Oh you swine!Quote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
What piggish pigging-out!Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
Apologies for hogging the puns. :)
Printable View
Oh you swine!Quote:
Originally Posted by strangeirish
What piggish pigging-out!Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
Apologies for hogging the puns. :)
"Gardaí have been asked to investigate how pigs in the country came to be contaminated with the potentially harmful dioxins".
An outrage and an affront to Democracy.
I demand an independent inquiry.
Why should the Gardai be allowed investigate themselves?
This is no time for ham-fisted puns.
Yerrah they stick their snouts into everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
I can think of rasher things I could be doing to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
Someone's going to have their backside in the bacon slicer over this!
Not being smug. Just glad but also concerned as my kids eat meat. And smokers are evil.Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
well the rumour mill is in motion - a farm in Cavan was checked the other day for the quality of the beef - heard this twice last night:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
(could be rubbish though - probably)
anyway i am in my balls throwing out my rashers
The authorities have made a right pigs ear of it.
Excellent work by the government & their departments. Almost too many agencies involved in this to mention.
Minister Gormley on Q&A trying to defend why the Mill was not inspected in the 2008 calendar year. Tried to suggest that they were due an inspection soon. Unless department inspectors work Christmas week I find that very difficult to believe.
Bord Bia to replace their "quality assurance" with new labels.
http://exoticbiosolutions.com/DIOXIN%20FREE2.gif
But they die significantly younger so it's fair enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Hitler was a smoker but a vegetarian aswell.
More or less evil than me?? :)
Twice as evil surely. Obviously he gets points for the whole patriotism thing though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Don't forget that the feed was fed to cattle too so the poisonous dioxins would be in milk and cheese because it builds up in fat.
Merry Xmas.
I guess I will stick to my safe diet of just beer ;)
But I'm as big an anti-semite as the next man. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1208/pork.htmlQuote:
Almost 1,400 people have been laid off in the pig processing industry following the pork recall.
The lay-offs known so far are: Rosderra Meats, 850 laid off at the company's Edenderry, Clara, Roscrea and Jamestown (Laois) plants, McCarren Meats, Cavan, 140 laid off, Feldhues Ltd, Clones, Co Monaghan, 50 laid off, Callan Bacon, Co Kilkenny, 79 laid off, and in Queally Pigs, Co Waterford, 30 workers were given a day's holiday today and no date for a return to work.
The real cost of all this starting to hit home. :(
Harney's department again. Her list of achievements stretch all the way back to smokeless fuel in the 80's. Unfortunately they end there too.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
We must have been lied to about the tracability, or why they need for a total withdrawal from the market? If they know the farms involved, they should've just withdrawn products from the affected farms, or possibly from the affected farms. Similarly, they should by this stage be able to release the other products. Are they worried about similar contamination?
When you see the sheds full of pigs, you'd have to think this is part of the price for such intensive farming methods. When they showed a farm on the news it was similar to standard chickens. We have to get back to more sustainable farming methods that don't rely so much on processed feeds.
I agree with your last paragraph.
The official line on the total recall was to give a clear message to consumers, and to be seen to be acting decisively. This from Trevor Sergeant, another minister with his finger in the pie. He was on Matt Cooper, who pushed him on the whole traceability thing - I mean what's the point of traceability when they just go for 100% recall when something like this happens?
So in their act of "being seen to be reacting" there are 1400 people out of a job a few weeks before Christmas. They could have recalled all sausage type products, where the source might be questionable, and all effected products, and the producers would still be working away today. Instead they've left the industry in a mess, and the producers have every right to go looking for compensation.
Was it a pork pie?Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
China becomes latest country to ban Irish pork
http://www.breakingnews.ie/print/mhidsnqlmhid/
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2008_09_19/en/index.htmlQuote:
The Chinese authorities announced today that they were recalling all Irish pork products imported since September 1.
I know they have to, but this was the same country that allowed melamine into baby food:rolleyes:
Actually he wasn't, or rather he quit and started one of the first anti-tobacco movements. Sorry for being nerdly, I just read read it the other day. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Which probably means that smoking is quite cool, and I'm extra evil cos I quit too!
adam