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[majorbloodnock]

Personally, I don't expect any incidence of horse meds being found in supermarket meat products. This has nothing to do with misplaced trust, but the simple fact that meds, even unlicensed ones, cost money.

 

I disagree, it's going to be a rareity but I certainly know of two horses in the last six months that were sent for slaughter after being on various medication for extensive periods, they were both competition horses with injuries which were hoped would come good, they didn't and the decision was made.

 

It's unlikely but there is no tracebility.

Understood, but since these horses are the rarity - and a relatively high visibility one at that - I suspect the admin involved obscuring the paper trail enough to put those animals through a mincer would be greater than the money they'd get for the meat. I could be wrong, of course; after all, this is just my suppositions.

[Lavenders_Blue]

I would chance a guess that a lot of the Irish horse meat has come from racehorses. I have no evidence to back that up, but I do know that Ireland breeds far, far more racehorses than actually go on to race, most of which end up slaughtered as do many of the 'retired' horses. I appreciate (before I get anyone's backs up) that there are a lot of good racing yards that look after their horses very well including the retirees, but there are also a lot who don't and they all have to go somewhere...

[kinsk]

I suspect the admin involved obscuring the paper trail enough to put those animals through a mincer would be greater than the money they'd get for the meat. I could be wrong, of course; after all, this is just my suppositions.

 

there is no paper trail though, nothing to say what these horses had been administered, and drugs aside there are no checks that the meat is fit to enter the human food chain as it's not supposed to be destined for that.

[majorbloodnock]

I suspect the admin involved obscuring the paper trail enough to put those animals through a mincer would be greater than the money they'd get for the meat. I could be wrong, of course; after all, this is just my suppositions.

 

there is no paper trail though, nothing to say what these horses had been administered, and drugs aside there are no checks that the meat is fit to enter the human food chain as it's not supposed to be destined for that.

I thought that paperwork related to the transaction, not the animal, could be just as telling. However, you may well know better than me - in fact, I'd probably go so far as to say that's highly likely.

[majorbloodnock]

Sadly, it seems the scandal has spread to truly global proportions. It seems some shops in China have been found to be selling quarter pandas.

 

 

Badoom, tsh.

[The Dogmother]

COAT

[patsylabrador]

I gather from Skynews that the horsemeat has been imported by Findus which is in some other country from some pretty low-rent countries and I don't think doing checks on anything is high on their agenda. These big food companies can't be that stupid, they must know standards are not going to be high in certain countries. If the videos are true the slaughter of the horses is chaotic and cruel and I can't imagine hygiene is regulated. I'm not into thinking everyone should be prosecuted for everything but when people's food is tampered with then I do think they should.

We buy less meat but higher quality ( I hope). The other thread about eating cheaply but well should become a national campaign!!

[kinsk]

These big food companies can't be that stupid, they must know standards are not going to be high in certain countries.

 

Exactly, and it's exactly why the use these certain countries. The big food companies have so much power over producers there is no way they didn't at least suspect.

 

Has anyone watched the 'Food Inc.' documentary? It's all American based but it's a good watch.