'Fraud on a massive scale': Europe's horse meat scandal keeps on growing

[Grey Fox]

Nestle sells premade pasta meals in Italy?

There is like 8 world wide food companies. Nestlé is one of them.

Pepsico is the giant.

[Martinus]

Enough of beating that dead horse already. 

[KRonn]

Enough of beating that dead horse already. 

All of you punsters are horsing around on this very serious issue!

[Syt]

Enough of beating that dead horse already. 

All of you punsters are horsing around on this very serious issue!

Neigh!

[Malthus]

Enough of beating that dead horse already. 

All of you punsters are horsing around on this very serious issue!

Neigh!

Better rein it in.

[The Larch]

Nestle sells premade pasta meals in Italy?

It's an Italian company owned by Nestle.

[Caliga]

I'd like to try horsemeat.  They can ship all of the stuff being pulled off shelves to me.

[garbon]

I'd like to try horsemeat.  They can ship all of the stuff being pulled off shelves to me.

Yeah I'd try it - but I think Jos had it right(?!) that the issue is that people were paying for beef but getting the much cheaper horse - as well as concerns about safety of the horsemeat used.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yeah, fairly sure that prime horsemeat is more expensive than prime beef. Trouble is that a lot of this horsemeat is probably from drugged-up elderly Romanian donkeys 

[alfred russel]

So it turns out the packaging information on cheap romanian goods may be misleading. My innocence is shattered.

[mongers]

So it turns out the packaging information on cheap romanian goods may be misleading. My innocence is shattered.

What I've seen is that the Romanians are in the clear, one of the two abattoir only processes horse and supposedly their traceability is fine, the meat in question then went via a Swiss company to France and it's there it appears the horse-meat became a beef product, before finally going to Luxembourg to be made into a ready meal.

[Admiral Yi]

What I've seen is that the Romanians are in the clear, one of the two abattoir only processes horse and supposedly their traceability is fine, the meat in question then went via a Swiss company to France and it's there it appears the horse-meat became a beef product, before finally going to Luxembourg to be made into a ready meal.

The investigators should start with Kofi Anan's son.

[Josquius]

So it turns out the packaging information on cheap romanian goods may be misleading. My innocence is shattered.

What I've seen is that the Romanians are in the clear, one of the two abattoir only processes horse and supposedly their traceability is fine, the meat in question then went via a Swiss company to France and it's there it appears the horse-meat became a beef product, before finally going to Luxembourg to be made into a ready meal.

It would really suck if that is the case. I can just see it now, the Romanians getting all high and mighty and moaning "Why do you always pick on Romania!"


I guess what this situation shows is how crappy our current "ship food to every end of the continent and back before you eat it" system is

[Josquius]

German minister: the poor should eat horse meat.
First reaction 'lol, gaffe'.
After a few moments thought: too fucking right. So much waste going on.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21559451

[mongers]

Current understanding of what happened with horse-meat ending up in some of the ready meals:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21499290