Soylent Beef is HORSES! (Updated)

[Geilinor]

Its all been over-hyped. Simple issue of mislabelling, since there is nothing that suggests there is risk to human health and hose is eaten.

It's all about offending Western taboo against eating horse.

False labeling and advertising is the other issue, in my opinion the larger one. If I'm told my purchase is beef, I want it to be beef.

[Geilinor]

Its all been over-hyped. Simple issue of mislabelling, since there is nothing that suggests there is risk to human health and hose is eaten.

Mislabeling? How do you know they aren't deliberately lying to save a bit of money?

[Scomagia]

Its all been over-hyped. Simple issue of mislabelling, since there is nothing that suggests there is risk to human health and hose is eaten.

Mislabeling? How do you know they aren't deliberately lying to save a bit of money?

That's exactly what they're doing.

[Minoriteeburg]

Because a lot of people do not the idea of eating horse. Many think it's immoral.

It would be the equivalent of putting beef in a chicken product in India and not saying anything about it.

The problem with that is the meat of cows is not the same color as pigs or chickens.

But you know what I mean.

The point is the thought of eating Horse meat is offensive to many people across the world. I was using the Cow as an comparison. Maybe not the best analogy, but I was pretty drunk at the time.

[Great Nepal]

Its all been over-hyped. Simple issue of mislabelling, since there is nothing that suggests there is risk to human health and hose is eaten.

Mislabeling? How do you know they aren't deliberately lying to save a bit of money?

Thats basically what mislabeling means.

[Minoriteeburg]

It's all about offending Western taboo against eating horse.

False labeling and advertising is the other issue, in my opinion the larger one. If I'm told my purchase is beef, I want it to be beef.

^This.

At least do the "May contain traces of" or "Processed in a factory that also produces"that is on most packaged products.

[Cruciland]

Food is food, and considering that people could hardly distinguish horse meat from cow meat until professional health inspectors (or what-have-you) discovered it, I highly doubt that eating horse is a problem at all. The only problem I see is when they decide to label the packaging wrong; now THAT is a dick move!

[Ethel mermania]

I hear the british cows are upset

[Dooom35796821595]

this could point to a bigger problem, what is in our food?
CIA grindes up blabbermouths and puts them in balony!
!beware the soylent balony!

[Minoriteeburg]

I hear the british cows are upset

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[Ifreann]

Its all been over-hyped. Simple issue of mislabelling, since there is nothing that suggests there is risk to human health and hose is eaten.

How has it been over-hyped? It's being reported exactly as you've said, as meat being mislabelled.

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Our bad, guys. Won't happen again.

Can't blame us, we're the ones who found the horses masquerading as cows in the first place.

[Minoriteeburg]

Its all been over-hyped. Simple issue of mislabelling, since there is nothing that suggests there is risk to human health and hose is eaten.

How has it been over-hyped? It's being reported exactly as you've said, as meat being mislabelled.

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Our bad, guys. Won't happen again.

Can't blame us, we're the ones who found the horses masquerading as cows in the first place.

Well we cannot blame Obama (yet) for this one, so we have to blame someone.....

[Minoriteeburg]

Ikea withdraws meatballs in more than 20 countries

STOCKHOLM—Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe's widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat.
Stores in the U.S. and Canada were not affected, Ikea said.

The company reacted after authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse DNA in tests of 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) packs of frozen meatballs that were labeled as beef and pork. The Czech State Veterinary Administration said it tested two batches of Ikea meatballs and only one of them contained horse meat. It did not say how much.

Meatballs from the same batch had been sent from a Swedish supplier to 12 other European countries—Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland—and would be pulled off the shelves in all of them, Ikea said.

Later Monday, the company expanded the withdrawals to stores in 21 European countries and in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Dominican Republic, all of which were getting meatballs from the same Swedish supplier.



The Denver Posthttp://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22662866/horse-meat-found-ikeas-swedish-meatballs#ixzz2LxnambSi

I never knew that Ikea had meatballs. But I posted this for those on NS who live in those countries.

Only a matter of time before more come out of the woodwork.

[Gauthier]

Ikea withdraws meatballs in more than 20 countries

STOCKHOLM—Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe's widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat.
Stores in the U.S. and Canada were not affected, Ikea said.

The company reacted after authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse DNA in tests of 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) packs of frozen meatballs that were labeled as beef and pork. The Czech State Veterinary Administration said it tested two batches of Ikea meatballs and only one of them contained horse meat. It did not say how much.

Meatballs from the same batch had been sent from a Swedish supplier to 12 other European countries—Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland—and would be pulled off the shelves in all of them, Ikea said.

Later Monday, the company expanded the withdrawals to stores in 21 European countries and in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Dominican Republic, all of which were getting meatballs from the same Swedish supplier.



The Denver Posthttp://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22662866/horse-meat-found-ikeas-swedish-meatballs#ixzz2LxnambSi

I never knew that Ikea had meatballs. But I posted this for those on NS who live in those countries.

Only a matter of time before more come out of the woodwork.

The bigger Ikea stores have food courts that serve Scandinavian stuff like meatballs and gravlax.

[Minoriteeburg]

I never knew that Ikea had meatballs. But I posted this for those on NS who live in those countries.

Only a matter of time before more come out of the woodwork.

The bigger Ikea stores have food courts that serve Scandinavian stuff like meatballs and gravlax.

The last time I was in an Ikea, I was still young enough to play in the kids area with the ballroom. But I definitely don't remember a food court.

[Casinoria]

There has actually been a suggestion in at least one British newspaper that some of this horsemeat came from slaughterhouses in Mexico, with the horses involved being from the USA.

Got some sauce for that?

Also, eating horse is not a problem. Over 200,000 are slaughtered each year in the EU alone for food (http://www.hsi.org/world/europe/work/ho ... urope.html). However the problems are that the horsemeat was tainted with horse tranquilisers and that it was being labelled as beef. Neither of which are a good thing.

[Minoriteeburg]

There has actually been a suggestion in at least one British newspaper that some of this horsemeat came from slaughterhouses in Mexico, with the horses involved being from the USA.

Got some sauce for that?

Also, eating horse is not a problem. Over 200,000 are slaughtered each year in the EU alone for food (http://www.hsi.org/world/europe/work/ho ... urope.html). However the problems are that the horsemeat was tainted with horse tranquilisers and that it was being labelled as beef. Neither of which are a good thing.

I think the problem lies in peoples affection for Horses. If this were to happen in the US, there would be one hell on an uproar.