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In reply to the discussion: Burger King drops firm which supplied horse meat [View all]dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)13. I'm not sure it was actual horsemeat
Later reports here in the UK said it involved additives containing horse dna the origin of which remains under investigation. It was cheap supermarket beafburgers which contained a higher percentage of additives. As such Burger King have put their hands up to using inferior burg ers anyway. That may not have dawned on them. Dummies.
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because horses are companion animals, plus the common drugs are proven to cause disease in humans.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#33
Morally I don't see the difference between eating a hamburger made of beef or horse meat.
yellowcanine
Jan 2013
#4
there isn't morally but horses are prettier and we are far more sentimental
La Lioness Priyanka
Jan 2013
#29
I don't know---my Jersey cow was gorgeous with her big brown eyes & sweet disposition
wordpix
Jan 2013
#48
If you can't see the moral difference how about the knowledge that many common horse meds are-
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#44
My high school was caught substituting horse meat in hamburgers. It doesn't taste the same.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#17
they don't use horsemeat in dogfood any more because the ivermection common drug killed dogs
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#34
Agreed on the RX. I mentioned the fifties. But horse slaughter will resume in the USA:
freshwest
Jan 2013
#36
If you have links to what you say, I'll edit. Until then, IDK that there is going to be and end.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#39
so many small republicans all bleeding americas fed/state $ into their pockets, doubt that willstop.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#43
Thanks to you too! by the way Senator Warren, Congresswoman Pelosi & other Politicans have helped.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#49
Aldi, you say? Wonder if some of it made it's way here? I sure would like to know.
silvershadow
Jan 2013
#11
The 'beef' additives also had pork dna, a lot of it. Wonder if they tested for human DNA?
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#38
You have to wonder about a restaurant with "Whopper" as the name of its main entree.
yellowcanine
Jan 2013
#28
I don't see elephant on your list and what is gout? I thought that was a disease.
lonestarnot
Jan 2013
#42