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Horse or beef, can you tell the difference


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I've got no problem at all in eating horse, Atleast then the bloody things would be useful! What I do have a problem with is the lack of traceability and knowledge of what's in my food. The British farmers have had very tight restrictions placed on them at great expense, but the meat processors are adding all this foreign, untraceable, rubbish to the meat and still selling it as beef and British beef.

It makes a mockery of the efforts of the British farmer. We should be buying direct from the butcher to know what we are eating!

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eaten horse many a time in france and no issue for me other than these manufacturers have been unsure of supply chain or ignoring it, the fact this meat could be full of 'Bute' etc is the concerning part.

 

strange thing is if it was sold as horse in UK it probably would have higher price tag than beef

 

i dont eat ready meals though so i should be ok :)

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I've got no problem at all in eating horse, Atleast then the bloody things would be useful! What I do have a problem with is the lack of traceability and knowledge of what's in my food. The British farmers have had very tight restrictions placed on them at great expense, but the meat processors are adding all this foreign, untraceable, rubbish to the meat and still selling it as beef and British beef.

It makes a mockery of the efforts of the British farmer. We should be buying direct from the butcher to know what we are eating!

I'm with you mate

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Can you image the uproar and blockades at French ports etc if there was a similar fiasco with British producers passing products their way?

 

Bring back "Buy British"!!! and you folks do it!

 

Vive la neddy!

 

Ps no problem with neddy on the plate but put it on the label too!

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Plenty from here in the New Forrest go straight to France from the auctions

 

PS at ten quid for a horse someone is making money somewhere, wonder how many Findus ready meals you get from one New Forrest pony ???

we not going to know that now, the brits have eaten the evidence.
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It is quite funny that the news and politicians are making such a fuss about all of this. These ready meals have been made from cheval supplied by meat merchants in France who source a lot of it here in the UK. It's cheap meat because we don’t eat it here and as such when companies like Findus and Tesco pressurize the food maker to cut the cost they get meat as cheap as possible. The politicians are to blame because they always support cheap food and commercial competition. What else do they expect?

Fernley Wittingstall has got the right idea. He said that his spaniel liked them.

Vive le Spaniel.

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i have no issue with eating hose and have done, a friend brought me some steaks back from a booze cruise to france. to be honest i found it a bit sweet compared to the cow steaks im used to and as such wouldnt eat a horse steak again by choice if cow was available... but on saying that id prefer bambi over a cow anyway

 

my one major gripe with the whole horse/beef thing and one im glad the retailers are getting the grief they are is the fact that the food was mislabeled. i know some see it as a minor thing and im guessing that in this case it is but for some people mislabeling can have medical implications, i have several food intolerance problems, dairy being a huge one (hence my avatar on here) and have been made very ill after eating a ready meal from iceland a year or so ago, i was violently ill lost a few days work and was ill for several weeks.

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i work in a farm shop where we rear all our own animals with our burgers and home made meals we can trace all the meat we keep ear tags id numbers in fact all our animals have names we can tell our customers if they want to know the name of the animal that has gone into their burgers,

last 2 weeks we have used West tip, Party politics, with shergar waiting in the winds

 

colin

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i work in a farm shop where we rear all our own animals with our burgers and home made meals we can trace all the meat we keep ear tags id numbers in fact all our animals have names we can tell our customers if they want to know the name of the animal that has gone into their burgers,

last 2 weeks we have used West tip, Party politics, with shergar waiting in the winds

 

colin

Which sell best Colin lol

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