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... |
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I don't worry about horse drugs because I buy my horse meat from organic farmers markets.
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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Well initially it was only so-much-percent, now it's emerging as more like seventy or more. But it's still beef, just that horsemeat (or as they say, equine DNA) has been mixed in with it. Plus, have you ever tasted horse meat? Nor have I. I'm sure I wouldn't know it if I tasted it.
You just expect what's printed on the box to be what's in the box, ya know? As for coming up earlier, seems it only came to light because the D of A decided to conduct "standard" tests on some meat and found worrying results so went further, after which the whole thing blew up. Now there are definitely going to be jobs lost, as at least Rangeland Foods and Silvercrest are surely going to lose so much business they'll either have to shut down or let staff go, and Irish reputation for food is damaged, all because some **** wanted to make some money and others went along with it. What a world... |
Immma goanna rawn fastah!
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