Farmers' union slams horsemeat in Lancashire school dinners (From Lancashire Telegraph)

"Although, reassuringly, the council has stated that there are no food safety issues"

How can anybody say there are no food safety issues when you can't trace the source of the meat?

Why has the price of beef shot up already? I am afraid it is time to question whether it is worth buying meat any more. As for the councils buying local produce, will the price be affordable?

mavrick wrote:
Why has the price of beef shot up already? I am afraid it is time to question whether it is worth buying meat any more. As for the councils buying local produce, will the price be affordable?

Mavrick

I cannot explain the reason for the price of beef moving higher recently but what I can say is that the price of Brent crude is a leading indicator for a rise in ammonia prices, which is a basic ingredient of nitrogeneous fertilizer.

The price of Brent crude has increased by over 6% in recent weeks and we're now seeing this in the price of petrol at the pumps. Down the track we will see something similar in the price of foods.

A great many people are being eaten alive by price inflation and there is no end in sight to the falling living standards that are now afflicting all but the very rich.

I don't know where we go from here. It's very hard to move forward when there's so much idiocy, misinformation and falsehood in the mainstream media.

It was ever thus.

Here in Colne we are exceedingly lucky to have a number of independent butchers and bakers and their meat and bread is far, far superior to the produce sold by the Big Four supermarkets.

Kevin

Does it? Does it really slam horsemeat in its school dinners? . . neigh, lad ! Shouldn't be doing that. Ascot to stop !!

I really do wish that politicians would stop blatantly lying to us, when speaking on a subject that is not within their sphere of expertise.
Beef is not safe to eat and never has been, for years. Just as it was said by John Selwyn Gummer in 2000, as he had a photo opportunity showing him feeding his daughter a beef burger. He didn't know that within a few years 32 people would be dead from the BSE related illness, CJD.
Sheep and goats are not safe to eat either, before anyone makes that claim, in persuit of some other agenda. There is a disease endemic within those species that is known as Scrapie, similar to BSE and transmitting in a similar way but research funding has been cut to divine if it is transmissable to humans.

With animal proteins being fed from one species to another, it is of no wonder that even horses now suffer from a disease, transmissable spongiform encephalitis, that was once confined to one or two types of animals instead of, as is this case now, across the whole menu of meat options, meaning that most of Old MacDonalds farm is now, barking mad.

Just as once over, this country imported an hard flour, for use in bread making, from Canada, the use of 'East German' wheat is becoming more common, where the name implies it's source but isn't as stated and comes without the controls of the EU.

Sadly, our food chain is so corrupted now, by the need to supply certain groups, that it's near impossible for any Government to bring it back into line with what we would call, acceptable standards.
So in the meanwhile, solids from human waste that are recovered from sewage farms are spread on lands that feed 'organic' animals.

Watch online, Food Inc, via Google.

Browsing the shelves in POUNDLAND at weekend, I came across some tins of stewed steak. The fancy label created the impression of a country scene. Only in the very very tiny print did it say it came from ROMANIA.From what has been happening recently, I could not help but wonder if it was all beef!!!!

wasent that too long ago i heard the phrase so hungry i could eat a scabby horse.well you have so why now complain you got your wish..