Horsemeat

Glaucus said:
What's it got to do with tesco.
These are big food factories that will supplie most of the supermarkets and other brand names. Tesco is just a buyer.
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We are just buyers, Tesco has the power to tell suppliers what to do, what pesticides to use, anything and everything.
You can trace any piece of meat back to the farm it came from and those farms will have been audited by Tesco.

Someone has been caught napping.
 
Doesn't bother me :) if anything I've got a craving for beef burgers now....

Also, mrmoon, thought you were just a vegetarian, seems the book was more appropriate than I thought.

kd
 
Next thing you know, when you order food from Tesco to deliver to your house, you'll wake up to a horses head in your bed...and there will be a Tesco employee waiting for you to wake up, and they'll start screaming, EAT IT, EAT YOUR HORSES HEAD.
 
bitslice said:
We are just buyers, Tesco has the power to tell suppliers what to do, what pesticides to use, anything and everything.
You can trace any piece of meat back to the farm it came from and those farms will have been audited by Tesco.

Someone has been caught napping.
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In the uk, I bet this meat arriving in the factoy was not uk and so not as traceable. So again it has nothing to do with tesco. They are a victim in this, as I suspect the factoy is, it's the meat supplier to the factory or even the step before that.
 
I haven't, to my knowledge, ever eaten horse, and I find the story quite concerning. That said, I'm not sure why, I mean what is the problem with eating horse as opposed to cow? Apart from the obvious labelling issues.
 
What confuses me most is why it would happen?

Surely horses aren't cheaper than cows anyway? If there's not a cost benefit, why bother in the first place...
 
I think a lot of people see cows as food, because it's been widely accepted for so long.

And people see horses as pets.

I guess it depends on your perspective and viewpoint because I think eating goat or squirrel or even something popular like pheasant or rabbit is gross. But some people love trying different stuff, my brother being one of them.

Guess it's just your personal take on things.
 
Glaucus said:
:) got them in the freezer.

Does it pass the taste good test, And then preferably naturally raised(which is why game is so good), Then cruelty issues
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My friend eats rabbit all the time. We live around the corner from each other and we've grown up together and we couldn't be any more different. I don't eat meat, and she eats enough for both of us and then some. She loves plucking pheasants and also eats rabbits regularly.

Can't fault her though, she's healthier than me.
 
Don't mind eating horses, infact I don't know why its being kept "under wraps" and we aren't proud about it.

Every horse I've ever seen in a field has looked bloody depressed, put them out of their misery I say.
 
Glaucus said:
In the uk, I bet this meat arriving in the factoy was not uk and so not as traceable. So again it has nothing to do with tesco. They are a victim in this, as I suspect the factory is, it's the meat supplier to the factory or even the step before that.
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Nope,

"the meat came from two processing plants in Ireland, Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods, and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire."

After the whole BSE thing, traceability of meat became a priority, cattle even have their own passport these days. Some suppliers can trace a meat product back to the individual cow.

No way would Tesco take the word of a supplier without auditing that supplier first, if their auditing process isn't good enough to stop something like this then it's not really worth the bother of doing it.
 
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