Published: 11 Feb 13 14:43 CET | Print version
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As food safety officials hold crisis talks in Sweden, it has emerged that lasagne containing horsemeat may have been served in Swedish schools and hospitals.
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Why are all the media trying to make a big deal about a bit of meat, if it were RAT, CAT, or DOG - then I could see it as objectionable as in Europe we don't eat such.
But fact is, we do eat Horse!
And all the so called 'Products' that have the horse meat (aka Protein) in it - to make it 'CHEAPER' were all sold in the lower end/Budget - Cheapest places to purchase food.
When someone has to choose between buying their 20 cigarettes a day (per adult and teen age children) and Aberdeen Angus Beef (cost 100 times more) - they will still buy the horse meat burgers and products.
Protein is Protein.
The media need to Stop making a storm in a tea cup when there are FAR more important Issues that are being Ignored - as in lack of job creation in the Western World.
It is meat, who the heck cares what kind of meat? The offal that goes into factory- produced lasagne is minced beyond recognition, and then mixed with so many spices and E-numbers that the original flavor is obliterated. Anybody who willingly eats that stuff has no reason to complain or worry about what kind of animal the meat came from.
IF Not for E number's we would have to GUESS what the bloody English call yellow number1 and green number 8 is.
with the E number's EVERONE in the EU or who trades (AND PAYS to trade in the EU) know what that ingredient is! What is if was called FD&C yellow number2 or by any of the other 20 names it has...
Trying to degrade E NUMBERs is WRONG- at least - NO matter where you are in the EU or a trading partner (EEA country - who pay for access to the free market with ZERO say in the rules and regulations) - we ALL know that E-xxx is xyz.
I am glad I no longer live in Europe and can get proper beef etc with no added crap.
Certain chemicals, for example tetrahydroxychalcone, are often fed to horses. Many of these chemicals remain in the food chain and are dangerous to humans. Trust me, you do not want a regular diet of tetrahydroxychalcone.
It seems reasonable to presume, the criminals who fed horses into the meat grinders, did not conduct chemical analysis of the meat, or ask for paperwork about its provenance.
If tetrahydroxychalcone is being eaten by Swedish children, or anyone else, then that is a very serious matter.
Do you understand now?