You might also be interested in
Replies (9)
Please login or register to join the discussion.
Mans greed and inhumanity
What has happened to our humanity when we focus on the profit implications rather than on the misery inflicted to once much loved pets who find their way through no fault of their own into abattoirs.
Lets not lose sight of the issue
What has happened to our humanity when we focus on the profit implications rather than on the misery inflicted to once much loved pets who find their way through no fault of their own into abattoirs.
The issue is that horse meat - which is perfectly edible and indeed, widely eaten - is passed off as beef, not the eating of horse meat per se.
Just because we like to give horses names doesn't make killing them for food a crime against humanity!
And if you insist on buying a 'beef' lasagne for less than the price of a pint of milk, don't expect there to be finely minced fillet steak contained therein!
No puns please, we're British
This reminds me of an old Soviet era Russian joke where the minister in charge of milk production continually urges unrealistic hikes in output, only to be told eventually: 'Yes we can do that, but it's going to be very watery'.
Interestingly, the big corporate fast food retailers (McD, BK etc) have no problem with horsemeat. The reason being that they used to be troubled by vexatious litigants claiming to found, for example, a fingertip in a burger. On the advice of their lawyers, they set up rigorous audit trails of their supplies all the way back to the farms. Nowadays if you try to sue them for a foreign body (as it were) in your meal, they will show you exactly how your food travelled from pasture to plate, and point out that on no occasion and in no location proximate to your product did anyone report the loss of a fingertip. Ipso facto the offending digit was introduced after you bought your food, and the courts are likely to give your claim the proverbial thumbs down [insert your own joke here].
I think most if not all food retailers and hospitality providers are going to have to follow this example, or face the consequences.
Usually with situations like this
there is a blindingly obvious thing that everyone wonders about but no one mentions, a so called elephant in the room.
so far i haven't been able to find it, should i be worried...?
Next scandal?
a so called elephant in the room.
so far i haven't been able to find it, should i be worried...?
You certainly should be, if that too has found its way into the food chain ;)
...and let's not lose sight of the wider issue
@peterk
"...if you insist on buying a 'beef' lasagne for less than the price of a pint of milk, don't expect there to be finely minced fillet steak contained therein!"
I don't, but I do expect beef.
If you leave everything to the market, it seems that you do sometimes end up with horsemeat. Maybe it's worth remembering this the next time a politician tells you to "trust the market" over care for the elderly, NHS standards, the building of roads and power stations, the education of our children... etc etc.