How do you like your beefburgers
Feb 17th 2013, 12:37 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Bought some great steak, and various other meats, from our local farm shop again this week, and he's loving it, his meat sales have gone up 20%. Might not stay there, but I'm sure a lot will be converted to eating meat that looks and tastes like meat should. Talking about traceability, he said it's easy, there's the farmer and me, that's it. Given that his meat suppliers all come from within the county and he knows them personally, that's about as risk free as it gets nowadays. They used to have a sign outside the shop stating "Well hung Welsh Black", I see it's gone now, perhaps someone complained. 
I'll have a kilo of well-hung Welsh black, please - bet I can make it last all week!
Feb 17th 2013, 12:45 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
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A DERBYSHIRE business that imports horse burgers and steaks has reported a big jump in sales since the processed meat scandal broke.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/On...#axzz2L9bfXZqF
A DERBYSHIRE business that imports horse burgers and steaks has reported a big jump in sales since the processed meat scandal broke.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/On...#axzz2L9bfXZqF
Feb 17th 2013, 1:28 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Every cloud has a silver lining
A DERBYSHIRE business that imports horse burgers and steaks has reported a big jump in sales since the processed meat scandal broke.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/On...#axzz2L9bfXZqF
A DERBYSHIRE business that imports horse burgers and steaks has reported a big jump in sales since the processed meat scandal broke.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/On...#axzz2L9bfXZqF
I've eaten camel, it's very nice. Not sure I'd fancy zebra, though meat with its own bar code sounds like a good idea.
Feb 20th 2013, 10:30 pm
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Nestlé ravioli and other pasta products found to contain more than 1% horse DNA have been withdrawn from supermarkets in Spain and Italy. They are branded as Buitoni.
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/...11_165196.html
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/...11_165196.html
Feb 20th 2013, 10:46 pm
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
Nestlé ravioli and other pasta products found to contain more than 1% horse DNA have been withdrawn from supermarkets in Spain and Italy. They are branded as Buitoni.
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/...11_165196.html
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/...11_165196.html
Feb 20th 2013, 10:46 pm
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
What I can't understand is why there should be any horse DNA in a beef product at all?
There seems to be a consensus that this figure should be below 1%.
Surely this should be ZERO or there is a problem with the processing and cross contamination.
Although contamination with horse meat is not a health problem I would think that for any cross contamination to take place is potentially dangerous.
DD you got there before me
There seems to be a consensus that this figure should be below 1%.
Surely this should be ZERO or there is a problem with the processing and cross contamination.
Although contamination with horse meat is not a health problem I would think that for any cross contamination to take place is potentially dangerous.
DD you got there before me
Feb 20th 2013, 11:12 pm
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Feb 20th 2013, 11:14 pm
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
I watched part of a documentary regarding contamination and it seems the main problem (apart from fraud) is in the filler. I was suprised to find that chicken breasts also contain filler to disguise the water pumped in
Stock cubes are even being tested now!
Stock cubes are even being tested now!
Feb 21st 2013, 12:19 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
See this post on another thread and its attached document!
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...&postcount=173
Feb 21st 2013, 1:39 am
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Re: How do you like your beefburgers
It looks like shoppers are starting to vote with their feet, or rather with their purses. I heard on the radio that demand for supermarket burgers was down over 20% since the news broke!
