Horse meat found in supermarket beef burgers!

Mikinton

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Personally I don't know what all the fuss is about. It was only horse DNA they found. It may not have been meat ...... it might have been semen instead.
 
Floss

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Well I can tell you a thing or two about the alleged abotoir involved in this, as a starving student I took a summer job in the canteen in the first instance of a abotoir nr Oswestry, via a agency, however the canteen duties only lasted 2 weeks, as the person I was covering came back, so I was offered a job in the burger packing area, I stuck it for 3 days, that was 12 years ago I've not eaten any kind of minced meat since, the things I saw, have stuck with me to this day! The image now when I think about it, reminisces like a gory horror movie! Vile!
 
littleme

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db said:
:teef: i can practically hear henry scat fuming from here lol
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I know, I did think of that as I posted it, but its true and I'm entitled to my opinion even if it offends others ;)

As for the horsrmeat burgers, I quite liked them in a 'reminds me of school burgers in the late 70s and 80s', and while I dont mind eating them, the rest of my family are horrified at the thought......plus my husband makes the bestest homemade burgers :)
 
henryscat

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littleme said:
I know, I did think of that as I posted it, but its true and I'm entitled to my opinion even if it offends others ;)

As for the horsrmeat burgers, I quite liked them in a 'reminds me of school burgers in the late 70s and 80s', and while I dont mind eating them, the rest of my family are horrified at the thought......plus my husband makes the bestest homemade burgers :)
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All I'm going to say is if you are not prepared to face and witness where your food comes from perhaps you ought to consider whether you should eat it. I don't respect the dietary choices of anyone who isn't prepared to face the reality of it.
 
littleme

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henryscat said:
All I'm going to say is if you are not prepared to face and witness where your food comes from perhaps you ought to consider whether you should eat it. I don't respect the dietary choices of anyone who isn't prepared to face the reality of it.
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I am aware of the reality of where it comes from etc, I'm just not prepared to slaughter it myself :)
 
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henryscat said:
All I'm going to say is if you are not prepared to face and witness where your food comes from perhaps you ought to consider whether you should eat it. I don't respect the dietary choices of anyone who isn't prepared to face the reality of it.
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Do you wear clothes? If so, have you been and faced the conditions in Bangladeshi sweatshops where a lot of these are made?

Do you own an iPad or iPhone? If so I'm sure you'll have visited the Foxconn factory in China to see what the working conditions and pay is like, and to investigate the unusually high suicide rate amongst their factory workers.

No difference really.
 
tek-monkey

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Any piece of technology pretty much is made by people under crappy conditions paid a pittance in a near-third world country, while the brand holders make all the profit. I still have a smart phone though, and a TV, and a laptop, because quite frankly I don't care enough as its not me in that situation.
 
Withnail

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henryscat said:
I don't respect the dietary choices of anyone who isn't prepared to face the reality of it.
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If you got down off that high horse there would be enough burgers for everyone. :)



(sorry h's c, tried to refrain but couldn't help myself. Plus it has been plagiarised, if slightly adapted - strip away all the puns that have already been used in the pursuance of novelty and you are left with a veritable desert, aer kid©)
 
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flossietoo

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Was anyone else surprised at the news that 8,000 horses were slaughtered in this country last year, for meat? I haven't made any kind of study of the slaughter industry (although I was once asked to write about a meat processor. I said that my heart wouldn't be in it and that I didn't want to think about where other hearts might have come from) but I admit that I had no idea that the UK exported horse meat.
 
tek-monkey

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How many die of old age? How many horses are in the UK? How long do they live? Is it better to burn them or eat them? What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
 
monkey bidness

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I have arrived late at this debate, so gapologies to all if this has been mentioned before, but a phrase I have heard used by insiders in the trade springs to mind; apropos the 'mechanically recovered meat' which ends up in 'value' burgers. Lips & a**eholes.
 
Gramaisc

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Horses are (largely) an industry - and unwanted horses have to go somewhere. In this country, pet food is a common end-product, I believe. Unsuccessful racehorses, in particular, are not worth keeping, etc....
 
tek-monkey

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I saw a program years ago about how contaminated meat got into the food chain, was an eye opener. I remember one cow carcass with a massive abcess on it, they just stamped it regardless and threw that bit in the mincer. I'm sure things have changed now, especially since the whole BSE debacle, but the easiest way used to be making your own rubber stamp that said it was OK then selling it on yourself, bypassing the entire 'safety' part!

I still eat the stuff though, it is still protein. Sure it has a small trace of undesirables in it, but so does all food.
 
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