Horse Burger

For the past few weeks there have been a lot in the news about horse meat in products calming that it is beef, mainly in Europe. But is horse meat actually bad for you?

I don't have a problem eating horse meat but I am only 1 person out of the 63 million people that live in the UK. Yet they are emptying all of there own brand meat products in the freezer sections that have any mention of beef.

This I say is wast of good food. Ok there are concerns about health risks because we don't know where the horse has come from and the sort of the things that the horse might of been given before it was made into mince or a burger (e.g. any medication that could harm humans).

That still wouldn't stop me eating these products. There is a problem that some of the products were 100% horse and on the packet it say beef. Which means that it goes against the food labelling regulations in the UK they would face legal action against them.

Medically there is nothing wrong with eating horse it's just us Brits has a moral issue against eating them. Some physiologist's  say that, it's because we used to use them as main sources of transport and work animals and we have bonded closely with them. Other say that its because we call them pets and there is something set in our minds that tells us that it is wrong to eat pets.

If people say that it is morally wrong to eat one thing and it's fine to eat another, you have to ask yourself where do you cross the line?

Snow in Britain

Who would of thought that I bit of snow would close schools and disrupt public transport. I thought that we would of been more prepared than this. I have been told that the college that I work in would be closing early due to the heavy snow forecast. I am going to sound like an old fogey now. I remember that I was forced to go to school in worst weather.

All that you need to do is wrap up walm and be careful when you are walking around on the pavement (side walk if you use the American term). I have to admit that there have been times that the local council's have been useful but that dose not mean that people should miss out on there education or miss getting to work. For many people local transport is the only means of getting around like me. I am still learning to drive so I don't have a car yet. So the only way that I can get to work and back is to take local transport.

We should employ the Norwegians to show us (the British people) how they survive their snowy condisions.

Just check the video to see the sort of wether that we are likely to get during the week. This was broacast on the BBC on the 15th January 2013.