Let them eat horse!

[Jason]

There's also the little matter of various encephalitic viruses that can jump from horses to humans.

'Mad Cow Disease' is an encephalopathy easily transmitted from cattle to humans as well.

[JimC]

There's also the little matter of various encephalitic viruses that can jump from horses to humans.

'Mad Cow Disease' is an encephalopathy easily transmitted from cattle to humans as well.

Don't have a cow, man...

[MiM]

"Horse meat has been sold in the stores of Helsinki, and I hope that will continue, as it is NOM..."
The news are playing on the horse thingy, where the real issue obviously is that uncontrolled meat might have slipped into the system.

[Calilasseia]

Oh, there's nothing wrong in principle with horse meat being sold for human consumption, provided it's properly labelled as such, and sourced from animals that are safe to consume. Over at another place, I was shown a photograph, taken in Brixton, South London, in 1948, which depicted a specialist horse butcher's store, and judging by the crowds, the butcher's in question was making a tidy sum of money in the horsemeat trade at the time.

The problem with the latest scandal, is that once again, material potentially unfit for human consumption is at risk of entering the human food supply chain. Apparently, criminal gangs are involved in this in Romania, and it doesn't take a genius to realise that criminal gangs aren't going to be concerned about issues such as phenylbutazone or transmissible diseases. As for the idea that we should simply offload dodgy products onto the poor, well I think that one belongs in the same bin as creationism. The trouble being, of course, that putting in place proper measures to ensure the safety of the meat in question will push the price up. Not that I suspect certain politicians with rich friends in agrobusiness, will consider increased risk of serious illness amongst the poorest, to be too high a price to pay for yet more corporate profits. It's the reason we ended up with the BSE scandal in the 1980s: right wing politicians cared more about corporate profits than food safety. I wonder how many of the UK posters here remember John Selwyn Gummer's "burger moment"?

[Audley Strange]

Hah, I do now, I'd forgotten about that little shit.

Mind you, considering it's source I think it's lucky that people haven't been eating Romanian orphans.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

If you're worried about horse meat in your burgers, I have it on good authority that there is no horse whatsoever in Tesco's meatballs. They are the dog's bollocks.

[Bella Fortuna]

Hey... did you know?

[Svartalf]

Does Mr Comfort ever enjoy a bacon burger, or maybe a philly cheese steak sammich? Fuck him with a telegraph pole.

[Mysturji]

Not to mention prawns.