West Wales Meat Plant Raided

[Vintage]

There are actually 12 abattoirs licensed to deal with horse, in the UK. The two which you've mentioned are the only two which manage to continue.

Alec.

I've heard there are 5 which are licensed to process horse for human consumption?

 

[MrPotts]

Sugar & Spice, you're correct, a lot of lamb is sent from Scotland & England to Wales to be slaughtered and packaged so it can be sold as Welsh lamb for a premium price. The same applies to foreign meat.

 

[Bertieb123]

I Will Tell you where, The front line staff have been cut, while the desk jobs have increased, all in the name of cost cutting and trying to help the meat industry go down the 'self 'regulation path, there are many front line staff very frustrated and predict things like this and worse, Unison can give more info on this.

So where were the Foods Standards Agency? As usual, ensuring that they kept their jobs by failing to fulfil their roles! It calls for a certain technique.

Alec.

 

[Pale Rider]

I'm told that Peter Boddy has had his licence re instated following the FSA investigation.

 

[Bertieb123]

I'm told that Peter Boddy has had his licence re instated following the FSA investigation.

Yes believe it been open for business for a few weeks, the investigation obviously showed they supplied horse meat to Farm Box Meat, who I believe are being investigated in the Horse Meat scandal. Some times things are not how many would see, Peter Boddy were actually doing things that were not wrong and got caught up in the mess of the horse meat scandal,(supplied to someone who passed horse as beef) they are a multi species slaughter house, many will try and find things wrong with this though. I personally am glad that Peter Boddy is still open for slaughter of horses as it is a much needed service.

 

[Pale Rider]

Couldn't agree more, Bertieb123. I do though, think that all the hype by the FSA and press during the investigation, particularly surrounding the arrest of Peter Boddy was political, deliberate and uncalled for. The failed FSA trying to look effective, and an innocent person being cynically exploited. I hope an apology was made, not that this will be reported by the scumbag press.

 

[Bertieb123]

Couldn't agree more, Bertieb123. I do though, think that all the hype by the FSA and press during the investigation, particularly surrounding the arrest of Peter Boddy was political, deliberate and uncalled for. The failed FSA trying to look effective, and an innocent person being cynically exploited. I hope an apology was made, not that this will be reported by the scumbag press.

I hope an apology was made and compensation for loss of business, etc. there are many questions still to be answered here about the whole meat supply chain, also what lessons the higher end of FSA and Government have learned about the fiasco. There is going to be a public enquiry we are told but I suspect we will all only see the edited version of this!

 

[MerrySherryRider]

So the man is now being canonized for his services to the meat industry by some of you. LMOA !
How very gullible.

The FSA is not fit for purpose.

Defra Has had to hand over its responsibility for animal prosecutions to the CPS because of their poor performance and refusal to prosecute abuse in slaughter houses.

No wonder no one knows what the food on their plate is.

It is not acceptable on any level. The meat industry is not fit for purpose and the only good news from this whole sorry affair, is that a significant number the public are changing their shopping habits.

As a previously life long meat eater, it has just occurred to me that since the scandal broke, my consumption of meat has declined to virtually zero. Good heavens, I think I'm a non meat eater. I love meat but I just don't want to eat it any more.
TBH, I hadn't consciously noticed.

 

[Pale Rider]

I think canonized is a bit strange, stupid really.

But to be publicly humiliated wrongly is not right.

There was no need to turn the investigation into Peter Boddy into an American type drama was wrong just for the FSA to try and appear effective.

 

[MerrySherryRider]

I think canonized is a bit strange, stupid really.

But to be publicly humiliated wrongly is not right.

There was no need to turn the investigation into Peter Boddy into an American type drama was wrong just for the FSA to try and appear effective.

The investigation is not over yet, furthermore the FSA has required guarantees from the business before allowing it to operate again and has warned that if it has sufficient evidence of non compliance it will not hestitate to withdraw its licence again.

That doesn't sound like innocence, it sounds like the FSA are monitoring them closely while they continue to investigate.

PR, your reference to the press as scumbags is a bit strange/stupid. Without investigative journalists highlighting many corrupt organisations we'd be a lot worse off.

 

[Pale Rider]

It sounds like the FSA is belatedly doing what it's supposed to, certainly doesn't sound like guilt or innocence or anything at all to me.
As far as press scumbags go, Murdoch or Kelvin Mackenzie or The Mail, or The Sun should cover that remark, lol.

 

[MerrySherryRider]

While I'm no fan of the shoddier excesses of the press, you cannot describe investigative journalism in its entirety as scumbag press.
Coincidentally, the beginnings of investigative journalism highlighted the illegal practices of the slaughter houses and meat packing industry in America in 1906. Largely due to the expose of a journalist Upton Sinclair the Federal Meat Inspection Act was passed.

And it was due to the 'scumbag' investigative journalists that Watergate was exposed....

 

[Pale Rider]

Investigative journalism no longer exists. Journalists are no longer allowed to investigate in any of the rags passing themselves off as newspapers. I long for the day when journalists stop toadying to press barons and find some integrity.

 

[MerrySherryRider]

Fortunately, that isn't quite so


http://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul_foot.php.


http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Investigative-Reporting


Credit where its due. The children in the sex exploitation rackets, the Stephen Lawrence family may not be so ready to rubbish the efforts of
investigative journalists.


Some high ranking police officers may not feel quite so thankful though.

 

[Bertieb123]

Horse rider I certainly not gullible! Was simply trying to say if the man was wronged he should be compensated and his name cleared! And I did actually say I hope the FSA and Government etc. learn from this. As for eating meat that's your choice to no longer have it on your plate, I and many others do we all have a choice and my personal choice is to buy from my local butcher who actually rears animals for his shop and buys animals from local farmers. As for the presss don't even go there! The meat industry and big processers have been allowed to pull the wool over our eyes, wonder for how many years?

Anyone heard the latest, well if you don't want to eat Goat don't buy processed lamb products, it has just emerged that products being tested during the horse meat scandal which were labelled Lamb actually contained a percentage of Goat, and some Chicken products were Turkey!

So the man is now being canonized for his services to the meat industry by some of you. LMOA !
How very gullible.

The FSA is not fit for purpose.

Defra Has had to hand over its responsibility for animal prosecutions to the CPS because of their poor performance and refusal to prosecute abuse in slaughter houses.

No wonder no one knows what the food on their plate is.

It is not acceptable on any level. The meat industry is not fit for purpose and the only good news from this whole sorry affair, is that a significant number the public are changing their shopping habits.

As a previously life long meat eater, it has just occurred to me that since the scandal broke, my consumption of meat has declined to virtually zero. Good heavens, I think I'm a non meat eater. I love meat but I just don't want to eat it any more.
TBH, I hadn't consciously noticed.