The French government promised on Saturday to punish those found responsible for selling horsemeat in beef products at the heart of a growing scandal that started in Britain but is quickly spreading to France.
Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said an investigation had found that the horsemeat had originated in Romania, although there were links with French, Dutch and Cypriot firms and a factory in Luxembourg.
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Kosher meat, anyone? I am not saying a kosher meat scandal cannot occur but it is unlikely that a fraud on such a large scale can happen.
Sorry to tell you... there are much bigger problems with Kosher meat. We should only be so lucky to have problems with Horse meat... at least its not Karet!!!
ReplyDeleteSorry to Anonymous #1; that was a dumb reply.
ReplyDeleteSorry you feel that horse meat is not such a big deal. Are you kosher? If you were, don't think you would see this as being a 'lucky' problem. Chas v'sholom that there are any problems in the kashrut market (which in this big world there probably are quite a few) but some much worse than others and horse meat or any non-kosher animal being just that.
Anonymous #2 there are much worse problems than horse meat, such as, in worsening order
ReplyDelete- questionable basar v'chalav ie nonkosher meat with milk
- a traifah from a kosher animal (ie beef or lamb that was not slaughtered properly)
- a nonkosher animal eaten in its entirely (eg a bug)
- real basar ve chalav, that is, kosher meat which somehow got mixed with kosher dairy