Dave Liquorice wrote:
On 10 Feb 2013 20:02:52 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

Seems that meat eaters are if they are getting upset about a bit of
dead horse on their plate. What is the difference between killing and
eating a pig, goat, cow, sheep or WHY and killing an eating a horse?
a) It's not what they were told they were getting.

This bit of the thread had wandered off into omnivore, vegitarian and
vegan diets BWTH. Yes it wasn't correctly labled but that doesn't make
the food inedible.

It does, however make it a more risky proposition. If the makers and
vendors don't know and apparently can't control what's in it, how can
they *prove* it's safe for me to eat? If the meat had been labelled as
containing horse, then there are rules that should be followed, and it
would have been cheaper to substitute pork for beef. As most of the
flavour and texture of meat is in the fat, then adding cheap pork or
even poultry, and increasing the amount of beef fat in the product
leaves lean beef for sale at a premium while saving money, and it would
be hard for the end user to spot the difference in the mince used in the
problematical products.

I don't buy budget food products for this reason. There's too much
chance of random stuff getting into the chain, as quality control costs
money and the budget is too low at the cheap end to allow proper
traceability.

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Tciao for Now!

John.