More(or is it mare) to come

[Bren In Pots]

I'm glad I stuck with our local butcher I know it works out a bit dearer but we don't have meat every day. He makes his own sausage, bacon plus cooks things like hams and Savoury ducks.
This morning I bought a ham hock and its being turned into pea and ham soup.

[VirginVegGrower]

I do the same Bren. The animals are reared behind the farm shop in fields of good pasture. Costs more for us but since I started shopping there and don't go into supermarkets - get tempted - our weekly food bill has gone from £130-150 per week to circa £60. For that we eat organically.

I have just come from M and S - help mum with her shop. Woman looking at ready meal cottage pie - husband says "I'm not having that, it could have horse in it" - she says "we will have fish then!" It's affecting everyone now.

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They are now reporting that lamb products are undergoing testing

Could be goat

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What would you like for dinner,
Mum said picking her nose,
Hard boiled eggs we all said,
You can't get your fingers those.

[Bigmallly]

I'm gonna complain......just had seahorse sticks for tea & they tasted just like fish fingers.......

[Madasafish]

The chicken pies we had for tea were nice.I was not too sure about the tail I found though . It was wrapped in tatty paper with something like "Pedigree C..." written on it.

Pedigree Chimp? Chip?

Never was any good at these guessing games.

The pie was stuffed full of meat and the gravy was lovely - lots of jelly.

[zazen999]

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?

Hats off to you AP - all I've seen all week is 'it's not that it's horse meat, it's that it wasn't labelled as Horse meat'. Which is complete BS.

[veggiechicken]

Did it say "Prolongs Active Life" on the label?
From the news it seems our UK producers are not squeaky clean either! Why am I not surprised?

[bearded bloke]

Anyone use Farmbox Meats in Aberystwyth ? ......

Police and Food Standards Agency raid Yorkshire abattoir accused of supplying horsemeat 'kebabs' - Crime - UK - The Independent

[VirginVegGrower]

You've got to be mad to eat a kebab!

[Aberdeenplotter]

The supermarkets will no doubt try to come out of this squeaky clean but the big ones in particular squeeze their suppliers so hard that the supplier will be tempted to do what he can to make a decent margin. That doesn't excuse what has been happening but the supermarkets absolutely must share the blame if only because they haven't had the proper audit procedures in place to ensure the safety and well being of their customers.

It's bad enough it being horse meat for the likes of me, it simply offends my sensibilities(sickens me to the stomach actually) but folks who won't eat other meats on the grounds of religion have had their foodstuffs contaminated as well. It isn't just small scale scamming. It is hugely criminal activities and I hope the people responsible see the inside of a jail cell and have to call it home for a very long time.

[Alison]

It's bad enough it being horse meat for the likes of me, it simply offends my sensibilities(sickens me to the stomach actually) but folks who won't eat other meats on the grounds of religion have had their foodstuffs contaminated as well.

As I said earlier, that's a much more important issue to me. I have no problem with eating any meat if I know what I'm eating and that it is ethical (if you eat one animal you need to have a proper reason for not eating a different one) but people being duped is a much bigger issue.

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Horse used as beef.....?
The catholic church once declared that beaver was a fish( all to do with lent).

So watch that supermarket "fish" pie,

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So as a parting declaration, couldn't the outgoing pope declare all beer over 5% alcohol, as petrol at £1.40 a litre it would be cheaper than £3 + a pint.

[julesapple]

It is the fact that this contamination wasn't an accident. It was planned, thought about, conferred - it wasn't one person's decision made in secret either - it's corporate. Many, many, people knew this was going on and they've known for Heaven knows how long.

And this is only the tip of the iceberg.......