Horse DNA found in supermarket beef burgers, retailers reining in faulty batches
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[quote=Beeb]Horse DNA has been found in some beef burgers being sold in UK and Irish supermarkets, the Republic of Ireland's food safety authority (FSAI) has said.
The FSAI said the meat came from two processing plants in Ireland, Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods, and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
It said they posed no health risk.
The burgers were on sale in Tesco in the UK and Ireland. In the Republic of Ireland they were on sale in Dunnes Stores, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland.
Retailers have said they are now removing all implicated batches of the burgers.
A total of 27 products were analysed, with 10 of them containing horse DNA and 23 containing pig DNA.
Horsemeat accounted for approximately 29% of the meat content in one sample from Tesco.
The chief executive of the FSAI, Professor Alan Reilly, said that while there was no risk to the public, he added that eating horsemeat "was not in Irish culture".
"Whilst, there is a plausible explanation for the presence of pig DNA in these products due to the fact that meat from different animals is processed in the same meat plants, there is no clear explanation at this time for the presence of horse DNA in products emanating from meat plants that do not use horsemeat in their production process," he said.
"In Ireland, it is not in our culture to eat horsemeat and therefore, we do not expect to find it in a burger.
"Likewise, for some religious groups or people who abstain from eating pig meat, the presence of traces of pig DNA is unacceptable."
Tesco's group technical director, Tim Smith, said his company was informed of the test results by the FSAI on Tuesday and they "immediately withdrew from sale all products from the supplier in question".
In Tesco's case, two frozen beef burger products - sold in both the UK and Ireland - were found to contain horse DNA.
In a statement, Mr Smith said: "[b]The safety and quality of our food is of the highest importance to Tesco. We will not tolerate any compromise in the quality of the food we sell. The presence of illegal meat in our products is extremely serious."
He added that Tesco was "working with the authorities in Ireland and the UK, and with the supplier concerned, to urgently understand how this has happened and how to ensure it does not happen again".
"We will not take any products from this site until the conclusion and satisfactory resolution of an investigation,[/b]" the statement said.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21034942[/url]
I wanna be optimistic and say that this is just from the animals coming into contact with horses at some point, but with how most of the pigs raised for this sorta thing I can't even believe myself.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;39230720]In a article about beef burgers having horse DNA inside them, where did you get Pigs from?[/QUOTE]
Article mentions that pig DNA in the burgers is plausible.
The only real problme I have is with the false advertising, because seriously, arbitrarily deciding that one kind of animal flesh is wrong and another kind of animal flesh is right is, quite frankly pathetic:
TL:DR : I'd totally eat Horse Steak.
Updated OP with more content, bolded Tesco's statment
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;39230784]
TL:DR : I'd totally eat Horse Steak.[/QUOTE]
I'd really like to eat horse steak, isn't it similar to a leaner beef?
[QUOTE=Terminutter;39230798]I'd really like to eat horse steak, isn't it similar to a leaner beef?[/QUOTE]
I have no idea, but, to be honest, I'd eat any kind of animal meat if it tasted alright.
[QUOTE=AK'z;39230728][img]http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00235/beans_tesco_value_235305a.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Dude tesco beans are so much better than heinz.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;39230798]I'd really like to eat horse steak, isn't it similar to a leaner beef?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.gustafskorv.se/images/Gustafskorv,%201000%20g%20rgb.jpg[/img]
This shit man, horse sausage. Tastes really great.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;39230756]Article mentions that pig DNA in the burgers is plausible.[/QUOTE]
o bugger i read over that
I'd like to eat horse meat burgers.
Everything tastes better with horse meat instead of beef.
That is fucked up. You don't eat service animals.
Dogs, cats, horses, and we even specifically differentiate service cattle under the name "oxen" despite there being absolutely no difference other than the fact that they perform labor for us.
They generally get to pass up landing on our dinner plate because they work for us.
Bringing mystery meat to a whole new level
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;39230810]I have no idea, but, to be honest, I'd eat any kind of animal meat if it tasted alright.[/QUOTE]
Human burger?
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39231808]Human burger?[/QUOTE]
I've always wondered how human meat tastes.
[editline]15th January 2013[/editline]
Not in a cannibal way
[QUOTE=Dougz;39231873]I've always wondered how human meat tastes.
[editline]15th January 2013[/editline]
Not in a cannibal way[/QUOTE]
It's odd how it tastes so similar to chicken.
[sp]you all think im joking. im not[/sp]
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;39230784]The only real problme I have is with the false advertising, because seriously, arbitrarily deciding that one kind of animal flesh is wrong and another kind of animal flesh is right is, quite frankly pathetic:
TL:DR : I'd totally eat Horse Steak.[/QUOTE]
Completely agree. I'm a vegetarian so I don't eat any meat, but I've always wondered why some animals (or animal parts) are considered any more gross/wrong than any other.
horse meat is pretty damn good
This may offer no real health downsides. And personally if horse meat was a thing in supermarkets I'd probably try it. Just if we buy one thing and its something else making up 29% of that which you don't know about. Then its not cool.
[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;39232936]This may offer no real health downsides. And personally if horse meat was a thing in supermarkets I'd probably try it. Just if we buy one thing and its something else making up 29% of that which you don't know about. Then its not cool.[/QUOTE]
Probably?
I don't know about you, but Pferdefleisch looks fucking delicious to me. I'd probably eat it only if the horse was raised to die, though.
[QUOTE=Dougz;39231873]I've always wondered how human meat tastes.
[editline]15th January 2013[/editline]
Not in a cannibal way[/QUOTE]
A german politician was trying to get votes by suggesting to make cannibalism legal because humans are cleaner than animals since they shower themselves. He said that dead humans shouldn't go into a coffin but into our stomachs instead :v:
[QUOTE=Yahnich;39233160]and then slowly everyone gets prion disease (it spreads by ingesting meat contaminated with it, now imagine if everyone starts eating human meat)[/QUOTE]
That sounds like the perfect defense against zombies, apart from the whole part where we all die.
Well hey, next time someone says "they could eat a horse" because they're hungry, I'll recommend them Tesco's finest burgers instead.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;39230784]The only real problme I have is with the false advertising, because seriously, arbitrarily deciding that one kind of animal flesh is wrong and another kind of animal flesh is right is, quite frankly pathetic:
TL:DR : I'd totally eat Horse Steak.[/QUOTE]
But horses are cute.
[IMG]http://www.petervannugteren.com/Afbeeldingen/Horse%20Hilarious%20(Small).jpg[/IMG]
I assume half of this horse was used in a tesco burger too..
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyMXYE_50Ts[/MEDIA]
I'd find it hilarious if Tesco used it in one of their adverts.
[QUOTE=Dougz;39231873]I've always wondered how human meat tastes.
[editline]15th January 2013[/editline]
Not in a cannibal way[/QUOTE]
It tastes like pork.
[QUOTE=Fort83;39235462]Isn't is really bad to feed a species meat from that species?[/QUOTE]
Depends on what species you're talking about. Humans get kuru.
ITT: Morality police arbitrarily telling us what prey animals we can and can't eat
Come on, has any one ever eaten a burger and fully trusted what's in it? I sure haven't, doesn't put me eating them though... much.
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