Where’s the beef? Taco Bell found serving horse meat
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The horse-meat-in-fast-food scandal continues, and this time, Taco Bell, one of my favorite places, is apparently serving Black Beauty instead of Clarabelle the Cow.
At the moment this fare appears to be limited to the UK, but, especially in light of the sequester which begins today and guarantees to reduce the number of food inspectors, it’s inevitable that folk in New Jersey will unwittingly be eating ground equine, instead of ground beef in their Doritos.
(Newser) If you don’t want to eat horse, you might want to drop the chalupa. The great European horse meat scandal has spread to Taco Bell, with British regulators revealing today that they found horse meat at the chain’s UK locations. That, it turns out, puts the Bell in pretty elite company; of the 1,797 meat samples regulators tested from across the country, only four came up positive, including Birds Eye ready meals and Brakes skewers, which had already been implicated, Reuters reports.
Taco Bell has just three outlets in the UK. The company released a statement stressing that the contaminated meat came from a single supplier in Europe, and noting, “We immediately withdrew ground beef from sale in our restaurants, discontinued purchase of that meat, and contacted the Food Standards Agency.” But the news comes at an inconvenient time for parent company Yum Brands, which just this week announced it was tightening safety standards after its Chinese KFC restaurants had a contaminated chicken scare.
So now it’s horses, and that makes me wonder what’s next? Dogs and cats perhaps?
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Reason number, hell I lost count, of why I am vegan. Oh and Black Beauty is my favorite book of all time. I am fortunate enough to have a hubby that knows this and scored a first edition for me as a gift couple yrs ago.
Please someone tell me Subway is OK. There’s one less than a ten minute walk from me and I can smell their bread baking form a couple of blocks away.
Great quote from Guns’N Roses Jim, and you are so right about tainted meat. I’ve been pretty much staying away from fast food, except for Taco Bell, which I’ve always liked and trusted, until now that is. Thanks for the link.
Obviously, horse meat or cow meat isn’t the issue. Horse meat is perfectly acceptable if one is not able to draw an arbitrary distinction between Bessy and Trigger.
You’ve hit on the real concern, and that is that for horse meat to creep into the beef supply, there is obvious fraud and lack of oversight in the meat industry. We may not have returned to Upton Sinclair’s “Jungle,” (http://www.capitalcentury.com/1906.html) but this is a clear indication that we are close.
Horse meat in the beef supply is evidence that we cannot trust our food supply, and the degree to which this “scandal” has surfaced in many places is evidence that our distrust is well founded.
What’s clear beyond all doubt is that the purveyors of horse-meat-contaminated beef can be counted on to have included sick or even dead horses…sick and/or dead cows…and heaven knows what other species of “mystery meat” – as my friends Downunder call it: “snouts and holes.” In other words, we have no idea what we are eating…especially in pre-packaged ground products.
Welcome to the jungle we’ve got fun and games
We got everything you want honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find whatever you may need
If you got the money honey we got your disease
Guns N’ Roses