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Horse meat Apocalypse, whats the big deal?

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phucheneh said:
Ikea sells meat?

Does it come with an allen wrench?
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Neigh.

Horse meat is taboo in the anglophone world. In the rest of Europe, people are upset that they're paying for more expensive beef and getting cheaper horse. I will try horse meat. Got a co-worker who's from Montreal. Should get her to bring me back some.
 
Ns1 said:
The uproar is because you bought beef and received horse.

i would not be happy if i bought cocaine and received crack.
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Crack is 100% base cocaine. Cocaine that you snort is cocaine plus ether, or some other chemical solvent to make it water soluble and it is also usually cut with mannitol (or worse) filler to make it more profitable. Crackheads at least know what they are getting.

White people free base. Black people smoke crack. That's the Len Bias.
 
SphinxnihpS said:
Crack is 100% base cocaine. Cocaine that you snort is cocaine plus ether, or some other chemical solvent to make it water soluble and it is also usually cut with mannitol (or worse) filler to make it more profitable. Crackheads at least know what they are getting.

White people free base. Black people smoke crack. That's the Len Bias.
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Yes, and when I want my cut up cocaine I want cut up cocaine, not crack.
 
It's the thing of knowing what you're eating. If someone is a horse lover or even has horses and finds out they've been eating horses all this time, I can imagine that being hard to swallow (no pun intended). Imagine finding out that McDonald's uses dead african kid meat in their burgers. Same idea. I do find they are making way too big of a deal with it though, and it seems it's only an issue in the UK, and not Canada. Not sure about the states. I did not even know Ikea had anything to do with food products. Do you need to assemble it yourself? 😛 Can you eat the alen key after?
 
mmntech said:
Neigh.

Horse meat is taboo in the anglophone world. In the rest of Europe, people are upset that they're paying for more expensive beef and getting cheaper horse. I will try horse meat. Got a co-worker who's from Montreal. Should get her to bring me back some.
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Yet they had no idea they were eating cheaper horse.

Expensive beef and cheaper horse have a different taste. I wonder why they never knew they were eating horse or maybe they have never had good beef and assume beef tastes like the half horse concoction they have been eating all their lives.
 
Beside the not getting what you pay for, there is also the safety of the food chain. It seems that anyone anywhere can dump anything into food and no one notices, reports it, and they can't trace it. Soylent Green anyone? Then there's the threat of terrorism. What if next time its poison that gets added in?
 
Hugo Drax said:
Yet they had no idea they were eating cheaper horse.

Expensive beef and cheaper horse have a different taste. I wonder why they never knew they were eating horse or maybe they have never had good beef and assume beef tastes like the half horse concoction they have been eating all their lives.
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It seems that in the vast majority of cases the horse meat was a small proportion. In the processed food it was an even smaller percentage as a part of the total ingredients.
 
Hugo Drax said:
Now even IKEA is involved in this Horse meat scandal. So it seems Europeans are unable to tell the difference between Horse Meat and regular Beef. It looks like they have been eating Horse Meat for quite some time.

Now that they have eaten it why make a big deal about it, just keep on eating Horse Meat, its not like you knew the difference to begin with.
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The stigma of having no choice but to eat horse meat in two World Wars.
 
Horse meat is healthier than beef or pork. I wouldn't mind eating it.
If someone has some baby seal meat I will eat that too.
 
WelshBloke said:
Don't buy heavily processed food then.
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Thats one way but who's to say the local butcher sells you hamburger thats infused with horse meat? It's the same rule. There is no excuse for anyone to sell something with a label saying one thing and the contents being another. I get your point but leave no slack for dishonest merchants.
 
PC Surgeon said:
Thats one way but who's to say the local butcher sells you hamburger thats infused with horse meat? It's the same rule. There is no excuse for anyone to sell something with a label saying one thing and the contents being another. I get your point but leave no slack for dishonest merchants.
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My local butcher only sells meat that he has raised himself so I'm fairly lucky in that respect.

The problem thats occurred is because the supply chain for these mass produced processed meals is so long and convoluted and travels through so many countries that it's hard to track down the weak link.

This isnt one butcher that has decided to mince a bit of of dobbin into his beef.
 
So basically, the OP doesn't believe in the basic tenet about truth in advertising.

How about using peanuts in place of more expensive macadamia nuts in a food, and triggering millions of allergic reactions.

I could sell him (and every other sucker) a faux leather couch for thousands and label it as genuine Corinthian leather. What he doesn't know cannot possibly hurt him. 🙂
 
Oh, the UK horse meat scandal reminded me of this episode of Mythbusters. 🙂

Watch MythBusters try to determine if everything really does taste like chicken
"Chef David Lawrence helps administer a blind taste test of 20 different fried meats, including chicken, snake, frog, peacock, ostrich and so on. After each one, the tasters determine if it is chicken or not chicken, to varying success. Of course, they realize that texture is a giveaway, even if the flavors are similar."

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/surreal-gourmet-hour.htm
 
I more than likely ate some horse while living in the UK given what all has been revealed to be horse meat. I'm not any more repulsed by the meat being horse over beef, it was all awful anyway. I think the real concern here is that they are labeling meat something it isn't.
 
I've eaten horse meat before and it's fine. You can buy it in the local grocery stores in Montreal. I can understand the uproar though. For example, substitute dog for horse. And then realize that it's improperly raised dog, fed certain drugs so that they are considered unfit for human consumption. And then find out it is in the all beef burgers you fed your kids at your last BBQ.

BTW, IIRC technically in Canada it is legal to raise and slaughter dogs for food as long as they're in inspected facilities and the dogs are not fed banned drugs, but no dog farms for food and no dog slaughter houses actually exist, because of North American cultural taboos about dog meat.
 
Did anyone report where the horses actually came from?

I honestly had never heard (or had any reason to think) that 'horsemeat farmer' was an actual job. I thought horse consumption was more...incidental.

"Well, that dead horse isn't going to pull the wagon very well anymore...wanna eat it?"
 
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