Gucciardi reports: "In a piece of highly disturbing news, Burger King has now admitted after continuous denial that it has actually been selling UK customers both burgers and Whoppers that contain horsemeat."
Burger King's Whopper sandwich. (photo: Burger King)
Burger King Admits Burgers Contain Horsemeat
01 February 13
n a piece of highly disturbing news, Burger King has now admitted after continuous denial that it has actually been selling UK customers both burgers and Whoppers that contain horsemeat. This admission comes just after The Guardian reports that Burger King reps offered a round of ‘absolute assurances' to customers that it did not ever use horsemeat in its products.
A series of tests done on the burger products now reveal that Burger King has been issuing completely phony statements, with burgers made for the fast food chain from the Irish company Silvercrest containing measurable levels of horsemeat. It's important to note this is the same company that processes meat for Tesco, Asda, and the Co-op. The managers at Silvercrest have been revealed to be utilizing non-approved ingredients within their burger assortment - even for ‘household brands'.
Burger King Admits to Horsemeat in Whoppers, Burgers
Burger King admitted just a few hours ago that the samples did in fact contain horsemeat:
"Four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA… we have established that Silvercrest used a small percentage of beef imported from a non-approved supplier in Poland. This is a clear violation of our specifications, and we have terminated our relationship with them."
It is not yet clear which of these top brands could be containing such concerning ingredients as horse meat and other 'meat cut offs'. What is known is that tens of thousands of burgers from suppliers like Silvercrest and others in Germany have been shipped into Burger King alone to meet demand just in the UK. According to the Daily Mail report on the study results, the horsemeat contamination can be traced back to a full year, or at least since last May.
The investigation into this issue started after the Food Safety Authority of Ireland found that burgers out of Ireland contained horsemeat. The disturbing findings highlight yet another reason not to consumer fast food, which contains a host of problematic substances such as ingredients banned in other nations.
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Also, I think he meant "consume", not "consumer" in the last sentence?
What's wrong with horse meat, I ate it when I was a kid, and I'm 89 now and have not experienced any ill effects from it........
Have you ever eaten venison?
Yeah ..... I think that the actual point here is that these Corporations are involved in the classic "Bait and Switch".
They are advertizing and claiming to sell ONE product and
then actually substituting ANOTHER product.
The question here is not the "quality" of the substitute product, but simply the fact that there IS a substitute product.
You know..... like advertizing "All Beef Patties", and then selling you piles of Pink Slime, liberally treated with ammonia.
In this country that kind of fraudulent two-step is still against the law, at least until Burger King et al get around to changing the law to make Pink Slime, Road Kill, Porcupine, Raccoon and Horse meat legal substitutes for the term: "All Beef Patties".
If you have Netflix, I highly recommend a series called MI5, they cover a lot of the corporate issues America has been dealing with. Evidently, Britain has been openly dealing with these things one step ahead of us, like the politicians taking over the military and running it for their own agenda, but on our pocketbooks.
I think GMOs might be a bigger problem for our health right now. Check out "geneticroulett emovie.com" regarding some of the insults to our health.
Hell, I'm Scottish and the UK, Ireland and most of Europe cook skillfully and consume kidneys, liver, heart, brains and other parts with relish and are the basis of many what have become classical dishes. So I don't see why the outcry -especially in the UK and Ireland.
And before you Americans get all uppity and squeamish, have you any idea what goes into ball park hot dogs or even Spam (which has no list of ingredients on the tins)?
It's all the chemicals, hormones and false bulking in the beef, pork and chicken, cooked by people who are not cooks that are the problem here (I have an Oregon Food handlers Card and some of the stuff they are concerned with is almost irrelevant). Lamb is my favorite meat and is not really subject to processing as it is eaten very little here.
I don't do fast food as I love to cook and take a great deal of trouble culling, wasting nothing, making my own stocks and demiglace bases but don't B.K. and some other briefly grill their meat and keep the patties in a warming oven for some time before serving?
And wasn't Mickey D's found to be using kangaroo meat in their burgers here some time ago?
2. The emotional response to horse meat which deserves its own separate discussion.
Horse slaughterhouses are hell on earth, people. Plus, the drugs, etc. Why not just encourage vegetarianism b/c it is actually a healthier way to live--no doubt some thumbs down comin' my way...just remember the obesity epidemic, etc. etc.
Yeah ..... but this kind of emotionalism is cultural, and can only be indulged in by those who are well-to-over fed.
As we all know, cats and dogs are eaten in Asia. We are all too emotional about doing that, so, instead we euthanize hundreds of thousands of unwanted dogs and cats per year and then just waste the protein.
We also waste TONS of protein here that is well taken advantage of in Asia due to the fact that we don't eat insects. Some of the insect plates in SE Asia would fool you into thinking you were consuming Aunt Martha's casserole in white sauce.
We also turned our noses up at squid, until the Sushi craze hit the States, making it suddenly cool to eat RAW EEL. This, in a country that likewise, and foolishly, will not eat Snakes !
As mentioned above, this cultural prejudice is due only to the fact that we have never been that hungry on a National level.
The day we are, all the above will be on the menu in a flash.
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