Horse and pig DNA found in Irish supermarkets’ beef burgers

What do you want on your burger?? Put a saddle on it!

What do you want on your burger?? Put a saddle on it!

Have they tested for pigeon, person and rat yet?

Lettuce pray for more meat

If we don't crack down on horsemeat in burgers, next we'll have to deal with seahorses in frozen shrimp. On second thoughts, its really just a matter of cultural practice. We discriminate against horsemeat here in the the US, as we do in Ireland and the UK. Whereas in Continental Europe they have Equine Opportunity.

A little boy came running from the kitchen into the living room and told his mother with great alarm that there was a dead animal in the fridge. She rushed to see what he meant, reassuring him that that's not a dead animal. It's only meat!" Aggressive vegetarians of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) used to daub butchers shops around the Dublin of my youth with red painted graphitti screaming - "Meat means murder!" Hmmm! Food for thought?

A roo burger is healthy no fat and tastes great. I remember a hose butchers shop in Nth greta fredrick street near Findlaters church and one in Denmark st. Limerick city. The brits lived on Irish horsemeat during WW2.

Their FISH and CHIPS meal over there is really shark and chips. Who knew??

They'll all be ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine. One day a little boy came walking in the store. He bought a pound of sausage and dropped it on the floor. Then he began to whistle, he whistled up a tune, The sausage, it jumped up, they barked, they danced 'round the room.

Dunderback, oh Dunderback, how could you be so mean To ever have invented the sausage meat machine? Now long tailed rats and cats will never more be seen, They'll all be ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine.

Horse and pig and donkey too I'd bet - the Tiger era led to a frenzy by folks to acquire all manner of animals - surely those who were left to fend for themselves after the belly up occurred lived to become the chopped meat in a bun. Hew haw. Neigh?

The bigger issue might be just how long this has been going on. Surely the processors should be carrying out checks on imported products on a dailly basis.

I spent 20 years working in the meatpacking industry and I say that the packers knew exactly what was in their product...unless they were getting bulk boneless meat in boxes and then grinding it inhouse...and the third parties were mislabeling meat....heads will roll over this one....

Pulled down the bed blanket this morning and found 3 dead burgers in my bed. Must've been put their by woundedknee

Al Halal just ain't kosher! Seriously though, if yer gonna eat fried sliced dead cows, why not fried sliced dead horses. Is there an appreciable difference? Is that not animal discrimination? Why not rats, like the boys in the trenches in WWI? Or live monkey brains, as in the Far East. (The further the better). Or dead dogs as in Vietnam. Meat eaters are proto cannibals. Play it safe, and go veggie like me!