Meat flavoured products with no meat?

Shock! Horror! Newly descovered that many products that clame that they contain meaty flavours do not even conatain any meat. With the recent horse meat scandal making many people sensitive about what's in their food, campaigners now want firms to be more honest with their packaging.

Be more honest my arss! You don't have to be a neroscientist to know that bacon flavoured chrisps dosen't mean that it has bacon in it or ham and mushroom flavoured Pot Noodle have to contain actual ham and mushrooms in it. The hint is in the word flavoured.

Flavoured means to alter or enhance the taste of something. So you could get a icecream that tastes like roast chicken or chewing gum that tastes like ciniman but it dose not have to contain the ingreadient. As long as it alters the taste like the food on the lable.

Nearly all of this information was buried on the back of the packet where shoppers are often too busy to look and that is the problem is that the word 'flavour' is miss understood when the customer dose not read or have the time to read the information on the back of the pacage.

How can food companies put all the nessary information that the customer wants to see on the front of the product and still look apealing enough to buy? There is no way that you can make the package any way to deplay all the information, easy enough for all to understand, and still look good. All that you would end up with is one large lable on every product. There will be no way of destinguse the difference between the each product.

If you are worried about what you are eating then either dont buy it or read the information on the back of the packet. Its not that difficult. There will be times that you will not know what some of the ingreadence are but offten they are just fa
ncy names for something that is harmless.

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?