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”.