These words of comfort are courtesy of scientists over at Stellenbosch University. Thanks loads, guys. Stellenbosch University professor of meat sciences, Louw Hoffman said during a briefing to Parliament’s portfolio committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Tuesday that “Workers are often cutting themselves. If we had done DNA tests, we probably would have found traces […]
The French are applauding the recent outbreak of horse meat in beef-labelled products. With horse meat consumption showing a steady decline over the last three decades, France has translated the scandal into a trend. There are currently 750 butchers in the country, with 17% of the population claiming to have eaten horse meat. 11 000 […]
Stellenbosch University’s meat scientists have been busy little bodies, conducting a thorough study of commercially-available meat products in the wake of an international scandal around the presence of delicious horse meat in European meat products not labelled “horse meat”.
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Here’s the pretext: retired race horses – and horses from similarly competitive backgrounds – are routinely carted from the United States to Canada or Mexico, where they are slaughtered, processed, and shipped to France (and other European countries) for human consumption. This is not a new phenomenon. It has been going on for about as […]