15 Tips To Avoid Eating Horse Meat
The European food industry has been rocked by the ever-evolving horsemeat scandal. Here’s what you need to watch out for if you don’t want a bite of horse.
1. Ikea Meatballs.
Ikea has announced that it is stopping sales “of the concerned batch” of meatballs in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland.
2. Nestle Beef Tortellini.
Nestle has been included in the European horse meat scandal after two of its chilled pasta products advertised as beef were found to contain more than 1% horse DNA.
3. Nestle Buitoni Beef Ravioli.
Nestle has removed these items from supermarket shelves in Italy, Spain, and France.
4. Nestle Lasagnes a la Bolognaise Gourmandes.
Used exclusively in the catering business.
Aldi spokesperson says: “Anyone who has these products in their freezer should return them to retailers as a precaution.”
8. Burger King threw out thousands of beef patties in the U.K. and Ireland.
9. Irish beef supplier Silvercrest has shipped horse-contaminated meats.
11. Tests on beef distributed by Freeza Meats in Northern Ireland showed the meat contained 80% horse.
12. French beef supplier Spanghero has been accused of passing off horsemeat in meals labeled as beef and selling it to supermarkets in 16 countries.
Production at the company was shut down in wake of the scandal. Production licensee has since been partially restored but the company has been told it must not handle or make any food from frozen products.
In all, horsemeat is believed to have been used in 4,500,000 ready-made meals in 13 European countries.
13. If you dislike horse meat, do not join the Polish or Italian mafias.
An investigation surrounds a scheme where mafias take horsemeat lawfully produced in Eastern European slaughterhouses…
14. However, it should be noted that horsemeat is still eaten in many parts of the world.
You can find horse on regular menus in China, Japan, and Indonesia, as well as countries in Europe, including France and Switzerland.
And Montreal, where people are pretty chill and just don’t think it’s a big deal.
Even celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay serves horsemeat at his restaurants in the U.K.
Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant got dumped with horse manure in a PETA Europe protest against the use of horsemeat in the chef’s recipes back in 2007.
Don’t worry too much, though: None of the companies involved in the European scandal export beef to the U.S.
15. Although selling horsemeat in the U.S. is legal, there are currently no horse slaughterhouses operating. So if you live here, you’re pretty safe.
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Bobbie Mullins 3 months agoMy rule of thumb is I don’t eat anyone who could run away if given half a chance. Horses are pretty fast, so they definitely fall into that category. I only eat stationary objects—I’m a stationarian.
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Fizzy Pop 3 months ago
The issue isn’t that it’s horse (I’d quite happily eat horse if it’s sold to me as horse) or that it contains Bute (which you’d apparently have to eat over 20,000 horse burgers in one day for it to have any effect) it’s that we’re being sold expensive beef and are paying a premium for what we’re told is 100% beef, when it’s just cheap horse meat. The public is being ripped off into paying more for something that should be cheaper.
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KillerKupcake 3 months ago
The us exports horses to Mexico where they slaughter thousands of them a year :( What’s truly tragic is that the kill the horses with nail guns to the head. It sometimes takes many shots before the poor animal dies. They suffer, they are tortured… If you eat meat.. You are contributing to suffering & murder of Gods innocent creatures.
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lynne benoux 3 months agoSo.. why is horse meat bad? Is it because they’re cuter than cows? I get that it’s mislabeled and that’s shitty, but otherwise…
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akatobi2002 3 months agoyea, i was wondering if they’re cheaper to farm.
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FlickMontana 3 months ago
I don’t think it’s bad, it’s just mislabeling. Your food should be what is says it is.
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