More(or is it mare) to come

[Aberdeenplotter]

The horse meat thing really is starting to give me the heebie jeebies as it has been announced that after testing we can expect to learn of more problems. I don't eat a lot of proceesed meat. I occasionally have a burger if pressed for time workwise and literally need fast food. Actually prefer Burger King to Macdonalds and just the thought of possibly having eaten horse is making me want to puke. That 'treat' is now off the menu.

As another treat, I sometimes have a tin of meatballs for lunch and sop up the gravy with bread. Two tins just hit the bin.

AmI being too sensitive?

[alldigging]

The concept of eating horse doesn't revolt me completely.
The idea of eating scabby, manky, nasty horse does.

[veggiechicken]

I heard a programme on the radio recently - two quotes have stuck in my mind -
1. I have no problem eating horse, as long as its an organic horse (member of public)
2. We are beyond the point of testing for horsemeat in beef, we are looking for any trace of beef in horsemeat (Professor in something or other)

Enjoy!!!

[smallblueplanet]

The concept of eating horse doesn't revolt me completely.
The idea of eating scabby, manky, nasty horse does.

Don't forget the drugs... cheap, processed meat potentially full of drugs (although I think you take that chance with any non-organic meat?)..

[Aberdeenplotter]

2. We are beyond the point of testing for horsemeat in beef, we are looking for any trace of beef in horsemeat (Professor in something or other)

That actually hits the nail on the head

[Aberdeenplotter]

I think what has sickened me more than anything is that more and more it looks as though this has been deliberate and has not happened by misteak

[veggiechicken]

Wherever there is an opportunity for fraud, someone will find it and exploit it. I trust none of the big manufacturers to be squeaky clean. There are loads of scams out there, just waiting to surface.
The closer you can come to eating basic foods that have not been messed about with by companies who only want profit, the safer your food will be.
PS I'm ignoring your pun

[bearded bloke]

Well on a tangent,there is a plus side


No worries about mad cow disease from modern meat products has to be a good thing

[Bigmallly]

I have no problem eating thouroughbred burgers, after all I have no idea where any other meat comes from.

[redser]

Anyone remember Soylent Green? It's no time to mince words. There has to be a stampede to organic produce!

[VirginVegGrower]

The horse meat thing really is starting to give me the heebie jeebies as it has been announced that after testing we can expect to learn of more problems. I don't eat a lot of proceesed meat. I occasionally have a burger if pressed for time workwise and literally need fast food. Actually prefer Burger King to Macdonalds and just the thought of possibly having eaten horse is making me want to puke. That 'treat' is now off the menu.

As another treat, I sometimes have a tin of meatballs for lunch and sop up the gravy with bread. Two tins just hit the bin.

AmI being too sensitive?

No and if you saw the inside of a food factory you'd bin all processed stuff.
The horse meat thing has put me right off too, only because it's obvious that "cheap meat" is being used to maximize profit. I don't know why I feel this way as I buy meat from a reliable butchers and it's not cheap. I don't mind that as I know the animal's welfare (as such) is included in a higher price. It's also organic fed so I know we are not eating nasties. Trouble is that it's raised the whole question of eating meat for me. We don't eat ready meals. I even make pizzas myself. But I am thinking we should eat more fish and when I met with Zazen ( I try not to eat meat in front of her or any other veggie without discussing first) last week I had a really nice bean bake and I mean really very tasty. No meat. Nothing missed and very filling. Mr VVG is Yorkshire born and bred - so it's meat and two veg only. He is going to be the biggest challenge to eating less/no meat. I also don't feel it's fair to impose my feelings on two children. Although daughter is quite disgusted, she's a horse lover, refusing to eat the bacon out of our pasta/courgettes/bacon dish yesterday. Quorn isn't a viable replacement for her either. It's tricky and I can see why you feel the way you do.

[SarzWix]

The closer you can come to eating basic foods that have not been messed about with by companies who only want profit, the safer your food will be.

I think that's the answer really. We don't eat much in the way of processed meat either, even our burgers and sausages come from the butcher up the road, whose meat nearly all comes from his FiL's farm a couple of miles up the road, and the rest is very locally produced. I don't really want to go veggie, so we pay more for meat and use less.

As long as food is a commodity, there will be people trying to make more money from lower quality produce. All we have done recently is move on from the mechanically recovered meat hoo-haa of 'turkey twizzlers' and onto this latest 'scandal'. Next time it will be something different.

And call me cynical, but the denigration of domestic science/home economics as a subject taught in schools, and the rise of people who eat cheap mass produced food instead of cooking cheap meals from scratch seem to go hand-in-hand...

[alldigging]

And call me cynical, but the denigration of domestic science/home economics as a subject taught in schools, and the rise of people who eat cheap mass produced food instead of cooking cheap meals from scratch seem to go hand-in-hand...

I don't think you can blame schools for not teaching cooking.

I'd blame those little aliens who laughed at what we did to potatoes.

[SarzWix]

No, you can blame the funding cuts which mean schools can't afford the equipment to teach it, and the emphasis on testing and results focused on academic subjects, and league tables.

[VirginVegGrower]

No, you can blame the funding cuts which mean schools can't afford the equipment to teach it, and the emphasis on testing and results focused on academic subjects, and league tables.

Plus the ever greater emphasis on too much breadth and not enough depth - too many lovey dovey subjects being brought in.
Cookery/home economics is compulsory in schools already. I have two children going/have gone through it and nothing is being cut.