[UK] Horse meat found in Ikea meatballs

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The ones I've been to also have a corner where they sell Swedish food, like those meatballs. I've even bought a tallboy there once when I left. They were not refrigerated, maybe they don't expect their customers to drink them right away. It was Swedish beer flavoured with some fruit.

I have had their meatballs before, and a bet many people have.

I haven't in years because the contain flour.

They are missing 9,000 horses in Sweden. They are not at the glue factory. Now where could they have gone?

Article: http://www.thelocal.se/46170/20130213/#.USxJU6VriAZ

The missing-horses statistic turned out to be the same each year, with the researchers believing that as many as 100,000 horses have vanished since the year 2000.

If you make meatballs yourself you could leave out breadcrumbs of flour and use more eggs instead.

This Swedish meatballs thing is now in the Dutch news as well, and apparently they are called Kötbullar
Kut is the Dutch c-word.


Are we in for a shortage of horses? Go cowgirl!





Wow, apparently lots of people ride cows. The police should use this one for riot control:

Random fact Mongolians and Greeks eat horse meat!

French, Japanese, Koreans and Italians eat horse meat as well! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfO3ionfApM[/youtube]

Over here where Ikea came from, people seem mostly upset by the fact that they lied when declaring that the meatballs contains horsemeat, not that we eat horsemeat.

Horsemeat have been on sale in Sweden during the 80s, i saw it go away in the 90s. You can still buy "Hamburgermeat" in Sweden which is horsemeat. Most people do not eat horsemeat because "horses are cuute" but we eat cows because "Cows are fugly and stupid". Prooves that some life is worth more to some people.

Remembering having eaten horsemeat in the 80s, its a red-ish type of meat that does not taste very much. Probably why they use horsemeat as a filler to drive down costs. As a customer, i'd prefer if they charged more instead of lying to us consumers: instead of charging 10 kronor (~1.5 US$ = basically no money at all) for a plate of mash and balls, they could increase the price by 10% and offer real food instead of being the cheap greedy f*****s that they are - and i'm not just talking about Ikea here.

Horse, it's the new beef!

Oh, it's a sausage. For a moment, I thought that was a horse penis.

LOL a horse penis wouldnt fit on that plate!

It isn't the thought of eating horse meat that disgusts me. If it were available in the local shops I would probably give it a try. But the reason this is a scandal is because the horse meat wasn't supposed to be there. The products were sold to the customer as other meats and the final sellers in the supply chain apparently didn't know it was there.

We should have the right to know what we are eating. I realise that in processed foods labelled beef that it won't be the best parts of the cow going into it, but I would still expect it to come from a cow, not a horse. Or anything else. The customer should have the choice of what they are eating and this choice was taken from us.

There are also fears that the horses could have been treated with vet drugs that are forbidden for use on animals raised for human food. So this meat was illegal for sale for human consumption, and how do we know if it is safe? Or if dangerous, how dangerous? In what quantity and over what period of time? Again, our right to make informed choice wasn't respected,

It is the product traceability that is the main problem, in the wake of the BSE crisis in the UK there was meant to be a full traceable path from packet to animal. The fact that the meat comes from a completely different species is worrying as there is obviously no tracing.

The lack of traceability also means that the can be no assurance of product age, animal welfare/ diet or slaughterhouse conditions.

I would quite like to eat a horse steak, but I would want it to be properly prepared and cooked and more importantly sold as horse.

Horse meat is delicious. I think we need to stop being so infantile about our food choices and embrace other meats.

Roasted rat, anyone? Bar-B-Q mouse? Toasted roach?

ruveyn

There are lots of people around the world who eat insects. (I am not one of them.)

I, personally, would love to try horsemeat. I bet it's even tastier than beef. People do have a right to know what's in the food they buy, though.

If the Lone Ranger were starving to death, would he butcher and eat Silver?