#DNA Test Finds Horse Meat In UK Hamburgersthe Irish version of the FDA called the FSAI has found distinctly non-beef animal protein in ground meat labeled beef in some supermarkets.
Meat from two Irish processing plants has been found to contain substantial portions of pig and curiously horse DNA.
Of 27 samples analyzed 23 were found to contain pork and 10 were found to contain horsemeat.
In one sample collected from Tesco--a major supermarket chain all over the UK--approximately 29%of the meat was found to be horsemeat.
Looks like it's not just seafood that isn't quite what it claims to be.
Now none of the samples were found to be unsafe for human consumption in any way
and it's likely that many would have no objection to eating pig or even horsemeat.
Horse is a traditional meat in some areas of France among other places. The pork can be explained away by the fact that both pork
and beef are processed at the same plant though nobody seems to have any idea how a significant amount of horsemeat made its way into the ground beef.
But there are two major concerns here. The first is for people with dietary restrictions: neither pig nor horse is kosher
and pig is not halal. The second is that even though these samples of meat are safe it does not speak very highly of the regulation in place for meat processing especially in the UK
which has had the worst experience with BSE commonly known as mad cow disease of any country in the world.
In response all products from those suppliers have been withdrawn and the FSAI is investigating to see how this could have happened. via BBC
i dont mind what in the hamburger its the non respect of the food chain regulations that gives me yakee feeling...
or meat from China they all be dead including their pets. Don't care what's in the meat
so long as it tastes good eh? Guess you'll want to try this Soylent Green then...Well that's a little disturbingsoylent Green (human meat i presume?..
oh as i said if its well regulated and sanitary enough...---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
and just banning beef import or looking at beef products only...would be a disaster...
i'm pretty sure that horse meat is supposed to be leaner and more nutritious for you than beef and pork. it'd make sense
if some local places put horse meat in their burgers. to mars or bust! It isn't people it isn't deadly so dark beef can be on the menu.
LOL...I can't believe how many seem to not care about what is in their food...
and furthermore don't seem to mind that it is undocumented. Don't invite me over for dinner!
I gave up meat many years ago so perhaps my comment isn't worth much.
However if I was eating beef and discovered something like this was going on where I live
I'd stop pretty quickly. The real danger is of course that it indicates lack of regulation
and suggests that it could get much worse in the future. Um eating horse is ok. You can get it fresh in France.
The point is that you should know what is in the meat you are eating.
And somebody somewhere is trying to conceal what it really is. Today it's horse.
Tomorrow it could be altered genetically tree fungus. I wonder what exactly were they looking for in the meet to need DNA tests for...
p. s. another reason to become a vegetarian. I don't usually comment but felt I had to this time.
FSAI is the Food safety Authority of Ireland they are constantly taking food products from the shelves of our shops
While the beef in the burgers is 100%Irish and butchered in Ireland the factory that made the burgers added protein to them
and contains non-beef proteins. Meat in Ireland is tracked from farm to plate the regulations are very tight.
Nothing wrong with eating horse meat though as long as you know what your eating and you aren't squeamish about it.
I thank you for your time good day sirs and madams!@@strange009 firstly it sounds strange to
me that one would add protein to beef which is rich in protein but perhaps that is so.
However the article states that there was foreign DNA in the meat! There's no DNA in protein.
So horsemeat has been found in Tesco Products. A spokesman says it's bollocks. A woman has been taken to hospital after eating horsemeat burgers.
Her condition is said to be stable. I expect this only relates to those mini-burgers you have as snacks.
Are you in favour of Horsemeat in your burgers? Yay or Neigh? I had a Tesco burger and now
I really hope they launch a steward's inquiry into the Tesco horsemeat scandal. We must find out hoof to blame.
Soylent green wasn't human meat. It was processed protein cake that included protein from dead human bodies.
In the great ordering of taste and texture I put European horse ABOVE European beef.
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#Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970sroscosmos the Russian Federal Space agency will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2015 according to agency head Vladimir Popovkin.
Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources.
Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources...
#A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman Keeping up with the eating habits of our cave-dwelling ancestors can be tough.
if you've hopped on the latest diet-craze bandwagon the Paleo diet. Based on the idea that our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn't suffer from the pains of obesity cancer gout
and other modern woes the diet prohibits anything that didn't make up the human diet prior to the agricultural revolution 10000 years ago.
That cuts out dairy grains sugars and legumes as well as all delicious processed foods. But unless you happen to be an expert in pre-Neolithic living
So here is your reminder that corn is a grain peanuts are not really nuts
Hopefully the unknown source will follow up with another edition Is my butter grass fed? Visual. ly But like-hasn't this Paleo diet thing been disproven to death?
http://news. discovery. com/history/archaeology/flour-human-ancestors-neanderthals. htm Like our paleo-ancestors did eat grains knucklehead...
if it was because of our diet or more our way of living.:P...Hopefully the unknown source will follow up with another edition Is my butter grass fed?..
Shaunacy Ferro What? What?@@Michael316pp the only problem with your assumption is that is exaclty backwards from whats actually happening.
Humans have increased in height since the industrial revolution primarily due to better nutrition. Scientific American has a great article covering it called Why are we getting taller as a species
whether humans ate meat that much anyway. But it's the closest thing to a good diet that has a name.
Grains are basically evil but some of the other stuff is a bit overboard. Dairy is a great addition to a diet
if you can handle it for example. The thing about humans getting better nutrition is true
but it's also true that we can eat what we're best at digesting in a variety that gives us more than enough nutrition.
We can eat salads piled high with grilled chicken and all sorts of exotic fruits and vegetables every day.
âÂ#Âoebased on the idea that our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn't suffer from the pains of obesity cancer gout
and other modern woes the diet prohibits anything that didn't make up the human diet prior to the agricultural revolution 10000 years ago.
Well it is an article about a diet but exercise also plays a role. Lets not forget that Og the caveman walked everywhere
and when he was trying to get his dinner he had to often deal with his dinner trying to get away.
I love food too much but I cut out dairy and gluten and watched my calorie intake.
Lost 12 pounds in 1 and 1/2 months. Didn't even do cardio throughout the diet.
However it is important to note for anyone who wants to try it that it is a lifestyle choice.
As soon as you go off the diet you start gaining the weight back pretty fast. It is remarkable how cutting gluten out of your diet can make a difference though...
@Thekid11: Unless you have a sensitivity to gluten (especially celiac disease) the gluten (which is a protein) isn't causing the weight gain.
The carbohydrates that usually accompany gluten are the problem. I don't think the paleo diet is particularly healthy.
There are still tribes that live of it. Eg. the San-Bushmen in the Kalahari. For one they are definitely not tall and
By cutting out gluten you are losing the weight because you are limiting the amount of carbs you eat.
The paleo diet is a lifestyle of eliminating unnatural and processed foods regardless if you want to lose gain or just live a healthy life.
If your going to back up wheat gluten or dairy then at least recognize the rudimentary facts-1) there are better sources of fiber calcium etc in other foods. 2) for all diseases/conditions the foods that doctors recommend eliminating are wheat gluten
and dairy. 3) its no longer speculation-wheat gluten and dairy trigger an autoimmune response and lead to a multitude of illnesses. 4) Children from birth and throughout development are much healthier
when eliminating wheat gluten and dairy. In fact most babies cant digest wheat gluten or dairy because they lack the necessary enzymes
#Daily Infographic, Beer Edition: The Beer Flavor And Aroma Wheel Flavor wheels--a visual depiction of the varieties of flavors or aromas that a particular substance might display--has a long if somewhat gnarly history.
For centuries physicians used a urine flavor wheel to help them diagnose a patient's illness based on the taste of the patient's pee.
While this wasn't particularly accurate overall it was quite helpful in detecting diabetes mellitus a disease that makes a patient's urine taste sweet.
Since those more adventurous days other items have gotten their own flavor or aroma wheel including chocolate coffee maple products whisky and beer.
One of the problems with the beer flavor wheel is that it's not particularly consumer-friendly.
A brewer with at least a passing interest in chemistry will be able to recognize flavor/aromas such as isoamyl acetate (that's the banana ester so very prevalent in say German hefeweizens.
But your regular beer drinker is probably not going to have a clue what that means. Beer writer Mark Dredge who has a book Craft Beer World coming out soon decided to make a more consumer-friendly beer flavor wheel.
The link will take you to his blog where he explains his rationale for creating the wheel.
For the most part I think it's successful. It uses clear verbiage instead of chemical names although I am curious to know how many non-trained drinkers are going to think aha!
gooseberry! when quaffing a beer hopped with for example Nelson Sauvin hops. I also appreciate that he's trying to educate non-brewers on which components of a beer will produce a particular flavor or aroma.
Brewers know that you'll get different flavors from different yeast strains (even if the recipe is otherwise identical) for example.
But having all of those flavors and aromas spread out all along the wheel can make reading the chart frustrating and paradoxically vague.
It also puts creamed corn squarely in the faults section even though certain beer styles need a verrrrrrrry slight bit of that to be true-to-style.
These are of course the grumblings of the terminally uptight--the kind of person who got a poster infographic of all of the beer styles in the world as a gift
and immediately started grousing about the placement of certain styles on that graphic. In the end anything that helps consumers appreciate all of the elements that go into brewing beer
--and dispelling the notion that being specific about a flavor isn't purely the realm of the hopelessly snobbish--is a benefit in this beer lover's opinion.
So print out that flavor wheel grab yourself a beer and start analyzing its characteristics!
It would be even more fun with added names brands of the beers-e g. today i want to try Pale with Honey...
so which one i should ask buy y
#Segway Inventor Patents A Gadget That Sucks Food Directly Out Through A Port In Your Stomachthis is the good news about a recently-patented gadget that sucks food out of the stomach:
it could work as a last-ditch effort to get obese people to shed some weight.
About 20 minutes after eating the gadget sucks out some food and when the user squeezes a bag filled with water the liquid gets sent back into the stomach instead.
Rinse and repeat until up to 30 percent of your meal is gone. There's no anesthesia involved
The aspiration process is performed about 20 minutes after the entire meal is consumed and takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete.
and the food is drained directly into the toilet. Because aspiration only removes a third of the food the body still receives the calories it needs to function.
For optimal weight loss patients should aspirate after each major meal (about 3 times per day) initially.
Over time as patients learn to eat more healthfully they can reduce the frequency of aspirations.
when the machine had trouble breaking up certain foods. One patient avoided eating cauliflower broccoli Chinese food stir fry snow peas pretzels chips and steak.
Other than that it sounds convenient (unless you live in China) albeit a little gross. Not surprisingly though convenience and effectiveness don't always inspire the greatest confidence
if this was just an At home Bulimia Machineã¢Â Nutrients from food are kinda important after all
when the machine had trouble breaking up certain foods. One patient avoided eating cauliflower broccoli Chinese food stir fry snow peas pretzels chips and steak.
Other than that it sounds convenient (unless you live in China) albeit a little gross. Not surprisingly though convenience and effectiveness don't always inspire the greatest confidence
if this was just an At home Bulimia Machineã¢Â Nutrients from food are kinda important after all
Lol brings a new meaning on sharing a dinner. When your finish just swap devices with a friend.
and sneaking a drink without anyone knowing. D'OH! What if the'turnoff'switch to this device breaks
Can everyone say flesh eating bacteria? Why not eat 30%less food and not have to go around with a valve in your stomachthe blue telephone booth speaks the truth!
It's a TARDIS. Get it right
#Lifting James'Giant Peach Would Have required Way More Seagulls Than Roald Dahl Saidah physics: Taking the world's greatest mysteries and turning them into cold hard facts.
which you can think of basically like an airplane wing. These curved shapes create the force known as lift.
Their course leader Mervyn Roy said the exercise prepares his students for a career in scientific publishing.
Considering the quantity of Gulls that peach should be covered completely like icing on a cake with bird do do lol!
Hot chocolate Tastes Better In An Orange Cupa creamsicle-colored set of mugs will make your hot chocolate taste
This adds to the growing set of studies that claim the vessel in which our food is served can have a dramatic effect on the way our senses perceive the food.
In what may have been the easiest volunteer experiment ever 57 people had to drink hot chocolate served in four different types of cups.
The tasters reported the chocolate tasted better in the cream-colored and orange cups The color had nothing to do with this difference neither physically nor chemically
but apparently the drinkers'brains thought they detected a difference according to Betina Piqueras-Fiszman a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain.
or that blue drinks appear to be more thirst-quenching than red ones. This is useful information for chefs
and food-packing professionals because it shows presentation does matter. And while that may seem obvious there could be scientific benefits too--especially for researchers who study sensory perception
One of the few good things about persistent cold weather is the excuse to drink hot chocolate.
Hot chocolate always taste best in MY cup! YUMMY! Hot chocolate always taste best in MY cup!
YUMMY! YUMMY! YUMMY! Hot chocolate always taste best in MY cup! YUMMY! YUMMY! This needed to happen sooner.
Although now you are required to comment on every damn article written on this site. Oh my God.
either way. we all take life waaay too seriously lol. let's cut the doucheryi wish they'd give a list of food items
Take care and enjoy some warm cozy chocolate milk! YUMMY! By addressing this troll I feed him lol.
Unfortunately all this proves is that people prefer the taste of hot chocolate in orange and cream cups
when they drink four cups of hot chocolate in white cream red and orange cups. The problem here is that the participants are made aware
or to believe that there is a difference between the hot chocolates given to them which certainly has an effect on the results.
If they had given each person only one cup of chocolate in a randomized color and then surveyed them on the taste they could have drawn a much more meaningful conclusion using the average ratings for each color.
And before they taste the drink blindfold those who did see the color of their cup first then have them rate it What the heck we're goind to this much trouble anyway-try everything.
I hope your hot chocolate is the best Robot you deserve it. whateves man! leave Robot alone...
I like the idea of the blindfolds except for the fact that the study is looking at how our visual perception of food affects our interpretation of its taste.
but the results still showed that the hot chocolate when consumed from the dark-cream cup was rated as sweeter and its aroma more intense.
From the paper: Where the orange cup (with the white interior) did give rise to higher ratings was in terms of the chocolate flavor
and liking ratings the dark-cream cup came a close second...To sum (results below:(
1) People liked the hot chocolate more when the cup was orange with white interior than
when it was dark cream inside -and-out (but this was not statistically significant)( 2) People thought the chocolate was most intense
when the cup was orange/white (but not statistically significantly more than the cream cup) and (3) People thought aroma more intense in the cream-colored cup than the orange cup (again not statistically significant).
So it's a tie between a dark cream cup (inside and out) and an orange/white cup (outside-and-in).
The pictures make the interior of the orange cup look cream not white. Very poorly written abstract and poorly written discussion IMO.
(or vended) hot beverages (see Fig. 1). The different cups (different in terms of their inner color) were used to explore
4) The color of the cup exerted a significant impact on participants liking of the hot beverage (P<0. 01.
The chocolate drink served in the red cup was liked significantly more (P<0. 01) than
when the hot beverage was served in the white cup (M=4. 6 versus 3. 3 respectively).
This is supposedly regardless of the sweetness of the drink. 5) The chocolate aroma from the cream-colored cups was perceived as being more intense than from the red cups (at marginal levels P=0. 07m=4. 6 versus 3. 7;
see Fig. 3c. But not orange. 6) The intensity of the chocolate flavor was rated as being significantly (P<0. 05) more intense
when the hot beverage was served from the orange cup than when it was served from the red cup and white cup (M=5. 4 versus 4. 6 and 4. 6 respectively;
and that cream was liked more than white (the other head-to-head comparison). By head-to-head->testers either drank sweet chocolate in white & cream and unsweet in orange & red
OR unsweet chocolate in white & cream and sweet in orange & red (7) The researchers also note that cross-cultural factors may be at work as well as advertising
and marketing designed to change perceptions...some color associations stay constant over the years (not to mention decades) others may be much more short-lived and change in accordance with changes in fashion and the marketplace (e g.
and if the public thought it made food taste better they would naturally already own the orange colored cups.
Chiefs know the importance of decorating their food. I give this article a raspberry pltzzzzz!
You can see the different variety of chocolate and enjoy. http://www. cafechococraze. com/franchise. htm m
A widely used ingredient in processed foods palm oil has become a lucrative industry that is helping millions escape poverty.
and conserve forests that have been cut down as a result of the palm oil industry. They have pledged also to stop buying palm oil from suppliers that destroy forests for the creation of plantations.
The move will likely put wind under the wings of the fledging international fossil fuel divestment movement
Stop using fuel to cook our food? Saba is a researcher and organizer with the Mugal Indigenous Women s Upliftment Institute of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development.
when news first spread about the leaders'decision Tony de Brum foreign minister of the Republic of the Marshall islands said in a statement that he was shocked
The screen features feeds from three simultaneous high-level sessions where world leaders are giving speeches about taking action on climate change.
and climate change is already tangibly reducing food harvests. Can agriculture adapt to be both more productive and more resilient?
(along with 16 other contestants) for a Securing Water for Food award by the U s. Agency for International Development.
#German Boars Are Too Radioactive To Eatin Germany boar meat is considered a delicacy consumed in various forms such as salami and boar leg.
But now German restaurant-goers may want to rethink ordering boar the next time they dine out (and it s not because of boar taint.
And since wild boar dig through soil for food they are affected particularly by this contamination. They also eat underground mushrooms and deer truffles
#How The World Wastes Food Infographic Every year the planet loses nearly a third of its food staggering 1. 4 billion tons.
That s according to a 2011 United nations study that assessed food networks in 152 countries. The researchers results reveal where in the food-supply chain farmers engineers
and consumers might more effectively get comestibles into mouths. The planet may have feed to a global population of 10 billion people by 2050.
With that milestone looming organizations like the U n. the Natural resources Defense Council and Food Tank are working on ways to make food systems more efficient.
Problem: Agricultural loss particularly plagues industrialized nations where farmers often need to overproduce in order to guarantee a steady supply to grocery stores.
Solution: With better food labeling or example using a spoils-on date rather than a sell-by date arkets could keep their stock longer
and ease demand on farmers. Problem: Food loss after harvest is a bigger problem in developing countries here food infrastructure is modernized often less han in industrialized ones.
Solution: Improving roads would enable unrefrigerated perishables to reach market faster cutting down on spoilage.
If a supermarket rejects food once it leaves a processing plant ay for having too many tomatoes already he truck driver may not be able to find another buyer before the food spoils.
New mobile-phone apps including one called Food Cowboy help drivers locate nearby food banks that might take the shipment.
At the last stage consumers in industrialized countries waste five times as much food as those in developing ones.
In the U s. that means 35 million tons of food each year head to landfills and incinerators.
In the U k. a public-awareness campaign cut household losses by 20 percent by encouraging actions such as taking more frequent shopping trips to prevent groceries from spoiling.
Data used to develop this graphic come from the U n. Food and agriculture organization (FAO) report FAO 2011 Global Losses and Food waste part of the Save Food initiative.
To tackle food waste the U s. Department of agriculture and partner Worrell Water Technologies developed a one-square-inch packet that extends the refrigerated life of fruits and vegetables by up to five weeks.
and envelops fresh food in an antimicrobial cloud. The effect? Water loss and fungal growth are arrested significantly
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