Does it really matter if the ground "beef" you throw into the chili came from Black Beauty instead of Betsy the cow?
Apparently over there among your effete European connoisseurs of all things beef it does.
Meanwhile there's a move afoot in Oklahoma to reintroduce horse meat processing in the state, which used to account for a healthy export trade of horse meat to Europe.
In Ontario there are at least 13,000 horses destined for the sausage factory since the provincial government stabbed the horse racing industry in the back.
So there's no shortage of product, and the Europeans have been eating the stuff for years, so why the sudden issue?
Even corporate uber-pirate Nestle was in the news today because researchers found horse DNA in some of their processed foods. Of all the indignities Nestle has perpetrated on the food chain I would think this is one of the least malign.
I think it's one of those manufactured front page "issues" designed to take your mind off more important stories.
This is a big story because it is about trust.
ReplyDeleteThe horse meat is not a big story but there is supposed to be an extensive bureaucracy to ensure that this could not happen.
Remember they tested for horse not for soylent green.