Is that better or worse than the wrong kind of meat?

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Meanwhile, in Iceland, a food official said his team had found a beef product which contained no meat at all.

Chief meat inspector Kjartan Hreinsson said a brand of locally produced beef pie found at a Reykjavik supermarket had "no mammalian DNA."

"That was the peculiar thing," he said. "It was labeled as beef pie, so it should be beef pie."

Hreinsson said they appeared to have been stuffed with some sort of vegetable matter.

Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/news/world/article/Taco-Bell-Icelandic-pies-drawn-into-meat-scandal-4320189.php#ixzz2MJSOU2Xq

(Gosh, that's clever: I copied the text from an AP article, and when I hit paste it put the 'read more' and link in automagically! How does that work?)

Comments

[andrewducker]

There are a fair few sites that automatically copy extra text when you copy/paste. Basically, it overrides the "copy" functionality to do what it already did, and appends some extra text on the end. It is pretty neat.

[nils.livejournal.com]

In Norweigian (which is similar to Icelandic), if you remove the 'h' from his surname, it translates as 'son of raindeer'. I probably shouldn't find this amusing, but I do...

[the-same-sky.livejournal.com]

I'd say that as it is vegetarian it is better... But I do have to say that I find this wrong meat stuff hugely unsettling!

I am glad that I know where all mine comes from (most from the people that deliver my veg box, who can tell you the names of farms and farmers, and then a few bits from Borough Market, as I live near there.)