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Contain horse DNA

There's several other threads about it.

Eating horse doesn't bother me. Not knowing exactly what is in the food I eat does.

Plus ca change.

It's always been this way. If you felt you were at risk from CJD in the 80's due to eating low-grade meat, you probably weren't due to the reasons above.

I wouldn't choose to eat it, but it wouldn't send me into hysterics if I'd eaten one of these burgers. I was hospitalized in France several years ago for 3 days, and the test before I was allowed out (after an extreme stomach bug and dehydration) was.....

horse steak, frites and veg followed by tarte tatin - only in France!

I nibbled a bit of each and then my friend finished the rest and I was free to go.

I think anyone that eats cheap burgers is barmy, the crap that goes into them worries me far more than any potential equine dna. But like Saggy, I like to know what I'm eating so that I can make the choice. I don't eat certain fish due to over-fishing, I don't eat battery chicken and I don't eat anything other that British meat. Now, as far as I am aware, we don't have horses in the food chain in this country, so the horse meat must have come from the continent with all of the welfare issues that go with it.

I also don't want to eat a species (dog or horse, anything else is fair game) that I have spent so much of my life caring for and getting so much enjoyment from. It seems a betrayal to me, like eating my Dad when he keels over.

I agree, I wouldn't buy it if it were here - I buy all my meat from a local farm shop, and although I haven't done a price comparison and it probably does cost a bit more I'm prepared to do that so that I know what I'm eating.

I wouldn't choose to eat horse, but I am not morally offended by it...however I am sure these would have been advertised as beef and they weren't - all sorts of shoddy practices going on with them - I find it unbelievable that such a huge brand can not monitor their produce.

I also buy the majority of my meat from the butcher....

I am really shocked about this. And i have probably eaten one of these burgers without knowing, which makes me feel sick!! And my friend told me about it today as i was just eating a ham sandwich, not the best time to let me know... anyway, this whole thing has put me off meat for the time being, i just cant eat a peace of meat without thinking of it. But from now on i'm going to try and eat proper butcher meat, so i can be sure that it hasn't got horse meat in it!!!!!! urgghhh....i feel horrible, knowing i might have eaten horse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!xx

But you're fine eating lovely little baa lambs, pretty little piggy wigs and moo cows?

If you're a carnivore ( and I am) then you're a carnivore.

Now the question of how Tesco appears to have not noticed what's going into their burgers is a more important one. Oh, and the horse appeqrs to have gone into "poor people's food".............

If you are worried about the burgers you aught to try the value meat-balls...they're the dog's b***ocks!

There was a pie chart in the paper showing what percentage of meat etc was in a burger - the bit that really worried me was the section that said "27% other"......

Don't care how cheap they are I wouldn't eat those products - I eat less, good quality meat and more veg, rather than cheap meat made up from god knows what. TBH horsemeat would be the least of my worries!

Horsemeat is lean meat and tasty. It's the not knowing it's in there that irks.

www.bhs.org.uk/our-charity/press-centre/news/jan-to-june-2013/horse-meat-scandal-has-wider-implications

thanks for sharing blue champagne - it is a very good article.

Thanks BlueChampagne. A good fair article.