Why is the Journal deleting posts on this thread when certain names already in the public domain are mentioned. The dogs in the street know the companies involved and have mentioned them umpteen times yet delete posts by readers.
I posted a comment several times edited the comment each time yet the comment was deleted. What is the point of public discourse if public opinion is rendered pointless. My previous 3 comments were utterly bland like this one. What gives?

Almost every morning I see a picture of a burger on TheJournal – you guys are making me SO HUNGRY!

FG get off your lazy ass and sort it out instead of hiding behind words
DNA was the test that found horse meat could have been donkey for all we know in beef burgers. Its much more than incorrectly labelling. As no one knows where the horse meat came from how can it be known it was suitable for human consumption.

The food inspectors were on the ball here in spotting this.
Just goes to show what some companies will put into food to increase their profits.

I bet the oireachtas commitee will make a horse of this.

Waste of time , it will be a non runner !

“Oireachtas committee may question ABP Food Group on horse meat” MAY question ABP???? Is it just me or should there be alarm bells going off all over the place in the highest echelons of the Irish government! This scandal has already cost the Irish companies involved €millions, it has cast doubt on the entire Irish beef industry which is worth €billions, now we have a company in Tyrone (ok not technically Irish but British) supplying halal pies with pork dna in them but it is being reported worldwide as ‘Irish or from Ireland’. First horse meat now pork meat where it should not be, the whole thing is starting to snowball, the reputation of Ireland’s meat and food producers is now under suspicion and these fools are deciding wether the “MAY” question the company that caused it. They should have everyone of the people involved from the top to the bottom of the supply chain in front of them explaining HOW this was allowed to happen, WHY products from Poland are being used in what is labeled IRISH beef, why pork or horse DNA is even present, what about the so called traceability of this meat, how can this still be trusted? The world is watching how the Irish deal with this and if someone at the top of the Irish govt. doesn’t pull their finger out and deal with this fast it is going to cost the Irish beef and other meat industries a lot more than it can afford. There should be no ‘May question these people’ it should be a priority that they do so immediately because the people who run these companies have questions to answer and the people who enforce the labelling of these products have questions to answer too.

How Latry Gooodman was allowed open any business ever again after the FF deal under Charlie H is incredible. I suppose Seanie Fitzpatrick will open another bank in a few years. It’s real Irish. Politicians have a lot to answer for over the years.

There is a piquant irony in using cattle to raise question about beef.

This horse meat problem involving the Silvercrest Meat company owned by the ABP Food Group reminds me of the meat tribunal back in 1991, oddly enough involving the same owner, wonder will there be another tribunal to get to the bottom of this outrageous wrong labelling of our meat products.
I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with eating horse meat, but we would all like to be able to decide if we want to buy and eat it.

Well said fotocrat agree 100 percent

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Sorry initial post disappeared:(