Mae]

Horsemeat found in British supermarkets 'may be donkey'

A law banning horses from Romanian roads may be responsible for the surge in the fraudulent sale of horsemeat on the European beef market, a French politician said yesterday.
The law, which was passed six years ago but only enforced recently, also banned carts drawn by donkeys, leading to speculation among food-industry officials in France that some of the “horse meat” which has turned up on supermarket shelves in Britain, France and Sweden may, in fact, turn out to be donkey meat.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...itish-supermarkets-may-be-donkey-8489030.html

It came from abattoirs in Romania through a dealer in Cyprus working through another dealer in Holland to a meat plant in the south of France which sold it to a French-owned factory in Luxembourg which made it into frozen meals sold in supermarkets in 16 countries.

bbm

 

[TrackerSam]

Is there something particularly wrong with meat from horses?

After all, you feed it to your pets.

No. I've had it and it's not that bad. Isn't Jello made from hooves?

 

[TrackerSam]

Horsemeat found in British supermarkets 'may be donkey'

A law banning horses from Romanian roads may be responsible for the surge in the fraudulent sale of horsemeat on the European beef market, a French politician said yesterday.
The law, which was passed six years ago but only enforced recently, also banned carts drawn by donkeys, leading to speculation among food-industry officials in France that some of the “horse meat” which has turned up on supermarket shelves in Britain, France and Sweden may, in fact, turn out to be donkey meat.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...itish-supermarkets-may-be-donkey-8489030.html

It came from abattoirs in Romania through a dealer in Cyprus working through another dealer in Holland to a meat plant in the south of France which sold it to a French-owned factory in Luxembourg which made it into frozen meals sold in supermarkets in 16 countries.

bbm

I've heard of restaurants paasing off carp as trout. You just never know.

 

[Ausgirl]

"This burger tastes like *advertiser censored*!"

 

[wfgodot]

Second is from a great parody Twitter account.

BBC Breaking News ‏@BBCBreaking
2 men arrested at Aberystwyth meat plant & 1 man at West Yorkshire slaughterhouse over UK #horsemeat inquiry

The DM Reporter ‏@DMReporter
CONTAMINATION: Faced with the prospect of becoming vegetarians, the British public decide to accept eating horses.

 

[wfgodot]

How a distaste for 'pagan food' first put the British off horsemeat (Telegraph)
Catholic guilt first put the British off the idea of eating horses
almost 1,500 years ago, archaeologists have concluded.

 

[Donjeta]

Equines are everywhere:

Ikea Withdraws Meatballs After Horse Meat Is Found
By STEPHEN CASTLE
Published: February 25, 2013



LONDON — The escalating crisis over horse meat in beef products in Europe claimed another big retail victim Monday when the Swedish furniture giant, Ikea, withdrew meatballs from sale in 14 European countries.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/b...meatballs-after-horse-meat-is-found.html?_r=0

 

[Donjeta]

Guess what they found in Icelandic beef pies?




Did you guess horse meat....?



Wrong.


http://www.grapevine.is/News/ReadArticle/Surprising-Twist-in-Horse-Meat-Scandal

The horse meat scandal that has prompted food quality testing throughout Europe and North America has taken an interesting turn as The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) found that a brand of Icelandic beef pies contain no meat at all.

 

[wfgodot]

Waiter! There's a giraffe in my kudu (Reuters)

 

[wfgodot]

Has DOG meat been found in our food? New takeaway horror after experts discover 'mystery meat' in a lamb curry (Daily Mail)

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The meat in a Beef in Black Bean Sauce dish turned out to contain high levels of chicken material including blood, while a burger contained no beef at all, other than blood and heart.

However, most alarming of all was a curry. A spokesman for the programme said: ‘Just when we thought things couldn't get any worse, the results came in for an Indian Lamb Curry.

‘It did contain meat, but that meat was not lamb, not pork, nor was it chicken or beef. Not horse, and not goat either.’
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more at the link above

 

[Show Me]

Moose lasagna tainted with....Pork!


http://www.nbcnews.com/business/ikea-halts-moose-lasagna-sales-after-finding-traces-pork-1C9255043

IKEA says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium.

IKEA spokeswoman Tina Kardum said the product had only been on sale for a month when it was pulled off the shelves on March 22.

 

[wfgodot]

Am hazy on who would eat moose lasagna in first place!

 

[Cazzie]

Maybe not the rite thread, but I think this is a serious topic.

I was devastated to hear, from someone who works for someone who breeds horses, that the horse breeding market won't "come up" until "they start slaughtering horses for their meat".

WTF?

Was this a "visionary" comment, or a jaded comment about the state of the general economy, or what?

I'm a horse lover... I don't want to eat them.