I've got a few stories in the works for
the horrible state of affairs in food laws.
The US in particular has no testing of
the packaged food they allow companies
to sell us.
It won't kill you right away, but the stuff steals
years off your life. Well, if you're a fool, then,
there you go.
Ever read the label on those Twinkies?
Check my twitter: Chemlabmenu
where I put the wicked food I've actually
eaten.
However, now with the horse meat scandal
you see how companies are killing each other
to sell us food-looking crap.
They're done because these companies can
package and ship this crap for cheaper than
real food.
It is one of the ways that they've lulled us to
sleep over the last 4 decades, while our
wages have flatlined. They make a killing on
the stock market, and we eat pink slime and
are told it's meat.
So, the poor are eating Franken food and getting
obese.
But , politicians, a la Marie Antoinette, are saying
In case of an epidemic,
I think the antidote is Cohiba cigars
But , politicians, a la Marie Antoinette, are saying
"let them eat horse slime!"
In case of an epidemic,
I think the antidote is Cohiba cigars
Ad line: no kitty litter or horse aqui
do check it: Bbc
Give
horsemeat-tainted food to poor - German minister
Dirk
Niebel said it would be irresponsible to throw away palatable and safe food
Horsemeat
scandal
Germany's
development minister has suggested that horsemeat mislabelled as beef should be
distributed to the poor.
Dirk
Niebel said he supported the proposal by a member of the governing CDU party,
and concluded: "We can't just throw away good food."
The
opposition dismissed the idea, but a priest said it should be considered.
Meanwhile,
traces of horse DNA have been found in six tonnes of minced beef and 2,400
packs of lasagne Bolognese seized from a company in Italy.
The
products were packaged by Italian group Primia, based near Bologna.
The
health ministry said Primia had used meat from another company in Brescia and
originally supplied by two other companies, also based there.
It
is the first positive test in Italy since the scandal erupted last month.
“ To throw away food that could be consumed
without risk is equally bad as false labelling and cannot be a solution”
Prelate
Bernhard Felmberg Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
Earlier
on Saturday, the Italian authorities said they had found no traces of horsemeat
in beef products seized this week from the Swiss food giant Nestle.
On
Monday, Nestle announced that it was withdrawing two types of beef pasta meals
from supermarkets in Italy and Spain after tests revealed traces of horse DNA.
A
problem was identified with a supplier in Germany, H J Schypke, it said.
Two
other German companies, Dreistem-Konserven and Vossko, have been accused of
manufacturing products containing horsemeat. Both have also blamed their own
suppliers.
On
Friday, Germany's consumer affairs ministry announced that it had now found
traces of horse DNA in 67 of 830 food products tested.
'Absurd'
On
Saturday, a prominent member of Germany's governing CDU party, Hartwig Fischer,
told Bild newspaper that products tainted with horsemeat should be distributed
to the poor.
The
BBC's Steve Evans in Berlin says others have echoed the sentiment, including Mr
Niebel, who said there were 800 million people in the world who were hungry.
Continue
reading the main story
Meat
scandal
In mid-January, Irish food inspectors
announced they had found horsemeat in some burgers stocked by UK supermarket
chains
Subsequently, up to 100% horsemeat found in
several ranges of prepared frozen food in Britain, France and Sweden
Concerns that a drug used to treat horses,
and which may be harmful to humans, could be in food chain
Meat traced from France through Cyprus and
The Netherlands to Romanian abattoirs
Investigation suggests adulteration was not
accidental but the work of a criminal conspiracy
