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Thread ID: 129229 2013-02-11 17:25:00 English butchers can't tell horse ? Digby (677) PC World Chat
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1327476 2013-02-11 17:25:00 Imagine being a butcher in the UK.
A horse comes down the line and you think its a cow and you start to cut it up!
Digby (677)
1327477 2013-02-11 19:07:00 Don't know what the fuss is about, horse is low fat and quite sought after in some parts.
NZ exports some.
pctek (84)
1327478 2013-02-11 19:19:00 Yes, but I grew up eating beef and lamp.
Horses are for glue.
Would you be the same if they had put or or monkey in it (its all meat)

And its the fact that they labelled it as beef that to me is criminal.
Beef lasagne or Horse lasagne

Beef burgers or horse burgers.
Digby (677)
1327479 2013-02-11 19:20:00 It's not English butchers, the meat has come from Romania.
The issue being mainly that if you are paying for beef
then horse is fraud.
KarameaDave (15222)
1327480 2013-02-11 19:23:00 Pretty shocking really, i can imagine how it has made people squeamish Gobe1 (6290)
1327481 2013-02-11 19:31:00 I doubt a single English butcher has seen the meat. It will be shipped in from overseas and straight to the processing plant to be cooked up into what ever they are making that day. It's not just in England either it has affected several European countries gary67 (56)
1327482 2013-02-11 19:38:00 Neigh I say

Ken:banana
kenj (9738)
1327483 2013-02-11 19:40:00 I don't mind eating horse, but mislabelling is a major, major issue. Given the British experience with nvCJD/mad cow disease, consumer fears over labelling are very high. GMO, etc is all a much bigger issue in the UK than almost anywhere else. If you can't trust that your beef lasagne is actually beef, in a country with strong labelling laws, what else can't you trust? I bet my mum (who lives in the UK) is fretting herself into a state. Zara Baxter (16260)
1327484 2013-02-11 19:44:00 Don't know what the fuss is about, horse is low fat and quite sought after in some parts.
NZ exports some.

+1. Lets hope that they just don't put it all in the local tip. That would be a real wast of money..
paulw (1826)
1327485 2013-02-11 19:53:00 I don't mind eating horse, but mislabelling is a major, major issue. Given the British experience with nvCJD/mad cow disease, consumer fears over labelling are very high. GMO, etc is all a much bigger issue in the UK than almost anywhere else. If you can't trust that your beef lasagne is actually beef, in a country with strong labelling laws, what else can't you trust? I bet my mum (who lives in the UK) is fretting herself into a state.
Spoke to my parents last night and they were amazingly unconcerned about it all.
I'm not allowed to give blood here due to being in England in the 90's as they say the CJD risk is too high
gary67 (56)
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