Ireland horsemeat burger scam; it’s a height of food contamination

One of the leading burger makers of the Ireland has to retrieve nearly 10 million beef burgers from the market over the suspicion of horsemeat in them. Earlier independent sources in Ireland tested in laboratory some samples of these burgers. They found horsemeat in few of them. This issue brought into the public notice and all of a sudden the referred burger company decided to get back all the burgers which it supplied in previous days. Its total quantity is said to be nearly 10 million. This is an open case of food contamination that is mostly rare in developed countries.  

Facts are facts

The European media is now defending the irresponsibility of the company by saying that horsemeat does not have fewer nutrients than the beef. But the main question is not the harmfulness of the contents you offered to consumers. This is the issue of food contamination because you are mixing the meat of lower quality with a higher quality meat. The meat of the horse is quite cheaper than the beef because horses are not grown to eat their meat. Usually they are kept for riding purpose and their most of the uses are purely commercial like keeping in defense forces and in some sports.

Ireland’s credibility as beef exporter at stake

The matter is under investigation of Ireland court. But the credibility of the Ireland is at stake because it is huge exporter of beef to Middle East, Asia and Europe on the back of its strong dairy farming sector in rural economy. If it is proved that key beef packaging companies may resort to adulteration, it may hit the export of the country consequently.

Act by mistake or willfully

It is very surprising to note that most of the western media is treating this issue as if mistakenly the horsemeat additives were put in the famous brand of beef burgers and that’s all. That is why green civil society of the world is keeping mum over this issue. Selling ten million adulterated burgers mean deceiving the ten million consumers. It shows the lethargy of the producers all across the world. Just to promote consumerism they can go to any extent and this is the bleakest example of their greed of just fulfilling the consumer demand at any cost.

Thanks to consumer protection laws

It is rightly said if there are no consumer protection laws; most of the producers and manufacturers of the consumer goods would have sold poison in packaging of panacea. They also shrewdly protect their misdeeds by camouflaging the facts in fascinating terms. Here in this horsemeat burger scandal, they are just comparing the nutrients of the horsemeat with the beef.

Food contamination is harmful

Admitted, that this type of food contamination is far better than the one adopted in poor countries. In many backward countries various harmful stuffs are mixed into food and openly sold in the market with the connivance of those who are responsible to check the food quality. But it is also a reality that if you mix little silver in the gold it is also called contamination because you are blending two different metals with each other. So mixing two different types of meat and selling it on the name of the costlier one is also food contamination. We should raise voice against it.