questions about horsemeat
Personally, I don't eat much meat- I would be a vegetarian if it wasn't for rest of the family. I've been to livestock auctions and I've seen the horses that are destined for slaughter. They go to C...
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Spleenstomper wrote:
The above has nothing to do with slaughterhouse inspectors. It has to do with the lack of a chain of custody of the horse from birth to the table.
Forbes article about tainted US horse meat
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It has EVERYTHING to do with a lack of inspectors, without whom there's no one checking things like chain-of-custody, leading to abuses like that described in the article linked to, here quoted:
Forbes wrote:
The European Commission’s General Directory for Health, meanwhile, found that the slaughterhouses don’t always respect the directive that requires racehorses to be pastured drug-free for six months before being shipped for slaughter.
