3/03/2013

I have no beef with this!!

The big supermarkets are , at long last , declaring an interest in British Meats instead of combing the planet for the cheapest and as it turns out , dubious products.
Now while this is to be applauded , they needed the Horsey scandal to push them into it or we would be still getting "Various animals" minced into our foodstuffs.
The second caveat is the example of the strangulation of our dairy industry which has decimated our milking stock and threatened cheese production throughout the land  , Beef producers beware!
We already see security tags on the humblest cuts of beef and recently I saw a ticket on a lamb chop reading "This joint , £1.89." Strange days indeed!!
I feel that the inclusion of gelatin in products is one way that horse  (and other) DNA could be identified in goods from jelly's to pork pies as gelatin has , traditionally be made by rendering hoof bone and cartilaginous matter , a bit like a highly concentrated stock , to produce the sheets or powders we have been happily using without difficulty for years.
 I  render pigs trotters to make the jelly for my pork pies in the time honoured tradition.

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