Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I remember back in 1986/87, the scaremongering concerning Welsh lamb and the 'Chernobyl fallout' and the subsequent controls that were put in place - I think they were only recently totally lifted.

fred - i'ld be surprised if it is still not common practice, and indeed is very acceptable, always assuming the fattening-up process is for a "sensible" length of time

It looks like it was only last year!

Chernobyl sheep controls lifted in Wales and Cumbria

Restrictions on hundreds of Welsh and Cumbrian sheep farms dating back to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have finally been lifted - 26 years on.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the controls were not "proportionate" to the "very low risk" and removing them would not compromise the consumer.

Learnt this about lamb when I was 10 years old.

Twenty years ago.

"The War Song of Dinas Vawr

The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter;
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter."

Food Regulator Warns Of Deliberate Contamination In UK Horse Meat Scandal

By Michael Haddon U.K. authorities said Friday that evidence of significant amounts of horse meat in beef burgers and lasagne sold in the country points to "gross negligence or deliberate contamination" of the food chain. However, the Food Standards Agency said there's no reason for the U.K. public to suspect there's any health issue with frozen food in general and it wouldn't advise people to stop eating it. "We believe that these two particular cases--the frozen burgers from Tesco PLC (TSCDY) and the lasagne from Findus--are linked to suppliers in Ireland and France respectively," the regulator said in a statement. "We are working closely with the authorities in these countries to get to the root of the problem," it added. Last month, Tesco dropped an Irish meat supplier after stocking frozen beef burgers from the provider that turned out to contain horse meat. The U.K. supermarket chain said it will stop sourcing products from ABP Food Group's Silvercrest and would establish a DNA-testing program for its meat products to prevent a similar incident in the future. Meanwhile, the FSA confirmed Thursday that the meat content of beef lasagne products recalled by Findus had tested positive for more than 60% horse meat. Findus withdrew the products after its French supplier, Comigel, raised concerns about the type of meat used in the lasagne, the organization said. "In the particular cases of the Findus lasagne and the Tesco burgers, they have been withdrawn from sale," the FSA said. "Anyone who has them in their freezer should return them to retailers as a precaution." The FSA said it has instructed the industry to urgently carry out its own tests on processed beef products to see whether horsemeat is present, in addition to its own "widespread testing."

Makes you wonder what your eating, pleanty of times I've thought beef wasn't beef at all. I refuse to eat frozen burgers and packaged food anyway... What next, foxes and badgers turning up in faggots!!

Road Kills.

Got some recipes.

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I wondered where Rebecca's horses went!


6-)

Tesco
Horse searching for parents

YO....... oh forgot what I was going to say now.Ill come back.

Asteroid to pass closer to Earth than TV satellites

A small asteroid will pass closer to Earth next week than the TV satellites that ring the planet, but there is no chance of an impact, Nasa has said.

The celestial visitor, known as 2012 DA14, was discovered last year by a group of amateur astronomers in Spain. The asteroid is about the size of an Olympic swimming pool at 46 metres (150ft) in diameter and is projected to come as close as 17,100 miles (27,520km) from Earth during its approach on 15 February.

it has been reported that a small haemorrhoid will pass near the sun shining out of ****'s arse, but it is not anticipated to cause much discomfort ..... passers-by have been advised to give **** a wide berth lest there be unexpected fallout

So H/S I ask you a question three times and all you do is evade it, let me help you by suggesting that your lot will do little or nothing about the abuses.

I would never buy a thing from most corner shops and take aways filthy dirt most of them and the ones run by immigrants forget it
they would be out of business if left to me
last month headlines rat meat in curries in east london

what on earth has that got to do with supermarkets or morrison's, which i suppose is the vague link through the neurons of your sludge-brain?

you running down super markets i prefer them to a dirt high street store run by unclean people

Stan
If it had been the Conservatives who had overseen the abuse in the hospitals then you would be droning on about how bad they were and not mentioning how they were going to fix the problem. The fact is that the abuse was during the Labour reign and they did nothing about it. I have no idea what the Conservatives will do to fix the problem, except that they will probably make a better job of it than Blair/Brown.

there are plenty of good nurses out ofwork sack the evil nurses .
and yes all under labour gov why has no one been charged with murder
because they did kill them

not all supermarkets are especially clean
high street butchers/fishmongers - few as they now are - are generally kept to a very high level of cleanliness - otherwise they would go out or be put out of business
most home kitchens would not get anywhere near passing even a cursory inspection by the local EHO

i know you fancy yourself as a fisherman, but perhaps it is you who is the maggot caught on your own hook

H/S, I see the useless Jeremy Hunt is "currently" to decide so I expect that he has no idea either.. Thanks for eventually answering though.