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The recent debacle about horse meat masquerading as beef in various major supermarket chains in Britain...not to mention Mad Cow Disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in beef in the UK not so long ago...begs the question "can we trust the food we are eating?" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/08/no-horsemeat-please-british
The following article is from http://www.farming.co.uk
"The controversy surrounding major suppliers of processed meat products in the UK and Ireland has deepened today, as horse meat has been discovered in burgers manufactured by two more companies. The news comes after a supplier to the prison service was found to have distributed pies labelled as Halal but containing pig meat to prisons in England and Wales.
Traces of equine DNA were found in beef-burgers from Rangeland Foods in the Republic of Ireland and Freeza Meats in Northern Ireland. In the Rangeland burgers, horse meat accounted for up to 75 percent of meat, whilst horse accounted for 80 percent of meat in Freeza Meats' burgers.
The manufacturers said the meat used in their burgers had been imported from Poland via a meat trader in Ireland. Meat companies supplying Lidl, Asda and Tesco, whose 'beef-burgers' were found to contain horse and pig meat last month blamed suppliers in Spain and the Netherlands for the contamination.
In light of the lack of transparency demonstrated by the discoveries, the Gardai in Ireland have been called in to help Food Standards officials with enquiries as the scandal deepens. Agriculture minister Simon Coveney announced on Monday that police had been called in to investigate whether aspects of the debacle constitute fraud."
The following article is from http://www.farming.co.uk
"The controversy surrounding major suppliers of processed meat products in the UK and Ireland has deepened today, as horse meat has been discovered in burgers manufactured by two more companies. The news comes after a supplier to the prison service was found to have distributed pies labelled as Halal but containing pig meat to prisons in England and Wales.
Traces of equine DNA were found in beef-burgers from Rangeland Foods in the Republic of Ireland and Freeza Meats in Northern Ireland. In the Rangeland burgers, horse meat accounted for up to 75 percent of meat, whilst horse accounted for 80 percent of meat in Freeza Meats' burgers.
The manufacturers said the meat used in their burgers had been imported from Poland via a meat trader in Ireland. Meat companies supplying Lidl, Asda and Tesco, whose 'beef-burgers' were found to contain horse and pig meat last month blamed suppliers in Spain and the Netherlands for the contamination.
In light of the lack of transparency demonstrated by the discoveries, the Gardai in Ireland have been called in to help Food Standards officials with enquiries as the scandal deepens. Agriculture minister Simon Coveney announced on Monday that police had been called in to investigate whether aspects of the debacle constitute fraud."
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