On Friday, February 15, 2013 9:11:57 PM UTC, Andy Champ wrote:
On 15/02/2013 14:35, wrote:

PCR assays for horse could be made cheap enough for widespread surveillance,

but it's not really the right approach. If you have to figure out after the fact

what animal it came from, you really don't know enough about the suppliers.



What's the next yucky thing going to be that we then have to check all meat for?



I'm not that bothered whether my beefburger turns out to be horse or

pork, so long as it is fit for human consumption. So no bute etc.

I won;t want to pay 10p for a beefburger that is actually a horseburger I could have brought for 5p if the right label had been put on the box.