Horse Meat in United Kingdom Causes Uproar

The Takeaway

The French eat pigeons, and snails, and brains, and thymus glands, and calf pancreas, so why should anybody care if the French serve up horse meat and expect the world to take a big bite?
But it’s a huge scandal in Europe and in the United Kingdom with charges that horse meat was sold as beef from a French supplier. Now there are charges that chemicals and drugs used in the raising of horses may have contaminated the broader European food supply.Paddy O’Connell  is the host of the BBC’s Broadcasting House.

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