"PeterC" wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:28:52 +0000, polygonum wrote:

On 08/02/2013 11:04, David.WE.Roberts wrote:
.....then how can we trust them when they say
"Of course, the horse meat is completely safe to eat."

The only way they could claim that is if the meat came from a supply
farmed for human consumption and rigorously quality checked (as I hope
our
beef, lamb and pork is).

However if they lied once, how can they be trusted?

How do we know the horses weren't shot because they had an infectious
disease such as coughing, or expired just past the finishing post due to
over doping?

No doubt this story will run forever......

Cheers

Dave R

It has been suggested that they can trace every bit of beef back to the
bovine it came from. That was part of the whole BSE resolution.

Which bovine did this horsemeat come from? Are they feeding cows with
horses? silly comment - not to be taken as a serious, paranoid
suggestion

Not so silly - wasn't BSE something to do with feeding meat of some
processed sort to cattle?

Yes, sheep with scrapie. That's one theory, anyway. The
other is that it just developed in cattle spontaneously.