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Dead animals on display
« on: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014 @ 02:15:34 »
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Should meat be displayed in butcher shop windows?

Over the weekend, a Suffolk petition triumphed, as JBS Family Butchers removed the meat hanging in its window display. The shop, in Sudbury's Borehamgate precinct, followed the centuries-old tradition of displaying its wares in the window until it became the target of a letter campaign in the Suffolk Free Press.

"I, too, have been disgusted at the needless display of multiple mutilated carcasses on display," wrote Ben Mowles from Great Cornard, who claimed he had been forced to suspend trips with his 12-year-old daughter to the nearby sweet shop because he would "rather not look at bloody severed pigs' heads when buying sweets."

It is a stark image. The father shielding his daughter's eyes as he rushes her past the "mutilated carcasses" – which show the signs of provenance, the story of where the meat came from. He protects her from the reality of the chicken that goes into chicken nuggets, the beef that goes into beef burgers, the pork that goes into sausages. And he rushes her to Marimba sweet shop to find solace in a bar of chocolate instead.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/feb/24/butcher-meat-window-display-row-suffolk


"the beef that goes into beef burgers". Now that's a novel idea.

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A large consignment of green and rotting meat fit only for petfood was found by Polish food safety investigators investigating the horsemeat scandal at a leading Irish processor – prompting claims it could have ended up in the human food chain.

The meat was found at the giant Silvercrest factory in County Monaghan, Ireland, which produced frozen burgers adulterated with horse for Tesco, Aldi, the Co-op and Burger King. The investigators examined the raw material in early 2013 as part of their official inquiry in to the scandal.

Their report suggests recycling meat deemed 'not fit for human consumption' into the human food chain was part of the horsemeat fraud.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/24/rotting-meat-irish-burgers-horsemeat-polish-report