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Has the horsemeat scandal put you off eating certain things?

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I think I accept that Ive probably ate it, and enjoyed it at some point or another..! Theres burgers etc Ive eaten which have distinctly tasted odd, or not like id expect, (especially cheap frozen burgers) I wouldnt buy them because I didnt liek the taste not so much on what could have been in them..!
 
To be honest and probably to the disgust of many, it really doesn't bother me. The only thing about the whole issue that I think is bad is that if something is labelled beef it should be beef. If it's not and is made up of a mix of different animals then it should be called meat not beef.
 
Yes, definitely makes me want to cook from basic ingredients much more and buy high quality meat. Which is OK because I do have the time to fit it in (work from home), but much harder for people juggling full time jobs, commuting and so on. From the budget point of view, I'd rather have less meat of better quality but again that might not be an option for people with loads of mouths to feed
 
Doesn't bother me, even if there may have been a tiny amount of veterinary drug in there. Since changing my diet to improve my health and BG I eat very little processed food anyway. Put me in the 'no change' camp.

(Incidentally, it would be interesting to see whether people alter their petfood purchasing like they did during the BSE scare. Sales of beef varieties plummeted for a while when that was going on. That time it made a tiny bit of sense, but this time it would be silly given that there has always been a fair bit of horse in petfood.)
 
Like LeeLee most of my food is made from scratch using fresh ingredients from local suppliers or from our garden and the neighbours' gardens. I try to avoid processed foods altogether, even before all this kicked off you couldn't know for sure what was in the food. Until recently, very strict control of my diet was my only hope of managing my diabetes. I think I was probably going overboard with it but didn't know what else to do. So, no, it hasn't changed anything.
 
I will still throw anything in my mouth pretty much.........🙂
 
I haven't changed my shopping or eating habits. The only thing I object to is being charged for one thing and being missold another.
 
Nope not changed my eating or shopping habits, Im one who dont have time to make meals from scratch but I will buy as healthily as i can,as NRB said il preety much throw owt in the cakehole
 
well i wouldn't eat horse by choice but it has been eaten for many years in france, its the worry of it being unsafe that concerns me, also i would rather if it labelled beef it be beef, i am now going to make my own burgers from mince, hoping that the good quality lean stuff is indeed beef. I was surprised that findus stuff had horse in it too as although i don't eat it i thought it to be quite exepnsive.
 
Medusa said:
well i wouldn't eat horse by choice but it has been eaten for many years in france, its the worry of it being unsafe that concerns me, also i would rather if it labelled beef it be beef, i am now going to make my own burgers from mince, hoping that the good quality lean stuff is indeed beef. I was surprised that findus stuff had horse in it too as although i don't eat it i thought it to be quite exepnsive.
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I think Findus went bust, got taken up by someone else, then went downmarket 😱 Or the Horse Fair... 😉
 
Neigh chance.
 
i am now going to make my own burgers from mince, hoping that the good quality lean stuff is indeed beef.
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Don't use lean mince for beef - if you do, you'll just make crunchy little beef biscuits and be very disappointed. Use quality steak mince with an 80/20 protein/fat ratio.

I was surprised that findus stuff had horse in it too as although i don't eat it i thought it to be quite exepnsive.
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Yeah but Findus are most famous for crispy pancakes, which aren't exactly quality foodstuffs.....
 
This is it though. You need to see the beef and see it minced preferably don't you? Could be cow's cheek or anything in there prepackaged.

The thing that gets me - as one whi spends a fair bit of time in France and food shopping there - hossmeat for human consumption ain't cheap, in fact it's dearer than beef. So one can only assume - if this as being done scurrilously for profit - that the horsemeat content was from the lnacker's yard end of the horsemeat trade. Which isn't exactly what I would have hoped for by choice upon my plate.........

I'm another who prefers to have less of a really good product than shedloads of mediocrity - even though I do eat mediocre quality stuff sometimes and actually enjoy it too, cos it's a change !
 
Nope it hasn't put me off anything.

Indeed, if horse-burgers were for sale here, I might actually give them a go!

(just so long as they weren't beef burgers in disguise).

Andy 🙂
 
I dont eat much beef. Normaly pork & lamb. But it does make you think ?
 
Can't say it has as I never buy cheap burgers, sausages or ready meals (only M+S or similar). I suspect the horse meat is probably the best bit of economy burgers and sausages! :(
 
StephenM said:
Can't say it has as I never buy cheap burgers, sausages or ready meals (only M+S or similar). I suspect the horse meat is probably the best bit of economy burgers and sausages! :(
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I very rarely eat such stuff either, but on occasion I feel like being less healthy and having some cheap old pie or whatever 🙂 The thing that concerns me is that, although the govt. are claiming there is no danger to heath, how can they know this if they don't know the source of the horsemeat or how those horses might have been kept - they could be diseased old nags for all we know, and most likely are as it's not going to be profitable to use best quality thoroughbreds for this type of scam 😱
 
I have some iceland burgers in my freezer, and i know they have horse in them, (my son, daughter, sister and brother inlaw work for them) but i will still eat them. We are all gonna die any way, so lets do it with a full tummy and no worries.
 
horse meat scandal

brought up on a farm, when hosses pulled things, ducks went quack, and the butcher came round a couple of times a year to `sort` the wee piggies out, home made sausages etc.
Never been too fond of meat of any kind.
Over the years have discovered the lengths firms go to to utilise `the whole animal`, and the methods used
I have a constant "beef" with my wife of 48 yrs over processed meat of any kind. The last few years a mouthful of the stuff has been too much. I now leave it on the plate.
Horse in your pasties etc, is only the tip of an iceberg big enough to sink hundreds of Titanics several times over
But if you enjoy meat, then keep eating it, its your choice
The missus came home many years ago in a very upset state. She loves pigs. The firm she was temping at was a farm feed supplier. She could not believe the stuff that went into the mix for, chickens, sheep, cattle and pigs.
All I could say was ...told you so!!
By THe way, I still like a nice, well done steak on a night out😱
and I used to eat the cow cake at milking time😱😱😱
 
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