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Diclotican

(5,095 posts)
48. Kalidurga
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 12:22 PM
Feb 2013

Kalidurga

I am not sure - even though I doubt they will stop using growth hormones - and to keep the place better for the animals with less overcrowdning... It goes down to one thing - what is most expensive for the ones who produce the meat.. And sadly to say, it is far less expensive to put many animals in a crowded barn - than to keep the barn safe - with less animals - but in better conditions than before...

Safe food, is important, for everyone. And this scandal I am, is just the start of a whole way of scandals when it come to have safe food to our dinner.. It should be, if it is not, punishable by many years behind a prison cell to sell unsafe food into the human food shain..

Diclotican

It probably was just... jberryhill Feb 2013 #1
Even though I've never had parts left over, kentauros Feb 2013 #10
Worth a Duzy! dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #60
Next they'll find wood in their furniture. Leslie Valley Feb 2013 #2
LOL Marrah_G Feb 2013 #33
I'm surprised they found meat! Auggie Feb 2013 #34
!!!!!! Heidi Feb 2013 #90
Meatballs that make you run out and put together some pressboard furniture Botany Feb 2013 #3
I don't know what's worse. OnyxCollie Feb 2013 #4
There is nothing wrong with horse meat. geez... darkangel218 Feb 2013 #5
It's unethical to defraud people about what they are putting in they're bodies. Hissyspit Feb 2013 #7
Its unethical to mislabel food. darkangel218 Feb 2013 #11
You're missing the point. ForgoTheConsequence Feb 2013 #29
darkangel218 Diclotican Feb 2013 #39
But if they were labeled "GMO Meatballs" they could woodsprite Feb 2013 #37
At least label it for what it is: "Meatball style food." PSPS Feb 2013 #8
Label reads beef and pork. Contents other than disclosed on label. AllyCat Feb 2013 #9
Horse meat is just as tasty and nutritious as any other edible meat. nt darkangel218 Feb 2013 #15
Except as a horse lover, it would have the same feel as eating my cat or dog. AllyCat Feb 2013 #17
When i grew up i had a goat as a pet. darkangel218 Feb 2013 #18
Then don't visit China during the winter time... supernova Feb 2013 #75
thats if you can ignore- mushie bloody liverlike meat dripping with class one carcinogens. Sunlei Feb 2013 #54
But food should be labeled PROPERLY. n/t alp227 Feb 2013 #63
That isn't the point. The meat is from an uncertain source and may be unregulated. drm604 Feb 2013 #19
I agree with you. Im just saying there is nothing wrong with horse meat. darkangel218 Feb 2013 #21
I have no problem with horse meat. drm604 Feb 2013 #24
Cue The Sequester And What Will Happen To Food & Meat Inspectors & Inspections.... global1 Feb 2013 #27
Makes one wonder where all the wild horses went. OnyxCollie Feb 2013 #30
And this poacher Davis of our Federally protected wildlife- lives next door to Salazar. Sunlei Feb 2013 #40
Wow.That is awfully corrupt. Thanks for the information. glinda Feb 2013 #57
Hang on -- being a neighbor is not voluntary. politicat Feb 2013 #65
it's not a neiborhood full of houses like yours, cattle ranchers tend to know their neighbors. Sunlei Feb 2013 #88
Didn't see this before I replied below - this is my concern as well. And I did see a few articles DeschutesRiver Feb 2013 #74
But this was not horse raised for meat Sanity Claws Feb 2013 #22
Social mores aren't really about being "picky" LanternWaste Feb 2013 #64
The absolute best pommes frites are fried in horse fat Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #67
Since it was blackmarket meat, it was probably adulterated with drugs that can't be fed to humans. DeschutesRiver Feb 2013 #69
Wasn't always quite so controversial... Hissyspit Feb 2013 #6
Hissyspit Diclotican Feb 2013 #36
Romania as the source, Berlin Expat Feb 2013 #38
some journalists should check for human DNA in random food samples. Sunlei Feb 2013 #41
If I were running Berlin Expat Feb 2013 #43
I feel really queezy about fast food and frozen prepared meals. I don't want to buy them anymore. Sunlei Feb 2013 #53
I try to avoid Berlin Expat Feb 2013 #55
Berlin Expat Diclotican Feb 2013 #46
That doesn't surprise me in the Berlin Expat Feb 2013 #49
Berlin Expat Diclotican Feb 2013 #50
I have it Berlin Expat Feb 2013 #52
Berlin Expat Diclotican Feb 2013 #92
Hi, Diclotican. Hissyspit Feb 2013 #87
Hissyspit Diclotican Feb 2013 #91
Still isn't...sort of.... dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #42
Canada has shut the door to Americas horses. We in the US have absolutely NO traceability system. Sunlei Feb 2013 #51
It was sold in the U.S. more recently than that -- 1970s Gormy Cuss Feb 2013 #44
I had completely forgotten the 1972 (?) meat crisis Hissyspit Feb 2013 #68
Yeah, apparently WWII: Hissyspit Feb 2013 #85
A ha! Gormy Cuss Feb 2013 #86
Neigh! Neigh! kwassa Feb 2013 #12
We have been going at this all wrong. What we actulaly have here BlueStreak Feb 2013 #13
Steve, they're in everybody's meatballs now. slackmaster Feb 2013 #14
It was only a matter of time Franker65 Feb 2013 #16
Ikea sells food? drm604 Feb 2013 #20
They do. And I like their meatballs, or at least I did when I last had them, perhaps 10 years ago. truthisfreedom Feb 2013 #26
The one by the Mall of America has a large cafeteria NickB79 Feb 2013 #62
They have a cafe, a larger cafeteria, and a small grocery in each IKEA. Codeine Feb 2013 #70
The one near me doesn't. drm604 Feb 2013 #78
Your profile says you're near Philadelphia. Codeine Feb 2013 #79
I'm not familiar with either of those. drm604 Feb 2013 #80
Yeah, but you have to eat it with those little allen wrenches. JVS Feb 2013 #71
Omaha Steve Diclotican Feb 2013 #23
Contaminated meat should have no place in the food chain what so ever... Kalidurga Feb 2013 #45
Kalidurga Diclotican Feb 2013 #48
Probably make you fart just as much dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #25
Hajorsk Meetballs! It is probably because the Chef who makes them can't see what he is doing KurtNYC Feb 2013 #28
Are we really that shocked that Ikea meatballs are disgusting? For that matter the idea of Ikea zonkers Feb 2013 #31
Is horse meat unhealthy? Renew Deal Feb 2013 #32
yes, it's pretty toxic especially as most horse owners use Vets and routine care & don't want flies. Sunlei Feb 2013 #47
I suspect most horses sold for slaughter haven't been treated that well to begin with Kali Feb 2013 #59
where do you think most of the ex-race horses went over the decades? Sunlei Feb 2013 #89
Oh dear, looks like a food issue has finally hit home with our demographics. Safetykitten Feb 2013 #35
Stop the Horsanity! triplepoint Feb 2013 #56
My first reaction to "Ikea meatballs" was to remember this ad... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #58
Now I know Why 4Q2u2 Feb 2013 #61
The US is not on the list, so this thread is making me hungry! truthisfreedom Feb 2013 #66
Not a problem - the US never checks anything in the food chain anyway ... Nihil Feb 2013 #95
Oh god Scairp Feb 2013 #72
Horse a hidden ingredient in many European foods: jsr Feb 2013 #73
A company that makes furniture AND food...what could possibly go wrong? AndyA Feb 2013 #76
IKEA putting the giddyup in its products........ Historic NY Feb 2013 #77
Neigh!!!!!! NEIGH!!!!!! Say it isn't so!!! nt MADem Feb 2013 #81
Wilburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Historic NY Feb 2013 #82
Now I'm holding my sides, busting a gut! MADem Feb 2013 #93
Hmmm...I ate the meatballs at the Ikea in Amsterdam and Stockholm Heddi Feb 2013 #83
They look like mouse turds. lonestarnot Feb 2013 #84
I think I am going to become a vegetarian. Redford Feb 2013 #94
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