West Wales Meat Plant Raided

.... and is anyone surprised? The closed down the local abattoirs, where local people kept an eye on them. Opened up huge industrialised abatoirs with imported labour and wow, what a surprise, bad things happen! When will someone wake up and smell the roses, in the meantime, poor poor animals, I bet no one gives a blind bit of notice to looking after their welfare, they are too interested in lining their pockets.
 
canteron said:
.... and is anyone surprised? The closed down the local abattoirs, where local people kept an eye on them. Opened up huge industrialised abatoirs with imported labour and wow, what a surprise, bad things happen! When will someone wake up and smell the roses, in the meantime, poor poor animals, I bet no one gives a blind bit of notice to looking after their welfare, they are too interested in lining their pockets.
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This has nothing to do with animal welfare. It's all to do with the traceability of our food, and guess what, for the last 3 years, £millions has been spent and waisted on EID tagging of our own livestock. To what end, someone tell me that.

Alec.
 
canteron said:
.... and is anyone surprised? The closed down the local abattoirs, where local people kept an eye on them. Opened up huge industrialised abatoirs with imported labour and wow, what a surprise, bad things happen! When will someone wake up and smell the roses, in the meantime, poor poor animals, I bet no one gives a blind bit of notice to looking after their welfare, they are too interested in lining their pockets.
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On another point I thought that only Turners and Potters were licensed horse abbatoirs? So not only have they been selling meat wrongly but have they also been slaughtering horses illegally? Please correct me if I'm wrong - it's just from what I've read on here in the past I thought that only Turners and Potters could slaughter horses....
 
From what I've read today it wouldnt surprise me if a lot of the meat did come from 'small abattoirs'.....or what were usually called knacker yards.

Purely conjecture of course but if you can be prosecuted for trading illegally slaughtered unfit meat, causing unnecessary suffering to animals and failing to dispose of animal byproducts in the correct way wouldnt you think that the powers that be would keep an unusually close eye on you? Dont you think a life ban on meat production and or trading would be fitting?
Leopards rarely change their spots! and Govt agencies never seem to learn lessons.
 
Just to clarify, the premises in bow street only process the meat, ie it comes in as a carcass, is boned and goes out to restaurants, take aways ready for use. They don't actually slaughter the animal.
 
Holly Hocks said:
On another point I thought that only Turners and Potters were licensed horse abbatoirs? So not only have they been selling meat wrongly but have they also been slaughtering horses illegally? Please correct me if I'm wrong - it's just from what I've read on here in the past I thought that only Turners and Potters could slaughter horses....
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I too thought this was the case. In fact in an article about Turnerson horse and country tv it states this.
http://www.horseandcountry.tv/news/2013/01/30/campaigners-protest-against-abusive-abattoir

Its very confusing, I wonder does it mean they are the only 2 licensed to keill for human consumption?:confused:
 
So does that mean that Peter Boddy wasn't even licensed to slaughter horses, not withstanding the fact he was passing them off as beef?:eek:
At least people are now going to be aware of how much of our meat is sourced abroad and travels thousands of miles before it hits the supermarkets. According to our local paper tonight some of the smaller butchers in the area have seen their sales increase threefold over the last week.
 
MM, I'm not sure that Peter Boddy slaughterhouse has even passed the carcasses off as beef to Farmbox meats - I think they know the difference between the two by the number of ribs alone.
 
Already some products labeled British or Irish beef were not. So who knows what to trust? Is organic really organic?
Murphysminder the company Farmbox meats, that Peter Boddy sold to, has connections with a previous dropped prosecution for selling illegal meat. There is a link posted above by hackneylass.
 
Can't edit on my phone but wanted to add, I think PB has slaughtered them legitimately and sold them as horse. He even says that the FSA wanted to see his records which presumably means they wanted to see who he has sold the horse meat to.
 
zigzag said:
Think I will go vegetarian!
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I already am - I don't criticise those who eat meat though - my OH is a meat with every meal person, and I make a wicked steak and kidney pie for him (well at least I think it's steak but who knows now?). But I don't even eat veggie ready meals - even with those, you can't be completely sure what's in them... I prefer to cook from scratch and then at least I choose what goes in there!

I don't even like the taste of meat - how anyone can eat chicken and think that it tastes nice, I'll never know! YUCK!! :)
 
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Time for me to return to the High St butcher shops. The steak and meat I've bought from Tescos has not been very good anyhow and I have two local butchers who are really good.

I've not read any comments from the beef producers but I'd expect them to be pretty cross over this. All the effort and cost of admin keeping records for beef cattle, and for why? And why are we even surprised this has happened. Remember the outfit who were found 'cleaning up' chicken meat intended for disposal or animal use and selling it back to the supermarkets. Yummy!
 
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