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LadyEllen -> RE: The food that we eat... (5/9/2007 7:48:50 AM)
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Back in the late 80s, I used to be a junior traffic clerk in a transport company that moved frozen meat around, here in the UK.
We had one client - a merchant, who would buy and sell meat all over the UK and Europe. He got on to a good thing and we ended up doing the transport.
We would receive the order, to go and load 20 tonnes of meat that was unfit for production, from a certain pet food factory which will remain nameless - but its in the east of England.
So, in we would go and load. Huge slabs of offal, frozen at -25 centigrade, about 3' x 4' and 6'' deep and with all the entrails etc clearly visible. The driver would be issued the notes about the meat and where it was to go - for disposal.
Well, the driver would then drive about 20 miles down the road and meet a man in a layby. Helpful chap that he must have been, this guy from the ministry then replaced the driver's notes with new ones. Hey presto, meat unfit for pet food was now fit for human consumption, and it was off to the sausage and burger factory of a certain well known brand that is to remain nameless. Every week, for years. And it was going on all over the place apparently - only discovered when the CJD thing blew up and the journalists went investigating.
Its taken a lot of time for me to eat anything with processed meat in it since then, and even now I only ever buy the best burgers, sausages etc.
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