High Demand for Horse Meat

Pubs in London have begun to serve horse meat burgers - and found them to be a huge hit with customers.The Lord Nelson in Southwark introduced the dish a fortnight ago, while The Three Compasses in Hackney began grilling 100% horse meat burgers earlier this week.

One pub said demand is so high that it is selling more than 100 in a week. The scandal of horse being labelled as beef has actually helped increase demand for the meat.

By the looks of things the majority of people have got over the moral barrier on eating horse and is willing to eat them (as long as they are labelled correctly). For many people it was a labelling issue and was conserened where they are coming from.

100% Beef...or is that Horse

In the recent discoveries of horse meat in the processed beef products. In some cases it was 100% horse.

This time there have been discoveries that some of the horse were not fit for human consumption. For example, the horse might be medicated with medication that will harm the human, even after the proses of cooking it. This has raised concern. The blame is on the supermarkets at the moment. It is said that they should know what is in there product and should properly label it. 

But shouldn't we be pointing the finger at the FSA (Food Standard Agency). They are the people that should be checking the food that enter the UK.

They were the ones that had discovered the horse meat but it's already in the mince and being sold in many major supermarkets. They don't know how long that the horse meat been sold in the supermarkets.

A spokesperson said that the FSA has, is that they pre-warne the company that they are going to visit.

So who is it that we point the finger at? Who do we blame for not finding out whats in the products?

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?