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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: 2) by unauthorized on Monday July 17 2017, @06:47PM (5 children)
Human civilization has been around for a few thousand years (roughly speaking, about 7500). Even if you take "we" to mean "the genius itself", we've only been around for tens of thousands.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @06:58PM
7500 years sounds like several to me not few I had to assume you where a young earth creationist
(Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Monday July 17 2017, @07:08PM (2 children)
The dog was the first domesticant,[10][11] and was established across Eurasia before the end of the Late Pleistocene era, well before cultivation and before the domestication [wikipedia.org] of other animals.
The beginning of the stage is defined by the base of the Eemian interglacial phase before the final glacial episode of the Pleistocene 126,000 ± 5,000 years ago. The end of the age is defined as 11,700 years ago.[1][2][3] The age represents the end of the Pleistocene epoch and is followed by the Holocene epoch.
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(Score: 1) by unauthorized on Monday July 17 2017, @07:27PM (1 child)
I take the emergence of civilization as our starting point, since synthetic biochemistry has more to do with our intellectual abilities than with our ability to modify animal behavior.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:47PM
So you judge by booze since that was almost certainly our first venture into chemistry, and as has been pointed out we at more than 250k years old as a species possibly far older, so what where we doing for the several hundred thousand years before RECORDED civilization ? a lot has been lost and our collective history may be a lot longer than we think, take the Hittites, they where relatively recent but we know almost nothing of their civilization because the destroyed themselves and wrote in cuneiform but not in know languages, or the cretens or or and these are just peoples that exit within your arbitrary boundary, we know there where cities in south America that clearly had civilizations (trade population trans migration etc) but they have no written record how many times has none industrial society s been destroyed and like the Spanish with the mayans destroyed all their writings? we have no way to know unless you think we got smarter 7500 years ago for no determinable reason, the difference of us is oil and coal, and maybe the stupid blindness to barrel forward without regard for thinking.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:58AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?