Sunday 10 February 2013

Horse Lasagna?

If you are ever looking longingly at the frozen, pre-made meals in the supermarket, this might slow your roll: British frozen food giant Findus (which also distributes in other parts of Europe) has found it's frozen Lasagnas contain up to 100% horse meat. Now I'm all for casting aside our cultural sense of squeamishness to enjoy the best the culinary world has to offer (offal anyone?) but casting aside the fact that they are flat out lying to the consumers, the real question is WHERE is this stuff coming from??? Are these horses dispatched in an approved, hygienic abattoir? Had it been treated for human consumption or animal consumption? Had it been checked for disease? It's very hard to trust guys dressing up a horse as a cow just by putting a little cheese on top. And that's a sentence that I never thought I'd have to type. This whole thing raises more questions than it answers, and makes the case once again for greater transparency in the food industry.

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