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Food Standards Agency Faces Probe Over Horsemeat Response

PA | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK

An independent review is to be carried out into the Food Standards Agency's response to the horse meat scandal, it has been announced. The FSA boar...

Irish Beef Given Clean Bill Of Health

PA | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK

European chiefs have given Ireland's beef industry a clean bill of health in random tests for horse meat. But industry-own analysis ordered by food...

Contaminated Dutch Meat May Have Ended Up In Britain

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK

British firms may have bought meat from a Dutch company at the centre of the latest horsemeat scare, it has been revealed. The Food Standards Agenc...

Animal Drug Bute Found In Asda Corned Beef

PA | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK

Asda is recalling all corned beef from its budget range after traces of veterinary drug phenylbutazone were found in some batches. The Food Standar...

100kg Of Horse Meat Labelled As Beef Found In Lancashire

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.03.2013 | UK

100kg of horse meat has been imported into the UK and falsely labelled as beef in Lancashire and Liverpool, with 40kg (88lb) of it already sold to the...

Even for World Beater Noma, Noro Is a Serious No-No

Stephen Easthope | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Stephen Easthope

Hot on the hooves of the horsemeat scandal, Noma, widely considered to be the world's best restaurant, was discovered to have sent 67 diners home with Norovirus during the month of February. It's not quite what you'd expect from a tasting menu that costs £170 a head

What's Your Beef? A Newsgame on Horses, Courses and Mechanised Food

Tomas Rawlings | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Tech
Tomas Rawlings

We've been making games about news for a few months now covering a variety of topics, some serious and some less so. This time around we've turned our development gaze onto the horse-meat scandal.

Tesco In Fresh Local Meat Pledge

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted 14.03.2013 | UK

Supermarket giant Tesco is to double the amount of fresh meat it sources in Northern Ireland. Following on from his earlier pledge to work more clo...

Horse Meat Scandal Sees Shoppers Change Habits

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Charlie Thomas | Posted 13.03.2013 | UK

More than half of consumers have changed their shopping habits as a result of the horse meat scandal, a survey for consumer group Which? has found. ...

How Did It Get to This Point?

Natasha Corrett | Posted 06.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Natasha Corrett

I feel very strongly that all of this is a result of unconscious choices, not asking the questions. If you go back 100 years, eating animal produce was a luxury and you knew where your meat came from.

The Tesco/Horse Meat 'Crisis' - Not Exactly Ronseal

Jack R. Miles | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK
Jack R. Miles

At the heart of the current Tesco/horsemeat crisis is the concept that consumers have not been given the produce they were lead to believe - the opposite of Ronseal's famous motif 'it does exactly what it says on the tin'.

PICS: 'Horse Burger' Fancy Dress Costume

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.03.2013 | UK Comedy

There are fancy dress costumes. And there's this... Yes, if you're a man-or-woman-about-town looking for a novelty outfit to wear to your next...

Forget Horse Meat - What Else Is Lurking in Your Dinner?

Amanda Cook | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Amanda Cook

After the initial shock value of eating a horse, we've gotten over it. Horsemeat isn't the issue. In fact, it's as normal as eating beef or chicken in many parts of the world. The real issue is this: if horsemeat can be slipped into our readymeals - what else could be in there?

Tesco Pledges To Bring Meat Production 'Closer To Home' - But You'll Foot The Bill

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Charlie Thomas | Posted 27.02.2013 | UK

Tesco's boss has vowed to bring meat production "closer to home" and work much more closely with British farmers in the fallout of the horsemeat scand...

Horse Meat Tainted With Bute Enters Food Chain In France

Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.02.2013 | UK

Horse meat contaminated with veterinary drug bute is believed to have entered the food chain in France, the French ministry confirmed. Six carcass...

Birds Eye Withdraws Beef Ready Meals

PA | Posted 22.02.2013 | UK

Birds Eye is withdrawing three beef ready meals from sale in the UK and Ireland. The move follows tests that found 2% of horse DNA in a chilli con ...

The Horse Meat Scandals Reveal We Are More Psychologically Screwed Up Than We Realised About Eating Animals

Dr Raj Persaud | Posted 22.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Dr Raj Persaud

We are conflicted because our concern for animal welfare is at odds with our culinary preferences. This involves a denial of the living and mental qualities of the animals, from which our meals are extracted.

BLOG: "It's Easier and Cheaper to Eat Badly"

Amy Leech | Posted 22.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Amy Leech

The horsemeat scandal has served to highlight the inadequacies of a food system driven by profit, and the fact that it's those buying the cheapest food who are falling victim to them. Processed food makes money. But, it does not make us well.

How Europeans Are Reacting To The Horse Meat Scandal

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 19.02.2013 | UK

More than a month after equine DNA blighted burgers in British and Irish supermarkets, the horse meat scandal has now hit the continent. Nestlé h...

Environment Secretary And Retailers To DIscuss Horsemeat Scandal

PA | Posted 18.02.2013 | UK

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson will meet representatives of leading supermarkets and food retail trade bodies on Monday to press them to do more ...

WATCH: Horse Meat Race At Ascot

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.02.2013 | UK Comedy

In case you missed it, check out what was surely this weekend's most exciting sporting fixture: a racing meat meet at Ascot. (Coverage for HuffPost...

'Encouraging' Results For FSA As Horsemeat Tests Show 99% Labelled Correctly

Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.02.2013 | UK

The Food Standards Agency has found only 29 samples of beef products contained levels of horse meat 'above 1%' after testing 2501 samples following th...

BEAT THE WEEK: From Pope Jokes To Planetary Peril

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 15.02.2013 | UK

Shocking headlines have dominated the newsstands this week, from the Pope quitting on Monday, in a move not seen at the Vatican for 600 years, to Olym...

Funny Tweets Of The Week: The Pope, Russian Meteor And More

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.02.2013 | UK Comedy

We think Michael Moran said it best when he tweeted: Yes, indeed. PLUS it was Pancake Day. We rounded up some of our favourite Pope funnies ...

Mehdi's Morning Memo: Mili's Mansion Gamble

Mehdi Hasan | Mehdi Hasan | Posted 15.02.2013 | UK Politics

The five things you need to know on Friday 15 February 2013... 1) MILI'S MANSION GAMBLE If you're Ed Miliband, trailing on the economy in the po...