Deadlock reached over Dobbingate

 
Products withdrawn: Tesco has removed value burgers from shelves
16 January 2013

One of the nation’s favourite poets, Pam Ayres, has been moved to verse by the horse burger scandal at Tesco.

“They have eaten poor old Dobbin who was grazing by the sea/ They put him in a Tesco burger, buy one get one free.” Ayres is an animal lover who lives in the Cotswolds and keeps rare breeds of cattle, as well as some sheep, pigs, chickens and guinea fowl. She is also a keen gardener and beekeeper and is a patron of the Battery Hen Welfare Trust.

Meanwhile, others can’t see what all the fuss is about. Barry Sheerman, MP for Huddersfield, tweeted this morning: “I remember being served horse meat in France, not quite as nice as kangaroo in Australia.” Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc is all in favour. “I must tell you that the horses were not French but Irish,” he tweeted this morning. “And what’s wrong with HORSEMEAT?”

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