European horse meat fraud lives on

Horse meat fraud is highly lucrative, largely because there is an abundant supply of product. It’s no wonder these cases have been showing up around the globe—both in countries that consume horse meat and those that do not. You may remember the horse meat scandal of 2013, which involved the recall of at least 10…

Europol and Spain lead horse meat fraud investigation

FOOD SAFETY NETWORK (FSN) reports: December 2, 2022 EUROPEAN authorities have uncovered a network that sold potentially dangerous horse meat in at least four countries. The operation was coordinated by Europol and the Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil). A video can be seen here. Operation Yucatán targeted the sale of horse meat unsuitable for consumption. The meat…

Horse slaughter and horse meat production — A global perspective

1 tonne equals 2,205 pounds which equates to a total of approximately 1,746,019,229 pounds of horse meat produced around the globe in 2018 from approximately 5 million horses — a staggering 1.75 billion pounds of horse meat.

25 people arrested as horse meat scandal rears its ugly head again in Europe

HORSE MEAT (Spain) — Convicted food fraudster Jan Fasen was arrested for masterminding a new illegal horse meat distribution network, writes John Robbins for the International Business Times. Here's more from the same article. A Dutchman at the centre of the 2013 European horse meat scandal has been arrested in Spain accused of masterminding another illegal…

The real horsemeat scandal: supermarkets got off scot free

The following is an excerpt from an article published in the aftermath of the horse meat scandal that erupted earlier this year. This article focuses on who was punished and who was not. Why is this important to horses? Supermarkets will continue to put horse meat products on the shelves, mislabeling it as whatever they…

Horse meat found in Ikea’s Swedish meatballs

Cross-posted from Detroit Free Press Reported by Kim Hjelmgaard for USA Today LONDON — It's been about a month since a factory in Ireland let the pony out of the stable and admitted to finding traces of equine DNA in beef patties it made for export to the United Kingdom. Since then, dinner tables across…

Now it’s British horsemeat in burgers and kebabs

Our staff in England and Ireland have been sounding the alarm for the past two weeks. And now it comes out. The British are just as involved in the horse meat scandal as the Europeans. Police raids in Britain have exposed that horses are being slaughtered for their meat which is processed and labelled as…

No honor in horse slaughter or drug documentation system it uses

by VIVIAN GRANT FARRELL For those who eat horse meat, you will never really know how safe, or how toxic, it is. The reason is that the documentation containing a horse's medical history demanded by slaughterhouses is so easily forged. In some cases, it is allegedly absent altogether. A whistle blower pointed out that a…

Minister must rule out link between burger contamination and horse slaughter

Cross-posted from The Galway Independent BY HILARY MARTYN Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Food, Éamon Ó Cuív TD, has called on the Minister for Agriculture to immediately rule out any link between the illegal slaughtering of horses and the contamination of beef products with horse DNA. Citing a Sunday Times investigation from May 2012, which he…

Toxic Irish horse meat sold on the black market in Europe

Many horse lovers say, let people hellbent on eating horse meat suffer the consequences. This what they typically refer to. Horses are not traditional food animals. Except in very rare cases horses are not raised for slaughter for human consumption. Therefore horse meat contains toxic residues from drugs widely given to horses throughout their lives.…