Horsemeat

[Glaucus]

Factory not farm and no meat(not animals, it more than likely be delivered as meat, not animals, meaning even less restrictions) from abroad is not as traceable as you think. It does not say where the meat came from at all.

And what if the audits they do every so often have come back clean, is it still their fault.

 

['Harry]

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.

Wrong. All tesco meat is supplied by their farms/farms throughly audited by them. Anything sold by tesco is 100% traceable to source.

Tesco are very strict on the quality of their products. Even down to their value range. Many heads will roll for this.

Source - 12 years in food industry.

 

[pmbuzz]

I've tried it, it tastes like chicken.

 

[panyan]

The burgers were on sale in Tesco and Iceland in the UK and Ireland. In the Republic of Ireland they were on sale in Dunnes Stores, Lidl, and Aldi.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21034942

All tesco meat is supplied by their farms/farms throughly audited by them.

If the same burgers were sold in Tesco, Iceland, Lidl and Aldi, does that mean that Tesco or Tesco's farms also sell to Iceland, Lidl and Aldi?

 

[dowie]

I'm not so bothered about the eating of horse meat per say... more that they seemingly don't know whats going in their burgers.... how on earth can a horse just slip into the production line....

the pork thing isn't too good either... I hope none of the products were marked as 'halal'

 

[Kenai]

Wrong. All tesco meat is supplied by their farms/farms throughly audited by them. Anything sold by tesco is 100% traceable to source.

Tesco are very strict on the quality of their products. Even down to their value range. Many heads will roll for this.

Source - 12 years in food industry.

Is that fresh meat or all meat?

Sounds like this is a frozen 'value' product, possibly not even a tesco branded item as whilst they say it was found in tesco, they don't go as far as saying it was a tesco product.

 

[dowie]

Wrong. All tesco meat is supplied by their farms/farms throughly audited by them. Anything sold by tesco is 100% traceable to source.

Tesco are very strict on the quality of their products. Even down to their value range. Many heads will roll for this.

Source - 12 years in food industry.

well clearly not otherwise how on earth does a horse just slip in there...

Glaucus might well be right IMO - probably come from a country that consumes horse meat...

 

[Biohazard]

Is that fresh meat or all meat?

Sounds like this is a frozen 'value' product, possibly not even a tesco branded item as whilst they say it was found in tesco, they don't go as far as saying it was a tesco product.

They would say the brand then instead of name dropping Tesco then, wouldn't they?

 

[[TW]Fox]

What's it got to do with tesco.

They put the Tesco name on it, duh? To most people, it's Tesco meat. Thats how its branded and thats how Tesco wish it to be considered.

Tesco is just a buyer.

th shd no wut theydsdf are buying Wensleydale saluation it to customisations?

 

[Glaucus]

They would say the brand then instead of name dropping Tesco, wouldn't they?

Not really, they do not say which brand it was, just which supermarkets it was found in.

 

[Glaucus]

They put the Tesco name on it, duh? To most people, it's Tesco meat. Thats how its branded and thats how Tesco wish it to be considered.

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We don't even know its a tesco product.

 

[Skillmister]

makes me glad to be a vegan, no dodgy meat for me win!

If horse can get in a beef burger, i'm pretty sure meat can get in your lentils.

 

[Skillmister]

th shd no wut theydsdf are buying Wensleydale saluation it to customisations?

Have you turned into Glaucus?

 

[Biohazard]

They put the Tesco name on it, duh? To most people, it's Tesco meat. Thats how its branded and thats how Tesco wish it to be considered.

Quite.

th shd no wut theydsdf are buying Wensleydale saluation it to customisations?

What's that, a mouth full of horse you've got crammed in there?

Anyway yeah, hell yeah you're damn right, you get those bitches told huni!

 

[[TW]Fox]

We don't even know its a tesco product.

It seems fairly obvious that it's about own-branded products. Tesco would have been quick to point out it was not a Tesco branded product for a start.

I thinking. that this is. a percendicular serialisation issue.

 

[Kenai]

They would say the brand then instead of name dropping Tesco then, wouldn't they?

...and Iceland and Dunnes and Lidl and Aldi, all in the link in the OP.

They've hardly just namedropped Tesco in isolation.

 

[Wizzfizz]

They put the Tesco name on it, duh? To most people, it's Tesco meat. Thats how its branded and thats how Tesco wish it to be considered.

This.

 

[Ahleckz]

I've tried it, it tastes like chicken.

As I said earlier, I've had horse numerous times and never once has it tasted or had the texture similar to chicken. I find it to be similar to a very tender, steak albeit with a game'y'er taste.

 

[gizmoy2k]

They would say the brand then instead of name dropping Tesco then, wouldn't they?

Not if tesco value burgers come from the same supplier as Aldi, Lidl burgers

You would be surprised how much food is the same source but packaged differently, and say a £2 added if it goes to M&S instead of Asda

If people would only let things die down for a bit. But there's always one that wants to stirrup things again.

 

[spoffle]

Kind of funny that beef burgers contain pork. The Moslims are gonna love that.

It'd make no difference, the burgers wouldn't be halal either way.