This how savings could be achieved. People who shop at butchers/ buy real meat have
to spend more money, because meat is more expensive. Even an increase in meat production from increased demand would not lower prices enough. People are thus on
the whole going to be eating less red meat which is healthier. Also eating real/butchers meat is healthier than processed meat because it
contains less hidden hydrogenated fats and all that malarkey. Now I predict that 58%
in the next 5 years will not have stuck with abandoning processed meat, but a fair portion will have.
Obviously there is going to be a saving on the NHS and
welfare budget because of this. But it’s probably not going to be enough to stop their budgets growing experientially until the state is nothing more than a glorified wheelchair. So what I suggest is this. As people hate Horsemeat make sure, like the statutory 42% of meat needed to deem a sausage a sausage, that any processed meats that are not above say 50% in meat content contain 10% horse. That way people will eat less of this meat and this will save us billions. Not a very free market thing to do on the face of it but saving the public coffers a mint from a lot less fat people in the future as no one seems to want to gorge on horse.
If only the idea was workable.
If only the idea was workable.
P.S. For all those who actually want to know, I actually like Horse I had it in France and it was fine, I personally find it odd how the British public view it as the meat of the devil.
I don't think people who go for a kebab really care what meat they're putting into their mouths...
ReplyDeleteI thought this too. Honestly I was surprised. It is likely that the usual drunken clientèle of the kebab shop may not care but there has been a noted fall.
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