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Horse meat may be eaten without the knowledge of the consumer, due to accidental or fraudulent introduction of horse meat into human food. A 2003 Food Standards Agency investigation revealed that certain sausages, salami, and similar products such as chorizo and pastrami sometimes contained horse meat without it being listed, [ 120 ] although ...
Because American horses are not intended for the human food chain, they often receive medications banned by the Food and Drug Administration for use in food animals. [29] Concern also exists that horse meat will be mixed with ground-beef products [30] and sold improperly labeled in the US, as occurred during the European 2013 horse meat scandal.
In January 2013, concerns first arose about the possibility that horse meat containing traces of the veterinary drug phenylbutazone could enter the human food chain, [34] [52] in spite of regulations that horses treated with it cannot legally be used for human consumption. [69] The drug, commonly known as "bute", is used as an analgesic in ...
The Australian meat substitution scandal of 1981 involved the widespread substitution of horse meat and kangaroo meat for beef in Australia. [1] While the substitution primarily affected meat exported overseas, particularly to the United States, further investigations revealed that these, as well as donkey meat and pet food, had been packaged for human consumption and non-halal meat was sold ...
In Switzerland, horse owners have a choice of legal status for their animals, depending on their activity. A horse intended for food production is a livestock animal, while a leisure horse that is not intended for slaughter is a pet excluded for life from the food chain, the choice being final. [54] [55] [56]
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The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. New research provides the first direct ...
Food chain in a Swedish lake. Osprey feed on northern pike, which in turn feed on perch which eat bleak which eat crustaceans.. A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice ...