http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=horse-spunk The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 01:10:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161793 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:12:34 +0000 Paddy Berzinski 161793@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It reminded me of the Specsavers ad with the farmer. I gave it 5. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161783 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:22:43 +0000 button 161783@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bravo VCG, what Midfield said. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161781 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:09:44 +0000 Midfield Diamond 161781@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Not another weak, crappy sub about the same old story ... </p> <p>Actually, this is not another weak, crappy sub about the same old story, it's a well-written sub with a nice angle on the same old story. Good stuff, stars from me. Maybe the headline should say 'short-sighted' at the start? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161750 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:38:15 +0000 beau-jolly 161750@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>See other room and Lucy's comment. It would appear that they are likely to be American.<br /> <a href="http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56008">Mmmm, Mustang</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161728 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:54:05 +0000 Squudge 161728@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When they say 'horse' - do they mean tired racehorse or New Forest pony, I wonder. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161727 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:52:01 +0000 BAJDixon 161727@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161726 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:49:27 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 161726@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Probably because that’s the accent we most associate with farmers. But I thought I had to have him as an Irish farmer because it is Irish producers/suppliers who are getting blamed isn’t it? And I wouldn’t have thought they’d be getting meat in from England to grind up and send back.</p> <p>Could be wrong though, it’s happened before. 1998 I think it was. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161725 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:39:17 +0000 Sinnick 161725@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I couldn't quite tune into the story because I kept imagining a West Country voice instead of Irish. Not sure why. I'm not suggesting adding daft phrases like "Bejasus", just saying. 4*</p> <p>This somehow reminds me of a friend who likes Donkeys. No, not in that way. However, he did mention that he has once eaten Donkey, in Spain. I don't think it was a euphemism, but I've had this image in mind ever since. Strange chap. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161722 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:35:43 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 161722@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You didn’t waste my time, I wasn’t 100% sure and given the reliability of some of the information on the internet I’m still not 100% sure I’m right. I’m working on the assumption that, if I am wrong, the number of people who don’t know that I’m wrong will far outnumber the people who do.</p> <p>My uncle has a dairy farm, I'll ask him the next time I see him.</p> <p>I would have thought that horsemeat would be just as expensive as cowmeat, if not more so. So I don’t understand how it can be a cost-cutting exercise to sneak some horse into the beef. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161718 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:18:31 +0000 beau-jolly 161718@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fair enough and apologies for wasting your time.<br /> On a serious note: Dairy cows give birth every year so they continue lactating. The male calves are usually slaughtered and fed to hound packs. The main reason for this is that we are squeemish about veal. This is "Rose veal" and isn't crated up and force fed milk to make the white veal the French and Germans like so much. So we are throwing away perfectly fine meat and using horse meat to hit the cost demands of our food chain. Much the same thing happens with goats. About 80% of red meat eaten on the planet is goat but we feed male kids to the hounds. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161715 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:10:57 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 161715@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A country boy replies: I believe that dairy cows are used for meat once they're no longer any use for milking.</p> <p>A quick google turned up some answers saying that they tend to end up as hamburgers rather than steak, so perfect for the subject of beef mince containing horse. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161712 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:58:43 +0000 beau-jolly 161712@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>hahaha but...<br /> A country boy writes: Aren't dairy cows used for milk and beef cows slaughtered for meat?<br /> Having said that this made io laarf<br /> <blockquote>two donkeys, a St Bernard and a solid oak table.</blockquote> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161703 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:19:13 +0000 dvo4fun 161703@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice angle VCG and some genuine laughs here </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55997#post-161702 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:14:47 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 161702@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Investigators looking into the ongoing beef/horsemeat scandal believe they may have traced the cause of the problem to a short-sighted farmer in Tipperary, who was found to have a significant percentage of horses in his herd of “cows”.</p> <p>David O’Neill was shocked when it was pointed out to him that over half of the animals that he was milking, and subsequently selling as beef, were actually horses. He insisted that he has never had a problem before but admitted that he did have his suspicions that something was not quite right.</p> <p>‘I’ve had this farm for over forty years and all of my cows have always been cows before now. My eyesight isn’t quite what it was when I was younger though and I suppose I could have mistaken a few dozen horses for cows.’ said Mr O’Neill, ‘It would certainly explain why some of the ones I’ve had lately have been more distressed than usual when it comes to milking time.’</p> <p>Mr O’Neill, 72, is blaming the mix-up on ‘unscrupulous dealers taking advantage of the elderly’ and has urged all other farmers to carefully check their stocks after his were found, along with the horses, to contain two donkeys, a St Bernard and a solid oak table.</p> <p>‘Through cataracts everything is kind of blurry so you’re working on trust quite a lot I suppose. I’ve dealt with the same guys for years so as long as I could make out that what I was buying had four legs and was about the right size I thought everything was ok and I never expected them to con me like this. That one cow was always a bugger to get in for milking, it actually being a table explains a lot.’</p> <p>In light of the investigators’ findings an urgent product recall has now been issued on over 100 gallons of “milk”. </p>