Tesco's Says Neigh

[youngmafbog]

Anyone had a burger from them recently?

Not that I personally see anything wrong with eating horse and if you go to Europe you most likely have eaten it anyway.

http://news.sky.com/story/1038575/horsemeat-in-burgers-tesco-removes-product

[rockyracoon]

Nothing wrong with eating horsemeat, just you should be able to make the choice about whether you do so or not. I'm glad I make my own burgers.

[NOX]

Did you know they also found traces of Zebra in their barcodes?

[rockyracoon]

Lol.

[237SJ]

I watched a programme once where a scientist studied some meatballs from Tesco and he found DNA from dozens of different cattle in them. That`s what you get if you buy rubbish.

[Ric.ror]

I just wondered if it was illegal to eat horse in this country? I should not imagine it is as long as you know what you are eating

[flump1]

Does eating them give one the trots ?

[ludwig]

I did wonder why those Tesco burgers gave me the trots that time.

[ludwig]

curse you flump - sneaked in before me!

[bookbinder]

I've just been looking at a Dutch website, in which people ask and answer questions, and I was interested to see a question about the relative cheapness of horsemeat in the Netherlands, as compared with beef. What struck me, however, was the fact that the asker referred to horsemeat as 'paardenbiefstuk', which translates as 'horse beefsteak'. This suggests that suppliers of horse meat in the Netherlands attempt to 'ennoble' horsemeat by connecting it with beef. Incidentally, the enquirer said that she bought 4 'paardenbiefstukjes' [horse beef steaks] for €3,50, which she considered to be quite cheap. Some of the replies indicated that horsemeat is not all that popular in the Netherlands.

[Ric.ror]

I wonder if it tastes like beef

[flump1]

great minds ludwig : )

[anotheoldgit]

flump1

/// Does eating them give one the trots ? ///

Maybe, but it also makes it easier for one to jump over a five bar gate.

[sunny-dave]

http://oi50.tinypic.com/35054bm.jpg

[bookbinder]

Ric.ror wonders if it is illegal to eat horse in this country. I know that horsemeat was on sale in England in about 1947, for human consumption, and I believe that it was 'on points' [i.e. rationed, so the customer had to hand over their ration book], which means that it was then, and probably still is, OK to eat it.

[emmie]

i would object to eating horsemeat, if the product says that it is beef on the packaging, then that is what you would expect, some of these beef products also contain pig, that is wrong on so many levels.

[emmie]

as i pointed out on another thread i have inadvertently eaten horsemeat, it was passed off as beef, it looked like a piece of steak. It was in a well known French restaurant in Paris, we didn't know, but were told afterwards by a French friend, i wasn't best pleased..

[anotheoldgit]

It's not only Burgers and meat Balls, just imagine what goes in sausages?

[dustypuss]

http://theprimalchallenge.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/eat-a-horse.jpg

[anotheoldgit]

"I like Burgers, but then I also like Horses"

Doesn't this sound like an Aldi advert?

[LazyGun]

Its not so much that I would necessarily object to eating horse meat - it is supposedly a leaner meat, potentially better for you - I do object to being served something labelled as beef only to find out later that it contains as much as 30% horsemeat. For those whose religion and faith forbids them pork, the news that pork was also found would also be a worry.

So no health safety issue. What I did find interesting was that we do not have authorised labs that routinely check the quality of meat producers output - The coalition government disbanded the Food Safety Agency, whose responsibility this once was. This duty was transferred to DEFRA, who in turn promptly farmed it out to local trading standards offices - but with the cutbacks, they can no longer perform the number of checks they would wish to on abbatoirs and the like, to say nothing of paying for DNA screening tests.

From a previous post, it would appear that horsemeat is significantly cheaper than beef, so I guess if manufacturers think they can get away with and make more money, they will......