How DO you recall 50,000,000 kg of meat?

peet · Post by **peet** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:01 am

The latest meat scandal in NL, a meat processing company mixed cheap horsemeat (from uncertified quality) with beef, and shipped it to a kazillion other companies, which put the meat into frozen- and instant meals, and god knows where. They made a nice profit.

It seems some meat is consumed.

Anyay, another fine Google Translation below:

http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl...ees-terug.dhtml

Post by **pkk** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:16 am

$#@! google translation:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/1...ds-recalls-meat

raumvogel · Post by **raumvogel** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:15 pm

It's like you guys are right here in America!

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:59 pm

This is the 2nd scandal in Germany about horsemeet in just two months, and it shows that the meat production system is out of control unless you buy it from a local butcher.

What i don't understand here: I thought horse meet is more expensive than beef.

Vortrog · Post by **Vortrog** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:35 pm

@#(! yeah.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-09/blac...ng-sale/4618712

Thats like 5000 bucks a kilo!

TheDevil · Post by **TheDevil** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:56 pm

lexaal wrote:QUOTE (lexaal @ Apr 11 2013, 06:59 PM) What i don't understand here: I thought horse meet is more expensive than beef.

From what I understand they use meat off old horses, and these horses have obviously been injected with various chemicals to optimize their performance which in turn enters into our food chain and obviously these chemicals may have negative effect on humans.

(I am actually not sure if I am getting troll baited by lexaal)

Broodwich · Post by **Broodwich** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:01 pm

how is that any different from what we do to cows?

Jeruwafi · Post by **Jeruwafi** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:05 pm

Over here beef is over 10$/kg and horse meat is under 6$/kg (shop prices, and horse meat is quite rare so prices are most likely inflated).

So depending where was the horse meat coming from it didn't even have to be from old horses

Post by **BackTrak** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:02 pm

lexaal wrote:QUOTE (lexaal @ Apr 11 2013, 12:59 PM) What i don't understand here: I thought horse meet is more expensive than beef.

Naw, it's only faster.

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:36 pm

lexaal wrote:QUOTE (lexaal @ Apr 11 2013, 08:59 PM) What i don't understand here: I thought horse meet is more expensive than beef.

It is! This stuff must be bypassing the normal veterinary controls.