No Prosecutions in Horse Meat Scandal?

drunkmonkey

I don't understand this heading in the Irish Independent, http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/iphone/homepage.aspx#_articlef49a4acc-5ad0-4334-a1a3-91159fe8fd6c

It says NO prosecutions in horse meat scandal, why will there be no prosecutions, has no crime being committed?

If no bute is found in the tested products would the only crime then be false advertising which would mean the state wouldn't get involved but individuals would be open to pursue the company's involved such as Tesco?

I'm not happy the state is doing enough on our behalf.

MagicSean

What kind of prosecution would you be looking for? How have people been negatively affected by eating the wrong meat?

drunkmonkey

MagicSean wrote: »

What kind of prosecution would you be looking for? How have people been negatively affected by eating the wrong meat?

Seriously?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/horse-meat-scandal/

Being fed meat not for Human Consumption would be one reason straight away.

hfallada

Hopefully they will update food regulations and hopefully suppliers will have more common sense when buying imported products.

But do you really want the tax payer paying for some business to be in prison cause he was unaware of what his suppliers were doing. While at the same time possible putting ireland all over the newspapers in the world saying our meat is not what it is.

drunkmonkey

Our name is dirt at this stage, it's been in the New York Times, CNN there even running cartoons about it in China.
What do I want to see happen? I don't know really but take into account for example Tesco and what it's done to local butchers I'd like to see them sued with in an inch of their existence, simply saying we did not know what was in the food is not good enough and a complete lie.

Dfmnoc

ban food imports from poland

amen

ianal but

What kind of prosecution would you be looking for

fraud ? false advertising? selling food stuffs not fit for human consumption? Selling food for human consumption that is illegal in Ireland (horse meat), incorrect labelling of ingredients, failure to follow correct food safety standards etc

I'm sure there are a lot more that could be found.

EdRedbird

Romanian Prime Minister furious over allegations

BUCHAREST -
The Romanian Prime Minister Viktor Ponta is furious about the allegation that slaughterhouses in his country horse meat, donkey meat, and possibly have sold as beef among others through a Dutch trader. He speaks against that slaughterhouses in his country engaging in.

The meat would be sold to some 16 European countries. EU researchers have warned that Romania with many horses and donkey meat would get stuck by a controversial new traffic law. Which prohibits horse and carriages on the road. The Romanian police hold for some time stricter supervision of compliance with the law. Hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of horses and donkeys would thus end up in slaughterhouses.
Moreover, there are markets in neighboring Hungary and also in Romanian Transylvania often horse sausages for sale.

adr1984

What i cant understand is, guinness have adverts about a secret ingrediant they use and till now nobody in the whole country wants to know what it is or what side effects it has on humans. + horse meat is a delicasy in sum countries