About bacon, maybe...

Rather prophetic in view of the finding of pig meat in supposed halal food being offered to prisoners .
You couldn't make it up could you .

I rather suspect there will be a number of 'disclosures' as to the true content of processed foods.

Prophetic LOL

One could quote the old saying, "What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about."

I watched a programme a while back about how sliced ham is produced from a slurry of meat from various parts of the pig and it almost put me off my toasted ham and cheese sandwiches but then I thought what the heck. That said though, I was less comfortable with eating horse, why I'm not sure though, as we eat most of the other four legged hooved animals but there is a feeling in the back of my mind that it's not quite right. If one is starving then it would be acceptable, I might even eat my mate if I was that hungry but in times of plenty, it's a no no. The French and Belgians might think otherwise and that may be how it got into our food chain, they didn't know that we wouldn't like it. We eat Belgian chocolate and French bread after all.

Having seen what happens when water is purified I'm not ultra keen on cheap tomatoes or sweetcorn. All goes to prove there's no such thing as a free (or cheap!) lunch.

And now,
"The meat of some beef lasagne products recalled by Findus earlier this week was 100% horsemeat, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said"

Makes you proud to be British.

The Findus product affected was made in France.

Sold to us by British supermarkets.

Exactly. The fact it was made in France is irrelevant.

Horsemeat isn't really the problem, Bare-faced corporate greed and lying is.

You really expect every shop to test every batch of every product?


get real.

So JeffG, what is your constructive solution?

To what?

I just don't see how where it was made is relevant to the product being sold in UK supermarkets. So why mention it in the first place?

And bought by the British public...

Out of curiosity, how many people have knowingly eaten horsemeat?

I have and while not a patch on a decent sirloin, it was't unpleasant and I'd have it again. Too much of this is down to lack of labelling and too much emphasis on cost over quality, which the buying public have to take the vast majority of the blame. Customers want ever-cheaper prices and at some point, the suppliers have to start cutting corners.

I wonder how much increase in custom butchers have seen?

The issue of supermarkets selling stuff that isn't what is says on the tin.

Very little - people would have to know what to do with a lump of raw meat first.

I can see the number of home food poisioning cases risisng.....

I would imaging that a vat of rendered horse was sent to the beef lasagne production line in error.

Yes, I'll own up! Bit tougher than decent sirloin as you say; but frankly no worse than what gets served up from the cheap menu in some pubs. Apparently, its better for you; less cholesterol or some such. With some deft marketing, we could all be eating it, quite happily now.

To me, only issue is the misleading label. Who can you trust these days? MPs, Police, Bankers, Nurses, TV personalities and now the food industry. Seemingly we are all at it!

Isn't this really a Common Market issue? May well be a language issue in translation, in the coaching days, the horses were commonly referred to as cattle.

As stated on here before, when I lived in France I ate quite a lot of it and nice it was too. I have trouble with being conned into eating it instead of the real thing, beef. The added worry is that some horses have some very strong medication pumped into them at times that is still there when they are slaughtered and humans are getting that into them also.