How Much Beef Is In Your Burger?

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 20, 2013 @09:08AM from the where's-the-beef dept.

dgharmon writes in with an interesting article about how much (or how little) beef is in a UK burger. "The presence of horsemeat in value beefburgers has caused a furore. But what is usually in the patties? It has been a sobering week for fans of the beefburger. Tesco have used full-page adverts in national newspapers to apologize for selling burgers in the UK that were found to contain 29% horsemeat. Traces of horse DNA were also detected by the Food Standards Agency of Ireland in products sold by Iceland, Lidl, Aldi and Dunnes. But a beefburger rarely contains 100% beef."

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Re:Actually by Belial6 · 2013-01-20 10:42 · Score: -1, Troll

Maybe it is a cultural difference, but here in the US, the problem would most definitely not be the deception. It would be that it was horse. There is a wide spread mental disorder in the US where people cannot completely differentiate between humans and other animals. They believe that horses as well as dog and cats are simply humans in different form. They literally call buying a cat or dog "adopting".