Has the chevalburger incident changed your mind about food or shops you buy it in ?

Kirri

gailey wrote: »

Hubby sometimes buys reformed ham which I hate.

If you can put up with the awful presenting style of this woman, this shows how it's made, bit rank!

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/food-unwrapped/4od#3451373

blackandwhitebunny

What's made me angry is the deception. I'm personally not that fussed about eating horsemeat - I wouldn't do it by choice but I don't think its terrible. People are constantly told to read the label but the labels were clearly wrong. I would say tough luck if it was on the label and people then went 'oh, isn't it terrible' but it wasn't. Basically people's choice was removed as they weren't given the necessary information.:mad:

A._Badger

blackandwhitebunny wrote: »

What's made me angry is the deception. I'm personally not that fussed about eating horsemeat - I wouldn't do it by choice but I don't think its terrible. People are constantly told to read the label but the labels were clearly wrong. I would say tough luck if it was on the label and people then went 'oh, isn't it terrible' but it wasn't. Basically people's choice was removed as they weren't given the necessary information.:mad:

This is clearly the important issue and I'm irritated by silly people adding flippant comments to newspaper articles saying 'what's wrong with eating horse?'.

This issue has nothing to do with horsemeat.

We have been systematically lied to and deceived by the food industry, supermarkets, the EU and our own governments. We have been told that food was safe, traceable and reliably labelled. None of these is true, as successive food scares have shown. And when problems are exposed, after the fuss has died down, the food processing racket carries on just the same.

RHYSDAD

flubberyzing wrote: »

I can't say it worries me particularly... I grew up on various processed meat products, and still have them from time to time in the form of chicken nuggets etc, and I'm in perfect health as far as I know.

As long as you are balancing the crap with decent food, I don't think there's a lot to worry about. Lord knows, I've got enough to worry about!

Everything in moderation.

This'll make your toes curl!

Years ago, mid eighties, my mum had found a particularly cheap supply of frozen mince from the local Liptons as was. We lived in the sticks and weren't what you'd call wealthy so mum used to bulk buy and store in one of her capacious freezers. Anyway many winter meals were prepared with this mince and I remember all of us complaining that it was very 'bitty' and generally unappetising. Mum wouldn't have any of it and just said we were all moaning and to be grateful we had something warm and filling to eat. After one particularly crunchy offering I got a double whammy and was delegated to washing up duty and in the process I caught sight of the packet of mince that mum had binned. Something resembling a dog on the packet caught my eye and, upon closer inspection, I read the words........ PET MINCE!! Full of spinal cord, bone and connective tissue and the worst cuts of meat imagineable!!

Mum was mortified and apologies were profuse but this was at the height of BSE so it's by a small miracle we haven't all developed CJD. I know mum should have checked what the pack said but just show's how easy cross contamination could occur in the processing plant!!