What is actually in a value burger?
Found on BBC News on Sunday, 20 January 2013
Tesco have used full-page adverts in national newspapers to apologise for selling burgers in the UK that were found to contain 29% horsemeat.
Writing in the Times, food critic Giles Coren bemoaned the public's lack of knowledge about what is in their food. "What on earth did you think they put in them? Prime cuts of delicious free-range, organic, rare breed, heritage beef, grass-fed, Eton-educated, humanely slaughtered, dry-aged [beef], hand-ground by fairies...?"
"You get what you pay for," wrote Felicity Lawrence in the Guardian.
"Supermarkets are battling with each other to be the cheapest, and demanding better and better deals from their suppliers.
You get what you pay for indeed. If the consumer only cares about lower prices and wants to have the by far cheapest food, nobody should be surprised if those who produce it get creative. Besides, horse meat isn't that bad: it's not Soylent Green.