Germany's development minister has suggested food tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.
Dirk Niebel said he supported the proposal by a member of the governing CDU party, and concluded: "We can't just throw away good food."
The opposition dismissed the idea, but a priest said it should be considered.
Meanwhile, traces of horse DNA have been found in six tonnes of minced beef and 2,400 packs of lasagne bolognese seized from a company in Italy.
The products were packaged by Italian group Primia, which is based in the town of San Giovanni in Persiceto, near the city of Bologna.
The health ministry said Primia had used meat from another company in Brescia and originally supplied by two other companies, also based there.
It is the first positive test in Italy since the scandal erupted last month.
Earlier, the Italian authorities said they had found no traces of horsemeat in beef products seized this week from the Swiss food giant, Nestle.
The health ministry said the 26 tons of cooked and frozen mince beef meals would be returned. A Nestle spokesman welcomed the decision.
On Monday, Nestle announced that it was withdrawing two types of beef pasta meals from supermarkets in Italy and Spain after test revealed traces of horse DNA.
A problem was identified with a supplier in Germany, H J Schypke, it said.
Another German supplier, Dreistem, has been blamed for recalls of tinned goulash sold by the Lidl in Germany and Scandinavia, while a third, Vossko, has been accused by Liechtenstein's Hiclona of supplying beef tainted by horse for a pasta product withdrawn in Austria and Germany. All three companies have blamed their own suppliers.
On Friday evening, Germany's consumer affairs ministry announced that it had now found traces of horse DNA in 67 of 830 food products tested.
On Saturday, a prominent member of the governing CDU party, Hartwig Fischer, told Bild newspaper that products tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.
The BBC's Steve Evans in Berlin says others have echoed the sentiment, including Mr Niebel, who said there were 800 million people in the world who were hungry.
"Even in Germany, unfortunately there are people for whom it is financially tight, even for food. I think that we can't just throw away good food here in Germany."
The opposition has dismissed the idea as "absurd" and an insult to poor people, our correspondent adds, but Prelate Bernhard Felmberg, the senior representative of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), has backed the proposal.
"We as a Church find the throw-away mentality in our society concerning. How and whether to distribute the products in question would have to be examined," the priest said.
"But to throw away food that could be consumed without risk is equally bad as false labelling and cannot be a solution."
Meanwhile, France's agriculture ministry said several horse carcasses containing the drug phenylbutazone, also known as bute, had probably entered the human food chain.
A ministry spokesman told the AFP news agency that it was alerted by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) that six carcasses had been exported to France in January, but that the meat had already been processed. There was only a "minor" health risk, he added.
Earlier, three major French food companies have agreed to use only French beef in their products.
Findus - one of the firms at the heart of the scandal - and retailers Carrefour and Intermarche announced at the French Agricultural Salon that they would start using labels saying "100% French" from March.
French President Francois Hollande has said he wants mandatory labelling of the origin of meat used in processed food products. However, only a change in European Union legislation can compel manufacturers.
European agriculture ministers are expected to discuss origin labelling and meat traceability at a meeting in Brussels on Monday.
Let them eat horse.
Let them eat horse.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Let them eat horse.
Zounds Gut To Me!
eta:
This dove-tails nicely into a food stamp rant that's been on my mind.
That crappy market across the street seems to attract a sh-tload of people on food stamps, all ethnicities and ages.
Items being purchased with taxpayer monies range from the sublime to the ridiciulous. Basic food stuffs all the way to martini olives. WTF, martini olives?
I was behind some twenty nothing-twit who used the ever present snap card to buy several energy drinks and bags of chips. Who the hell are these people?
I can see using the snap card for basic food stuffs, fruit, vegetables, etc.
Since B.O. has been in office its seems like everyone and his brother are on food stamps and you and I footing the bill for these moochers!
DAMMED PARASITES!
/rant
eta:
This dove-tails nicely into a food stamp rant that's been on my mind.
That crappy market across the street seems to attract a sh-tload of people on food stamps, all ethnicities and ages.
Items being purchased with taxpayer monies range from the sublime to the ridiciulous. Basic food stuffs all the way to martini olives. WTF, martini olives?
I was behind some twenty nothing-twit who used the ever present snap card to buy several energy drinks and bags of chips. Who the hell are these people?
I can see using the snap card for basic food stuffs, fruit, vegetables, etc.
Since B.O. has been in office its seems like everyone and his brother are on food stamps and you and I footing the bill for these moochers!
DAMMED PARASITES!
/rant
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Let them eat horse.
I think we might be deviating from the horse meat topic, but the increased promotion of the SNAP/Food Stamp - which resulted in more people receiving them - started under the Dubya administration. That is not to say it is a bad thing. It is to say that for some reason people think that more people receiving Food Stamps is a bad thing and it's Obama's "fault".
There was a big push by the federal government that began in 2008 to inform people who may not be aware that they could be eligible for food stamps. They also changed the rules in order to allow more people to qualify for them. So then a lot of people eventually checked into it and now more people receive them.
And btw - what's wrong with the government paying for martini olives?
They're better for you than horse meat...
(notice how I tied that in to the thread topic. Nice job if I do say so myself)
There was a big push by the federal government that began in 2008 to inform people who may not be aware that they could be eligible for food stamps. They also changed the rules in order to allow more people to qualify for them. So then a lot of people eventually checked into it and now more people receive them.
And btw - what's wrong with the government paying for martini olives?
They're better for you than horse meat...
(notice how I tied that in to the thread topic. Nice job if I do say so myself)
Re: Let them eat horse.
In Japan horsemeat sushi, basashi, is considered such a rare delicacy that it is offered to honored guests.
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rubato
yrs,
rubato
Re: Let them eat horse.
thx for the info, joe.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Let them eat horse.
And the "fifth leg" is considered a delicacy in North Korea when eating dog.rubato wrote:In Japan horsemeat sushi, basashi, is considered such a rare delicacy that it is offered to honored guests.
yrs,
rubato
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Let them eat horse.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ir ... 89930.html
I've always heard that the Irish love horses I just didn't get that it was a culinary thing.
"... Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney said gardai were now working closely with his department following the revelation that the B&F Meats plant in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, was sending horse meat to the Czech Republic labelled as beef .
Officers of the department's Special Investigations Unit entered the plant yesterday afternoon and all operations there have been suspended .
The raid comes almost three years after one of the company's directors, Ted Farrell, came before an Oireachtas Committee calling for a relaxing of the rules for slaughtering horses for human consumption .
He said that rejecting horses on the basis of medical treatment they received years before “does not make sense” .
. ... "
yrs,
rubato
I've always heard that the Irish love horses I just didn't get that it was a culinary thing.
"... Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney said gardai were now working closely with his department following the revelation that the B&F Meats plant in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, was sending horse meat to the Czech Republic labelled as beef .
Officers of the department's Special Investigations Unit entered the plant yesterday afternoon and all operations there have been suspended .
The raid comes almost three years after one of the company's directors, Ted Farrell, came before an Oireachtas Committee calling for a relaxing of the rules for slaughtering horses for human consumption .
He said that rejecting horses on the basis of medical treatment they received years before “does not make sense” .
. ... "
yrs,
rubato