Josh writes: Roger Pielke Jr has a must read post on the link between the UK’s horsemeat in burgers scandal and Climate change, which is both timely and clever. And it inspired this cartoon.
Many thanks Roger!
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But it does draw circle flies.
There is definitely some horse “something” in that burger, but horse “meat” it is not. 🙂
Hmmm….maybe Karoly & co, could (should?) have dined on this instead…..
Nayyyyyyyyyy……
Neighsayers!
It’s what they put in the secret sauce that has me worried.
Now here is a whole lot of nothing about nothing.
Horse meat is actually very good to eat and tastes nice too, I can’t see what the fuss is about other then the mislabeling of the product.
But that is no different then calling natural climate variability anthropogenic, mislabeling.
They should know all about it but if it is government sponsored it is ok, just don’t do it yourself.
Crocodile tastes quite similar to chicken, my opinion anyway, and the texture is not dissimilar at least once cooked, the next time you buy crocodile you should get it tested to make sure it is not chicken. Both taste good, I see no health concern here either.
So it is all a load of horse croc.
I had some of those horse burgers and they gave me the trots. It’s ok, I’m in a stable condition now.
Complaints of the current rainy weather, and concerns about horse meat, make this extract from England in 1230 AD seem rather apt. It was taken from ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of the City of Exeter’ by Jenkins -printed 1841.
“The harvests having failed for two successive years, owing to continual rain which caused great overflowing of the river there was so great a scarcity of provisions that the people were obliged to eat horse flesh and to substitute bark of trees for bread.’
It appears that eating horse meat has always been seen as second best in this country. It also usefully illustrates –in conjunction with a great deal of other documentation-that the extended periods of prodigious rainfall and devastating drought endured in past centuries puts our current rather benign climate into a better historical perspective.
tonyb
Large Flame Grilled Dobbin sandwich please, bacon, extra cheese, large fries.
I object to paying for beef and getting something that once came in seventh at Kempton.
Roy: “More hay, Trigger?”
Trigger: “No thanks, Roy, I’m stuffed.”
(sorry….)
I just had a nice turkey burger, or so I thought. Anyone know if there are any ready substitutes for turkey which I might be getting without notification or choice? Probably lots of highly processed “turkey parts” at best, and maybe something scarier….??
I can’t help but wonder just how long the British have been fed horse meat.
Hope they didn’t have to pony up $135.00 a head for that…
Reminds me of the woman restaurateur who found her husaband cheating with another woman and for the next few days posted a sign in her restaurant which read “caution – may contain nuts”.
Friends:
The processed ‘beef’ imported to the UK contained several meats which are cheaper than beef. While mostly horse, the other meat also included pork.
This is a severe violation of consumer choice. Many people have strong feelings about what can be eaten. Most English people like beef and mutton but have never eaten horse and don’t want to. Some other peoples have similarly strong feelings about putting pork in the mouth. For example, the Indian mutiny occurred when soldiers who had to bite the ends off their paper cartridges learned the paper was sealed with pig fat.
The UK has adopted extreme monitoring of all internal meat supplies since the BSE affair . It seems that fraudsters have overcome this by misrepresenting meat imports The problematic meat in this case originated from Roumania, and the Roumanian government is outraged at the suggestion that the meat was not as specified when it left that country to be transported across Europe to the UK.
The affair may seem funny at this stage but it threatens to become a serious issue for the entire international meat trade.
Richard
Would you like flies with that?
The EU Referendum blog (http://www.eureferendum.com/) has been all over this story. Appears to be all sorts of horseshiite involved. Seriously, it’s a good blog for those of us on the American side of the pond to get European, esp British information.
Added value, folks. Just like USHCN v2.
No health hazard
But gives you the trots
You can’t see it, but the cheesiness is implied. Not unlike manmade warming.
Bloke down the pub says:
February 11, 2013 at 2:46 pm
I had some of those horse burgers and they gave me the trots. It’s ok, I’m in a stable condition now.
Ohhhh… I’ll bet it tasted like filly mignon!
MtK
The upside….NO reported cases of Mad Horse Disease.
Great cartoon and article, but the magical ingrediant has been overlooked – horseshlt.
OK OK mods, Horsefeathers.
Ship it to Belgium. How could they tell it was horse in the lasagna? What tipped them off?