Horse meat in burgers!

The latest news is that Tesco, the biggest supermarket chain in the UK, are selling beefburgers that have 30% horse meat in them.

It is not Tesco who make them but another company.  Other large chains also sell these burgers.  Tesco have cleared their shelves.

27 burger products sold in five supermarkets were tested and food safety agents ­discovered horse meat was in 10 of them.

They say there is no need to panic however, I for one would hate to think that I ate horse meat.

I gotta tell you that the local radio station was running a phone-in - callers were saying what they found in their food that didn't belong there (this arose because of the above story).  One was an earwig, another was a plaster and the worst was a cat identification tag from a chinese takeaway.

What horrible items have you found in your food?

blue

you'd be surprised what you eat every day and it's OKed
*In the US, up to 60 fragments of insects are allowed per 100gr of chocolate.

yummy food for thought:

CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE LIQUOR

Insect filth: Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined OR any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments

Rodent filth: Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined OR any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs

CITRUS FRUIT JUICES, CANNED

Insects and insect eggs: 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

RED FISH AND OCEAN PERCH

Parasites: 3% of the fillets examined contain 1 or more parasites accompanied by pus pockets

MACARONI AND NOODLE PRODUCTS

Insect filth: Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

Rodent filth: Average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

PEANUT BUTTER

Insect filth: Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams

Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams

POPCORN

Rodent filth: 1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples OR 2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples OR 20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples

WHEAT FLOUR

Insect filth: Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams

Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams

ok, so put the food down?

Well, I don't want to eat ever again.

Ditto!

Those are scary statistics dt.

blue

lol, before the digging, i only knew that 60 insect bits make it into your foods..well, more I guess, but that 60 are apparently A-Ok lol

Ok, I'm grossed out for the day.  amp;

I'm just gobsmacked that 60 bits of insect in a certain amount of food is acceptable.  No insect bits should be an acceptable amount.  It's disgraceful when you think about it.

blue

I think I'm going to start doing things the old fashioned hard way. Milking the cow, churning the butter. I can't deal with those facts. OMG that's gross.

lol, I think the problem, is not so much the factories, but the fields, when the thresher minces the wheat, ya gotta know buggies are goin with it; I don't think there's much in the way one would do, cept for a VERY fine tooth comb, separating a hair thin piece of grain from the hair thin piece of buggy

omg i saw this on the news to yesterday and i was shocked, its crazy that they can get away with this, but who knows, and does the actual supermarket chains know this is happening, i mean who knows and who knows who and where to point the finger too, i mean yes the obvious culprits is the actual factory's producing those products that get supplied to the supermarkets but i mean come on where is quality control when we neeed it :

and dtsweet that list made me feeeel sick reading it

but yeah its the way it is i suppose, unless more things got checked on a more regular basis who knows what the average consumer has actually consumed the last 10-20 years

LuckyRJ

OH and dare i say this >>>>>> HAPPY EATING HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Good point.  Bugs and field mice....yuk. 

Lucky - apparently an ingredient from abroad (place unnown) contained the horse meat.  What possible ingredient apart from beef can you put in a beefburger except maybe onions and herbs/spices?

blue

welll blueday i can think of one country that does like to eat horse meat and that is french and we are connected to france, who knows if that is where the beefburgers was made, i dont know, i actually didnt read too much into the news article but pretty much just read the headlines and a bit of the basic story

Sometimes it's better not to know the whole truth.

now that is soooo true too

hahaha

i for see farm life in my future(come on mega millions)

This horse meat saga continues on in the UK with lasagne, spaghetti bolognaise and other products being found to contain horse meat.  The MP's believe there is criminal activity involved.  Apparently, the company that creates the food is based in Holland which supplies many countries with these products.

High street independant butchers have seen a huge rise in sales!

From what I know there is a vast network that pulled this off. The meat was exported from Romania to various countries labelled correctly as horse meat but then somewhere along the line somebody labelled it as beef in order to get a better price. I'm sure they will find out who's responsible sooner or later.

Yes that's spot on Johnny.  I hope they do get to the bottom of it.

blue

By the way, I noticed that lots of "horse shit" gets published by the British media in this case... Really, lots of it!

What can I say but yes, you're right again.  The media over here take a story, add some crap, stir it up and throw in a pile of rubbish and end up with a headline grabbing story....just to sell a newspaper.  Some of the stuff I read in the papers is so obviously made up, I can't believe they actually get away with it and for that reason, I never buy a newspaper and I try not to read them if I come across them in a cafe.

blue

Well now the famous Ikea Meatballs that was famous and had a very good reputation and high quality and good rating status have now been confirmed to contain horsemeat too from sweden

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

what a shame and i love meatballs too, you know something though, i would still eat them, how do we know we havent already, lol, i know horse is not the known food to eat in the uk and it is one of those cross foods that people think is not right to eat, but a lot of countrys do eat it and it is just meat, it is like for example cow in our country it might not be common elsewhere in other countrys and they might thing that is wrong lol, see my point, anyway was just saying, not defending or anything, but just my opinion

LuckyRJ

Oh no Ikea! Seriously? I bet shoppers are hurling their carts down the escalators as we speak.

I'm pretty particular when it comes to my meat.  I like chorizo, but won't eat it because it is made from salivary glands.  I don't like to eat organ meat, and I don't buy "ground beef" which could be anything a cow consists of, but stick to ground chuck or round or sirloin.  I prefer tenderloin if I'm going to spend some extra cash.

I'll eat venison anytime.  Don't want to eat horse, really, but they are selling buffalo and emu and who knows what else on a regular basis.

Horses are just too intelligent and beautiful for me to want to consider them as food items. 

And hot dogs?  Here's how I like mine:  bun, mustard, ketchup, chili, onions and cheese.  forget the dog.

LOL lol lol yah of course they are, not me, im running to the canteen and asking for all the meatballs others dont want hahahahahah for a big discount of course lmao

and @chilly im not that bothered as long as i dont know certain things i am fine usually, and of course i only eat meats i like and so on, of course, but i wont say no to something until i know if it is nice or not, and so on

and Dog, yes def a no no for me

LuckyRJ

Personally, I would hate the thought of eating horse.  I consider the horse to be one of the most beautiful creatures on this planet.

As for horsey meatballs, I have only eaten meatballs once and I really hope they were not of the horse variety.

As for hotdogs, I love the way the Germans do theirs - take a long roll, poke a hot spike longways down the roll, put the hotdog (preferably bratwurst) in the hole along with mustard and ketchup.  Yum....I'm drooling thinking about it.

I just saw on the news they found horsemeat in TacoBell in Britian!!

That's it....no more eating for me!! Well maybe I'll become a vegan and only veggies that I grow!!

Here in the US...a few months back they were looking into our burger,the fact it had something called pink slime!! YUM!!! I was afraid to eat burger at that!!

Pink slime!  amp; No, thanks!

I don't like meat and I generally eat meat rarely. I'm not a vegetarian or a vegan, it's just my stomach doesn't get along well with it.

I must admit, I really don't understand why is horse meat such a problem for people who like and eat meat often. For example, my cousin LOVES to eat meat but he can't eat rabbit meat.

I mean.... pigs are extremely intelligent and they know why they run away from people during the slaughter season.  People still don't find anything strange with eating pork.

I accept the fact that for some people there is a difference between horses and pigs, I just don't understand what it is.

LOL Markotik.  I think it's called....bacon!  Who can resist?  I rarely eat other types of pork, but I can put away the bacon anytime.

LOL Poor pigs. Damn you bacon!

We have a TacoBell over here?  Did it say where?

blue

Blue,from what I found there are only 3!!! The parent company is called Yum Brands Inc.

It must be Pizza Hut then I would guess as KFC is chicken.