Come on Vendor!

[STEED]

Wake up Vendor!

BIG NEWS IN THE UK...Horse Meat!

French firm supplying horse meat was previously at centre of E.coli scare
A French firm supplying horsemeat passed off as beef to British shoppers was at the centre of a major E.coli scare just 20 months ago, it has emerged.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9859412/French-firm-supplying-horse-meat-was-previously-at-centre-of-E.coli-scare.html

Findus beef lasagne ready meal was up to 100 per cent horse meat
Ready meals sold as beef products by some of Britain’s biggest supermarkets contained up to 100 per cent horse meat, the Food Standards Agency has said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9856558/Findus-beef-lasagne-ready-meal-was-up-to-100-per-cent-horse-meat.html

Minute by minute..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9857040/Horse-meat-scandal-as-it-happened.html

[STEED]

One thing comes to my mind which so far has not been covered and that is... Fraud. But the media seems to bang on about the horse meat.

[VirtualVikingX]

Talk about beating a dead horse... *hide*

[Catfish]

^ *hyde* ? So they also use this ..

Horse is much better than 'pink slime', most fast food is made of.
Certainly, calling a horse a horse would have been appropriate :-?

[Jimbuna]

What are you galloping on about now :hmm2:

[Sailor Steve]

Always need something to bray about.

[Jimbuna]

Quit horsing around.

[BossMark]

Plenty of horse play in this thread

[Sailor Steve]

I'm sick and tired of you neighsayers!

[Wolferz]

It all sounds like a load of road apples.

The French finally found a market for their war horses.

[Dowly]

Sometimes I wish Oberon was a moderator. :O:

[Jimbuna]

Where's the galloping gourmet when you need him?

[Takeda Shingen]

Sometimes I wish Oberon was a moderator. :O:

I have nightmares that begin with that.

[Tribesman]

One thing comes to my mind which so far has not been covered and that is... Fraud. But the media seems to bang on about the horse meat.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/feb/09/horsemeat-scandal-international-fraud

Plus of course fraud was covered over here last month when one of the factories unsurprisingly turned out to be run by a fraudster who caused a food scandal back in the '80s.

[Jimbuna]

This horse meat scandal is an absolute Nightmare

[Oberon]

http://www.bam.org/media/972931/2012_Program_CTEK_NOV_Quadrophenia_613x463.jpg

Am I doing it right?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mods_and_rockers)

[Takeda Shingen]

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Am I doing it right?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mods_and_rockers)

You are! My concerns have vanished. I declare Oberon the new Tak. :woot:

[Jimbuna]

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article7956852.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/meatloaf.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=bat+out+of+hell&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=t0H-oz2emorv9M&tbnid=se3UQmqvGmAUYM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpe ople%2Fnews%2Fmeat-loaf-to-perform-bat-out-of-hell-in-full-as-final-goodbye-to-fans-8424015.html&ei=mrwWUZfjEsqb0QWulYHACQ&bvm=bv.42080656,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNFyhPR5oRipsiSd5wOr6Gy-mDCQbA&ust=1360530945334561)

Just hold on a minute!!

http://www.dejkamusic.com/images/album/large/meat_loaf/bat_out_of_hell.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=bat+out+of+hell&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=n5m2z3G1GMZBJM&tbnid=BPCIG0wzVcuUEM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dejkamusic.com%2Falbums%2Fmea t_loaf%2Fbat_out_of_hell%2F&ei=wrwWUe7wJ6qu0QXD4oCoCQ&bvm=bv.42080656,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNFyhPR5oRipsiSd5wOr6Gy-mDCQbA&ust=1360530945334561)

[Oberon]

Just hold on a minute!!



You want to take this outside?!

And down the coast?!

http://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/21.jpg

[GT182]

Horse meat has to be better than mule meat, or them bouncy kangaroos. I remember some places here in the States actually had horse meat on the menu at one time. And I also remember Carrol's Hamburgers [a McDonald's competitor back in the 60s] being put out of business for selling mule meat in their burgers.

[STEED]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/feb/09/horsemeat-scandal-international-fraud

Plus of course fraud was covered over here last month when one of the factories unsurprisingly turned out to be run by a fraudster who caused a food scandal back in the '80s.

Now I hear its gone global and criminals are behind it all,still not using the word I'm looking for..FRAUD.

[Jimbuna]

I tried horse meat (paardenvlees) in Belgium and Holland whilst living over there...as I recall it tasted a little sweeter than beef but the main put off for me was the fact I knew what I was eating.

[STEED]

I'm not bothered about the what kind of meat it is, the media just carps on about its horse meat oh my what the hell is going on..horse meat! And so on, its like the media and the government are making effort to cover up the FRAUD word. I have noticed this in the bank scandals as well by dropping fraud for miss selling and miss guided advice. In both cases the act of fraud has been committed.

[Tribesman]

Horse meat has to be better than mule meat, or them bouncy kangaroos.
There is nothing wrong with any of those meats, as long as they are sold for what they are and have not been given drugs which are banned for use in meat destined for human consumption.

Now I hear its gone global and criminals are behind it all,still not using the word I'm looking for..FRAUD.
CAPLOCK strikes.:rotfl2:
The word FRAUD is in the headline and is used again several times through the article.
They even expand on the word you are blind to with the use of "fraudulent" at one point.

[Hottentot]

CAPLOCK strikes.:rotfl2:

THOU SHALL NOT MOCK THE ULTIMATE POWER OF CAPSLOCK BY MISSPELLING ITS SACRED NAME BLASPHEMER! PREPARE TO BE SMOTE!

[STEED]

The word FRAUD is in the headline and is used again several times through the article.
They even expand on the word you are blind to with the use of "fraudulent" at one point.

Unable to open the link yesterday due to a error message coming up! Was able to find another way today. So the Guardian used the word but the TV news so far has not. Forgive me for being a arsehole but I'm suffering from a number of medical problems and the pills don't help much.

[Jimbuna]

Rumania is now being investigated as the possible source:


The Romanian government is investigating if horsemeat discovered in beef products in Britain and France came from an abattoir in Romania.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21401111

[Oberon]

I don't think fraud has got anything to do with it, per sae, but the desire and drive for cheap meat.

If anyone is to blame, ironically, it's the consumer or conversely, the system in which the consumer is in.

We live in a world where the cost of living is creeping up higher than the rate of pay and is continuing to do so. Food prices are steadily increasing whilst governments try tell their people to stop eating cheap junk food and eat expensive healthy food. Supermarkets are under pressure from consumers to keep prices at low levels, whilst also being under pressure from their shareholders and executives to make a profit.
Into this picture come a few men who, for a lower cost than the usual suppliers, promise that they can deliver some nice cheap meat. They don't specify its contents, and the people that they are delivering to don't really care what the contents are as long as they are cheaper than the current suppliers. The consumer casts a cursory eye over the contents, but most of the time it could say on the list of ingredients that it contains Horse meat, cyanide and Polonium because few people actually read it.

So at the end of the day I'm not surprised something like this has happened, and I'd also be not surprised to find that it is a widespread phenomenon, nor will I be surprised to find that at the end of all this a scapegoat will be found and prosecuted, but the conditions that lead to this happening will not be addressed because, simply because I don't believe that they can be.

[Sailor Steve]

per sae
The Society of American Engineers had something to say about it?

Who knew? :O:

[Takeda Shingen]

Know won new, purr say.

[Oberon]

The Society of American Engineers had something to say about it?

Who knew? :O:

Indeed, it was a Serious Adverse Event at the Sigma Alpha Epilison fraternity of the Soviet Antartica Expedition, fortunately they were able to use a Stamped Address Envelope to send a Simultaneous Authentican of Equals to the Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos in Standard American English to send them a Siamese Algae Eater. :yep:

[Sailor Steve]

Meow?

[Tribesman]

Forgive me for being a arsehole but I'm suffering from a number of medical problems and the pills don't help much.
Try some horse traqulisers instead, courtesy of Findus:03:

I don't think fraud has got anything to do with it, per sae, but the desire and drive for cheap meat.

Of course its fraud Oberon, fraud on a massive scale.
Where do you think the celebrities offload thier herds of worthless piebalds you can find grazing on other peoples land throughout towns and villages in your or my country?
Goodman has a long history of carousel tax fraud and mislabeling meat in both countries as well as throughout the EU and across N.africa and the mid east. The expansion of the EU has just widened the easy european sources for the fraud plus as a bonus the economic crisis has collapsed to a great extent the price of horses.

[Oberon]

Meow?

Precisely. :yep:


Of course its fraud Oberon, fraud on a massive scale.
Where do you think the celebrities offload thier herds of worthless piebalds you can find grazing on other peoples land throughout towns and villages in your or my country?
Goodman has a long history of carousel tax fraud and mislabeling meat in both countries as well as throughout the EU and across N.africa and the mid east. The expansion of the EU has just widened the easy european sources for the fraud plus as a bonus the economic crisis has collapsed to a great extent the price of horses.

I thought they went to Rebekah Brooks?
Anyway, aren't most horses in Ireland found on housing estates? Or in music videos by the Rubberbandits? :O:
Not surprised about Goodman though, and I'm honestly quite surprised that something of this scale hasn't happened sooner, although like you say, the expansion of the EU has made it even easier to export. I expect that he will come out of this as one of the scapegoats, and I shan't be sorry to see that at all, but I think that this runs wider than just Goodman, but he's certainly one of the tips of the iceberg and probably the most visible.

[Wolferz]

If you don't like horse meat, here, try some of this Soylent Green. The morticians association and the amalgamated cemetary union will be screaming FRAUD! as they go bankrupt.

The governments will spew their propaganda and cite it as the best way to conserve farm land and the slogan will be..
Homo Sapiens is nutritious and good for you.


And we saw the engravings on the Georgia Guide stones come to pass and it was good.