Supermarkets pull items off shelves over meat fears

gailey_2

findus specified french, german or austrian beef.

so comigel making it being french in luxembourg made sense,

comigel made the tesco value spag bol in same factory and they cross as they specified irish beef only so why hell wasent it being made and processed in ireland? does this not strike you as mad lame and dishonest excuse?

findus sueing dont know if tesco is why hell not?

had to laugh at romanian giy behind desk sky news tonight fag in one hand drink in the other.

BobQ

Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

I've not heard of any evidence that products containing horsemeat pose any threat to human health.

But they can only test for contaminants they are looking for. So if they know its horse they test for it. Will they test for dog?

shinkyshonky

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21418342

Some Tesco Everyday Value Spaghetti Bolognese contains 60% horsemeat, DNA tests by the retailer have found.

Do not eat it myself....but lets be honest ....any value meal like this is not going to be the real thing

scottishminnie

The bit which is puzzling me is that T**co share price hasn't dropped through the floor since this all came out, in fact it seems to have gone up. Every time another bank misselling scandal crops up the share prices have a wobbly but doesn't seem to translate here.

Maybe the stock market is so corrupt it sees this as a good thing that T**co and others have squeezed the suppliers so hard this is the end result. Who knows????? I certainly can't fathom it.

Lynsey

There was an old woman who swallowed a horse.
She'd been to Tesco, of course.

A Tesco burger walks into a bar and says "Pint please". "I can't hear you" says the barman. "Sorry" replies the burger, "I'm a little bit horse".

Lynsey

A._Badger

scottishminnie wrote: »

The bit which is puzzling me is that T**co share price hasn't dropped through the floor since this all came out, in fact it seems to have gone up. Every time another bank misselling scandal crops up the share prices have a wobbly but doesn't seem to translate here.

Maybe the stock market is so corrupt it sees this as a good thing that T**co and others have squeezed the suppliers so hard this is the end result. Who knows????? I certainly can't fathom it.

Sadly, I suspect investors are hard-nosed realists who recognise that every time we have had a crisis like this it hasn't had a long term effect. People seem to get lured back to the big chains pretty quickly.

Judging from the 'so what?' comments on this forum and in newspapers, there really does seem to be a staggering level of complacency about what we eat.

Edwardia

It seems to me that in a few weeks this will all die down and perhaps the only lasting effects will be that a few meat processors go bust.

I do think that the processors buying in substandard meat should get prosecuted.

There was some French minister on BBC today saying that fresh meat is nore traceable than frozen and perhaps that needs to change with stricter regulations.

sophlowe45

Donkey meat?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/horsemeat-found-in-british-supermarkets-may-be-donkey-8489030.html

Fire_Fox

A._Badger wrote: »

Judging from the 'so what?' comments on this forum and in newspapers, there really does seem to be a staggering level of complacency about what we eat.

You can call it complacent, not sure you understand the full meaning of that word or are applying it correctly to all. You don't like communal healthy eating regs/ health professionals caring about what 'we' eat because it's nanny state but now you want communal outrage from the layman? I don't honestly see the logic. Communal interest in/ responsibility for nutrition and dietetics or not?

Maybe the supposedly complacent people are not eating that rubbish, ergo it's what 'they' eat not what 'we' eat. Others realise protein is protein, the risk of dodgy chemicals is arguably less than the other nasties that are listed on the ingredients. No equine DNA in real meat only processed 'products' ... yet. :eek:

Edwardia

Actually I feel that some of the MSErs posting with a horsemeat so what attitude just want to cause a stir.

Others don't feel they have an alternative perhaps because of budget and/or time issues and are in denial.

Eating additive free or organic food is seen to be middle class in the UK whereas it isn't in other countries.

In France you can mend roads and eat well whereas here, in that job an interest in good food would be seen as pretentious even if you shopped the bargains and could afford it.

OH manages a team with diverse ethnic backgrounds and it's the white Brits who bring the value white bread sanis to work with sandwich spread, not those with European or Asian backgrounds.

I'm certainly not eating the rubbish, but I'm definitely not complacent about it. I think food is as important as a roof over our heads and find it appalling that major retailers and producers have such lax standards.

Finding added water and three additives in pork loin steaks was the line in the sand for me. If that goes into plain pork, what else is going in it ?