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horsemeat - Beefy (19th Feb 2013 - 00:37:00) Parents should be aware that products supplied to school catering companies have now been confirmed to have contained horsemeat. These products have been supplied by the likes of Brakes and 3363. Naturally, like all other supplying companies, they were probably unaware that they were contaminated. This, therefore, points to the inescapable fact that frozen food companies across the uk and europe are sitting on millions of tons of the stuff and bricking themselves at the financial repurcussions to follow. The argument that horsemeat may be contaminated with vetinary anti-inflammatory drugs is unclear as no authority has offered advice on how long these drugs take to naturally metabolise and dissipate from the animal carcass I, however, would like to hear an assurance from those food wholesalers that they are investigating thoroughly. So far, their silence has been deafening

Re: horsemeat - Heather (19th Feb 2013 - 08:22:22) To ingest anywhere near a dose of the inflammatory drug Bute, you would have to consume 5 HUNDRED 100%Horse meat burgers in ONE day.

Re: horsemeat - Eneida (19th Feb 2013 - 09:17:56) I can understand the thought of eating 'horse' upsets the British and of course it's clearly wrong to label it as 'beef'...but I think far too much fuss is being made about it. People on the continent have been eating horse meat for generations...many of you will have eaten it on holiday without knowing...and nobody's died!! There are probably far worse things in our food that we don't even know about...

Re: horsemeat - SMc (19th Feb 2013 - 09:57:26) The school sent out a text a while ago saying that their meat is locally sourced and is clear.

Re: horsemeat - rita (19th Feb 2013 - 10:29:10) The thought of eating horse sickens me, to me a horse is a pet. I watched the channel 4 dispatches last night and found it distressing .it has opened my eyes about processed food and am going to go back to basics and cook from fresh a lot more. It is up to the individual if they want to eat horse meat but i think the supermarkets have got to research and source the meat more than they claim to have done.

Re: horsemeat - A. R. (19th Feb 2013 - 10:55:43) I think most people understand their is no health issue to eating horse meat that we are aware of. The problem lies with the corrupt selling of the meat, who was involved and at what level. We know that some horses can be very cheap to produce, and there are people who will be benefiting from that.

Re: horsemeat - Rob (20th Feb 2013 - 07:58:23) Personally, I think the variety of meat is mostly irrelevant. The issue is food labeled as one thing, and containing something else. I'd be equally as shocked if beefburgers, for example, contained lamb, pork, chicken etc, when not specified on the packet. Horse meat just makes a better headline as we aren't used to eating it in our culture.

Re: horsemeat - liz (20th Feb 2013 - 09:21:51) Rob I think you've missed the point. The point is that if something can get into the food chain which is not supposed to be there -and which in this case has not even met the required standards for those countries that do eat horsemeat then that is serious cause for concern. You have no idea of the quality or even what you are eating. We like to think the food supply chain is reasonably well monitored to prevent the spread of disease or contaminents.

Re: horsemeat - Eneida (20th Feb 2013 - 09:34:34) I agree that the variety of meat is irrelevant. The 'crime' here is the mis-labelling of food. It really annoys me that the media have gone to town on this subject by using the adjective 'contaminated' meat, which implies it's infected with something that's harmful to humans, when we all know it's not. I suppose calling it 'adulterated' meat wouldn't have made such an emotive headline...

Re: horsemeat - liz (20th Feb 2013 - 11:43:05) It is contaminated with phenylbutazone - not something you want to injest. Admittedly not in quantities so far that are believed to be harmful - but if we don't know the source how do we know what else there is that has not been tested for? There must be some cause for concern about drugs getting into the food chain or the EU would not have required horses to have 'passports'.

Re: horsemeat - Eneida (20th Feb 2013 - 15:31:06) From what I've read in different newspapers, the only horse meat found to have traces of Bute so far, have been from 2 abattoirs in the UK...two of the carcasses were destroyed and the other 6 shipped to France...so we do know the source in this case!! However, as Heather posted earlier on this thread, and has been stated on the BBC news, you would have to eat 500 pure horse meat burgers in ONE DAY for the drug to possibly affect anybody's health and really, if anybody did that, they would have far bigger health problems than anything caused by a tiny doze of Bute IMO!!!

Re: horsemeat - Rob (21st Feb 2013 - 06:37:09) I still stand by my point. Although I shouldn't have focused on meat. Surely any substance that appears in a foodstuff that isn't specified on the packet, isn't regulated. If it were chicken found, for example, (ok, meat again) who's to say it that met the required standards for human consumption if it's not supposed to be there. In fact it throws all the ingredients that ARE supposed to be there into doubt - meat or otherwise!

Re: horsemeat - Barbara (21st Feb 2013 - 08:34:43) Ate out last night and the restaurant had taken beef burgers and beef lasagne off the menu. I would also query the lady who said the school assured her, the meat served at her child's school was locally sourced, how could that be possible unless it is a private school perhaps? The catering contracts for state schools are surely using volume discounts on a massive scale?

Re: horsemeat - Fi (23rd Feb 2013 - 20:32:34) I have been told by the Head of the Infant school that the Beef comes from Laverstoke Park Farm near Overton, as confirmed in the following link: www.myschoollunch.co.uk/...

Re: horsemeat - H (24th Feb 2013 - 15:16:40) Well done Hampshire County Council it is good to see it confirmed in black and white!

Re: horsemeat - Beefy (25th Feb 2013 - 17:04:04) Rob raises an interesting point. The average consumer is fairly unknowing and unreasonably trusting about what does find it's way into food. There is a programme on channel 5 tonight at 10pm which may make us more aware. I will be watching with a grimace on my face!!

Re: horsemeat - neighfunny (27th Feb 2013 - 16:28:11) I am reliably informed that yesterday, a young lady of the parish of Bramshott and Liphook, was ejected from a pub in Cosham at lunchtime. Her transgression, apparantly, was to, when ordering a burger for her lunch, ask if they were sure it didn\'t contain horsemeat. The management of the pub, part of a well known national chain reknowned for their cheap beer and food, was to have her escorted off the premises by 2 security personnel, dodging the drunks on the floor who had been drinking there since 10am. Didn\'t know it was that touchy a subject!!!

Re: horsemeat - Steve (27th Feb 2013 - 22:10:46) A woman I know was taken to hospital after eating burgers. Her condition is said to be stable.

Re: horsemeat - neighfunny (28th Feb 2013 - 00:49:38) Steve, That was neigh funny. On a serious note, what were snoops thinking about? Sense of humour lapse, or what. Daft

Re: horsemeat - Neigh Bothered (28th Feb 2013 - 16:12:30) Apparently, featured on the Black Fox's specials blackboard this week is "Tagliatelle di Frutti di Mare" Would they be wise to change it to "Seafood Pasta" ?

Re: horsemeat - Steve (28th Feb 2013 - 19:00:46) Luckily a recent Gallup Poll has suggested we are over the worst of it.

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