Horse Meat found in Tesco Beefburgers

[Libertad]

Eight horses, killed in the UK, tested positive for the painkiller bute and six may have entered the food chain in France, the Food Standards Agency said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21455419

 

[hipipol]

This is a load of pony.

Seems Tesco are about to sponsor QPR
They been pony for yonks

 

[Tankus]

So ...BSE is no longer being tracked ? ...its no longer a problem ?

 

[moochedit]

...and it's not the first time either.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-horsemeat-scandal

this bit is interesting ....

Note found in paperwork - The horsemeat scandal - not to be used under any circumstances.

 

[Jackobi]

And if they tell me this 80p lasagna might contain anything, but hey, you've been eating them for years and never complained, do you still want it at a knocked down price, why can't I get stocked up on them?

Perhaps a Gallop poll should be conducted on whether the public want to eat discounted horse products.

 

[brogdale]

Tesco says tests on 149 of its products are clear, and Sainsbury's say their tests show no horse adulteration.

Hmmm...how convenient for them.

 

[weltweit]

Tesco says 149 products are clear - BUT WHICH ONES FFS? ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!

Especially I want to know if my Aberdeen angus burgers wot I intend to buy tonight are clip clop free!

 

[DexterTCN]

So if all the horses are in the burgers...what the hell is the glue made of now?

 

[dylans]

Horse found in school meals cottage pies

 

[DotCommunist]

I've got a tikka lasagne for later. It may sound a bit outre but I'm going to try it so you don't have to.

Its a pound from iceland so I fully expect it to be 90% equine offal

 

[brogdale]

I've got a tikka lasagne for later. It may sound a bit outre but I'm going to try it so you don't have to.

Its a pound from iceland so I fully expect it to be 90% equine offal

Icelandic tikka lasagne (via Romania?). You little internationalist, you!

 

[danny la rouge]

Incidentally, given that Tesco knows what every Clubcard member has bought, shouldn't they write to everyone who has bought food they know was contaminated?

 

[danny la rouge]

The other thing to remember about these other meats - chicken and pork - now found in products labelled beef is that those require more thorough cooking than is customary with beef.

 

[Geri]

I feel confident enough to eat my remaining Birds Eye burgers now.

 

[Gingerman]

A horse walks into a bar, the barman says, 'sorry, we don't serve food ".....boom tish

 

[DotCommunist]

I've got a tikka lasagne for later. It may sound a bit outre but I'm going to try it so you don't have to.

Its a pound from iceland so I fully expect it to be 90% equine offal

Update: it was actually a bit rank, way spicier than it had any right to be. Frog ate her half and enjoyed it whereas I poked angrily at mine with a fork for a bit then resentfully ate some of it.

The horse/lack of horse has not been confirmed but I think we can take it as given

 

[8ball]

I don't think it's fair to blame our equine cousins without firm DNA evidence.

 

[8115]

Apparently middle men companies in the meat trade are also used by convicted arms dealers. The whole business looks seeeeeeeedy. I'm so glad I've never eaten a Rustler's burger.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/16/horsemeat-scandal-victor-bout-firms

 

[weltweit]

I bought Aberdeen Angus burgers tonight and ate them. The staff in the local tesco did not seem too worried when I asked them how much clippity clop in the burgers then? One, said she did not know what all the fuss was about, she had eaten horse. Another thought it was all overblown, meat is meat or something. But I had an email from tesco's boss today saying that they are all taking it very seriously and are taking action to become the most tested supermarket so that we can all have trust in their food being as specified on the label!

 

[Geri]

The managing director of Iceland was just interviewed on the Andrew Marr show and denied that any horse *flesh* was found in any supermarket products - he asserted it was just DNA due to cross contamination. The interviewer did not even challenge him on this point!

 

[Voley]

Sounds like policy-making on the hoof to me.

 

[brogdale]

Sounds like policy-making on the hoof to me.

Yes, I think its worse that we first pferd.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The managing director of Iceland was just interviewed on the Andrew Marr show and denied that any horse *flesh* was found in any supermarket products - he asserted it was just DNA due to cross contamination. The interviewer did not even challenge him on this point!

He also said it was the fault of Councils, Schools and Hospitals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21490004

 

[Geri]

He also said it was the fault of Councils, Schools and Hospitals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21490004

Yes, I forgot to mention that bit! He came across as a complete tit. Glad I don't shop at Iceland.

 

[sunny jim]

Dodgy arms dealers involved in the horse meat scandal. Its getting murkier and murkier.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/16/horsemeat-scandal-victor-bout-firms

 

[brogdale]

Yes, I forgot to mention that bit! He came across as a complete tit. Glad I don't shop at Iceland.

The geyser from Iceland is a 3.30.
What an anus.
http://bcove.me/5a65vqz3

 

[sunny jim]

Horse found in school meals cottage pies

When I was a kid they used to make cottage pies in the school kitchen. Fuck knows why they've lost the ability to do that - they're not exactly hard to make.

 

[binka]

When I was a kid they used to make cottage pies in the school kitchen. Fuck knows why they've lost the ability to do that - they're not exactly hard to make.

how are companies expected to make a profit on feeding children shit dinners if the schools are making it themselves?

 

[sunny jim]

how are companies expected to make a profit on feeding children shit dinners if the schools are making it themselves?

Just throwing it out there but isnt it cheaper to make it themselves?
Disclaimer: I have no kids and its years since I was at school.

 

[binka]

Just throwing it out there but isnt it cheaper to make it themselves?

i don't really know but i bet there aren't many examples of privatisation/outsourcing leading to better value for money but then i don't think value for money has ever been the main consideration