a few years ago, there was a small to medium scandal in europe: beef lasagna with argentinian meat was found to be actually ground horse meat.
while it was bad to mislabel the meat, to me the bigger tragedy was that they had to throw away all those products. i am sure selling them at a discount would be less of an economic damage for the corporations. at the same time students and not so well off people get a cheaper meal. either way, i really like horse meat - to thet extent that i am quite willing to pay extra for a nice cut.
That scandal in the EU was not argentinian horse meat. It was domestic EU horse meat from Romania and Poland. And the whole fraud did not even originate in those countries, it was meat middle men in the Netherlands and France who relabeled, once correctly labeled horse meat, to beef. That’s what makes this whole current rumor so implausible. Mislabeling horse as beef in the import stage would require the inspections both in Argentina and the entry inspection in the US to both fail. It would be far easier for something like this to happen inside the US by US companies than Argentina trying to commit a scam like this.
you are right, it wasn’t Argentina according to the french “Union fédérale des consommateurs”. But according to them it was only Romania, Poland wasn’t mentioned. Pretty sure back then i read something about Argentina, but that might just have been an unconfirmed suspicion.
At no point did i say it was the Argentinian exporter who mislabeled the product. But mislabelings do happen (malicious in the EU case) and will get caught in the labs eventually.
a few years ago, there was a small to medium scandal in europe: beef lasagna with argentinian meat was found to be actually ground horse meat.
while it was bad to mislabel the meat, to me the bigger tragedy was that they had to throw away all those products. i am sure selling them at a discount would be less of an economic damage for the corporations. at the same time students and not so well off people get a cheaper meal. either way, i really like horse meat - to thet extent that i am quite willing to pay extra for a nice cut.
That scandal in the EU was not argentinian horse meat. It was domestic EU horse meat from Romania and Poland. And the whole fraud did not even originate in those countries, it was meat middle men in the Netherlands and France who relabeled, once correctly labeled horse meat, to beef. That’s what makes this whole current rumor so implausible. Mislabeling horse as beef in the import stage would require the inspections both in Argentina and the entry inspection in the US to both fail. It would be far easier for something like this to happen inside the US by US companies than Argentina trying to commit a scam like this.
you are right, it wasn’t Argentina according to the french “Union fédérale des consommateurs”. But according to them it was only Romania, Poland wasn’t mentioned. Pretty sure back then i read something about Argentina, but that might just have been an unconfirmed suspicion.
At no point did i say it was the Argentinian exporter who mislabeled the product. But mislabelings do happen (malicious in the EU case) and will get caught in the labs eventually.
Pretty sure it was like 10+ years ago, not just a few years. You know what was a few years ago? Covid. Jeez, time does fly.
man i feel old now