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.
Is it still safe to consume Soylent?
Additional details at CNN.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 17 2017, @08:25PM (3 children)
I was told to ask for one at the safety office, but I decided instead to just not walk into a motherfucking particle beam.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @08:33PM (2 children)
WIMP
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @09:52PM
i think he got in the way of the beam, he'd be no Weakly Interacting Magnetic Particle. He'd have the beam burn right through him--it'd be pretty active and dynamic.
it happened to one guy before at some previous collider ring and he died. cooked right through him and it took a bit for them to clearly diagnose the issues he had.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 18 2017, @06:04PM
Your.
Move.
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