No offence .....
None taken.
( The moronic statement was a tad of an over reaction on my part)
Just to go back to your original post.
Shit stirring, shock culture strikes again. How fucking bored must people be now days every other day it's someone else or something else the media is trying to get sacked, banned, jailed.
Don't you think people who've either deliberately missled, in order to profit, or made such monumental fuck-ups as putting a different species than said into food products, should be made accountable for their actions?
If not, at what point do you think they should be punnished? Maybe when someone becomes ill? or god forbid dies?
Or do you think they should just get a slap on the back of the legs, and a don't do it again, you naughty boy?
People need to stop being such hypocrites, if you have a problem then stop eating meat altogether.
If they had been putting in chicken or venison instead this would not even be a story, i'ts only a story and only the fuss about regulations bla bla bla because it's horse meat, fact. I only wish it was something more controversial like labrador.
You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried.
As I said previously. It's not the fact that it's horse, chicken, venison or anything else for that matter.
It's the fact that if you purchase A, you expect to get A, not B.C or D.
If it says beef, you expect beef.
The worrying thing is, if they've not even done such a basic check as actually selling what they say they're selling, I can't see that they've sourced the secondary animals (in this case, horse) from any kind of ethical, or repuatable sources, now have they?
FFS, they didn't even know it was in their own products.
For all we (and they) know, the horses could of come from anywhere, and have any kind of issues or chemical ingredients in them.
At this points, reports suggest that there's no Bute (phenylbutazone) in any of the meat used, but I'd of thought that was sheer luck, and not by design, because the drug is widely used in the horse industry, and they ceratinly havent sourced this horse meat from any repuatable dealers or slaughter houses, have they now.
Who knows what revelations are to come out on the back of this story.
How do you feel about the story (indirectly related) of pies fed to Mulsim prisoners that contained pig DNA?
An animal thats banned under their religion? You think thats fine also? I'm sure they don't.
Or how about someone with a nut allergy, buying a product which is reported to have no nut extract in, who then becomes ill or dies?
Is that perfectly acceptable? Because thats what you're alluding to by stating it doesn't matter.
Of course it bloody matters.
In essence, it's not about product A having something else in it, it's about being told your buying product A, when it clearly has a load of product B, C and D in it, thats potentially harmful, and nobody wants to be accountable for.