General Chat

there is some suggestion that fish fingers might contain sea horses

I think if it were labelled correctly then we would have had a choice to buy and eat or not. Me personally I eouldnt choice to eat horse I would decline but I dont eat offal but I choose not to because I dont like it. It doesnt mean the choice should be taken away from those who choose to eat it.

i hope all the instant food manufactory firms go to the wall..same as fish from the chippy, it states fish and chips, what kind of fish are they using. when it dosnt state cod, haddock or whatever. fish like beef could be anything in disguise. a big wake up call for all of us.

Horses in France (especially) are farmed for their meat

The problem comes about from animals which are not farmed for their meat - ex racing horses and pets who are treated differently.


Depending on where you buy your 'meat curry' it could be anything from Beef to Goat - usually though if it just says meat it will be a mixture of meats.

The problem is, perhaps, not so much that there is horse meat in the food but more that they didn't say so on the label. I've knowingly eaten horse meat in France in the past (and very nice it was too); well, that was what it said on the menu!

But, if they said that frozen lasagne was made from horse rather than beef half the population wouldn't eat it. Mind you, what they have against those nice cows that makes them happy to eat cows but not to eat horses, I know not.

However, they didn't say horse on the label and they passed it off as beef. That's not so much a health issue as straighforward fraud.

BTW, anyone know what the 'meat' is in a 'meat curry'?

I won't be changing my shopping habits either.
Since the BSE fiasco, I place full trust in British Beef.

My only niggling doubt about this recent revelations, is not knowing exactly how horses are raised for the food industry.
What are they fed on or if they have been injected with anything sinister!
Other than that, burgers tonight I think!

She ain,t what she used to be. :-D :-D :-D :-D ;-)

Afternoon all from the old mare :-D

I think the problem is the Government are worried about the after effects,For instance, Too much Horse Meat and The Local farriers will have increased work to do,(You will go there to be shoe,d) and the local shoe shop will close :-Dthen again , :-D The thought of a "Horses Neck" to quench my thirst seems quite good. :-D :-D :-D :-D

all the meat in morrisons is british they say
so i will shop there if need be
but i prefare to shop at bowlams who slaughter their own meat

My partner made the comment the other day about this 'scandal'

anyone who grew up in the late 60/70's ate so many additives in their food that the horsemeat is not going to make any great difference

More unnatural additives /chemicals used then.

I have not changed my shopping habits - my food tasted OK - trotting off to the shops later ;-)

Oh and I forgot those brought up even earlier all the DDT on the veggies!

When I was a child, my grandfather and his brother had greyhounds as did many of the other miners in the village, hare and rabbit hunting were a regular pastime for them, I can still remember my Gran's rabbit stew.

As to ready meals, I have lived on my own for the past 25 years and I buy a lot of them. I will be 70 this year and they do not appear to have caused me any harm, and I don't think if I stopped using them now it would extend my expected life span.

Going off topic - the only thing that would affect my expected life span is the current and proposed policies of this confused coalition government as they are daily making me regret I had been born.

OH loves rabbit, which is eaten a lot here. Personally I find it completely tasteless compared with the rabbit my gran used to cook when I was a child.
I suspect that the ones we get now are farmed.
As for contamination, I agree that the definition has been misused, but I suppose that if a product contains something it´s not supposed to, it has been contaminated.

ate loads of rabbit and hare during the war - my Dad used to shoot them, along with pheasant and pigeon - only drawback was making sure you spit the pellets out

Thank you.

Hayley, Rabbits like Carrots, :-D :-D


Lesley,
Only had supermarket Rabbit once,the meat was virtually white and it came from China if memory serves me right..
I never salted any of the fresh kills I have had, they need to be a lovely shade of pink to be at their best as far as I know. :-)

It was found,,,,,,,,,there was no risk to public health with the low amount of drug found in the horse meat,,,,,,,,,,,but it hadnt been declared by public health fit for human consumption therefore prior to it being introduced to the beef,,,,would have been declared unsafe,as there is no legal paperwork to say it is........

I agree farm produce and meat is way too expensive for the average Joe. But what are our options? I think its true also abt the labelling of it would we be inclinded to buy, cook and eat if it were labelled properly? Would it bother us that much afterall it is fit for human consumtion. I have double standards here I dont mind a cow, a sheep or a pig being killed for meat for me to eat yet the thought of a horse I couldnt stomach (pardon the pun). Are we too fussy given what meat is eaten in other pqrts of the world? Im not sure we are. Course in some cultures the meats we eat are revered or seen as unclean and the thought of eating them would appall them.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ to Wend ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Hiya sweetie xx

That Island``s been corrupting me agin.. :-D (Bless her little cotton socks ). ;-)

I d rather put a fiver on it each way at Haydock .......I am going veggie if it looks like a carrot is orange and taste like a carrot then its a carrot :-D