--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > I doubt you've even heard of it in the US unless you read > the UK version of Huffington Post or some other British > rags,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/world/europe/lasagna-products-test-positive-for-horsemeat-in-britain.html http://tinyurl.com/b4z9zfw http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/world/europe/horse-meat-in-food-stirs-furor-in-british-isles.html http://tinyurl.com/aqmmaxh but one of the big scandals there right now is the > discovery of...uh...unexpected meats in meat dishes and > even in hamburger. Horsemeat is cheaper. It appears to have been coming from Europe, but they haven't tracked it down yet. More than you want to know about horse slaughter here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_slaughter > > It started with the discovery that a LOT of supermarket > and institutional hamburger was part horsemeat. Then they > discovered that many of the prepared meat products sold > by widespread supermarket chains such as Aldi not only > contained horsemeat, but were 100% horsemeat. > > While I know that this very subject may be...uh...dis- > tasteful for vegetarians, what I find myself wondering > in all this furor is *why* meat packers and sellers > would do such a thing. Is horsemeat that much cheaper > than beef? Where would horsemeat come from? Who would > be profiting from selling it? And where did the horses > rendered into meat products come from -- it's not as > if people were raising horses *as* meat animals? > > Is it? > > What *happens* when one of the horses that you care for > and love kicks the...uh...feed bucket? Now that I think > of it, there *have* to be companies, vets, or whatever > you can turn to in such situations, right? > > I'm just curious about this whole thing... >
