Horse meat.

I notice that the Local Butcher avoids saying, as he used to, "would you like your meat cut as a Saddle, Sir?"

 

What exactly caused the first test to be carried out?

The cynic in me (which seems to get bigger by the day) is thinking that much of this has been engineered by the food industry so that we don't complain when the price of these meat products suddenly rise in price; indeed, the potential of price rises was being discussed on the BBC only a couple of days ago.

 

It appears that the Supplier to Morrisons queried the kind of meat it was putting in it products that it was selling to them. There's all sorts of firms on the continent being investigated as fraudulent meat trading, some where the owners have already been prosecuted, and been jailed, for the offence. How come the authorities allowed these firms to keep trading and the owners to come out of jail and start again???

 

I wonder if lots of people are feeling the same as me, I no longer want to eat anything made of mince or low quality (cheap) meat, so I'll only choose whole joints or chicken in the future, i.e. products that can't be messed about with. If we all do this I suppose it will push up prices.

 

I don't think that prices will rise for all types of meat, but I have a suspicion that the prices of things like burgers and ready meals will rise if only under the excuse that they are using 'assured higher quality meat supplies' (or some such sales speak).

Apparently, the banning of Desinewed meat may have had a bearing on the situation we are currently in - if this recovered meat/mince was deemed fit for use for a decade and more, we perhaps have to ask why it was suddenly banned? And if it was banned purely because of a categorisation issue (as the linked article seems to suggest), then surely that situation needs to be addressed - fast. I get the feeling that some of this is akin to the EU rules such as dictating that only straight bananas can be sold?