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London - The French and British governments promised on Saturday to punish those found responsible for selling horsemeat
in beef products at the heart of a growing scandal that started in Britain but is quickly spreading to France. French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said an investigation had found that the horsemeat had originated in
Romania, although there were links with French, Dutch and Cypriot firms and a factory in Luxembourg. British environment minister Owen Paterson said more cases of contaminated food could emerge as British retailers
conducted tests for horsemeat on processed beef products. The scandal threatens to affect consumer confidence in Europe's
giant food industry, with pressure rising for greater checks. The British unit of frozen foods group Findus began a recall this week of its beef lasagne from retailers on advice from its
French supplier, Comigel, over concerns that some packs contained high levels of horsemeat. Findus France said it too had recalled lasagne and two other products after discovering that they included horsemeat from
Romania rather than beef from France as it had thought. Hamon said an EU-wide alert had been sent out and that it was not yet clear whether there had been an intentional fraud or
the meat had been sold as beef by accident. "I can assure you that, whether it's a question of negligence or direct responsibility, there will be sanctions," Hamon said on
iTele television. Findus France Director General Matthieu Lambeaux said in a statement the company would file a legal complaint on Monday. "We thought we had certified French beef in our products. But in reality, we were supplied with Romanian horsemeat. We
have been deceived," Lambeaux said. Hamon said a Luxembourg factory had been supplied by the French firm Poujol, which had bought the meat frozen from a
Cypriot trader, who in turn sub-contracted the order to a Dutch trader supplied by a Romanian abattoir. However, Findus's supplier Comigel, a frozen foods producer based in eastern France, told a newspaper it had bought the
meat from another French company, supplied from a Romanian abattoir. In Britain Findus said it believed the contamination was deliberate. "The early results from Findus UK's internal investigation strongly suggests that the horsemeat contamination in beef lasagne
was not accidental," it said. Findus's product recall was followed in Britain by supermarket chain Aldi, which withdrew two frozen beef products supplied
by Comigel after they tested positive for horsemeat. Paterson summoned Britain's leading food retailers and representatives of food processors to an emergency meeting at his
office in London on Saturday to discuss the crisis. He said participants were determined to get to the bottom of a scandal which he said was either caused by "gross
incompetence or what I suspect is an international criminal conspiracy". Britain's government is under pressure to appear on top of the scandal, which comes less than a month after supermarket
chain Tesco and fast food outlet Burger King found horsemeat in beef burgers from an Irish supplier. Britons generally do not eat horsemeat, regarding its consumption as a quirk of French appetites. However, the meat has also
fallen out of favour with consumers in France.
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So it spreads
 
Horse meat?! Oh no!

We eat cow meat, crab meat, chicken, fish, prawn, mussels, lobster, turkey, ostrich, oyster, shark, squid, snails, buffalo, kudo, lamb, pork and duck.
Let's not forget that in other countries or cultures they eat worms, spiders, frogs and other insects

A lot of people also have no problem eating liver, kidneys or tongue... most of us eat intestines in our boerewors without even thinking about it.
What about polony or viennas... any idea how those are made?
heck, most of us fry up some unborn chicken for breakfast every day without even blinking.


I don't eat horse meat or anything, but what would the problem be if I accidentally ate some? Would I die?
 
The poblem would be if you paid for a beef lasagne and it was filled with inferior cheaper horse all so that the manufacturer can make some extra cash.

Same thing as buying an i7 laptop and finding its got an i5 processor inside. Its not what you paid for or selected.
 
Keeper said:
Horse meat?! Oh no!

We eat cow meat, crab meat, chicken, fish, prawn, mussels, lobster, turkey, ostrich, oyster, shark, squid, snails, buffalo, kudo, lamb, pork and duck.
Let's not forget that in other countries or cultures they eat worms, spiders, frogs and other insects

A lot of people also have no problem eating liver, kidneys or tongue... most of us eat intestines in our boerewors without even thinking about it.
What about polony or viennas... any idea how those are made?
heck, most of us fry up some unborn chicken for breakfast every day without even blinking.


I don't eat horse meat or anything, but what would the problem be if I accidentally ate some? Would I die?
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You forgot zebra, which is actually fairly common to eat on farms here. I'd be damned if a zebra isn't just a horse in pajamas! The French are probably concerned because horse is seen as a delicacy there, and now plebs at burger king etc. are scoffing down their precious, expensive stallion steaks!
 
OP posted no source link :wtf:

Scary to think what might happen going out and ordering something to eat.

[video=youtube;ac-67O-g59k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac-67O-g59k[/video]​
 
friedpiggy said:
The poblem would be if you paid for a beef lasagne and it was filled with inferior cheaper horse all so that the manufacturer can make some extra cash.

Same thing as buying an i7 laptop and finding its got an i5 processor inside. Its not what you paid for or selected.
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but WHY is it "inferior" to all the other meats, exactly - that's what I want to know.

Nobody noticed anything until someone actually used dna sampling
It's like your i5 cpu looked and performed exactly like an i7, until someone with a microscope said, "wait a minute, it's got 1% i5 architecture in here!!!"
nobody said a word when they ate it, nobody died, nobody even complained.... yet because of DNA, it suddenly changes everything and everybody panics.


What exactly makes filthy pigs okay, and horses not okay?
 
Yuu said:
OP posted no source link :wtf:
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News24 iirc :rolleyes:

While horsemeat is not itself a food safety hazard, its unauthorized
presence -- in quantities up to 100% -- in foods purported to be made with
beef has raised serious concerns. Comigel has not yet responded to CNN requests for comment. Chief among food inspectors' concerns is that the illicit horsemeat could
contain the veterinary drug phenylbutazone, or "bute," commonly used to
treat horses. Meat from animals treated with phenylbutazone is not allowed to enter the
food chain as it may pose a risk to human health. Findus has been ordered to test the lasagna withdrawn from shelves in
the United Kingdom for the drug's presence. Aldi said in a statement that tests on random samples of its affected
products, labeled Today's Special Frozen Beef Lasagne and Today's
Special Frozen Spaghetti Bolognese, "demonstrated that the withdrawn
products contained between 30% and 100% horse meat. "This is completely unacceptable and like other affected companies, we
feel angry and let down by our supplier. If the label says beef, our
customers expect it to be beef." Samples of the affected Findus lasagna also contained between 60 and
100% horsemeat, according to UK and Irish food safety inspectors.
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www.cnn.com/2013/02/09/world/europe/uk-horsemeat-probe/index.html
 
Keeper said:
Horse meat?! Oh no!

We eat cow meat, crab meat, chicken, fish, prawn, mussels, lobster, turkey, ostrich, oyster, shark, squid, snails, buffalo, kudo, lamb, pork and duck.
Let's not forget that in other countries or cultures they eat worms, spiders, frogs and other insects

A lot of people also have no problem eating liver, kidneys or tongue... most of us eat intestines in our boerewors without even thinking about it.
What about polony or viennas... any idea how those are made?
heck, most of us fry up some unborn chicken for breakfast every day without even blinking.


I don't eat horse meat or anything, but what would the problem be if I accidentally ate some? Would I die?
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No, it's false advertising.

100% Beef does not equate to 60-100% Horse, does it?
 
Keeper said:
Horse meat?! Oh no!

We eat cow meat, crab meat, chicken, fish, prawn, mussels, lobster, turkey, ostrich, oyster, shark, squid, snails, buffalo, kudo, lamb, pork and duck.
Let's not forget that in other countries or cultures they eat worms, spiders, frogs and other insects

A lot of people also have no problem eating liver, kidneys or tongue... most of us eat intestines in our boerewors without even thinking about it.
What about polony or viennas... any idea how those are made?
heck, most of us fry up some unborn chicken for breakfast every day without even blinking.


I don't eat horse meat or anything, but what would the problem be if I accidentally ate some? Would I die?
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Then it must say horse lasagne, not beef lasagne or chicken lasagne or whatever. Only issue I have.
 
satanboy said:
No, it's false advertising.

100% Beef does not equate to 60-100% Horse, does it?
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^ This.

Now a simple question, why hasen't there been any DNA tests on our local produce, and frozen foods?
I have the feeling that we have more than just a few frozen products with unspecified, or unlisted meat products.

Considering what Carte Blanche did with the fish DNA testing, why dont they do the same with beef?
Could make a really good story.
 
I'm pretty sure this "chicken" I bought wasn't anything related to chicken :sick:

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1360482398.063305.jpg
 
^^ Abzo where on earth did yo buy that,and what did they call it, it looks like reclaimed meat, or something non-meat related...

Edit heres how they do it:

[video=youtube;WRhPnhdyvOM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRhPnhdyvOM[/video]
 
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