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I have never understood the whole horsemeat hysteria myself.
I have never understood the whole horsemeat hysteria myself.
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My disgust was not that I might have eaten horsemeat (I've eaten it "as advertised" and very tasty it was too). My outrage was centred around the fact that I had been conned by thinking I was buying beef but instead had been palmed off with meat that sells for about half or even less of that value.
Of course the scandal would not have occurred if businesses had not taken advantage of the EU's trading facilities which allows huge amounts of produce to be ferried around the continent being processed, reprocessed, added to and generally mucked about with at each and every stage.
Of course the scandal would not have occurred if businesses had not taken advantage of the EU's trading facilities which allows huge amounts of produce to be ferried around the continent being processed, reprocessed, added to and generally mucked about with at each and every stage.
The British do love to anthropomorphisise their animals.
That's why millions tune in to see lower life forms ill-treated in the name of entertainment in 'I'm A Celebrity', but rage like demons when seal hunters bash huge-eyed 'cuddly' pups over the head for their fur. The fact that insects would largely ignore you unless threatened, and a seal pup would take your fingers off if you tried to cuddle it is a side issue.
The point is, we see horses, like dogs, as 'friendly' and therefore are averse to seeing them as part of the food chain, an attitude not followed by our European neighbours.
If British farmers could see a monetary value in their horses, that would certainly decrerase or eliminate the bad treatment these animals receive, because time and care invested in their lifetime would produce a cash dividend on their death, which is the only relationship any farmer requires with any animal.
Whether tou could get the British to knowingly eat horsemeat is another matter entirely, but there could be an export market to be explored.
Anyone who eats any meat and decries a trade in horse meat is a hypocrite - sadly something else the British public do well.
That's why millions tune in to see lower life forms ill-treated in the name of entertainment in 'I'm A Celebrity', but rage like demons when seal hunters bash huge-eyed 'cuddly' pups over the head for their fur. The fact that insects would largely ignore you unless threatened, and a seal pup would take your fingers off if you tried to cuddle it is a side issue.
The point is, we see horses, like dogs, as 'friendly' and therefore are averse to seeing them as part of the food chain, an attitude not followed by our European neighbours.
If British farmers could see a monetary value in their horses, that would certainly decrerase or eliminate the bad treatment these animals receive, because time and care invested in their lifetime would produce a cash dividend on their death, which is the only relationship any farmer requires with any animal.
Whether tou could get the British to knowingly eat horsemeat is another matter entirely, but there could be an export market to be explored.
Anyone who eats any meat and decries a trade in horse meat is a hypocrite - sadly something else the British public do well.
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If horse meat were on the menu as well as sirloin steak, I'd go for the steak.
If horse meat were on the menu and the only other main course were sea bass, I'd go for the horse meat.
I've got no problem with eating horse, and have enjoyed venison before (and let's face it, deers are simply horses in drag)...so I agree with HRH.
If horse meat were on the menu and the only other main course were sea bass, I'd go for the horse meat.
I've got no problem with eating horse, and have enjoyed venison before (and let's face it, deers are simply horses in drag)...so I agree with HRH.
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Horses are not always looked after by so-called sancturies either!
Horses are not always looked after by so-called sancturies either!
viv38 - "andy - re. your second para, that is why I won't watch I'm a Celebrity ...... "
Mine to viv!
i regularly rail against cruelty to adnimals for entertainment, and that is no less cruel because the animals are perceived as 'ugly' and therefore not entitled to the same protection as higher orders.
Mine to viv!
i regularly rail against cruelty to adnimals for entertainment, and that is no less cruel because the animals are perceived as 'ugly' and therefore not entitled to the same protection as higher orders.
I don’t know about “large countries”, Fred. What I do know is that, thanks to the EU, certifying the provenance of many processed (and even some unprocessed) foodstuffs is virtually impossible. We have the ridiculous situation where meat (and the animal it came from) need not have touched these shores until it arrived butchered and frozen but, because it was wrapped in plastic in Walsall it can be labelled “British”.
As far as the horsemeat scandal goes, one only has to look at the causes to see how supply chain complexities (facilitated by the EU) make such malpractice if not inevitable, certainly highly likely:
“…an initial investigation has found that horsemeat sold as beef originated from Romanian slaughterhouses before being sold to a Dutch food trader, then on to a Cypriot trader and on again to a French firm.”
How on earth can UK retailers keep track of such ridiculous nonsense? How can they rely on the authenticity of goods when they originate from industries in nations which, to put it kindly, are not quite so rigorous with the regulations as they should be?
Whilst it is true that the scandal was mainly caused by intentional deception on the part of some traders, the EU has still not acted to close the loopholes that clearly exist which result in shoppers being misled:
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This sort of thing is inevitable when a trading bloc the size and complexity of the EU seems to believe it can act as a single nation state (and allow nonsensical and useless labelling such as “produce of the EU”).
As far as the horsemeat scandal goes, one only has to look at the causes to see how supply chain complexities (facilitated by the EU) make such malpractice if not inevitable, certainly highly likely:
“…an initial investigation has found that horsemeat sold as beef originated from Romanian slaughterhouses before being sold to a Dutch food trader, then on to a Cypriot trader and on again to a French firm.”
How on earth can UK retailers keep track of such ridiculous nonsense? How can they rely on the authenticity of goods when they originate from industries in nations which, to put it kindly, are not quite so rigorous with the regulations as they should be?
Whilst it is true that the scandal was mainly caused by intentional deception on the part of some traders, the EU has still not acted to close the loopholes that clearly exist which result in shoppers being misled:
http://
This sort of thing is inevitable when a trading bloc the size and complexity of the EU seems to believe it can act as a single nation state (and allow nonsensical and useless labelling such as “produce of the EU”).
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