So Shergar has finally surfaced . The current thinking is that the horsemeat in burgers (horsegate?) is a matter of label fraud. Where there's fraud there's an auditor . Presumably the invoices reflected the lower cost of horse meat as opposed to beef. Should an eagle eyed auditor not have noticed that costs were dropping even if margins were held ?
I must admit none of the pundits I have heard on the radio have even mentioned this - they call it a labelling issue .Wouldn't you just love to be a solicitor at the moment ? Just imagine a class action for trauma and mental anguish .
And on a lighter note , I understand a "gallop" poll of supermarkets has revealed that burger sales are "stable " .
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If they've finally found Shergar......
.... does that mean they'll be a Find-us fee?
Fees
No doubt title has passed to an insurance company who will probably have to answer against claims of money laundering as they should have known there was a risk of their late client participating in a fraud.
I purchase my meat from the local butcher and there is no question as to its provenance in fact the chickens still have the odd feather protruding and as to the lamb.....
Consumers are willing to pay as little as possible hence the beggar thy neighbour pricing attitude of upermarkets. Did nobody ever ask about the quality of what they are buying at such low prices ?
It's a fundamental rule of any sector that there are basic cost levels below which one simply cannot provide the product or service to a satisfactory standard . Caveat emptor....
Crisis in our house
My dog was concerned that the packet of beef scratchings I got her from the pet shop might actually be horse instead! She's going to give her final verdict after finishing the packet as apparently you can't tell from just a couple. Luckily she's happy that the pigs ears are as labelled though as she's never seen a pig I'm not sure how she knows.
Distressing times indeed.
Dog food
This could rapidly become an animal welfare issue not a labelling scandal.