AHHHHH. ALDI confirms up to 100% horsemeat in beef products.

I have never bought meat or stuff like that at Aldi's. I go there once in a while and get their cheeses, maybe some imported pastry or bread treats, or chocolate.

I thought I'd build up gradually to other types of food they carry. Hmmmm.

Remember when Ikea was selling horsemeat in something they sell? I do. I don't buy food when I go into a department store setting, so I missed that, too.

Is there something about these foreign type stores in the U.S. that keep getting caught selling horsemeat?

I'd rather eat horse than sawdust. Clearly this is a step in the right direction. There's still pig in bacon right?

at least its real meat!

i worked at ALDI for five years and as i was leaving it was in the news that the lasagne pork was apparantly horsemeat from poland - the polish got there meat from the irish at the time yes - so the irish thought they were gettin rid of to the poles and the poles probably knew so sold it to the brits

polish food is very nice

Horse - it's what's for supper!

Horse, the other white meat.

THAT'S why I recently started clopping and swishing my tail!

And THAT explains the smells...

if im not mistaken it may have been GLP where i heard of the bacon flavoured condomn !!!!

hahaha funny

Yes, someone said, it's still meat. To that I say, I would appreciate knowing WHAT I am buying and WHAT I am eating.

Think about this:

We consume how many cows each day vs. how many horses would need to be equivalent to what they claim?. There aren't enough horse slaughter house to meet the criteria.

Now, don't get me wrong, way back in the 1970's there was a major scandal with Jack in the box and horse meat. It was true and it did happen.

I personally don't think there are enough horses in North America grown and raised for consumption. 100% Horsemeat seems a little stretched. Like a lot stretched and I'd be looking for another underlying agenda.

Pass the hot sauce, regardless, you'd eat your left freaking arm if hungry enough. Which might not be that far away.

I won't do horse meat... Such a graceful animal.

Not that other animals aren't just as good, but Americans have been brainwashed into thinking horse's are intelligent creatures.

I'm just not that hungry right now.

NEH-HEHEHEHEHE!

*defecate*

Although I am apposed to eating horses, it's only a cultural idea that creates that aversion. Actually horse meat is about as high a quality red meat as there is. It's low in fat content and tasty. In fact most can't tell it from beef, that's why it is so often used in place of it.

What I can't understand is why it is economically feasible to substitute horse meat for beef. It takes more money to raise a horse than a cow.

What really made me wonder was when I lived across the street from a dairy farm, when an old cow would stop producing or die, a guy in an unmarked white truck would come and winch it aboard, and the guy that owned the farm was touchy about who that guy worked for. I always assumed he was selling them to local butchers or meat distributors. A lot of damned dairy cows end up at Golden corral and outback steakhouse

And I would not like to eat lamb, either. Lambs are like dogs to me. So sweet.

Some friends invited me over to have Easter lunch with them last Easter. I knew they always had lamb. I had to fake that one.

Last Edited by Ms. Superduper on 01/06/2015 10:05 PM

Not directed towards you Ms. , it's just a general statement.

:rockon

They are pretty much on-par with goldfish, brain power wise.

Imagine a goldhorse!

Wait, maybe that's what a seahorse is...

Likely a broken down, drugged up race horse. No thanks.

"This stew's awful good."

"You think so?
I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday.
I'm afraid she's startin' to turn."

What about a vicious rottweiler?

nice timing just after xmas when everyones fuckin eat it

it is nice with grass yes and a drink of poo

a broken down horse !!! with a flat hoof and a noisy exhaust !!

you realize that the article is dated from feb of 2013 correct? its not recent. It also sounds like this occurred due to the beef supplier not Aldis itself.

Hmmm is lamb sweet? Maybe with mint sauce yeah. Never tried dog but heard it's quite greasy.

2 tacos for 99 cents at jack in the box
(same price going on for +20 year)
something had to be compromised

In Australia there are a huge amount of wild horses. They are so numerous, they eat all vegetation and drink up all water required for their own well being, resulting in starvation quite often.

Some of those wild horses are being used for the horse meat industry.

In a perfect world, no being would have to eat another being. But we do not live in a perfect world, and when having to judge between eating animals caged their whole life vs eating wild animals that were able to run free their whole life, i would easily pick the latter.

Unless you are a vegetarian, which i admire greatly, then eating horse meat of wild horses that were free and were end professionally with a minimum of pain, is the least of all evils.


Australia is one of the greatest horse meat exporters. They basically turned their homeland into a big wild horse farm of which probably only some monopoly there profits.


If you eat meat, you might argue if certain animals should be protected because of the bond we feel with them, like dogs or cats for example, or horses.
But you cannot argue that living a free life rather than being raised in confined environments for the sole purpose of meat production, is hugely the better option. In that sense, Australia is an inspiring model...

Maybe they should have used buffaloes instead of wild horses i guess.


But let's assume the Australians turned all vegetarians, and would stop exporting horse meat.
The consequences would be horses eating up all vegetation, as they have almost no predators to fear there.
Other species would go extinct. Horses would die of starvation, or they would be killed by crocodiles later on in an attempt to get to the last few water reserves.

I am not sure if getting eaten alive by some croc is any better than getting killed by a professional trained for it.

This is from Feb. 2013. Still terrible, but not new.

Good shit...

And it was a problem in Europe, not the U.S.

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