horseburger anyone?

tescotime

No doubt these will be on sale at the next Christmas Market along with the ostrich burgers.


From the BBC:

"Horse DNA has been found in some beef burgers being sold in Irish supermarkets, the Republic of Ireland's food safety authority has said.
The FSAI said the meat came from two processing plants in Ireland, Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods, and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
The chief executive of the FSAI, Professor Alan Reilly, said there was no risk to the public.
However, he added that eating horsemeat "was not in Irish culture".
"Whilst, there is a plausible explanation for the presence of pig DNA in these products due to the fact that meat from different animals is processed in the same meat plants, there is no clear explanation at this time for the presence of horse DNA in products emanating from meat plants that do not use horsemeat in their production process," he said.
"In Ireland, it is not in our culture to eat horsemeat and therefore, we do not expect to find it in a burger.
"Likewise, for some religious groups or people who abstain from eating pig meat, the presence of traces of pig DNA is unacceptable."
The burgers were on sale in Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland.
A total of 27 products were analysed, with 10 of them containing horse DNA and 23 containing pig DNA.
Horsemeat accounted for approximately 29% of the meat content in one sample from Tesco.
Retailers have said they are now removing all implicated batches of the burgers."

Artofdookie

Nothing wrong with horsemeat, very tasty

pawlala

More breaking news: Traces of meat now found in McDonald burgers :eek:

jobdone1

What next sausages with pheasant in it, Blimey if you worried about every thing you eat then you would not eat.

dmxdave

Opportunity missed here, they should have been selling them to the French...

SnowyOwl_2

I wonder where these foodstuffs were actually produced, or rather which countries the various ingredients came from. Surely there are no horses killed in UK or Ireland for human consumption. So was it dog or cat food that found its way into these products intended for human consumption. The shops don't actually know what is in the food they make and sell which is very scary. God only knows what cr*p is in everything else.

Old_Git

all these plants are owned by Larry Goodman .em lets just say his middle name is underhand. Oh and he owns two plants here ,in Lurgan and Newry .

It gives a new meaning to the joke a dog is for life and not just for Christmas ,but if you slice it thinly you can get boxing day out of it.

BigAl94

Old_Git wrote: »

all these plants are owned by Larry Goodman .em lets just say his middle name is underhand. Oh and he owns two plants here ,in Lurgan and Newry .

It gives a new meaning to the joke a dog is for life and not just for Christmas ,but if you slice it thinly you can get boxing day out of it.

Not so. Liffey Meats is owned by Mallon Bros.

warmhands.coldheart

SnowyOwl wrote: »

.... Surely there are no horses killed in UK or Ireland for human consumption. ......

If you heard the Radio Ulster interview with a newpaper investigater this morning, seems they are, regularly !!

Meadows

Horse meat is meat, I no issues with eating it, however Tesco, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland are wrong to sell any product with out fully listing what is in it.
People have their own reasons for not eating certain products so you would like to think that what you buy is what you get. Then again when buying processed foods you have no idea what the quality of meat or additives have gone into them.

The products which tested ­positive were supplied by Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods in Ireland and on UK plant, Dalepak Hambleton in Yorkshire.
All the burgers found with horse meat were sold in Ireland. There were also traces of pig. Tests on beef sold in Lidl, Aldi and Iceland ­uncovered horse and pork DNA.

warmhands.coldheart

[QUOTE=Meadows;58649171] ..... There were also traces of pig. Tests on beef sold in Lidl, Aldi and Iceland ­uncovered horse and pork DNA... [/QUOTE]

I have less of an issue with this as "Traces" just means that the products may have been processed on production lines used to produce other meat products made from pork. Same way you'll see a warning on a Mars Bar saying "may contain traces of Nuts"..... Doesn't mean they put nuts in it, just that they are made on equipment that is used to produce other products that do contain nuts so there is a chance of some cross contamination.

however one product reportedly had 30 odd % Horse Meat, OK not a safety concern, more a case of false advertising !!