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After becoming somewhat used to food scares from China, now we have sleazy operators in Europe too.
From the ABC News article:
Authorities have arrested at least 66 people in a European food scam which sold horse meat unfit for human consumption.
European Union police coordinating organization Europol announced Sunday that eight nations cooperated in the operation. In Spain, 65 people face a series of charges relating to public health, money laundering and animal abuse.
The operation took several months and the chief suspect, a Dutch businessman, was arrested in Belgium in April.
Spain's Civil Guard said that the criminal ring acquired horses in Spain and Portugal that were "in poor shape, old, or had been designated 'not apt for consumption.'" After falsifying paperwork and substituting microchips used to identify the horses, the animals were slaughtered and the meat shipped to Belgium.
The Civil Guard said that the profits from the illegal meat could reach 20 million euros ($23 million) a year.
The case was linked to a 2013 scandal when Irish authorities detected beef burgers containing horse meat.
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Additional details at CNN.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @06:37PM (8 children)
You've been watching the strain haven't you?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 17 2017, @06:45PM (7 children)
I think I only saw S01E01 but there was probably some similar stuff in True Blood. Maybe I'll get back into it; I like del Toro.
And you don't have to look to fiction to guess this could happen. There's gotta be some rich libertarians out there harvesting transplantable organs to keep themselves alive. Maybe all parties in a transaction like that can feel that they've won.
We definitely know that rich couples (including gay couples) are using surrogate mothers in poor countries:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-28679020 [bbc.com]
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/05/dwindling-options-for-surrogacy-abroad/484688/ [theatlantic.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:04PM (6 children)
Sorry perhaps you missed my reference to Peter Thiel that is a known vampire
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood [vanityfair.com]
so it's not a long jump to long pig
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 17 2017, @07:11PM (5 children)
Naw, I know about it. It's one of aristarchus's favorite memes after all.
I don't really think much of it. If you can culture meat, you can probably reproduce whatever junk in blood that might be causing the effect, which is not that well studied. Thiel is better off chucking some more money at Aubrey de Grey and nibbling on low calorie meals.
It does say a lot about Count Thiel that he would not only jump on such an unproven "treatment", but admit it to the press.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:31PM (4 children)
Goes to my larger point about VC's but the question still stands, despite seemingly promising results and seemingly understood biology Where is my vat steak?
Your dog wants vat steak but can't have it because ??
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 17 2017, @07:43PM (3 children)
It is an admittedly immature technology, and it also needs to scale up to compete with established cattle/livestock production. The processes may eventually produce higher quality meat than is possible by using livestock (you may be able to create marbled [wikipedia.org] "cuts" or weird "cuts" that have never existed in nature), but the easiest meat to produce will probably be ground meat, even in the case of chicken [aidells.com]. So maybe another year or two before your dog can get a firm vat steak. And it's not clear to me that these companies are going to be growing cuts of meat with bones in them.
It may also face regulatory hurdles and consumer ick factor that simply aren't felt by meatless vegan alternatives like Impossible, Boca, Morningstar, et al. Obviously, your vegan food can still be contaminated by E-Coli and other nasties, but vat meat is going to face USDA scrutiny.
I will note that PETA has shown support for the technology. In fact, they've been funding [peta.org] it [peta.org].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @08:06PM (2 children)
So your saying hamburgers are easy? well
That'll do pig that'll do
Where's my beef?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 17 2017, @09:07PM (1 child)
I dunno mane
The headline
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @10:18PM
Mang, the headline tells me nothing.