The question for the Poll should be “Are you happy to eat processed items labelled as Irish Beef?”

Clearly unprocessed steak is a steak which everyone will assume is beef and be happy to eat for what it can only be.

It’s the burgers, lasagnas and packaged processed product that is may be dubious.

As long as your buying decent beef from a good butcher you can’t go wrong… You get what you pay for with that cheap, processed crap!

This will be good for our local economy if people start buying from butchers not massive chains of supermarkets. Buy from your local butcher. Safest option studied nutrition and buy every bit of meat from butchers from my breakfast to my dinner all from butcher. Scary what goes into ye packet meats in supermarket. Horse meat least of our worries.

Yep, love a nice bit of meat. I only buy from the local butchers because they give better value than supermarkets anyway.
And although I like a burger from the chippy, and it may not be great meat, I don’t care. It hasn’t killed me yet.

Of course I’m still happy. If you buy your beef from a good butcher’s you have nothing to worry about. It’s those that buy those awful microwave meals that should finally be starting to question what they are eating.

Buy the bord bia meat and you’re getting the best. I’m a bord bia approved farmer and I give my moo moos a wonderful life. The inspections are annoying but they’re for the best really. I really hope some heads roll over the horse meat scandal cause farmers were being betrayed as much as consumers

Been eating it again since Cheltenham started.
It’s like one big ad.
Drooling!

Processed meat and any cheap meat in supermarkets is off the menu and will remain so! Mince in supermarkets is dreadful muck! Irish beef bought from your own reputable butcher is the only intelligent option for those interested in food quality!

The only Irish product here in Barbados is Kerrygold and that is currently out of stock.
The Minister should get his act together.
The Kiwis sell cheese and butter here.

Fortunately they don’t test for rat and canine DNA or we’d have a real scandal!

Yes, but not the value/cheap/processed beef. Rarely ate that before but I had been known to buy a ready meal occasionally, will be veg meals now when I’m stuck. But you have to wonder what makes the value chicken so much cheaper, and value smoked salmon and prawns in tesco, how do they make it so much cheaper than the normal stuff? I feel like they should test all meat and fish products, but then I guess that would cost too much and they’d just add the price to the product.

Survey is flawed the issue surrounds processed meat not beef.

In a recent blind test, with beef steaks V horsemeat steaks and minced beef V minced horsemeat
Horsemeat came out on top
Try it

Goodman, popped up again ,
Proof if it was needed that tribunals are a waste of time,
Eat beef when the beef barons are no longer protected by our overpaid legal system

I wouldnt consciously go buy horse meat.. But fact is i’ve proabaly already ate it be it in a processed burger or whatever, it didnt kill me so yes im still buying/eating as much as i did..

I’m very happy to eat Irish beef, that hasn’t changed. I’m just far more aware that the beef on sale in Ireland may not be Irish beef.

There is nothing wrong with beef that is sold across the butchers counter , It’s the processed and prepacked burgers and such that we would be very reluctant to purchase.

I worked as a butcher for a few years and there are label issues in them as well,big difference between minced beef and minced meat.Also alot of the older display meat goes into mince meat including lamb and pork.Always pay attention to the wording

I buy my beef from the local butcher. It keep business local plus I know it’s trusted. He’ll make up burgers for you in front of you. He’ll even mince the steak in front of you.

I find it funny that anyone who buys a cheap ready meal, would get so uptight about what kind of meat goes in it!! They clearly dont care about how food tastes, looks, nutritional value etc etc, so what’s one more compromise!

Don’t eat any meat, so not an issue.

To be honest I have never really though about processed meats v regular meats until recent events entered the news steam and I have eaten horse meat and other meats that are non conventional, at least here in Ireland without problem. …. the problem for me is the apparent chaos in the processed meats sector which raises the question of : what exactly are we eating ? ….. it’s scary, disgusting and seemingly unregulated and if other consumers are thinking in the same way as me it will spell the end, hopefully, for this cowboy like end of the food chain

i couldnt give a shite, foods food at the end of the day. before this horse crap nobody was any wiser and we all enjoyed our meat

I don’t know. I’m not sure I’ve ever had any.

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I thought Irish meat products were sold to foreign resteraunts and what we eat is other countries left overs?

Well who buys i in the supermarket anyway. In my local butcher I know its good and even its cheaper and quality is better…. but beef is even the one I eat and ate less than the other anyway

Folks this is only a suggestion ; but I have found that Chaucer’s “Miller” in “The Canterbury Tales” gives the best insight to the mind of some of those who are involved in the beef industry ! ……. I may be wrong but I doubt it !
If Yeats were alive now he would be writing “add the half horse to the beef ” ………… the greasy till – money the root of all evil ….yada yada yada ..it has been going on for years !..it will continue to go on without a complete overhaul of our food system !

No qualms whatsoever about eating beef, although im not a big meat eater anyway. I’d never touch that processed crap, which really should have been the question.

Since this whole scandal broke, every bit of meat i look at nay’s at me.. I know its the processed stuff that is the problem, but i buy meat out of butchers and still dont fully trust it!!!

If you want Irish beef, go to a butcher.
If you want something that was once in a factory with beef and has Irish beef in it……

I wouldnt write off horsemeat as such,on the continent where its eaten pepole prefer it to cow,beef cattle which have been injected with hormones and anti-biotic drugs for all kinds of deseases can be even worse for your health,dont get the idea that beef is all good,it is far from being the case if the animal has been overloaded with chemicals.

Keeping well clear of mince anyway!!

thanks god I am a vegetarian and don’t need to worry about this scandal – unless the are putting uniquorn in the veggie burgers!

thanks god I am a vegetarian and don’t need to be concerned about all these scandals unless they are putting uniquorn in the veggie burgers

absomooloutly

I’d be happier eating British Beef, but that’s just me.

Im very happy and always have been with my local butcher , I never have or will by prepacked from a supermarket.