Hmm....can it happen in the U.S. also?

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LONDON — As Britons choke on discovering they may have eaten horse that was imported as beef, and ministers blame an "international criminal conspiracy", this new scandal has exposed the sometimes murky labyrinth by which food reaches Europe's dinner tables.

Lurid headlines reveal a culinary gulf between distaste for the notion of horsemeat in Britain and its status as a delicacy elsewhere in Europe. But as governments play down the health risks, a greater impact may stem from a shattering of public confidence in EU systems of labeling and quality control introduced after previous threats hit the human food chain.

As details emerge of a complex network of slaughterhouses and middlemen standing between the farm and the supermarkets across Europe, France and Britain have vowed to punish those found responsible for selling horsemeat purporting to be beef.



By Tim Castle and Maria Golovnina, Reuters


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http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20130210/US-BRITAIN-HORSEMEAT/

This news should delight the mutton or chicken ranchers. Too bad about the Brits getting suckered, but now we know WHY the French drown their food with all those nasty sauces.

Quote from: quiller on February 10, 2013, 08:29:44 PM
This news should delight the mutton or chicken ranchers. Too bad about the Brits getting suckered, but now we know WHY the French drown their food with all those nasty sauces.

The small farmers should be making a killing .   

Let them eat cake...