I can understand mouse fur and metal shavings as a common factory accident, but how did them horses get mixed into it?
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One of the horse employees fell into the machine
The headline seems to suggest horse meat is bad for health, which afaik is not true. It's illegal many places and taboo, but not for health reasons.
The big issue is traceability and control. How is unvetted meat making its way into the market? What else does it tell us about the state of the meat market? There are meant to be controls that protect consumers.
A more minor related consideration is what these horses are. Could it include sports horses, who are given a cocktail of drugs unfit for human consumption?
In addition, plenty of consumers specifically avoid horse -- and the UK scandal 15 years ago also included pork, which many cultures and religions specially shun.
Excellent points. Makes me think of the old hair in the soup hangup, which had less to do with the hair itself (gross enough) and more about what else is getting into the soup? (disgusting).
Was wondering why my lasagna tasted different today. But hay, it was okay
I’m wondering how on earth moose fur, of all things, got in there? Are moose farmed for meat elsewhere in the world?
Horse shocks me less - beyond being culturally offputting to some, it’s no less morally acceptable or unacceptable to eat a horse than a cow.
Oh shoot, I misread. Less surprising then 🤦♀️
Oh, the "horse based lasagne" issue moved to Australia. No need to send it back, we already had our share.
Mouse!? Moose are hunted, but not livestock so much. Australians eating noise fur makes sense
It’s good roughage.