Looks like they'll be serving up some meatloaf after the races this year!
Buying food in England is like picking a prostitute in Thailand: you know some will have unwanted meat
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Horsemeat found in supermarket burgers
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Looks like they'll be serving up some meatloaf after the races this year!
Buying food in England is like picking a prostitute in Thailand: you know some will have unwanted meat
As others have said here, in newspapers, on TV, on rocks etched in ancient Mesopotamia; it's that horse meat isn't regulated as beef is. There are some nasty things pumped into horses that shouldn't end up in food supply. It's nothing to do with naming the animal
Agree with Dagless, you really don't want to know what goes on sometimes in the food industry.
Even nice chocolate cakes.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Ikea_says_Swiss_shops_carried_contaminated_cakes.html?cid=35205534
Even nice chocolate cakes.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Ikea_says_Swiss_shops_carried_contaminated_cakes.html?cid=35205534
To expand.... a cow is raised with the intention that it is to eaten, and therefore (at least in theory) everything that goes into a cow is based on that assumption. Food, medicines, etc.
A horse is raised to move things. Either by pulling or by carrying, and what it eats and more importantly the medicine has not been screened for safety when it is eaten by humans.
Unless the horse has been raised specifically to be butchered for human consumption. Tossing unregulated horse meat into the beef supply is not that far off tossing rat meat into the supply either. These news story would be very different if it was regulated and inspected horse meat.
Hormones and antibiotics included. And, before the BSE-scandal, your beef was raised on beef, chicken and pork as well.
Yep. That would be the "in theory" part. We've taken to eating far less beef, and when we do we buy local beef that is either organic or nearly organic. The farm gate beef we buy has no hormones or antibiotics and is grass-fed.
Horse tastes good, you should try it. Many people have strong aversions against eating horse meat, while at the same time they wouldn't mind eating zebra meat if given the chance. However, it's important that the horse hasn't been injected with any nasty painkillers, hormones etc, which may give you strong allergic reactions when eating the meat.
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From clear labeling standpoint, it is an issue if you care about what you are eating. Although my guess is there is roaches in hamburger, lets say they were putting them in there on purpose!
It's not just horse we have to worry about now:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dog-cat-curry-fears-over-1789118
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dog-cat-curry-fears-over-1789118
RUN you miserable nag, or it is the BBQ for you...
Vegetarian animals provide virtually all the meat consumed by humans.
Horses are vegetarians.
Horses are made of meat.
Why all the fuss?
Vegetarian animals provide virtually all the meat consumed by humans.
Horses are vegetarians.
Horses are made of meat.
Why all the fuss?
Because it's been proven nye-on impossible to source the meat back to it's original location. These horses weren't put 'through the system' of slaughter. Ie. they weren't regulated in terms of care & what medicine/treatment they had when alive. Horses are given different medicines/vaccinations that could be potentially harmful to humans. That's why.
...Although we've more than likely been eating horse obliviously for years now, and no-one has spontaneously dropped dead over a 'beef' burger. I honestly couldn't care less about it. I think people are just a bit peeved that they've been sold beef, and are, in-fact, eating horse.
Horse is quite tasty, and is regularly eaten in a number of countries,
Mixing horse - or anything else - in with cow and selling it as cow is the problem.
The issue is not whether horse meat is edible or not... the issue is what's on the label.
This is exactly what the problem is.
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People expect the label to correctly and accurately identify what is in a 'food'. What if, instead of horse meat, the companies had substituted - say - lobster? Many people might be tempted to think that this was a bonus. Pay for beef and get lobster. Except that half my wife's family has just gone to the hospital or died due to extreme allergies. How about peanuts? Or wheat filler? How many people reading this thread are allergic to peanuts or gluten (wheat)?
Of course, in the case of horse meat, instead of substituting a high value product for beef - they have found a source of nearly free meat. Think about that for a moment... the only way that these company executives would have risked the very serious legal consequences would be because the potential benefit was huge. Beef is already pretty cheap when on the hoof.... so the horse meat on the hoof would have needed to be nearly free if there was going to be a big enough financial benefit to balance the risk.
Would you trust meat that was being sourced under the table, with no documents, for really really cheap? Just because a company wanted to make more money?
I wouldn't.
Well yes, there are a few issues. People want/need/demand the right to choose what they eat, and mislabelled food denies them that right. But it's also a deeper underlying issue that food companies seem unable to accurately track what's going into our food, that has far wider ramifications than just this horse-meat scandal.
Personally, I'll never (intentionally) eat horse-meat, but I can't give any logical explanation other than they're beautiful graceful creatures and I would hate to eat one. I've also heard drinking one's own urine is fine, and certain insects are very nutritious, but I've no desire to find out either.
I don't see why I wouldn't eat deer, hopefully it would taste kind of like vension. I could go for some deer jerky,
I don't see why I wouldn't eat deer, hopefully it would taste kind of like vension. I could go for some deer jerky,
Deer taste like venison? Is this a trick?