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# Clearly the Trade Descriptions Act is not an issue for you then


(Edit: For whatever reason, it's not culturally normal to eat horse in Britain, any more than it is to eat dog or cat, or - and rather hypocritically given our thirst for milk - veal. Different countries have different cultural norms; veal is common and popular a short trip over the sea, Koreans are famous for eating dog, and the French will eat anything that moves and almost everything that doesn't so long as you can still be cruel to it. My issue is chiefly that if I bought these burgers -- which, thankfully, I haven't and probably wouldn't -- they're being sold as beef burgers and I'm sure they didn't put 'horsemeat' anywhere in the ingredients, which means they're breaking the law. If they're going to put horsemeat into a burger, or the controls in their factories are so lax that horsemeat can get in by accident, I'm hardly going to trust any of the other ingredients, nor any other part of their production chain.)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 16 Jan 2013, 11:36, archived)
# Yes the trade descriptions is the only issue for me but that wasn't my original point
Dead animal is dead animal as far as I'm concerned, chefs like Hugh Fearnley Wotsit are advocating using more parts of an animal and trying different meats. Thousands of packs of burgers will be going to waste when it's perfectly good food. If I was a meat eater I'd eat the burgers but save the packaging to demand a refund if I was that peed off about the product description.
(I helped save b3ta! hekim 66 ɐŹ‡Ęš’ ŹžÉ”nā„² uooW, Wed 16 Jan 2013, 11:47, archived)
# How do you know it's perfectly good food? That horse meat has gone through none of the stringent food safety checks meat usually goes through,
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 16 Jan 2013, 11:56, archived)
# Fair point, but it's gone through intensive food processing to reach that stage and odds on safe to eat
I guess I'm less fussy about what I've put in my mouth over the years of which I've only been veggie for 20.
(I helped save b3ta! hekim 66 ɐŹ‡Ęš’ ŹžÉ”nā„² uooW, Wed 16 Jan 2013, 12:01, archived)
# I'll eat any animal I don't have a personal emotional attachment to, i.e, My dog - no, Your dog - yummy.
My issue with this isn't that it's horse, it's that uncontrolled meat from ANY animal has been used. That meat could have anything wrong with it.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 16 Jan 2013, 11:54, archived)
# That's basically my issue too, just phrased a lot more succinctly :)
Culturally we don't eat horsemeat - in Britain or in Ireland - so who the fuck knows where that stuff came from. In principle there's nothing particularly wrong with eating horse.

But stay the hell away from my dog! (He died a few years ago anyway :( He might give you a sore belly if you tried to eat him now.)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 16 Jan 2013, 11:58, archived)