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What a pity our poor friends in Tesco, Lidl, Dunnes Store, Aldi and Iceland have had to say 'sorry' for selling beef burgers with horse meat and pork in them!!!

All together now.... AWWWWWWW!! emoticon

May it be a lesson to them for treating us farmers with such contempt and disdain. emoticon

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So today Tesco have taken out full page adverts in newspapers to apologise for the debacle.

I hear one of the budget chains has responded by launching a range of kids toys called 'My Lidl Pony' emoticon

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I have enjoyed the embarassment of the various cheapie supermarkets, but there is a downside.

Firstly, we all spend far too much time jumping through hoops to appease the great god 'traceability'. Now we discover these idiots just ignore it as and when suits them,importing meat with no records or clear source. It makes you wonder what it is all for.

Secondly, pretty soon our meat plants will be telling us that there is no demand for mince/burgers and cutting the price for cattle, as a result of their incompetence/criminality. So as usual we will end up getting hurt.

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I have worked at that place 4 times over the years.I am so glad it happend to them they deserve some pain! for how they treat people there.If i still worked there i would ring in sick and say i have the trotts or i am feeling a little horse.There was a women who had to go to hospital after eating horse meat they say her condition is stable.I got some burgers out of the freezer and there off.
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Much as we like to see them squirm a bit, this doesn't look like their fault. Can you really see them telling suppliers to chuck in something dodgy to keep the price down?

Somebody further down the supply chain has tried to make a bit extra by putting in dodgy ingredients, and it looks like they'll get done for it.

Unfortunately there will likely be some knock-on to us peasants as well.
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The bit that strikes me is that it wasnt caused by customers complaining about the taste! We make our own burgers at home, using british minced beef from british butchers. Price is comparable, and taste...delish!
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I think the whole episode was inevitable given the ridiculous amount of pressure that processors are being put under by the almighty supermarkets. Serves them right!!

Hopefully we will now get the much needed supermarket adjudicator.

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Hey, 6 month old foal-draft horse meat is absoloutely delicious either in steaks or ground up with pork for frying sausage, we have neighbours in our valley who still butcher foals for these purposes every year.
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I've no doubt there's absolutely nothing wrong with horse meat per se, our continental friends have no problem with it!! It's the fact that these burgers were being sold as BEEF burgers. If they had been marketed as just 'BURGERS' the issue would never have raised its head!!

I'd say a bigger issue would be the inclusion of Pork meat, especially for Jewish and Muslim people!!

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quote:

alan a wrote:

I have enjoyed the embarassment of the various cheapie supermarkets, but there is a downside.

Firstly, we all spend far too much time jumping through hoops to appease the great god 'traceability'. Now we discover these idiots just ignore it as and when suits them,importing meat with no records or clear source. It makes you wonder what it is all for.

Secondly, pretty soon our meat plants will be telling us that there is no demand for mince/burgers and cutting the price for cattle, as a result of their incompetence/criminality. So as usual we will end up getting hurt.



With regard to the first point I think that what has happened here shows why the supermarkets place such emphasis on traceability. It looks like the problem has been immediately traced back to the third party suppliers in question and I suspect that criminal proceedings in some form will take place against them or who ever is responsible. I would not like to speculate whether or not this will be good for Irish and British farmers in the long run. I would hope that in the light of this episode they make a serious attempt to shorten the supply chains thet are dealing with and prioritise locally sourced food.

The retailers have got their fingers so badly burnt over this that I suspect that they will be seriously rethinking how they procure all their goods.



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