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Healthy, high-quality protein that’s low in fat.
Has been consumed for centuries particularly around Mediterranean areas of France and Italy along with many Asian countries. Virtually all of these have low incidences of heart disease.
If Tesco were really concerned about their consumers, they would make their ‘Value’ burgers entirely of horse meat rather than the fat and salt gloop they currently use.
Mike
If people are happy to eat cow, sheep and pig then why have a moral objection to eating horse?
If these burgers that have been taken off the shelves are going to be destroyed that is a criminal waste of food.
For me the biggest shock is the "value" burgers actually contain any meat in the first place, I personally would not feed them to a dog never mind a human.
As Mike says horse meat is actually very healthy. Considering the "beef" that’s included in these value burgers consists of bits of the cow most people would prefer not to think about, then consumers should be grateful the horse meat has been added.
People may pick and choose the meat they eat on the grounds of flavour or texture but it’s hypocritical to argue against one particular meat simply on moral grounds.
I have no problem eating horse, I’ve even tried calves brain – didn’t like it, not much flavour and a funny texture.
I won’t eat venison, for example, nothing to do with doe eyed Bambi’s – I just find it too rich.
I once tucked into a horse steak in Ghent, Belgium and very nice it was: tender and milder than beef steak, rather like a dark veal
Needless to say, on ‘moral grounds’ I’d certainly be happier consuming horse than crated, sweated calf
A non-story, or should be, but probably won’t be
I will eat virtually anything, but I would prefer it to have been slaughtered under proper hygiene standards and If they are telling lies about the ingredients, I doubt that this is the case.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysI had a Burger the other night but the thought of poor
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in it makes me feel sick! I loved that horse!
I had a Burger the other night but the thought of poor
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in it makes me feel sick! I loved that horse!
I much prefer to eat meat where I know its history.
Until he packed it in I used to get all my meat from a friend who had a small holding. As a result I knew the history of my meat from birth to slaughter.
I would often go and visit and "come the time" I would choose which animal I wanted for my meat.
So once a year I would choose which lamb, pig and cow my meat would come from, invariably, the meat was excellent and I had no qualms about having stroked and petted my food first.
I was really disappointed when he finally packed it in.
It is a myth to think horses are reared and killed in humane conditions. Every year thousands of unwanted horses are taken from Britain by live transport. Many horses are crammed into unsuitable lorries and driven across Europe for days without ever being let out the van. They are starved of water and food and sometimes horses will die on the way and the carcass only removed at the destination.
In principle there is nothing wrong with eating horse meant. As a horse owner I realise it is hypocritical to refuse to eat horsemeat but to happily eat other animals. Nevertheless, my horse is a pet and many people would refuse to eat dog or cat meat for the same reasons.
I had a Burger the other night but the thought of poor
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in it makes me feel sick! I loved that horse!
I much prefer to eat meat where I know its history.
Until he packed it in I used to get all my meat from a friend who had a small holding. As a result I knew the history of my meat from birth to slaughter.
I would often go and visit and "come the time" I would choose which animal I wanted for my meat.
So once a year I would choose which lamb, pig and cow my meat would come from, invariably, the meat was excellent and I had no qualms about having stroked and petted my food first.
I was really disappointed when he finally packed it in.
I’m just eating my ‘Foi Grois’ with a little ‘Sweetbread’ as I read the above post Paul! You never came across as the Calous Heathen Savage your post suggests………Now you got me thinkin I’m eating
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I’m just eating my ‘Foi Grois’ with a little ‘Sweetbread’ as I read the above post Paul! You never came across as the Calous Heathen Savage your post suggests………Now you got me thinkin I’m eating
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taetas too!
What’s Calous (sic) and Heathen about what I wrote.
Surely it is better to know the history of what you are eating, knowing it has had a good healthy upbringing, rather than buying some meat which has been raised in poor conditions and fed goodness knows what.
Too many people are not prepared to associate what is on their plates with where it comes from and that, in my view, is wrong.
I would add I have no problems with animals being killed for food, that is part of the natural order. I do get upset when animals die in the name of sport.
This scandal is not about whether eating horses is good for you or is acceptable it is totally about confidence and trust in the food industry.
We seem to accept that supermarket shelves are packed with food that we’re told is bad for us (loaded with fat,sugar or salt or all three) but are we sleepwalking into a situation where we accept that what is in the packet is not what we’re eating?
If we are then horse meat burgers could be the least of our worries. The food industry needs to get its house in order and the ‘do what you can get away with’ culture needs to be stamped out.
Am I alone in finding the phrase ‘Tesco Everyday Value Beefburgers’ decidedly quease-inducing?
I found this from the RP revealing…
Were concerns to surface that former racehorses could have been involved, investigators would be beating a path to Weatherbys which holds data on every thoroughbred slaughtered at an abattoir in Europe, along with DNA analysis of all thoroughbreds born in Britain and Ireland, but there has been no contact from that quarter.
Weatherbys executive director, Paul Greeves said: "If they were suspicious thoroughbreds were involved, and in particular had some knowledge of the horses that might have been involved, we could tell them whether our records indicate that the horse is dead, and which abattoir dispatched it, if that’s what happened."
…as it’s long been of interest what actually happens to the ‘disappeared’ ranks of thoroughbreds; and it’s also long struck me that it’s a matter that dare not speak its name. Presumably we’re expected to believe all ex-racehorses spend the rest of their lives gambolling around an equine elysian field, grazing nature’s sweet green grass, cared for by doting owners with a fistful of polo-mints
Dear Weatherby’s
How many throughbreds are slaughtered annually in the UK?
How many throughbreds are exported for slaughter annually?
Is there an age below which healthy thoroughbreds cannot be slaughtered?
What happens to the carcasses?
Well, Tesco’s beefburgers may not be the tastiest on the market, but they win the prize for the best turned-out!
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