100% horse meat in some Findus beef lasagne!

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The meat content of some beef lasagne products recalled by Findus was up to 100% horsemeat, the Food Standards Agency has said.
Findus withdrew its beef lasagne from retailers in 320g, 360g and 500g sizes on Monday as a precautionary measure.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said it was "completely unacceptable" that a product claiming to beef lasagne turned out to be mainly horsemeat.
Findus said: "We do not believe this to be a food safety issue."

'Cannot be tolerated'
The FSA said Findus tested 18 of its beef lasagne products and found 11 meals containing between 60% and 100% horsemeat.
People have been warned not to eat the products, which were made for Findus by French food supplier Comigel.
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And I care.....Why? :)

PS... I didn't click the link...I can't be arsed :D
 
I honestly don't see what all the hype is about. People been eating all sorts for years without knowing :lol:
 
So what????
You guys don't want to know what you're eating?
 
Haha anyone else find that gramps putting source (sauce)at the bottom of his post is a little ironic :lol:


Just me then :|
 
TBF gramps, I have always wanted to try horse, so I personnally am not that bothered, but I can see why it would upset people. I rekon it has been going on for decades but they have just been caught.
 
Horse meat is one thing ... but HP on lasagne :gag:
 
Doesn't bother me in the slightest. If it's got a heartbeat it's fair game for the pot :cool:
 
Davec223 said:
TBF gramps, I have always wanted to try horse, so I personnally am not that bothered, but I can see why it would upset people. I rekon it has been going on for decades but they have just been caught.
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I've tried it Dave and TBH didn't like it.
For me it's a concern that in reality anything could find its way into our food as there clearly are no proper checks to ensure that we are eating what we think.
 
Also having just read it it says between 60 and 100%, so it may have only been 63% and the headline could still be factually correct.
 
Amateur said:
I honestly don't see what all the hype is about. People been eating all sorts for years without knowing :lol:
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Very true.

If a tree falls in the woods.....

Gramps, I think most people think it matters. The problem is that this whole horseburger thing has exposed how so utterly fallible our processed meat supply chain is, that finding more horse contamination is the least of our worries. :thumbsdown:
 
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gramps said:
I've tried it Dave and TBH didn't like it.
For me it's a concern that in reality anything could find its way into our food as there clearly are no proper checks to ensure that we are eating what we think.
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Again fully understand, that is why I much rather buy my meat from the local farm shop, and make the dishes rather than buy ready meals.
 
Davec223 said:
Also having just read it it says between 60 and 100%, so it may have only been 63% and the headline could still be factually correct.
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One sample was 100%
 
gramps said:
I've tried it Dave and TBH didn't like it.
For me it's a concern that in reality anything could find its way into our food as there clearly are no proper checks to ensure that we are eating what we think.
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Well, guess I'm lucky in that the majority of food that I eat is prepared from scratch :)
 
Davec223 said:
Again fully understand, that is why I much rather buy my meat from the local farm shop, and make the dishes rather than buy ready meals.
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:thumbs: absolutely with you there ... well other than I don't now eat red meat, mainly fresh fish.
 
Gramps, what no red meat, dont think I could survive. :lol:
 
If you eat meat (and I do...sometimes), why do you give a rat's where that meat comes from? I mean seriously, what makes one source of flesh acceptable above another? Does it have to have a cartoony conotation to be unacceptable?
 
viv1969 said:
If you eat meat (and I do...sometimes), why do you give a rat's where that meat comes from? I mean seriously, what makes one source of flesh acceptable above another? Does it have to have a cartoony conotation to be unacceptable?
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Sausage :D
 
gramps said:
:thumbs: absolutely with you there ... well other than I don't now eat red meat, mainly fresh fish.
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But how fresh is your fish........deep fast frozen on a trawler for 4 weeks?
 
viv1969 said:
If you eat meat (and I do...sometimes), why do you give a rat's where that meat comes from? I mean seriously, what makes one source of flesh acceptable above another? Does it have to have a cartoony conotation to be unacceptable?
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Speaking personally I've eaten all sorts of meat including wild boar, ostrich, crocodile and zebra but that was by my choice ... I didn't think I was eating something else.
 
gramps said:
So what????
You guys don't want to know what you're eating?
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Not really Gramps, if it was that bad we would have all keeled over Horses Donkey`s ago.
 
I like to know what I'm eating, but it wouldn't bother me if what I was eating formerly ran in the Derby.
 
viv1969 said:
If you eat meat (and I do...sometimes), why do you give a rat's where that meat comes from? I mean seriously, what makes one source of flesh acceptable above another? Does it have to have a cartoony conotation to be unacceptable?
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Yes I do give a rats where its come from for no other reason than flavour.
 
gramps said:
You are missing the point ... it's not what it is (this time!), it's that 'it' got through.
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I didn't miss your point. Pinky promise.

My point, is that since horse meat is absolutely harmless, I couldn't care less.

I think if you're the type of person who is willing to eat a £1 microwaved lasagne, you're probably not overly interested in food quality and won't care much. Having said that, the dishonesty (wherever down the supply chain that may have happend) isn't really on. I just don't think it's the end of the world like some people do.

I genuinely did eat one of those Findus lasagne's a few weeks back and so have probably eaten horse meat without knowing. Couldn't give a **** tbh. Still alive. All good.
 
Slimbert said:
I didn't miss your point. Pinky promise.

My point, is that since horse meat is absolutely harmless, I couldn't care less.

I think if you're the type of person who is willing to eat a £1 microwaved lasagne, you're probably not overly interested in food quality and won't care much. Having said that, the dishonesty (wherever down the supply chain that may have happend) isn't really on. I just don't think it's the end of the world like some people do.

I genuinely did eat one of those Findus lasagne's a few weeks back and so have probably eaten horse meat without knowing. Couldn't give a **** tbh. Still alive. All good.
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This is a very good point, one that I hadnt really thought about.
 
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