...after reading this in the Telegraph: Tesco beef burgers found to contain 29% horse meat
"In Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, horse meat accounted for approximately 29 per cent of the meat. The supermarket announced last night that it was removing all fresh and frozen burgers from sale immediately regardless if they had been found to contain horse meat.
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"More than a third (37 per cent) of the products tested in Ireland contained horse DNA, while the vast majority (85 per cent) also contained pig DNA.
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"Prof Alan Reilly, the chief executive of the FSAI, said: “While there is a plausible explanation for the presence of pig DNA in these products, due to the fact that meat from different animals is processed in the same plants, there is no clear explanation for the presence of horse DNA in products emanating from meat plants that do not use horse meat.”
I think you may be overestimating how much people care about this in the UK. The general feeling is that if you buy tesco value meat then it is going to be ground up miscellaneous meat.
ReplyDeleteThere has been very little outcry except for the press and twitter which were awash with people making horse puns.
Repugnant!
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