Horse meat found in supermarket beef burgers!

Tinkerbell

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henryscat said:
The burgers are safe to eat, so don't understand what the problem is? If you eat cow, then horse shouldn't be an issue.
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I agree - if you buy cheap burgers its a common fact that they put any old shite in them.

For some reason this country generally think 'oh poor horsey' but forget about the cow.

Not really bothered - I would rather it was horsemeat than the toenails, eyeballs and other stuff they use.
 
Jonah

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Just been into Tesco. Looks like they have taken all the 'beef' burgers off sale.

A case of bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted...

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Gramaisc

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Unfortunately timed current poster campaign for an Irish ham supplier..

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tek-monkey

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Tinkerbell said:
I agree - if you buy cheap burgers its a common fact that they put any old shite in them.

For some reason this country generally think 'oh poor horsey' but forget about the cow.

Not really bothered - I would rather it was horsemeat than the toenails, eyeballs and other stuff they use.
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I think the issue is the mis-labelling, not the content. The ingredients clearly state 63% beef, 10% onion and the rest made up of sweepings off the floor and wood shavings etc. Nowhere did it mention horse or pig, that is the issue. I will happily eat horse, I've had a fair few steaks and enjoyed them, but thats not the point. The shitstorm Tesco are finding themselves in is because people have now lost confidence in their labelling, why buy a 95% pork sausage for example when it may only contain 60% regardless? Sure it may be 95% 'meat', but why would you even believe that if they lie about the animals involved? What about those little wheel doohickey things that tell you how healthy it is, was that based on reported ingredients or actual ones? Is all labelling bollocks, or is that just the meatballs?

It doesn't help that the british public are strangely sqeemish about different animal body parts anyway, so throwing in a whole new animal too will turn some peoples stomachs. The funny thing is there aren't enough horses knocking about to make all the burgers 30% horse FFS, it must have been a spare one they chucked in for good measure and they got unlucky. I'd suspect Dalepack* are going to the wall for this, will any supermarket touch them now?

* At least I think it was Dalepack?
 
Gramaisc

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tek-monkey said:
The funny thing is there aren't enough horses knocking about to make all the burgers 30% horse FFS, it must have been a spare one they chucked in for good measure and they got unlucky. I'd suspect Dalepack* are going to the wall for this, will any supermarket touch them now?

* At least I think it was Dalepack?
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There's 5,000 horses a year from just two sources - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/oct/01/horseracing.sport.

There's three possible suppliers involved..

Check your salami for horse and donkey meat - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2963554.stm - though, it would be out of date by now, anyway...
 
littleme

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tek-monkey said:
I think the issue is the mis-labelling, not the content. The ingredients clearly state 63% beef, 10% onion and the rest made up of sweepings off the floor and wood shavings etc. Nowhere did it mention horse or pig, that is the issue. I will happily eat horse, I've had a fair few steaks and enjoyed them, but thats not the point. The shitstorm Tesco are finding themselves in is because people have now lost confidence in their labelling, why buy a 95% pork sausage for example when it may only contain 60% regardless? Sure it may be 95% 'meat', but why would you even believe that if they lie about the animals involved? What about those little wheel doohickey things that tell you how healthy it is, was that based on reported ingredients or actual ones? Is all labelling bollocks, or is that just the meatballs?

It doesn't help that the british public are strangely sqeemish about different animal body parts anyway, so throwing in a whole new animal too will turn some peoples stomachs. The funny thing is there aren't enough horses knocking about to make all the burgers 30% horse FFS, it must have been a spare one they chucked in for good measure and they got unlucky. I'd suspect Dalepack* are going to the wall for this, will any supermarket touch them now?

* At least I think it was Dalepack?
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Liffey Meats, Silvercrest Foods and Dalepack.

Can't find the page now, but earlier I read that none of these company's deal with horse meat, and they suspect that it was in a consignment of meat imported from Europe.

Also, Metro.co.uk states in its article that its not just burgers, Pork was found in cottage pies, beef currys and other processed products :(
 
ATJ

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I think a lot of people's issue, definitely mine, isn't with the fact that there's horse meat in the burgers. It's that there's a n other otherwise unidentified ingredient in food that shouldn't even be there- if horse can get in there and pork can get in there then god knows what else can get in there.

It's pretty disgusting the blase attitude with which the manufacturers have responded to the pork being found. 'We can understand pork, we process that, but we don't process beef'. Well frankly, they should completely separate out the two knowing the religious sensitivities around both types of meat.

I would happily eat horse if I had ordered horse. When I order beef I want beef.

The other thing is, people might get all snobby about this and say 'well if you eat processed crappy food what do you expect' but don't these same factories pump out normal mince?
 
tek-monkey

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I eat offal, but would be rather annoyed if you served me kidneys when I ordered a steak. Its consumer trust thats the issue, not the product. You can say its just meat, but then so are people and I'm sure even the veggies would be in uproar if we went soylent green on them. Everyone should have the right to choose what they eat, not have products they don't want used as filler. Can you imagine if they found beef in a Linda McCartney sausage?
 
Graham

Graham

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Don't eat them, they will give you the trots....

What next???.....................My Lidl pony?

I've still got a bit in my teeth from last time I ate one.

Tesco now removing veggie burgers from the shelves after finding traces of uniquorn..

All this fuss about horse meat in burgers?? what about all the camel toe in primark jogging pants?

Tesco's are to stop selling these burgers it has been anounced. They withdrew the range as it is felt that they were flogging a dead horse.

Wait until they find Welsh farmers' DNA in the lamb rump.
 
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