When you don't buy fresh ingredients and prepare it yourself. ...

So you buy meatballs from a home furnishing store and don't expect it to be made of horsemeat? Or sawdust?

Yeah, you get what you pay for.

 

Rat anus

 

The meatballs are in the cafe. It's not like you just buy a bag of meatballs.

 

Actually, you can. They're in that little gift shop/specialty food stand near the registers.

www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/70028680/

 

Well played.

 

Went to IKEA today and noticed the food posters have a sticker stating all the meatballs are from an American supplier.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/2013/02/28/chances-horse-meat-scandal-the/EHNrOCYwUjRF2rAp9ClEEI/story.html

 

HC & I buy about 99% of our meat from about four different farmers within about 100 kilometres of here.

One of the farmers sends all his animals to a local abattoir for "processing" but the farm butchers everything in their own facility. They have pastured raised chickens in the summer that will be processed after about three months and their average weight is 9-14 lbs. We know exactly what we're buying and we know that all animals are treated humanely. And best of all, everything---beef, lamb, chickens and pork taste significantly better.

The problem here is that the final product that you buy from most supermarkets has gone through so many hands in the industrial process that it's almost impossible to trace the source of everything that's in the burger or ground beef you're buying. And the FDA has basically allowed the large corporations to dictate things like packaging and what can be claimed as "organic", most of which is bullshit.

My brother was a vegetarian for about a decade, not because he thought eating meat was morally wrong, but because he didn't know where it was coming from. He's returned to eating meat now that he lives in rural Ontario and buys directly from the source (or from a local farmer's market)

The idea that eating horse meat is somehow more objectionable than beef, lamb or pig is a North American prejudice. Europeans eat it regularly

And horse meat or not, IKEA''s meatballs with their lingonberry sauce are delicious. And yes, you can buy them in their store.

 

Eating horse meat is not just a North American prejudice. It's also a fairly new addition (19th Century) to the diets of some Europeans.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2011/10/slaughtering_horses_for_meat_is_banned_in_the_u_s_why_.html

 

Not sure the 19th century qualifies as a "fairly new addition"