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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNestle Food producers test for kangaroo and dog, conference told
Steps to prevent other species entering food chain taken after horse meat crisis. The horse meat crisis has led the worlds largest food manufacturer Nestle to test for the presence of meat such as kangaroo and dog, head of food safety at the firms research centre Dr John OBrien said yesterday.
Dr OBrien, a former head of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, said people working in food safety had now become molecular detectives. Not only are we concerned with horse, we are also keeping an eye on kangaroo, dogs, goats and a few other species and asking questions. Could any of these find their way into the food chain? So we have probes for all of those.
Dr OBrien was speaking at the Agricultural Science Association conference in Waterford yesterday. Nestle was one of many food companies drawn into the horse meat crisis earlier this year. It had to withdraw product in Italy, Spain and France after it was found to contain horse DNA.
ABP Food Group was one of the companies at the centre of the horse meat controversy and had to sell its Silvercrest burger production plant in the wake of the crisis but yesterday ABP chief executive Paul Finnerty told the 300 delegates that the company was standing tall after the crisis and its customer base was intact. We didnt lose any customers in our chilled beef business and I think its fair to say that the reputation of Irish beef internationally has not been damaged, he said. Were still in the business of frozen burgers in the UK and continue to serve five of the top seven retailers in that particular market place.
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/agribusiness-and-food/food-producers-test-for-kangaroo-and-dog-conference-told-1.1527122
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Oh, noes!
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Certain species of kangaroo have become pests and need to be better controlled.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)But skippy does't produce milk, which results in a lack of cheese, which... well, for *me* is a problem.
Better off with sheep and goats.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Not so much a problem if they buy local but many buy the cheapest"beef' that comes from slaughterhouses in mexico or Australia. big frozen shipping containers flash frozen.
The same slaughterhouse may gather kangaroos, horses, dogs? and change the label sell it wholesales as beef.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)these days, you really don't know what you are eating. You might be eating the missing dog down the street that went all around the world to be processed only to end up in the soup pot as ... whatever it is labeled as.
We are reducing our own nation to third world standards for what reason, I have no idea.
MelungeonWoman
(502 posts)I thought from the headline that they were testing the public to find out if kangaroo and dog were marketable!
Laffy Kat
(16,366 posts)Of course, nothing would surprise me about Nestle. I stopped buying their products years ago.
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)The butcher shop at my local farmer's market sells kangaroo http://countrybutchershopanddeli.com/exotic-meats.html and I know you can buy dog meat in other countries.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)It's probably going to be a breaking story, soon. TPP will make that happen.
You won't know what is on your dinner plate due to the demand for meat in China.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)China is turning into meat eaters and probably easy to scam with toxic scrap meat.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)But, then, if it's put in front of me, I'll generally eat it, whatever it is. My Mom told me to "clean my plate."
Aerows
(39,961 posts)It's Tuna. It's from Fukushima.
Remember, you will never die, and you will never get old.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Violet_Crumble
(35,955 posts)marmar
(77,049 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Quite a few arrests overseas and some processing places close and reopen with a new name.
I guess when the huge shipping containers of 'meat' change hands several times, there are more chances for relabel to add a lot of profit and cheat the honest producers. Not fit for human consumption, a lot of toxins & animal medications cause disease and cancer.
I assume this effects less wealthy peoples health the most. School children's meals. They tend to buy the cheaper processed 'meals' where the meat used goes through several hands and countries.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)the invisible hand of the market at work again.
I hope it works before it kills a bunch of people because they are processing chicken in China and shipping it back to the US.
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/09/how-chinese-processed-chicken-was-approved-for-export-to-usa/#.Uja-P8YQYSU
It scares the heck out of the meat eater in me and for my cat.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)It's hard these days because I assume most pet foods, even dry buy the 'meat and bone meal' listed on the bag from some 'outside' source. That stuff has to be the worse slop if they feed what used to be dog food to people these days.
must be why there are so many recalls of pet foods and they even tell people to not touch pet foods any more.
I now feed my dogs a plain dry and give a cooked egg, a chicken wing raw, raw beef bone, or a homemade type 'soup' as an extra- couple times a week. Seem to stay healthy to very old age.
Used to use canned food but I lost a good healthy dog to massive kidney failure about a year before that melamine poisoning issue. scared me off canned pet foods, pets don't live long enough as it is to me.
Try that raw chicken wing for your kitty, oh my they love it
Aerows
(39,961 posts)This idea of processed China chicken scares the crap out of me. I'm sure she would love hydrogen peroxide laced chicken feet that are 46 years old! You know they aren't going to "dispose" of 2 million tons of that, it will go right back into the pet food industry.
That story horrified me for my girl kitten.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)To see what kind of 'meat' that was. I can only imagine!, it must be horrible stuff because there are no regulations in the USA for pet treats.
mtnester
(8,885 posts)We should all demand to know exactly where our food comes from, and what is in it, and how it is processed and handled...at all times...clearly and in easy to read format
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)are in mexicos border towns where thousands have died. Be easy for anyone to dispose of people in those shipping containers of random chunks of ground-up 'meat' labeled as beef scrap.
LuvNewcastle
(16,834 posts)I'll probably never give up seafood, if it's freshly caught from around here, but the more I read about how meat is packaged and the hormones they feed the animals, it's just getting too nasty to think about. I usually eat meat with my meals twice a day, so it would be a big change in my diet, but I really don't need it. I like to have plenty of protein in my diet, so I'll have to think about how I'm going to get that.