This product may contain nuts
If the label contains the wording "This product may contain nuts", its a lie. The product contains horse meat or pork scratchings.
A finished product is made up of components "Bill of Material"
Each component has a standard price. If the standard price of beef is £20 a kilo and the standard price of horse is is £15 a kilo and you are ordering 100 tons at a time then the Cost accountant must be a total idiot not to notice a large variance at the end of the accounting period.
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Originally posted by original PM View Postmmm fed the kids horse and rabbit in France the other year -- only told them what it was after they had eaten it but it tasted okay..
I suppose the problem is if the animals have not been bred to be food then they may contain contaminents (like Bute although apparentrly it was 600 horse burgers a day to get anywhere near the recomended dose)...
but yes the large food supermarket chains will have been happy as long as the price is kept low and the greedy feckers at the top keep making bonus.
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mmm fed the kids horse and rabbit in France the other year -- only told them what it was after they had eaten it but it tasted okay..
I suppose the problem is if the animals have not been bred to be food then they may contain contaminents (like Bute although apparentrly it was 600 horse burgers a day to get anywhere near the recomended dose)...
but yes the large food supermarket chains will have been happy as long as the price is kept low and the greedy feckers at the top keep making bonus.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostBBC News - Horsemeat: Compass and Whitbread find horse DNA in products
have a look at the map at the bottom. wonder how much of this is driven by tax avoidance?
Home | Hungry Horse
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A small butcher found selling mislabelled meat would have been fined. So why not fine large companies like Tesco and Asda a large amount like £100,000,000 each for not properly testing their products. (I gather one large supermarket actually closed its DNA testing lab, to save pennies.) Also, large fines would go down very well with the public.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostIt's the Bute that's the problem.
Lots of people aren't worried about eating horse or even donkey.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostWhy don't the create a TM called something like 'Beeef' which is defined to be made up of up to, but not more than 80% beef, the rest is just a matter of luck. That way companies selling this meat can say they are being open and transparent, all this will go away and the only cost will be to all the food companies to alter the spelling of Beef to Beeef.... Saves millions and everyone carries on as they did before. Sorted
Lots of people aren't worried about eating horse or even donkey.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostWhy don't the create a TM called something like 'Beeef' which is defined to be made up of up to, but not more than 80% beef, the rest is just a matter of luck. That way companies selling this meat can say they are being open and transparent, all this will go away and the only cost will be to all the food companies to alter the spelling of Beef to Beeef.... Saves millions and everyone carries on as they did before. Sorted
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Wit until they discover semen in it.
Hopefully all this has been served to our Lords and Parasites in their subsidised eating establishments. Kind of ironic really. Must stick in their bulging, overfed, greedy craws.
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Its not the fact it contains horse that worries me. Its the fact no-one knew it contained horse and what else it contains.
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Why don't the create a TM called something like 'Beeef' which is defined to be made up of up to, but not more than 80% beef, the rest is just a matter of luck. That way companies selling this meat can say they are being open and transparent, all this will go away and the only cost will be to all the food companies to alter the spelling of Beef to Beeef.... Saves millions and everyone carries on as they did before. Sorted
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BBC News - Horsemeat: Compass and Whitbread find horse DNA in products
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