Not a good topic for this time of the morning but did anyone watch the BBC news on Tuesday at 6? This topic made me feel...well...sick to be honest..... Link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/new...nce-environment-27866293 One comment was that if this went ahead we could potentially be eating sausages or pies with animal abscesses in them......

You need to have been a butcher, then you would not print uninformed statements. Common: Abscesses in meat. Maggots in meat. Livers that passed inspection at the abattoir being rejected at a butchers, usually because they have large white spots on/in them. We seem to still be alive, at least I am. If you watched the making of ¨beefburgers¨ you would probably never eat another. http://www.eureferendum....ogview.aspx?blogno=85018

In France they enjoy Horse and in Korea the Dog is a delicacy everything depends on perceptions of food.

As I understand it, the change in rules relates to pig carcases. I don't think the change will be affecting kosher meat production.

There are also issues that this creates for the research industry and controls around samples for dissection..

The issue as I understand, as a layman I may add, was it stoping the handling and hands on inspection of meat at the abatoir to prevent transfer of bacteria and diseases between carcasses. So as a consumer you have to choose between increased bacterial and virus risk of several hundred or thousand animals and that of several absesses getting through the first initial inspection process. Myself, I enjoyed a BBQ last weekend of sausages and burgers, could have been donkey, dog or dinosaur for all I care so long as its well cooked. The only thing dangerous I was ingesting was carcinogenic PAH's from the BBQ cooking process itself..... Des