The Natural Philosopher wrote
Dave Liquorice wrote

What I find rather disturbing is that no one in the whole long supply
chain, from abattoir to retail outlet, appears to have been routinely
testing that a batch of meat or product called "beef" really is 100%
beef.

How would you know?

DNA testing is scarcely the sort of thing that people engage in
routinely.

They do actually, specifically for that situation.

Much more commonly done with seafood where there is a hell
of a lot more alternatives and much more incentive to flog the
cheap **** as more expensive fish once its no long recognisable
once its been filleted etc.

Company X decides that in practice people can barely tell horse from cow,
stars mixing in horse, and the frozen mince goes off to McDonkeys
suppliers, who use the sort of it in lasagne as well.

Even sillier when horse meat is more expensive than non horse meat in
europe.

They undercut everyone else's prices,

They dont when horse meat is more expensive than non horse meat in europe.

so guess who else start to copy.

Soon, as with banks, 'everybody is doing it' throwing in the rats
squirrels, dogs, deer - anything that is or can reasonably be described as
'edible meat' goes in one end. and death burgers come out the other.

Completely off with the ****ing fairys, as always.