Anyone would think that the sky had fallen in !
Shock, horror, some of the disgusting burgers sold in supermarkets have been found to contain trace amounts of pork and/or larger quantities of horse. Our politicians don't quite know which is the more horrible revelation - the thought that some unsuspecting Jews or Muslims may have been 'forced' to eat pork unwittingly, or that others in the population may have eaten the minced up remains of 'Shergar'.
Both pork and horsemeat are routinely eaten in many parts of the world. To my knowledge, many Jews and Muslims, while publicly shunning pork, happily eat it in private. That horsemeat is not generally eaten in this country owes most to a cultural choice made by natives of these islands many years ago than to any inedibility.
Of course it's regrettable that products marketed as beefburgers have been found to have been contaminated in this way. However, do those who have made quite such a fuss not realise that many cheap products contain all manner of ingredients of which purchasers are usually unaware ? Products such as burgers and sausages almost always contain a range of extraneous ingredients and are made from parts of animals about which we would rather not know. The only issue in this current nonsense which is of any significance is that the offending items have been incorrectly marketed according to current rules.
Yawn.
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