Let them eat horsemeat

[Cliphead]

It wasn't cheap when I was eating it in Europe however;

Germany's development minister has suggested food tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.

Linky

I've never eaten cheap, frozen processed 'food' but if I had to...

Would I? Depends on how hungry you are I suppose.

[EternalOptimist]

It wasn't cheap when I was eating it in Europe however;

Germany's development minister has suggested food tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.

Linky

I've never eaten cheap, frozen processed 'food' but if I had to...

Would I? Depends on how hungry you are I suppose.

I am so old, that I remember a horse drawn ran 'n bone man, horse drawn coal wagon and a horse drawn beer drey cart. My uncle, Billy, used to drive the milk float.
So , it seems a bit wrong to eat them, after all, he was my uncle. But the horses looked tastey

[Sysman]

There's nowt wrong with a bit of horsemeat, provided it doesn't come from a dodgy source.

And no, it's not cheap in Europe, and commands up-market prices.

"Let them eat cake horse."

[KentPhilip]

There's nowt wrong with a bit of horsemeat, provided it doesn't come from a dodgy source.

What if it comes with some dodgy sauce?

[centurian]

Let them eat horsemeat...

... on the basis they've been eating it for a while anyway and not complained so far

[formant]

Let them eat horsemeat

When I first read that headline I thought they'd made the (somewhat sensible) suggestion to start officially producing a budget horsemeat product range targeting those customers with less disposable cash to spend on premium meats.

Unfortunately that's not at all what they're proposing. Suggesting that poor people should consume the product of a seriously dodgy supply chain, where we still can't properly assess the origin or quality implications of the contamination, is pretty sick.

[d000hg]

It wasn't cheap when I was eating it in Europe however;

Germany's development minister has suggested food tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.

Linky

I've never eaten cheap, frozen processed 'food' but if I had to...

Would I? Depends on how hungry you are I suppose.

I like how the politicians are debating if the poor should be given the food or if it's an affront to their humanity, without simply asking them.

If you were genuinely poor you'd bite their hands off at the offer.

[d000hg]

Unfortunately that's not at all what they're proposing. Suggesting that poor people should consume the product of a seriously dodgy supply chain, where we still can't properly assess the origin or quality implications of the contamination, is pretty sick.

Much better they carry on starving and eating out of bins.

[original PM]

yeah they were my thoughts when I heard the story --- 800 million people with not enough food and we are bitrching about a bit of horse meat which is probably going to be 99.999999999% safe.

seems to me that some people need to wake up n smell the roses.

[darmstadt]

It wasn't cheap when I was eating it in Europe however;

Germany's development minister has suggested food tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.

Linky

I've never eaten cheap, frozen processed 'food' but if I had to...

Would I? Depends on how hungry you are I suppose.

Apparently they can't go ahead with that now as most of the 'tainted' meat has been sent back to the original suppliers...