Burger King admits to using horsemeat in burgers

[Heretic]

Many of the above posts have missed the point of the report . This disgusting company has been contravening food safety laws , and selling a contaminated product , and then caught out lying about it with their denials .

[santiago]

heretic you have a good point, its not really about what we can eat and why and the moral boundaries, basically anything is edible and will keep you alive unless it kills you which is life at its most basic but a big corp like burger king has a duty of care to disclose the contents of that edible because they are making money out of you thus have that responsibility as opposed to the previous conversation regarding personal bear grylls (would you eat a bug type ethics). i vaguely remember i posted a few years back, would you eat a dog? for those interested in that kind of moral highground bullshit http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21913&hl=%2Bwouldnt+%2Bdog

[planthelper]

i think your wrong ph, ive tried roo cooked in so many ways and its still rough as guts to me!!

koala is like menthol-meat. u dont need to brush your teeth after a nice slow-cooked koala fillet.

incog, like with all foods, one has to know how to prepare them, and in the case of roo, that means, a very long cooking time, till it's tender. i cook it for at least 4 hours, which is a very normal time, regarding some similar game meats.

venison, takes aswell a long time to cook, and btw, tastes almost the same like roo.

regading the koala, i vaguly remeber some early explores account, saying something like, we had to eat koala, but the taste was gum leaves yuky.

Many of the above posts have missed the point of the report . This disgusting company has been contravening food safety laws , and selling a contaminated product , and then caught out lying about it with their denials .

reminds me of that movie, where everybody loved this particular butchers sausages which, you guessed it, contained human flesh, hehehe.

how can you expect, them to give away there secrets, which makes the burgers taste better than the others?

[incognito]

Yeah, we used to use our roo culls to feed the working dogs. I tried various cuts but was bleh.

Gran used to slow cook it, stir fry it, roast it- about every cooking method there is, but to our taste it was shit, can only speak from experience about eastern greys of varying age.

Whilst Working with some bundjalung mob, I was advised that they wouldn't touch a grey kangaroo with a ten foot pole. Apparently it's the smaller wallabies or "pretty face" as they called them, that make the best table fare.

Seriously though I would eat just about anything. I'd have a go at horse if I knew it was horse.

Edited February 4, 2013 by incognito

[Distracted]

I've tried cooking kangaroo steaks a few times and fail miserably. When i've had them done right they're tasty for the first half but they are way too flavoursome and that flavour overwhelms my taste buds to ill effect.

HOWEVER i've had roo mince in a few things including chilli con carne and couldn't taste the difference.

[planthelper]

if that roo meat stayed tough, and tasted yuk, than it must have been from a very old individual, cow meat tastes shit aswell, if the individual in question was very old. i guess this applies to most/all meats, i was offered once chicken, which must have been a 100 years old, it was impossible to eat, because it was so tough.

same goes even for fish (no body eats large barra).

[Seldom]

it's the same as with eating bugs, it's just socially sonditioned predjudices, those who don't eat bugs are in the minority of the critical mass of people on earth, i'd even support more horse meat at burger king, locusts in the chips, lizard tail onion rings, deer piss in the coke, etc, all covertly at first, then just have an ad campaign that says BAM! you're all eating bugs and horses and lizards. probably eventually even become trendy like driving hybrid cars

[OPP]

I've eaten raw horse. It wasn't particularly tasty but I will try anything at leat once.

Roo is a strong flavour but i would eat a steak if it was put in front of me.

[incognito]

Can't beat a pig IMO. Gods tastiest creature in my books. If the universe has any opposition to an omnivorous diet it would never have created roast pork, crackling and bacon, nor taste buds for that matter.

Roast pork definitely followed by a good quality beef tbone with peppered steak sauce.

Edited February 5, 2013 by incognito

[etherealdrifter]

....and a creamy homebrew

with an excellent head retention ability and a cleansing after taste to the palate moniker

[planthelper]

the saga continues, and is getting worse, this is deception!

this is full on, findus lasange might contain 100% horse meat, but it say's nothing of the sort on the label.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/video/2013/feb/08/findus-beef-lasagne-horsemeat-contamination-video

[Bigred]

the saga continues, and is getting worse, this is deception!

this is full on, findus lasange might contain 100% horse meat, but it say's nothing of the sort on the label.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/video/2013/feb/08/findus-beef-lasagne-horsemeat-contamination-video

what did he mean by bute ????

[bℓσωηG]

4 Fast Food ingredients waay worse than horse meat...

As you’re likely aware, Burger King UK recently admitted that its famous fast food symbol the Whopper (and its other burgers) were actually made using horsemeat. In an admission that came just hours after denying the presence of horse meat in the burgers, the secret ingredient has been broadcast on media stations worldwide as a breaking news piece. But what about the ingredients we know exist in many fast food creations and are actually far more concerning?

The fact that Burger King products contain horsemeat and the company denied the link to consumers before being forced to admit it due to DNA evidence reveals a few different things. First of all, it sheds even more light on how fast food eaters truly have no idea what they’re eating — a revelation that will be further revealed by exposing the known chemicals in these products. Secondly, it shows that Burger King either:

Possibility A: Genuinely does not care about consumers and has denied the existence of horsemeat in their products as to not incite profit loss and media turmoil.

Possibility B: Burger King genuinely has no idea what its own products contain. Whether it be horsemeat or other ingredients, they are honestly clueless.

It is debatable which of these possible scenarios is worse, however they both are concerning. Especially when you know what Burger King is telling you about. And that leads to the third thing that the horsemeat revelation tells us: considering the highly toxic chemicals and other admitted ingredients inside fast food products, a lack of true ingredients listing may mean an even more disturbing list of additives. As for what we do know, however, here are 4 fast food ingredients that are way worse than horsemeat:

1. Electronic Cigarette Filler, Synthetic Laxative

You may have fond memories of enjoying a Wendy’s Frosty, but the lengthy and gut-wrenching list of chemicals that create what is labeled as a ‘milkshake’ contain more than one bad surprise. Wendy’s Frosty contains the typical ensemble of fast food components such as traditionally-GMO corn syrup, artificial flavorings, and a list of thickening agents. Of the 14 ingredients it takes to create the fast food top seller, one chemical stands out. Contained in the Coffee Toffee Twisted Frosty, a laxative chemical and electronic cigarette filler known as propylene glycol is among the 25 new ingredients that make up this special Frosty.

Peer-reviewed research available on PubMed reveals that propylene glycol has been associated with neurotoxic effects in children and a reduction in the permeability of the blood brain barrier. Propylene glycol is also used ”as the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles.” It just so happens to even be illegal in cat food.

Wendy’s Toffee Twisted Frosty also contains mercury-filled high-fructose corn syrup.

2. Flour-Bleaching Agent Used in Yoga Mats, Foamed Plastics

If you were to use this yoga mat ingredient to produce food in another nation like Singapore, you would face fines up to $450,000 and 15 years in prison. In the United States, you can charge money and market the creation as the McRib. And that’s exactly what McDonald’s did. The McDonald’s McRib not only contains GMOs, deadly chemicals, and harmful fillers, but an ingredient known as azodicarbonamide. Banned in Australia, Europe, and Singapore, azodicarbonamide is used in the creation of foamed plastics like yoga mats.

The troubling chemical is one of the 70 ingredients that compromise the ‘pork’ in the McRib sandwich.

3. Silicone Breast Implant Filler

It really seems like McDonald’s is attempting to utilize a long list of banned ingredients in order to create its world famous fast food cancer bombs. McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets have a reputation as one of the worst food items on the planet for a reason. The so-called ‘meat’ of the nugget is actually made up of 7 different ingredients — not chicken. These include sodium phosphate, safflower oil, wheat starch, dextrose, and a particularly dangerous substance known as autolyzed yeast extract. While not the silicone breast implant chemical, but it is very similar in nature to MSG.

McDonald’s chicken McNuggets are full of surprises for sure, also containing dimethylpolysiloxane. This is the chemical that is used in silicone breast implants and silly putty, or at least will be for a short while longer. Dimethylpolysiloxane is actually being phased out as a breast plant filler due to safety concerns by the industry. It is still used by McDonald’s, however – at least in the US. McNuggets in Britain do not contain some of the dangerous chemicals that are so easily permitted in the US.

4. Chemical Salad

Is choosing the salad at a fast food establishment really the healthier choice? If you follow the marketing campaigns of these corporations, you may believe so. The sad truth, however, is that virtually every item sold in a fast food restaurant is tainted in some way with harsh chemicals and additives. Take McDonald’s ‘healthy’ salads, for example. Not only does the ‘cilantro lime glaze’ and the ‘orange glaze’ used on many of these salads contain propylene glycol (the chemical discussed in #1 as the laxative and electronic cigarette filler), but a medley of others on this list as well.

Two chemicals, however, stand out with the salad. Disodium inosinate, and disodium guanylate both divulge the presence of MSG within the ‘healthy’ salad.

It may seem like old news to some, but the reality is that even ‘healthy’ fast food items are filled with toxic ingredients. Remember, it’s not about the food itself (salad, for example), but what it contains. Until we realize that lettuce may contain more than the eye can perceive, such as pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, preservatives, flavor enhancers, sweeteners, and more, it will be impossible to establish what ‘health’ really means.

http://naturalsociety.com/4-fast-food-ingredients-way-worse-than-horsemeat/

Edited February 9, 2013 by bℓσωηG

[whitewind]

it's the same as with eating bugs, it's just socially sonditioned predjudices, those who don't eat bugs are in the minority of the critical mass of people on earth, i'd even support more horse meat at burger king, locusts in the chips, lizard tail onion rings, deer piss in the coke, etc, all covertly at first, then just have an ad campaign that says BAM! you're all eating bugs and horses and lizards. probably eventually even become trendy like driving hybrid cars

I reckon if they were just honest about what they did with food, it would be fine. All this lying about the ingredients and the healthiness (or lack of) is what sucks. They have been caught out lying to their customers, which means they cannot be trusted, all to make a profit. It just proves once again that the capitalist system is wrong, IMHO.

[SunChaser]

The UK is notorious for low quality meat though. Plus, from reading a few McDonalds conspiracy threads at ATS lol, I’ve heard Americans comment on how much better quality the meat is in Australia’s fast foods than there’s. So I’m fairly sure we have much higher standards when it comes to meat than some other countries.

I’m not defending them though, just putting some perspective on it. I don’t even eat meat and would not even step foot into a fast food restaurant, except maybe to use there toilets well travelling.

To be honest, that picture in the above post makes me want to dry retch. What kind of filthy pig would eat that?

[Bigred]

Does the big mac still contain 100% aussie beef, I remember it being a sales

pitch and was printed on the wrapper