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Europe's Horsemeat Horror Spreads To Czech' Swedish Meatballs And Beyond
The ongoing debacle of Europe's food-chain continues with news from the BBC that IKEA, the venerable do-it-yourself furniture (and food apparently) maker has pulled 1675lbs of Swedish Meatballs off shelves. Horse was found in "beef and pork" meatballs in the Czech Republic and then in 13 other nations including the UK, Holland, and Portugal. Since the first horsemeat was found last month, traces have been found in many places (table below) with UK's FSA having 35 positive tests and Germany's equivalent 67 positives. IKEA's discovery, noted on their facebook page, adds further fuel to the complex food-chain fire but we can only wonder just how many extra pieces of horsemeat were included in the package (and what was missing).
As once British MEP noted, "Europe's food retailers depend on a complex network of brokers, cold stores and meat-cutting plants around the continent from which to source the ingredients wherever they are cheapest. The evidence of the past few weeks shows that national food safety authorities have failed to identify a problem in the supply chain over a significant period of time."
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Long horse rendering / pink slime / soylent wafers bitchezz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cetfa/3538238659/
What's with this whiny, squeamish bullshit. Horse meat is delicious, low in fat and high in protein. It's a delicacy in many countries.
This whole story just makes Europe look ridiculous.
One of my favs is beef stock substitute...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cetfa/3538234407/in/photostream/
So is 'BirdsEye' gonna be off the hook if they find BirdsEye's in there?
S’no big deal.. no deception involved.. the horse’s name was Sven.
Might have even been spared if he hadn't lugged out in the final furlong...
MMMMM....bork bork bork.
The horsemeat is what made the Swedish chef so popular. He was one of my favorite Muppets. But then Goldman will want to get involved in this message, so I can't say that...
Big deal. When I was growing up, horse meat salami was available at every grocery store. just saying ....
Bullish for bullshit, bearish for horseshit
Na, its just the TDs playing at KAiser Sauzee, spreading the panic in Euro, whereas they should be reporting the Snapper scandal in US; 33% of fish in supermarkets over there is wrongly labelled!
Don't worry, be happy!
Until you realize this was never meant for consumption so it's not health checked.
Health checked by whom... and for what? What if it's little more than an illusion?
What if you're paying for say, gold, and get tungsten, instead - it's still pretty useful metal, after all... what if you pay for US$ and get ZIM$ - still paper money all things said.
Do you think they used it because it's of better quality, or because it was much cheaper?
Clearly, even the meat which was "meant for consumption" wasn't checked either. Otherwise this wouldn't have happened.
Nevermind that, however. The lesson here is "Never let a good crisis go to waste".
It's not about the meat quality as such. It's about the customer not being able to trust the content declaration, and the manufacturers apparently not having a clue what goes into their products.
Just wait until horsemeat starts showing up in your pasteurized milk & city water...
Horsemeat I can deal with. It's the nuclear waste in the city water that I'm worried about.
I thought their meatballs tasty fishy....mmmmmmm
As a horse owner I would like to say: There is nothing wrong with horse meat (not that I eat my horses). Most likely this meat is from North America, because of the massive drought and economic downturn here the slaughter plants for horses are running over time in the last year. All that horse meat is going somewhere. Also realize your average horse has been feed very well it's entire life. NO force feeding, No diet of antibiotics, No growth hormones.
Also...I work with a German lady..she says it's a relatively popular meat in Europe??? Why all the fuss. Eat up!
Most horse meat plants were closed in the US a few years back do to US outrage over selling horse meat to the UK. Now plants have moved outside the US and still ship products to the same countrys! Products need only proper lableling 5% 50% 100% horse meat to be sold!
Just another diversion tatic to take center stage away from real issues!
U.S. slaughter of horses ended in 2007 when Congress, at the urging of animal rights groups, halted funding to inspect processing plants. The unintended result was thousands of horses abandoned or neglected, and even more enduring hundreds of miles of travel to Mexico and Canada for slaughter.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/missouri-horse-slaughter-plant_...
As a cattle rancher and horse partner, I would like to be very pointed, you have zero fucking clue what you are talking about.Horses in the states that go to slaughter are generally jammed in trailers, then traveled long distances to the Texas/Mexico boarder. I will let those do their own research on the process, imho it is a fucking outrage to say the least.
Fucking bullshit what these horses have to go through just to feed you sick nasty mfer's.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=horse+slaughter+plants&qpvt=horse+sl...
no. THIS is not what makes EUROPE look ridiculous.
horseballs anyone ?????????
Not a good marketing twist
Horses are cleaner, their vital organs are higher and absorb less default radiation .... quit eating Granma's food !
In the book it was Soylent steaks, not wafers. (Too much for the american audience)
How many horses does Europe have? Must have them things breeding like rabbits.
A few less than they used to?
Funny story: Pre-collapse, horses were held as status symbols in parts of Spain (Andalusia, for instance). Since 2008 owners couldn't afford this any more. Some horses were slaughtered right away, some were simply freed...and then caught and slaughtered by the authorities and some still enjoy their freedom in southern Spain (like camels in Australia). So basically since 2008 an yearly average of 50.000 tons of horse meat was produced in Spain and noone has a clue where that meat went. Just one thing, Spaniards knowingly don't eat horse meat.
It's just horsemeat not human flesh. Why the fuss?
+1, 7 billion people in the world can't be fed cheaply with prime ingredients. We have high fructose corn syrup, GMO foods, radioactive tuna, and horsemeat meatballs because feeding 7 billion people is a strain on the earth.
Horse meat is much more expensive to produce than beef. There is just a glut of horses in North America right now with the drought last year and the poor economy. I'm sure that is where it is coming from.
Sorry friend, but Europe has it's own crisis right now, and there's no need for imported equine products...those countries which were last to be invited into the Euro party were also the last to give up their horse culture...conforming to the centralized control freaks in Brussels means giving up all kinds of things...like horses being allowed on roadways....animals grazing freely, and on and on...
result is thousands of dudes having to give up their wagons and carriages, close down their barns and sell off their workhorses. In the name of 'progress' and 'safety' ...this, combined with the aforementioned sell off of 'pet' horses by owners no longer willing to pay for feed has culled the Euro horse populations so severely that the four leggers will soon nuff disappear altogether from the landscape...save for the expensive breeding ranches of the mega-rich moneyboyz behind this whole scam.
Merikans worry about their guns, and the right to bear them. A man with a weapon is a target. But a horse and armed rider are a direct marker of who we once were, and goes to the heart of what Merika once was.
This whole mess what Merika has gotten itself into could be sorted out in one quick chapter. 800 armed* men riding separately but in tandem to the steps of any State capital south(or west!)of the Mason-Dixon** line would bring the visceral imagery together for a final showdown with those who are counting on you to to either lie down, or play into their hands when they start moving for the guns. The pukes hiding behind their secret state would have to show their hand or fold...and pity the sherrif's deputy or federal hack who got the order to step out in support of them. If the complicit media tried to shut it out, they would look like total fools as the internet followed every move. We need to have this out soon.
Right now there still is 'the internet' ...and there still are some 'horses'...and some 'men' ...I wouldn't count on the combination staying around for too much longer! Gold, guns. and two fresh mounts...everything else is just blowin smoke.
*no ammo...that's key.
**blood's too watered down elsewhere
Ever since the story broke I've been trying to figure out why it even matters. The only thing I can come up with is the idea that the supply chain is so interconnected that something that isn't supposed to be in the food is in the food. I suppose if horse meat can end up in my meatballs, so can _____. Farmers markets... it's about all you can really trust... mostly.
The reason why it matters so much is because the beaurocracy MUST grow at all costs.
Do not think so much about the issue at hand, but how the issue may be used to further the state's objectives. Or, in this case, the superstate.
It matters because the cabbalist is required to always signal to their victim what is their fate...and by doing so, gain implicit acceptance on the part of that victim. EuroMerikan is being 'shown' the death of it's culture and it's means of defense, through the mass slaughter of our greatest friends and helpmates. With them, we were warriors...without them we will be slaves. A war of symbols has been waged for half a century now, since the photo-journalism of the "Vietnam" War, to inflict psychological defeat after defeat upon the Europoid psyche....slowly showing the slipping away of every marker of what made us men.
There is no 'health' or other issue going on here whatsoever...this is a war...of symbols...but it's denouement with be an onslaught of terror, when we have abandoned all our old friends and loyalties...
to which there will be no cavalry to ride to the rescue.
"It's just horsemeat not human flesh. Why the fuss?" YET.......................
Giddyup Bitchez!
Wake me up when they start finding human DNA in products.
We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control................
pods
Don't test you won't find.
Better not eh.
But Horsemeat is still meat, right guys?
Horsemeat - the fall of Western Civilisation!
Has the USDA started checking for horse meat in the meat supply here? Or are they too busy reviewing porn movies?
what does it say on the labeling of your food?
and it's forebidden to say anything bad about meat you know...
must be time to get a little mint sauce for that sheeple...er mutton/lamb
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HORSEMEAT!!!!
REALLY! IT'S A INSURANCE SCAM!!!!
If they turn in their meals, THEY GET FULL RETAIL PRICES REFUNDED!!
IT'S MORE PROFITABLE TO DESTROY THE FOOD!!
I got this info from a friend of mine who works for a cleanup company where they destroy the food.
Why they do it is anybody's guess.
Who insures frozen burgers? THE HORROR.
And by "destroy" you mean recycle it into the school lunch program?
nop, anything that has a 0,1% horse DNA trace is destroyed as in burned.
nop, if caddle eat their proteine mixes (which are most commonly made out of powerdered down cadavers from other animals, they always tend to contain those DNA traces.
In short, it's not only beef that's being destroyed but also pork.
And the volumes they're destroying are BIG!
starving africans and asians would love to hear that food is being destroyed
gold knockdown in progres. silver too. can we get crude up to $150 and get this party started already?
Did Moochelle or Bloomberg approve horse meat on the menu?
I'm sure the State required that the animal protien not go to waste Comrade, a simple labeling accident it should have read ground meat. Soon cremation will be outlawed as all that "animal" protien is now wasted for the sake of a crying widow.
Its a labeling thing...
Protein...Its Whats for Dinner
Il Cavaliere, as he is known in Italy, would not spit on a bit of horse meat. Its a favoured delicacy in Italia!
Horse meat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just goes to show horse meat does not alter your ability to bunga bunga; thats all the Czechs need to know as they celebrate bunga bunga in the streets of Prague like stallions on the job!
Any horses still alive in Europe?
and carsales are also down... HOW THE FUCK WILL WE BE GOING TO WORK???!!! PUBLIC TRANSPORT???? HHAAA!!!!
And in Frankfurt they just found wood chips in a Lasagne. They say it must be from a rocking horse....
heh..would the frankfurter chocolate lips like "stool" pigeon with that?
So in Europe the goverment seves up horsemeat and in the US its horseshit, which do you prefer. The fact is that you are a pawn in a courrpt sytem either way!
.... I always thought that when you said "EAT SHIT" to anybody it was a insult...
not in America so it seems...
well...
YOU CAN ALL EAT SHIT MY FRIENDS!!! BON APPETIT!!
I am wondering when the first story will break about this happening in the U.S.
Nothing like this is geographically isolated.
Wilbur-ger.
Now that was funny
The price of "burger" has already been factored into the .gov inflation figures. Enjoy your meal.
micky d's hamburgs just don't taste the same now that they took out the horse meat,,and now use red slime instead, give me my horse burger please....raw milk and a horse burger,,now thats eating
Lil Kim's N. Korean Soyrent Green.
Already available in a fast food joint near you: cat "chicken fingers"
DO THEY ALSO COME WITH SQUID FLAVOR?!
Most people are missing the point that this is yet more institutional fraud
gotta laugh, at those "no this is about fraud, fraud i tell you right here in river city"
getta a clue, fraud is the new black, now tell me about voting and horse votes throwing elections,
ps your whole f'n world is a lie and you worry about horse meat?
maybe this will help wake up the sheeple???? Naw, I must be dreaming
Mc Horse ribs. Spring special at participating stores. Great for dipping in our new improved " Horseradish" sauce.
Zerohedge looks ridiculous when it has "horror" in this headline. This sounds more like Obama and his Sequester argument. The real problem here is false labeling. It’s like adding cheap poultry meat to a beef product without disclosing the ingredient. That is illegal. As others have posted, horse meat is great stuff and since it is far less grain-fed (more grass-fed) it is more nutritious than all grain-fed meats – including everyone’s favorite -- chicken. So here once again, instead of the public being informed properly, it is being lied to in order to further the agendas of morons who want to appear superior. Therefore the dumbing down of the masses continues.
^^^ Check out Mr. Literal. New here?
Good point Grassfed, except for the fact that you're totally missing the point,
Yes, there's nothing wrong with eating horse, as long as it's a healthy horse,
The point is, that in addition to the mislabeling, there is zero paperwork with these horses,
When they reach the kill box, many of them are sick, diseased, infected, pumped full of drugs, mangey and flea bitten,
In other words, NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION!!!
Btw, the man at the heart if the European Horsemeat scandal is one of the worst Corpoatists that Ireland has ever produced,
And we're pretty good at producing those fckrs,
Another day, another scam. It all sounds bullish.
What is emerging is a pattern showing that this is NOT just an isolated supplier. And what is just as scary is that more and more food sold in the US is coming in from China and emerging markets. Eat well!
#whinnying
#hoofinmouth
#MrEdible
#cookingagifthorseinthemouth
#thoroughbread
#outtopasturize
#mareinatedmeatballs
#fillycheesesteaks
#fillymignon
#swaybackribs
#ponyonastick
#PreaknessSteaks
Shit...I see Aldi's has been caught in the mix. Oh well I've eaten worse things than horsemeat in my life. The question is since Aldi's is her favorite place to shop, do I tell my wife?
No, but if you ask her how much the light bill is and she counts it out using her foot, best change stores...
heh,..very good...sort of makes you wonder if, given that living "high off the hog" is healthier, how many years of life expectancy are being removed from peoples life spans?
watch the do-gooders pick up on this like they did for smoking..i expect that tests would reveal that eating chemically bleached pieces of offal and off cuts has the same impact as smoking. gotta have your cake and eat it too! don't ask where the fat comes from in cakes and pastries!
Whoa! You are on a tear today! :>D
First, that is "miss jackson if youre nasty"....
but....the mystery meat has always been donkey!
Im going veggie for my levels and for sanity!
N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestle's makes the very best Horsemeeeeat.
DON'T EAT HORSEMEAT!!!! ONLY EAT PONY'S!!!
One time a year or so ago I was wondering what was in the Swedish meatballs having seen Muslims eating them at the local IKEA here in Perth, Australia. So I says to the guy, what's in them beef or pork? So, he says, "A bit of both!" And ever since then, that has been a tag line between my wife and I for any number of things but usually for Moslem friends inadvertently or not eating things that were harum (non-halal). Guess we're going to have to say, "A bit of all three", in future.
Burgers at Mc Donald's joints in Paris are made of 100% meat horse... Did you know that?
old horse or young horse raised for meat or just road kill corpses?
i would beleive anythign you told me about KFC or McDonalds as far as the most appalling standards of hygiene and meat quality were concenred..but what's finger licking good is the chemicals in the sauce right? nothing natural about any of that, but chemical mixes are a lot cheaper to make than "all natural" ingredients...nature has a way of going bad after a few days whilst chemically produced food lasts for months/years.
Would you like a Quarterhorse Pounder with Cheese?
McDonalds have not been dragged into the Horsemeat scandal,
And they won't be,
All the beef sold in their Euopean outlets comes from Ireland, from processers that are totally clean of this mess,
I dunno about the US, but Maccers Europe are absolutly ruthless when it comes to ingredient quality, they run standards that are way above what the stupid govt regs say,
The bugers are 100% beef, with a little sprinkle of salt and pepper,
The lefty media over here would love to give Maccers a black eye on this one, but they can't get them, coz they're clean, which, in fairness, is to McDonalds' credit.
How much does a Double Cheesburger cost in the US?
You can still get a McDouble for $.99 in a lot of places. An actual double cheeseburger will run you about $1.39.
I'm pretty sure they learned those lessons early, in ConUS.
BTW: Double Cheezburger in NYC is >$2.00
NYC Outer Metro, a McDouble can still be obtained for $1.00 but probably for not much longer.
There's even cost pressure in southern Missouri and East Texas on the McDouble. Whenever the Double Hamburger/Cheezburger costs more than the McDouble, I consider that to be an indication of cost pressure.
didn't this "scandal" start in Ireland? i woul dbe willing to bet ten bucks that around 30% of what's in a beef burger is not the meat you would eat separately..good on them if its all beef, just bad on them if its 30% pink slime.
I like the idea of a "meat horse".
notice there is one major supermarket chain not on that list...J. Sainsbury ..maybe it was the only chain with the proper checks on food DNA and with the proper quality tests.
although the claims by the food whores for beef/pork are bad enough..i am still "haunted" by the use of what isn't meat at all, that is..it is ground ligaments, bone, offal, tail, brain, lips and assholes (although I think we all know that's what hotdogs are made of) that has been ground up, turned into a paste, bleach washed into a slime and reconstituted to look like, what most of us would think of as meat.
the addition of chemicals to give this "meat" texture and flavor is just "vomit inducing".
if the food is adevrtised that way, as a value product of what's left after the meat is taken away, then fine..it can be a "value" meal.
odd how pet food must be "fit for human consumption" from here. the europeans love their pets, as much as their neighbors!
http://www.fediaf.org/prepared-pet-food/recipes-and-processing/
Materials of animal origin come from abattoirs and animals which have been passed as fit for human consumption by the official veterinary services.
Horse Meat Scandal Infects Other Industries
From "Virtual Springfield" (a PC Game CDROM)
Krusty the Clown: "And Mr. Teeny will have a Krustyburger, and um, hold the monkey!" :>D
Life imitiating art :>D
"Dracula and horse meat"
Romanians found horse or maybe donkey? meat in some reservoir in Romania, approx. 1 tone dumped
More in Transilvania TV :)
http://www.transilvanialive.ro/article/o-ton%C4%83-de-carne-aruncat%C4%8...
http://citynews.ro/eveniment/cluj-autoritatile-cauta-explicatii-cazul-ce...
http://www.maszol.ro/index.php/tarsadalom/9086-egy-tonna-hust-dobtak-a-t...
"Our right to bear arms and our right eat our horses are so basic .... they do not warrant enumeration .... in the Constitution ! The second amendment refers to military arms sufficient to discourage rogue governance !" .... Monedas 1929
What is the big deal?
We eat cows, pigs, sheep, goats, turkeys, chickens, rabbits, buffalo, deer, elk, moose, antelope, and on and on.
Why are horses off the menu?
And squirrels, turtles, and bear. Point is, you probably harvested it yourself, or at least knew what sort of condition it was in before it met its demise and ended up on your plate.
I can't bring myself to buy meat in a supermarket any more. The beef in my freezer today came from a ranch in SoDak. He ate grass and wasn't pumped full of toxic shit and antibiotics.
Exactly Curt!
As I once read in a book by Euell Gibbons, there are few prejudices as irrational as those regarding foods, and few food prejudices as irrational as those regarding meat. It is amusing to note how often one kind of meat will be consumed with gusto by a given population, while eating the meat of a very closely related animal is regarded by the same group of people with horror. It is really quite laughable.
(That said, I still think AnAnonymous is a barbarian for eating Kitten McNuggets and General Tso's puppy. His roadside toilet habits are merely a further insult.)
Don't forget (German) Shepherd's pie!
Since all IKEA products have to be assembled by the buyer, I think we can safely say that the horsemeat was inserted by the buyers.
Also, what's so bad about horsemeat? It beats no meat hands down.
it wasn't the healthy horse you know. it's the romanian gypsy horse.
Same could be said for human meat.
In the not too distant future, people will be happy if they could get some horsemeat for dinner. Count on that.