Be thankful if you're a veggie: the Irish horsemeat controversy
 

Dutch firm allegedly sold Irish horse meat as beef - RTÉ News

It just goes on and on. I don't terribly mind that the meat is horse (would mind now if it was human!) but the meat has also tested positive for drugs that were administered to horses. That's scary!

You guys in the US are lucky (so far). Nobody will be eating meat in Europe soon if this doesn't get sorted...

In a months time, everybody will forget all this and revert back to their regular eating habits. Most of the stuff that the consumer buys in the supermarket, has come under some kind of health scrutiny at one time or another.

I don't worry about horse drugs because I buy my horse meat from organic farmers markets.

So everytime we have eaten a burger over here we have been on horse tranquilisers? I usually buy my beef minced from a butcher and make the burgers myself, so I doubt there would be horse in that right?

Assuming he's mincing cuts from a cow and not a horse. Otherwise, what the hell. If you don't know...

I think a butcher as an individual source is less anonymous than a fast food corporation so I am going to place my trust in him being obliged not to **** up like that :)

The only thing that would bother me if I found out I was eating horsemeat is that beef is 4 times the price of horsemeat.

See to be honest, I couldn't care about all this horsemeat crap.


And the Muslim inmates have a ****ing cheek about eating pork, if they were so religious then they wouldn't have sinned in the first place.

No I'm pretty sure you're safe there. It's only processed, packaged meat, like burgers, lasagne, pies, that sort of thing. Going direct to the butcher means there was no outside interference and that would be pure Irish beef you're buyin' there son.

The problem seems to have arisen where manufacturers --- originally of burgers but now it's spread to lasagne and who knows what else? --- buy in extra ingredients to "fill out" their burgers. It's supposed to be beef, it's labelled as beef, but dna says NEIGH! So now there's a big investigation going on, and there's more than likely believed to be criminal elements involved, as horsemeat costs about a tenth of beef, so if they used that and sold it as the other, big big profits! Bastards!

I am just wondering how long it has been going on and how they didn't figure it out earlier? Even if it was only partially horse meat, you'd imagine people would have tasted something a bit off with the meat? Or people familiar with the taste of horse meat would have looked into it.