Horse Meat in Processed Foods
Feb 15th 2013, 8:07 am
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
thing is, many of the horses killed for meat are ex racing horses, and pumped full of drugs & hormones that human consumption beef cows/bulls (as opposed to dairy cows that eventually are slaughtered for animal consumption) are not allowed to have.
Feb 15th 2013, 12:59 pm
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
I don't get it. I've read it so many times that I'm glued to the screen but still can't find a pun.
Feb 15th 2013, 1:03 pm
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
(sorry - there wasn't one)
oops
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Feb 15th 2013, 1:09 pm
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
that's not very neighbourly
Feb 16th 2013, 5:18 am
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
Apparently the taste in a lot of the lasagne was masked by using cheese, specifically Mascarpone.
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Feb 16th 2013, 6:31 pm
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
It's all just equestrian of taste...
Feb 17th 2013, 4:56 am
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
Apparently it's horse meat has been found in food at some pubs...
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Feb 17th 2013, 8:59 am
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
Monsieur Serieux writes in Le Telegraphique Quotidien:
"SIR – The horse meat issue is part of a deeper malaise – the desire of businesses to sell you what they want rather than what you want to buy.
Horse meat is perfectly healthy to eat and legal to sell. If it is produced in conditions which are illegal, that is criminal. If it is sold as something else, it is a breach of the Trade Descriptions Act.
Where neither of these is involved it is an excellent dish, especially as fondue chevaline. It should never be described as a contamination.
Dr Michael Ford
Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France"
"SIR – The horse meat issue is part of a deeper malaise – the desire of businesses to sell you what they want rather than what you want to buy.
Horse meat is perfectly healthy to eat and legal to sell. If it is produced in conditions which are illegal, that is criminal. If it is sold as something else, it is a breach of the Trade Descriptions Act.
Where neither of these is involved it is an excellent dish, especially as fondue chevaline. It should never be described as a contamination.
Dr Michael Ford
Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France"
Feb 18th 2013, 5:27 am
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
Feb 18th 2013, 5:52 am
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
I love the way Labour have condemned it seeing as they stopped the testing for horse DNA in 2003...........Politicians, such a fickle bunch.
Feb 18th 2013, 6:49 am
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Re: Horse Meat in Processed Foods
I love the Daily Mash;
Horsemeat: French finally blamed
AN inquiry has been launched into why it has taken a month to blame the horsemeat scandal on the French.
The French were finally blamed yesterday afternoon, bringing the issue to a close.
But now the government must explain why the French were not blamed as soon as it emerged that British people had been eating questionable mince.
In angry exchanges in the House of Commons, Labour’s Mary Creagh told food minister David Heath: “This is catastrophic complacency. At any time in the last four weeks you could just have said ‘it was the French’.
“No-one would have questioned it and we could all have congratulated ourselves and moved on.
“Instead you caused unnecessary anxiety which led to vile accusations being made against dozens of hard-working Romanian gangsters.”
A spokesman for the Supermarkets Association said: “We have perhaps been guilty of a lack of transparent blaming.
“We have now put in place a system which means that when you find out about the badger meat, we can blame a specific Frenchman within the first 20 minutes.”
Roy Hobbs, director of the British Society for Animal Mincing, said: “After we have minced stuff we shovel it into the back of a truck which then goes to the Dordogne.
“Tragically, they mix it with other minced things, because they are dirty bastards.”
Horsemeat: French finally blamed
AN inquiry has been launched into why it has taken a month to blame the horsemeat scandal on the French.
The French were finally blamed yesterday afternoon, bringing the issue to a close.
But now the government must explain why the French were not blamed as soon as it emerged that British people had been eating questionable mince.
In angry exchanges in the House of Commons, Labour’s Mary Creagh told food minister David Heath: “This is catastrophic complacency. At any time in the last four weeks you could just have said ‘it was the French’.
“No-one would have questioned it and we could all have congratulated ourselves and moved on.
“Instead you caused unnecessary anxiety which led to vile accusations being made against dozens of hard-working Romanian gangsters.”
A spokesman for the Supermarkets Association said: “We have perhaps been guilty of a lack of transparent blaming.
“We have now put in place a system which means that when you find out about the badger meat, we can blame a specific Frenchman within the first 20 minutes.”
Roy Hobbs, director of the British Society for Animal Mincing, said: “After we have minced stuff we shovel it into the back of a truck which then goes to the Dordogne.
“Tragically, they mix it with other minced things, because they are dirty bastards.”