cows101 said:
I don't know when they decided to test ground beef in UK and Irland they found most all of it containd horse and pork some up to 100% horse. How confident are you they don't bring it over here if we don't test it.
What was the date of that, and where in the UK? Isn't it rather common to eat horse meat in Europe, and does that practice also take place in the UK as a 'normal' practice? BTW, aren't countries we import beef from required to have inspections comparable to ours, with checks by our system? In other words, do we know your premise of illegal horse meat coming into the USA actually occurred?
Haven't England and Scotland, at the least, updated their testing recently, say in the past couple of years? I believe I read something to that effect within the past four months. How much beef is usually exported to the USA by the UK? Is it common cuts, or specialty meats? Are all of the UK divisions, such as Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England under the same inspection system? What about European countries, are they individually managing, or is it under the EU? I'd not given it much thought till I heard about the changes a few months ago, considering the ban, then the stringent rules since 'mad cow' disease years ago.
mrj