You have a link for that? Last I heard they had not discovered phenylbutazone in any "beef" product. The only article I could find for a positive test was for some horse carcasses that had "extremely weak traces" of phenylbutazone and were "not a health risk" and even had "no link with the mislabeling of horse meat as beef meat". Given the hysteria currently raging in Europe for meat that has simply been mislabeled, I can't imagine that a discovery of phenylbutazone in any lasagne would fail to make headline news.
I wasn't accusing them of inconsistency, but I'd be surprised if they didn't support a policy that reduced food waste and helped feed the poor.
I wouldn't say my parents were careful, but they watched what they spent. Near my grandmother's was a surplus warehouse that sold dented tin cans that the supermarkets wouldn't. All our tinned can food was dented...
I don't actually know. My guess, though, is that charities which work to feed the homeless do so with a mix of donated and purchased food. More donations of food would leave them with more money to spend on the other things that they do. So, it's a matter of allocation of resources rather than an absolute shortage. Again, I'm not against the idea of those charities having horsemeat donated to them. It may well do some good, indirectly. It may also not be so straightforwardly helpful as we'd like to imagine, though. A regular income of marginal supermarket produce would be far more valuable, I'm guessing, than the occasional glut of something that's been the subject of scandal in the news recently. I dunno? Not much, except for, as noted by various people above, the horse meat may actually be contaminated.
Selling dented cans in the US at a discount has only recently stopped. There was a scene in Adam Sandler's 1999 movie "Big Daddy" where he was in a market with the kid and says something like "Microsoft stock is down today, we need to watch what we spend!" and teaches the lad how to throw a can on the floor to dent it. I don't think they do that much anymore. However, we do have discount grocers such as Grocery Outlet (west coast, maybe elsewhere?) who will buy whole lots and pallets of perfectly good food in distressed packages and sell it at a discount. I love shopping there actually, the only problem is you never know what they'll have because it's essentially a permanently changing inventory of goods-that-were-cheap. Point is, I'm not sure exactly why eating something with a dent in the can or of a different type of meat could be seen as degrading even for a well off person, much less a hungry family in poverty.
I think some retail outlets want to be associated with quality. I guess even Walmart has standards. It's like a broken window theory as applied to shopping. One dented food can means the whole store has poor standards.
Did the aroma of social taint waft through your household after opening one of your dented welfare cans?
Heh, no. I also remember we used to buy onions & potatoes from auctions, crazy cheap prices. Anyway, fine with horsemeat as long as labelled as such When student/ starting out I used to make stew from hearts a fair bit, as hearts (normally sheep) were cheapest meat
I don't know where you guys are getting this from the article. Is it this line? Cos if so, I'm not parsing that the same way as you. I don't read it as 'Germany's development minister has suggested that horsemeat should be mislabelled as beef and then distributed to the poor' as much as I read it as 'Germany's development minister has suggested that horsemeat which had previously been mislabelled as beef should, instead of being thrown away, be distributed to the poor.'
I think they should label it "Soylent Green," say "May contain beef, horse, or humans," and give it away free to the poor. I'll bet a wooden nickel that every pound of it gets used regardless.
I saw it in a different article which, on further research, appeared to be talking out its ass. Hence my later post.
The look of sheer surprise on that horsehead is awesome. A++++++, would leave in someone's bedsheets again.
