China Wal-Mart surprise: How did fox meat get into donkey products?

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Christian Science Monitor:

f the discovery of “pink slime” in American hamburgers and horse meat in European ones made you squeamish, read no further.

 

Wal-Mart has just recalled donkey meat products from some of its stores in China because tests have found them to be contaminated with fox meat.

 

Donkey is a delicacy in northern China. Fox is not.

 

Fox meat smells rank, according to those who know. But it is cheap (less than 50 US cents a pound) because Chinese farmers who raise foxes for their fur have no use for the animal carcasses once they have been flayed.

Food processing companies get away with mixing in a little fox with whichever meat they claim to be selling by using products such as “The King of Rank Smell Removers.” For more details (and a pretty gory picture of fox corpses) see Gwynn Guilford's Quartz article. The Guangdong company's website is selling the same sort of chemical as police in the city of Wuxi last year found being used to make frog meat taste like mutton.

 

[SrWoodchuck]

:

f the discovery of “pink slime” in American hamburgers and horse meat in European ones made you squeamish, read no further.

 

Wal-Mart has just recalled donkey meat products from some of its stores in China because tests have found them to be contaminated with fox meat.

 

Donkey is a delicacy in northern China. Fox is not.

 

Fox meat smells rank, according to those who know. But it is cheap (less than 50 US cents a pound) because Chinese farmers who raise foxes for their fur have no use for the animal carcasses once they have been flayed.

Food processing companies get away with mixing in a little fox with whichever meat they claim to be selling by using products such as “The King of Rank Smell Removers.” For more details (and a pretty gory picture of fox corpses) see Gwynn Guilford's Quartz article. The Guangdong company's website is selling the same sort of chemical as police in the city of Wuxi last year found being used to make frog meat taste like mutton.

 

 

 

I once ate a well prepared lamb chop....and twice, I've even choked down some Mexican spicy lamb stew....[come to think of it I've even had a Greek lamb gyro....with excellent yogurt/cucumber dressing].....but I'd need more that chemicals in the food to eat mutton.