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Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:53 am

Meathope minced beef contained no beef, according to DNA tests
TOMAKOMAI, Hokkaido -- Samples of "100 percent beef" minced meat taken from the meat company at the center of a food safety scandal here contained no beef whatsoever, according to DNA tests by police.

The former president of financially troubled Meathope , Minoru Tanaka, 69, and three other former executives conspired to mislabel about 140 tons of minced beef mixed with other kind of meat as pure beef, and sold it over a one-year period until June this year, local police said.

Investigators commissioned experts to conduct DNA tests on about 100 samples taken from the company or provided by customers, and found that some of them contained no beef at all.

None of the samples were 100 percent beef as labeled, and they contained chicken, rabbit and duck meat as well as pork and mutton.

The company netted about 65 million yen from its sale of the 140 tons of mislabeled minced meat.

Local police are considering serving fresh arrest warrants, accusing the four of fraud over cases in which they can confirm that the victims were swindled.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20 ... 5000c.html

Valkyrie · Post by **Valkyrie** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:59 am

What's funny is that the stuff they substituted for beef, at least in this country, would actually go for more than the beef they're faking it out as. Then again, beef is a funny thing in Japan.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:12 pm

you think that's odd, there's a bio engineering lab that wants to make synthetic meat. Yeah that's right. Synth-meat.
Please someone get me to another planet quickly...

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:33 pm

hmmm so that must be the Meat that "MC Fondles" is thinking of replacing American beef with.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:37 pm

pinemom wrote:hmmm so that must be the Meat that "MC Fondles" is thinking of replacing American beef with.

okayyyyyy
that is best line I've seen in long time...."a bat call for hippies"....it gets a 10 by Olympic rating standards.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:47 pm

he he he he

...well thats kinda what he thinks of us!

and the surprise on all of our faces when they showed up...I started running....he was or wasnt surprised...not sure which...

(in the back of his mind Im sure was ...great* now my dad will never stop coming to this hippy crazy love fest in the desert, cause he just married legally on playa the biggest hippy freak Ive ever met)

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:38 pm

I used to be against the whole lab grown meat thing, but then I started thinking about it and it occured to me that the meat wouldn't be running around getting exercise. I think veal is very tasty; I haven't eaten it in at least twenty years.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:36 pm

synth veal. cute. So when Archie Bunker of the 22cd century calls out to his son in law he'll say
"Hey, Synth-Meat Head"!

HughMungus · Post by **HughMungus** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:54 pm

And there's lead in everything that comes out of China.

Bastards.

Post by **mdmf007** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:34 pm

Synth-Meat is already here its called Tofu

Also - whats it say about a vegan, when they want a product to taste, look, smell, and feel like meat - but not be meat?

just an observation

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:44 pm

Um. The lack of red blood has a negative effect on the imagination?

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:00 am

...That the company's name is "Meathope" should have been a dead giveaway. Or a never-was-alive-in-the-first-place-giveaway. Like the "rubber biscuit" or "wish sandwich"-

"Hey bubba how bubba shubba bubba....Bow Bow Bow"
-Elwood Blues

BigCock · Post by **BigCock** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:10 am

I can't imagine anything less erotic than someone thinking I'm a cow while they're eating my meat.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:57 am

cowboyangel wrote:you think that's odd, there's a bio engineering lab that wants to make synthetic meat. Yeah that's right. Synth-meat.
Please someone get me to another planet quickly...

Mmm-kay, and what are you planning to eat whilst you are vacationing on Pluto?

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:05 am

spiders and monkeys

madmatt · Post by **madmatt** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:06 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:None of the samples were 100 percent beef as labeled, and they contained chicken, rabbit and duck meat as well as pork and mutton.

I don't get it...why didn't they just label them "minced chicken, rabbit, duck, pork and mutton mix"???

That sounds delicious!!!! Imagine how burgers made with that would have tasted. Mmmmmm.....menagerilicious

Valkyrie · Post by **Valkyrie** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:07 pm

cowboyangel wrote:you think that's odd, there's a bio engineering lab that wants to make synthetic meat. Yeah that's right. Synth-meat.

If it's made out of synthetic proteins (I'm assuming you're not talking tofu-based stuff 'cause that's just flavored soybeans no matter what you call it.) Would synthetic proteins be considered vegan? Where do you draw the line with that stuff?

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:48 pm

i hate to admit it, but i have a taste for sizzle-lean done in the microwave.

it's like eating a flavored baseball mitt....

oh god, i'm hungry.

GREENPENIS · Post by **GREENPENIS** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:49 pm

Sizzle-lean is for people who can't handle the truth about bacon.

Post by **mdmf007** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:08 pm

Whats the truth about our friend bacon

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:28 pm

he's invisible

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:33 am

Does sizzle-lean have a "bacon number?"

I just found out what a "bacon number" was a couple of minutes ago.
Everything you (maybe) always wanted to know about "The Degrees of Bacon"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

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