Can this please be OT. On Thursday, February 28, 2013, Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:30:58 +0000, Paul Ferguson > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > I don't know that horsemeat is such a bad thing compared to others I > > can think of. > > I've eaten horsemeat and I think the avoidance is purely cultural. > > But there were at least 2 issues: > > - one, which has not health impact, of selling something for another > > - one, which has indirect health impact, is that the control circuits > which > were put in place after the mad cow decease fiasco were subverted and > didn't > trigger any warnings. If they weren't triggered here, it's an > indication that > other substitutions, worse for the health, could have happened without > having > be detected either. > > -- > Jean-Marc > > > >
