Slaughterhouse Raided

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21434077
This wiill upset meat sales for ages

I'm not that bothered myself. It seems that I may have already eaten horse. Thousands have and didn't notice.
So if it tastes alright then apart from the mis-labelling fraud it doesn't seem to have done any harm.
And pork in beef meatballs, then self imposed religious complaints aside, it's probably an improvement.

Quote: Voltman wrote in post #2

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I'm not that bothered myself. It seems that I may have already eaten horse. Thousands have and didn't notice.
So if it tastes alright then apart from the mis-labelling fraud it doesn't seem to have done any harm.
And pork in beef meatballs, then self imposed religious complaints aside, it's probably an improvement.

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I think you'll find that all the animals were slaughtered for food. If ready dead meat hits our food chain then gluten will be the least of our worries.

Quote: Voltman wrote in post #4

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I think you'll find that all the animals were slaughtered for food. If ready dead meat hits our food chain then gluten will be the least of our worries.

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If you are cooking horsemeat I advise you to open the kitchen door as well as switching the extractor on. It smells like a stable when it's being cooked.

My point was that no one seems to have noticed that they were cooking and eating horse.
So if we can't tell then it must taste like beef, which is contrary to my expectations.

I have had steak in the past that smelled so bad when being cooked it went in the bin.
We would accuse it of being horse and it seems it probably was. Our current butcher hasn't ever given us cause for concern.

The pork gluten thing is of course a different matter as that can harm someones health as opposed to upsetting their sensibilities.

Volty
There are two points I would like to add to your communication. first that most commercial meatballs, lasagne etc taste only of the spices etc, and I doubt if most people who bought them would notice if they only had soya protein lumps in them, with no meat (this would particulalrly apply to all Tesco Value products and iceland concoctions). Secondly, it is theoretically possible to be allergic to some meats, so the "pork gluten thing" might apply here. It is probably very uncommon, but there was a case on TV (Inside Out I think) where a fish and chip shop sold "cod" which was some other fish and one customer was very ill . He knew he could eat cod, and had never tried the particular fish used , so did not know what had caused it except by a process of elimination.

well i say you cant beat a good quality butchers shop but just like the pubs they too are dwindling no doubt because of all the supermarkets we now have..same thing with veg shops...why go tramping round different shops when you can get everything pre packed or frozen all under one roof...when i moved to kingstanding there were 2 butchers shops within less than a 5 min walk..both gone now and more recently the veg shop has gone and i miss them all...nearest butchers and veg shop is now is about a 20 min walk away