Food chain do you trust it? - Clubhouse

Nick Windsor 4

08/02/2013 at 15:57

Scary prospect but as it appears all of our food chain is out of control, and the multiples don't know what they're buying, why are we not testing further? How far could it go?

Nick Windsor 4

08/02/2013 at 15:57

Footnote -ethically what would be wrong with eating horse

Dave The Ex- Spartan pirate

pirate

08/02/2013 at 16:00

Who cares ? Anyone who buys Finus ready meals gets everything they deserve !

Just been in our butcher and he displays the records of every animal he buys

Nick Windsor 4

08/02/2013 at 16:02

I tend to agree but lots of people eat ready meals

Dave The Ex- Spartan pirate

pirate

08/02/2013 at 16:03

So ?

Nick Windsor 4

08/02/2013 at 16:05

So what is in there? My guess you'll find much more than horse

Dave The Ex- Spartan pirate

pirate

08/02/2013 at 16:05

But I don't care. I buy from a reputable butcher....,,

JF50

08/02/2013 at 16:07

I think most of us have suspected that you would never know everything added to a ready meal but I guess we all thought the basic ingredient might be as advertised, Beef in the case of Findus. The million and one additives and preservatives might alos not be what the supermarkets think they are!

Nick Windsor 4

08/02/2013 at 16:08

You clearly do care, to send three responses you must do, or you're bored

Dave The Ex- Spartan pirate

pirate

08/02/2013 at 16:09

Bored

seren nos

pirate

08/02/2013 at 16:12

If horse slips through the.checks....then the cheap bse cattle probably still gets fed into the chain....and the odd cjd sheeps brains.....or all those people who disappear from internet forums each week

Runnin man

08/02/2013 at 16:13

My guess if you check you'll find human DNA in the Findus floor sweepings and possibly a greater amount of contamination from the fancy Butchers

seren nos

pirate

08/02/2013 at 16:13

Dave.....have you checked your butchers paperwork and followed it back......a piece if paper can be made up....

fat buddha

08/02/2013 at 16:15

the food chain is no way out of control - it's one of the most tightly regulated of our industries - but like all regulated industries, sometimes there is the odd slip up. nobody's lives have been put at risk with the recent use of horse meat - there have been more dangerous issues with things like E.coli O154 getting into the food chain which can kill - and some of that has come from independant butchers...

and it doesn't matter how much regulation you try to put into place - sometimes things go wrong

and because traceability is one of the key cornerstones of food regulations, then the source is usually easily identified so can be rectified quickly

I'd be more concerned about going into hospital and coming out with a HAI, or being neglected for days on a ward whilst the chief nursing officer is filling in paperwork and attending meetings, than I woud be about food making me ill

Edited: 08/02/2013 at 16:19

Dave The Ex- Spartan pirate

pirate

08/02/2013 at 16:18

Well his paper work claims he buys from 2 farms in Wales... Suppose that would be suspect

Screamapillar

08/02/2013 at 16:24

I think you pretty much get what you pay for in terms of quality. Reputable butchers and supermarkets work directly with farmers and not dodgy third party French suppliers.

But I agree that this is more a fraud issue than a food safety issue.

Wilkie

08/02/2013 at 16:25

I would guess, from recent revelations, that there is a LOT more horse meat in our supermarkets, and has been for a long time.

I'm not losing any sleep over it because I don't eat ready meals and horse is a perfectly acceptable meat anyway.

Ja5onW

08/02/2013 at 16:32

+ 1 for butchers

you would be sickened to see what really goes into most stuff. the additives/preservatives are awful plus colourings and the like.

atleast SOME beef would of been nice in them .

Intermanaut

08/02/2013 at 16:33

I very much doubt all of our food chain is in a mess. The OP should stop reading the Daily Mail and start reading a newspaper instead.

Horse - noms.

cougie

pirate

08/02/2013 at 17:40

Traceability is the issue - and that's what at issue here.

If they didn't realise it was horse that they were buying - that's pretty massive. Where are the papers verifying the origin ? It seems so widespread that its more than an unlikely accident ?

Also cattle can't be slaughtered until any drugs they might have had for illness are out of their system. Is this being adhered to ? It seems unlikely if you order cattle and get horse ?

Horse is fine if you want horse - but to order one meat and get another is unforgiveable.