I Understand the fuss about this
I really do. I have no problem about the fact I may have eaten Horse as I would happily order a steak a la pony if I had the chance as I eat meat.
If I buy cheapo burgers, I fully expect to pretty much be eating a tiny bit of beef meat with some ground up eyeballs and anus and uncomplicated spine.
The general public though, as we should too, expect a certain level of confidence in our food packaging information.
It's all well and good scoffing at people who happily eat any old machine recovered meat product, and should expect any old shit in their burgers, but culturally we do have things we accept as good eating. In this country Horse aint one of them.
If the DNA had been of hidden snow leopard or tiger or kitten, would we all be so amused? Oh it's only an animal, we eat cow right? It's meat, animal, and we can eat it, and it won't kill us.
Horse is one of those meats we can accept as a food product, mostly, along with the very intimate insides of a cow.
The fuss for me about all this is not so much the 'NEEEIGH Redrum' as the 'fucking hell, what's to come?'....
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 17 Jan 2013, 0:46,
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not gonna say TL;DR, cos i did read...
but yeah, agreed. processed meat bad. real cuts of meat good. four legs good...
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I think it's more about misrepresentation...
...if the packet says beef, you expect beef. Even if that beef isn't of particularly great quality. If there were horse burgers I wouldn't have a problem eating them though I can understand some equestrian minded people objecting.
However, horse meat/DNA masquerading as something else? Kind of suggests dodgy dealings regarding the suppliers. Especially the Irish ones. Maybe some racing horses didn't quite make the cut...
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I'm sure though
that many of the people complaining about it either wouldn't buy these burgers anyway or do buy the burgers but are also happy to buy cheap ass sausages whose ingredients start with the words "Meat (25%)"
There's far far worse in sausages, and they are labelled just as badly.
People are angry but they don't know why.
If it's because there was horse DNA in the burger, then why is that a bad thing?
If it's a labelling concern, why are they not also condemning the sausages as well?
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 17 Jan 2013, 8:26,
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There are limits on what can be sold as a sausage.
There's a minimum permissible meat content. Products with less meat have to be sold as something else - so if you see something sold as "bangers", for example, it's probably mainly breadcrumbs and brickdust.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 17 Jan 2013, 8:48,
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