Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10453897
Why not stop there and stop loyalty points on supermarket burgers which exploits horses or stopping them on petrol purchases which may well lead to a decrease in road accidents.
Hey while they're at it how 'bouts extra points on sales of tofu? It's a healthy option isn't it?
That's the thing about the BMA - you get a herd of snotty consultants and jumped up GPs together in a room and they behave as if they are government ministers. Actually the reverse is also true when you think about it.
Brian Dixon
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#2
why not have 100% horse meat products as an allternative,and petrol at 30p a liter.
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#3
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#4
the quote from the british retail consortium sums up the situation for me.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#5
I find it horrendous that all this food is being destroyed just because it was mis-labelled. Can't all these products be given a 'may contain horse' sticker and distributed to food banks?
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
Neigh and trice neigh
I do like Peter's idea though, why not recycle losing betting slips, use them instead
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#8
The trouble with recycling such products is that they are not just mislabelled, but that they (more than likely) contain meat that was never considered fit for human consumption...not even by poor people.
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#9
But the authorities keep saying that it isn't a food safety issue.
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What's that Peter? They have the full confidence of the Prime Minister?
Is this only a case of reaching into the fridge and grabbing the wrong tray of red meat?
Or is meat being 'imaginatively' sourced?
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#11
"FSA orders tests of processed beef after horsemeat is found in Findus lasagne
Food Standards Agency chief says situation is 'appalling' and likely result of a criminal act rather than mistaken contamination"
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#12
News just in: Some major food producers have been using sea horses in the production of fish fingers.
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#13
Fish do not have fingers...always a bit of a dead give away that.
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#14
Very true Tom. I used to feel quite uneasy tucking into cod balls.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#15
@ PhilipP.
"There was no evidence to suggest the horsemeat in itself was a food safety risk, the FSA said."
From the same Guardian link.
All batches of processed meat are routinely tested for pathogens such as salmonella, E:coli and other food poisoning bacteria. The problem was, the tests don't reveal whether the meat is horse or beef. People have happily been eating horse for thousands of years; I have always sought out horse on menus when travelling in countries where it is offered, the worst that has happened is that my daughter didn't speak to me for a week.
This is being over-hyped for political reasons. Yes, there has been criminality, but it's highly unlikely to have put peoples' health at risk.
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#16
A possible by-product from codpieces?
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#17
On the other hand, Peter...
"The FSA said tests would take place on the lasagne products for the veterinary anti-inflammatory drug phenylbutazone, often known as bute, which is banned from entering the food chain. The agency said anyone who had bought one of the Findus products should not eat it but return it to the shop where it was bought."
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Jan Higgins
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#18
Peter #5, I bet the stuff still in the factory is being repacked with different labels ready for export, at least I hope so. The health scare is whether the horses had received medication that is dangerous for humans, I suspect there has been over reaction as per usual even if the medication is present as it would be in minuscule quantities.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#19
So are you saying Tom, that if you eat one of those horse-infested products, you will get the trots?
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#20
I'm a vegetarian Peter, but if it was just horse meat mixed-in with cow I see no problem. We all may think that a foodstuff that is said to be not fit for human consumption could have the bad bits scraped off, but that could only apply to something that was at one time fit to eat.
BSE has meant that spine and nerve tissue has to be kept out of the human food chain, but the meat sourced unconventionally could contain much that is not conducive to health. The Chinese had the wizard-wheeze of bulking-out with mica;it added weight and passed muster as protein, not poisonous but not food either.
Better to dine upon road-kill perhaps.
The trots? One could hope it was Dray Horse and have a ready excuse for stopping at every pub.
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