Your not safe, apparently traces of uniqourn have been found in veggie burgers

That's ok, as a uniquorn would be an immitation meat mycoprotein mythological beast, as opposed to a real mythological beast, if you'll pardon the oxymoron.

So we are safe, unless Armando Iannucci was right when he asked, "If meat is murder, is quorn wasting police time?"

If anyone saw Quorn being made i doubt they would eat it.!!

It is grown in Huge stainless steel tanks and looks and smells disgusting prior to production.

I sometimes have it made into chilli, when the strong flavours are able to mask the rancid natural taste, which is something akin to wet cardboard.

Surely if it was labelled as containing Horse meat, this would mean they knew it contained horse meat, so we could assume they would know what source the dead horses were from, what state the carcasses were in, how they had been stored, transported and processed, unless they are suggesting "stick a label on them now" and this will "make" them ok.

Exactly ... the problem is not the labelling but the control and monitoring of the supply chain.

As a certain admin has pointed out elsewhere, you'll notice that the reports say horse DNA not horse meat, these are economy products, meat content will be low.

[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9807537/Europe-supplied-horse-meat-in-burgers.htmlTesco, which sold a beefburger containing "29 per cent horse "meat""[/url ,blamed the suppliers, saying they were either guilty of illegality or gross negligence.
Almost a 1/3rd horse meat, so not exactly just DNA traces. Traces of Cow DNA is usually what you get in economy beef burgers.

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Quote GraftonRed="GraftonRed"[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9807537/Europe-supplied-horse-meat-in-burgers.htmlTesco, which sold a beefburger containing "29 per cent horse "meat""[/url ,blamed the suppliers, saying they were either guilty of illegality or gross negligence. Almost a 1/3rd horse meat, so not exactly just DNA traces. Traces of Cow DNA is usually what you get in economy beef burgers. '" Read that link again... www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... -additives www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21071068 www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-1 ... klash.html edition.cnn.com/2013/01/16/world ... index.html

[url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0130/365256-tesco-drops-silvercrest-over-horse-dna-controversy/Tesco drops Silvercrest[/url

They're also introducing DNA tests on meat products.

[iThe statement concluded: "These checks will set a new standard. It will be a significant investment for Tesco, borne by Tesco.[/i - Yeah right. So Tesco will be paying for these tests from their own pockets or shareholder dividends?

Now I'm certainly no expert on genetics but I assumed that a DNA tests needed to be tailored to identify a specific animal/species and also how long are these tests going to take? The meat will probably be off before they're completed

It's bad anyway, but if the story from the [iGuardian[/i the other week is true, that it's actually 'drind' – dehydrated rind, which can be listed as 'seasoning' on a packet, so you've no chance of expecting that one – then it's far worse. Because for that to happen you're not talking about an accident.