Horsemeat scandal in Europe - not really funny

The entire horsemeat scandal in Europe has some people chuckling and coming up with witty slogans and signs about eating horse. 

"No horsemeat" sign

It isn't really all that funny. 

Horse DNA has been found in food products such as lasagna, burgers, ground beef and other beef related products. 

Tests are being conducted by the British Government to determine the amount of Horse in particular products and for the presence of phenylbutazone, which is a horse medication prohibited for human consumption. 

It has been stated by some that the amount of horse that has been found in European processed food is negligible and that horse is generally safe to eat. 

We would suggest that someone is making money substituting horse for beef. This is called "fraud".  Horse is cheaper than beef. 

I'm a food broker.  I have a shipment
of Ground Beast to sell you.
Oops!!!  I meant Ground Beef. 

If we wanted "Black Beauty Horse Burgers", we'd buy them.  But nobody does and that is why they are labelled as Beef Burgers when they aren't. 

Scams and frauds by food suppliers, slaughter houses, food brokers and food manufacturers are rampant world-wide. 

A U.S. university recently did a test study on fish. Red Snapper samples were obtained from fish markets, restaurants and grocery stores. 120 samples of Red Snapper were purchased and tested. 7 of them were actually Red Snapper. 

These two men were executed over
contaminated food

On November 24, 2009, China executed two men for their role in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children in China died and more than 300,000 became sick.

The case was one of China's worst-ever food safety scandals, involving tainting of infant formula with the industrial chemical melamine, which can and did cause kidney stones and kidney failure. Melamine, used in the manufacture of plastics and fertilizer, was added to watered-down milk to fool inspectors testing for protein, and to boost profits.

It is all about corporate and individual greed.

God save us from the Corporate thieves. Amen.