Bruce Wayne
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Mary had a little lamb & when she saw it sicken, she sent it off to packing town & now it's labeled chicken.
The point of the fraud is to make money from selling carcasses not fit for human consumption, whether because of risk of disease or because they're pumped full of bute and other nasties. Whether the animals were attended by a vet - and remember, vets may have provided the bute - is immaterial, as others have said.
Because a horses hide is worthless. Were I work (knackers yard) we don't even skin horses they are not worth the bother. They just get shipped out to the rendering plants.I have always wondered why some manufactures can offer horse hide jackets at such a low price …
Please no, horse hide, when compared to cow hide, is like tissue paper and it's a god awful job to skin them without marking or nicking the hide.I guess it's supply and demand? if we were less squeemish and used horse hide more in the UK then it would have a value
Sadly, the popular press here seem to be whipping it up in a "oh noes! we has eaten teh my little ponies!" manner. As the point was made above, from half the reports even on the better broadcasters you'd think that horsemeat was itself the contamination, rather than that the horsemeat, as a non-traditional foodstuff in the UK, might itself be contaminated. That and the labelling problem (which might be more widespread - there are already stories circulating of beef products being sold as all beef when they also contain pork, an obvious problem for those on Halal or Kosher diets.