The uk after BSE has yet another food mess with health issues .

dave3974:
After the public was told that there was a strict , foolproof system in place to monitor the sourcing of meat after BSE is still killing people another scandal.
Farming leaders have called for immediate action by UK supermarkets to improve their sourcing and labelling of food in the wake of the horse meat burger scandal.

After burgers sold by Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland were discovered to have contained horse meat, the National Farmers Union (NFU) warned that consumer confidence in the UK food industry had been "severely undermined".

NFU president Peter Kendall said the integrity of UK-produced meat was being compromised by the use of cheaper imports which did not meet the same stringent monitoring systems.

He said retailers must take immediate action to address the integrity of their suppliers and ensure that UK products are easily distinguishable and clearly labelled, so customers can make a conscious decision on the food they buy.

The farming body's comments come after Tesco took out full-page adverts in a number of newspapers apologising for selling beefburgers containing horse meat. Aldi, Lidl and Iceland also withdrew burgers from sale after they were found to contain horse meat.

Sainsbury's, Asda and the Co-op later withdrew some frozen products but stressed that the move was "purely precautionary" and they had not been found to be selling contaminated food. Ten million burgers have been taken off supermarket shelves across Ireland and the UK as a result of the scandal.

The ABP Food Group, one of Europe's biggest suppliers and processors, has stopped work at its Silvercrest Foods plant in Co Monaghan, Ireland, after new tests this week revealed contamination in frozen burgers.

Serabi:


Tesco discovered horse meat in their "beef" burgers. And a month back, we witnessed the deception of a local Capetonian establishment serving up meals we’d probably have eaten, but actually thought were eating a better, finer product.

Where do we draw the line? I draw it at pig rectum. Yes, according to Huff Po and NPR, that’s one of the many food deceptions occurring, replacing calamari for pig hole.

The statement by Ben Calhoun of NPR in the States sort of sums up the question we have:

“In Restaurants everywhere, right this second, people are squeezing lemon wedges of crispy, golden, rings, dipping the rings into marinara sauce, and they’re eating hog rectum. Now they’re chewing – satisfied and deeply clueless. It’s payback for our blissful ignorance about where our food comes from and how it gets to us. “

Is it our responsibility to find out what’s in our food?

This day and age if you read the back of packaging there are unpronounceable words of stabilizers and preservatives that we have no idea about, but we still drink Oros don’t we? We don’t even know what’s in it, it probably stains our insides.

Look, there’s a clear difference between serving up mans best friend and burger, but do we ask? Do we even concern ourselves with what goes into the food we eat at restaurants, the food we take home?

So, honestly, where’s the line between pig “bung” and all the other crap we put into our bodies without even asking?

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billy_piper: weve probably been eating it for decades. at least its meat