Recall notice for Irish pork products

**kingdom hoop** · 08/12/2008, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by strangeirish

When I saw the headline, I thought Mary Harney went on another trip to Florida.

Oh you swine!

Originally Posted by noby

Pigs would eat anything.

What piggish pigging-out!

Apologies for hogging the puns.

**Wolfie** · 08/12/2008, 12:58 PM

"Garda� 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?

**noby** · 08/12/2008, 1:03 PM

This is no time for ham-fisted puns.

**kingdom hoop** · 08/12/2008, 1:03 PM

Originally Posted by Wolfie

Why should the Gardai be allowed investigate themselves?

Yerrah they stick their snouts into everything.

**kingdom hoop** · 08/12/2008, 1:04 PM

Originally Posted by noby

This is no time for ham-fisted puns.

I can think of rasher things I could be doing to be honest.

**noby** · 08/12/2008, 1:06 PM

Someone's going to have their backside in the bacon slicer over this!

**Magicme** · 08/12/2008, 1:43 PM

Originally Posted by noby

All smugness aside, you probably picked up more dioxins walking past a smoker than any pig eater did by eating the meat in question.

Not being smug. Just glad but also concerned as my kids eat meat. And smokers are evil.

**bennocelt** · 08/12/2008, 1:48 PM

Originally Posted by Battery Rover

Was thinking that myself. I bought a full animal last week to save money and have it all in the freezer.

I really hope this doesn't spread to the sheep market or I will have the loss of two of them as well.

At least I know our own cattle are grass fed and are totally safe if it does spread to that market.

Time to buy a few pigs and rear them for food with all these scares going round.

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

(could be rubbish though - probably)

anyway i am in my balls throwing out my rashers

**tricky_colour** · 08/12/2008, 9:52 PM

The authorities have made a right pigs ear of it.

**pete** · 08/12/2008, 11:19 PM

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.

**Lim till i die** · 08/12/2008, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by Magicme

smokers are evil.

But they die significantly younger so it's fair enough.

Hitler was a smoker but a vegetarian aswell.

More or less evil than me??

**John83** · 09/12/2008, 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by Lim till i die

But they die significantly younger so it's fair enough.

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.

**tricky_colour** · 09/12/2008, 12:26 AM

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

**Lim till i die** · 09/12/2008, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by John83

Twice as evil surely. Obviously he gets points for the whole patriotism thing though.

But I'm as big an anti-semite as the next man.

**Ringo** · 09/12/2008, 6:33 AM

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.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1208/pork.html
The real cost of all this starting to hit home.

**Macy** · 09/12/2008, 7:43 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Excellent work by the government & their departments. Almost too many agencies involved in this to mention.

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.

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.

**noby** · 09/12/2008, 8:03 AM

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.