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Walmart Recalls Donkey Meat In China Because It Contained Fox

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, has recalled donkey meat sold at some outlets in China after tests showed the product contained the DNA of other animals, the U.S. company said.

Wal-Mart will reimburse customers who bought the tainted "Five Spice" donkey meat and is helping local food and industry agencies in eastern Shandong province investigate its Chinese supplier, it said late on Wednesday in official posts on China's Twitter-like Weibo. The Shandong Food and Drug Administration earlier said the product contained fox meat.

The scandal could dent Wal-Mart's reputation for quality in China's $1 trillion food and grocery market where it plans to open 110 new stores in the next few years. China is the largest grocery market in the world and is set to grow to $1.5 trillion by 2016, according to the Institute of Grocery Distribution.


Walmart Recalls Donkey Meat In China Because It Contained Fox


Sounds like they toss any animal they can get their hands on into the meat grinder.
 
That's too bad. I don't think the horse meat market in the US has had that problem, yet.
 
Good. Fox goes right to my hips. I prefer that lean donkey meat.
 
foxes and owls are the best animals because they are cool. i support eating those who eat these cool animals.
 
Fox hunting is a popular sport in my local area, unsure of the legality of chasing them though.

I see. Well here in America we think they're adorable and would just as soon see a glimpse of them on the forests edge now and again as to shooting them. :)
 
I see. Well here in America we think they're adorable and would just as soon see a glimpse of them on the forests edge now and again as to shooting them. :)

Says you, personally, I'll shoot anything that looks at me funny. ;)


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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, has recalled donkey meat sold at some outlets in China after tests showed the product contained the DNA of other animals, the U.S. company said.

Wal-Mart will reimburse customers who bought the tainted "Five Spice" donkey meat and is helping local food and industry agencies in eastern Shandong province investigate its Chinese supplier, it said late on Wednesday in official posts on China's Twitter-like Weibo. The Shandong Food and Drug Administration earlier said the product contained fox meat.

The scandal could dent Wal-Mart's reputation for quality in China's $1 trillion food and grocery market where it plans to open 110 new stores in the next few years. China is the largest grocery market in the world and is set to grow to $1.5 trillion by 2016, according to the Institute of Grocery Distribution.


Walmart Recalls Donkey Meat In China Because It Contained Fox


Sounds like they toss any animal they can get their hands on into the meat grinder.

Who are they?
 
USDA approves poisonous Chinese imports so Americans can die and ease overpopulation concerns.
Food safety horror stories abound in China. More than 50,000 children were sickened and four died in 2008 after consuming baby formula tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical. Hong Kong authorities also discovered eggs contaminated with melamine.
In March, for reasons unknown, 12,000 dead pigs floated down a river leading to Shanghai. Avian influenza, or bird flu, re-emerged in chicken flocks this year, killing 44 people. Nearly half the rice sold in the city of Guangzhou earlier this year was tainted with cadmium, according to news accounts.
The European Union reported that China shipped potatoes infested with insects, ginger laced with salmonella, pumpkin seeds containing glass chips and frozen calamari contaminated by arsenic to Europe last year.
USDA officials halted imports of Chinese shrimp, eel, catfish and carp in 2007 because of high levels of illegal antibiotics and chemicals. Three years later, officials seized thousands of pounds of Chinese honey after finding illegal antibiotics. And this year, more than 500 dogs and a handful of cats died after eating jerky treats made of chicken, according to an investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
 
That's too bad. I don't think the horse meat market in the US has had that problem, yet.

Real salami made ​​with 20% of horse meat. I have never seen in the United States real salami.:(
 
Real salami made ​​with 20% of horse meat. I have never seen in the United States real salami.:(

And what are you trying to say with that?
 
Just another day in China. This is the least surprising news to come form China, ever.
 
When I lived on the Rez, we use to shoot a wild burro a couple times a year and cook it in the ground overnight. Then the next day after doing what was normal every day on the Rez, drinking beer all day long, we dig it up and made burritos.

A real burrito is made with burro meat, it's where it got it's name from.
 
When I lived on the Rez, we use to shoot a wild burro a couple times a year and cook it in the ground overnight. Then the next day after doing what was normal every day on the Rez, drinking beer all day long, we dig it up and made burritos.

A real burrito is made with burro meat, it's where it got it's name from.

... Really? I'm in Mexico and have never had it with donkey meat or even seen it sold anywhere. Mexicans must have been give up on the whole donkey eating thing - or you could just be making it up. Burro is also a reference to someone who is either dumb or carries something heavy often. The second is the one that applies to burritos as they're usually loaded with beans, rice and meats much like a cart being pulled by a donkey would be. What's next? Nachos got their name from a guy named Ignacio? I'll let you figure that one out.
 
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... Really? I'm in Mexico and have never had it with donkey meat or even seen it sold anywhere. Mexicans must have been give up on the whole donkey eating thing - or you could just be making it up. Burro is also a reference to someone who is either dumb or carries something heavy often. The second is the one that applies to burritos as they're usually loaded with beans, rice and meats much like a cart being pulled by a donkey would be. What's next? Nachos got their name from a guy named Ignacio? I'll let you figure that one out.

Not talking about the small little Mexican donkey, but a burro. Wild American burros, that are off breeds of old miners burros who prospected in the American Southwest during the 1800's. There's thousands and thousands of them running wild in the California, Arizona and Nevada deserts today. And American Indians in the American Southwest have been eating them for just as long.

The burrito is Sonoran.

As the story goes, some Chihuahua's (Apache) were returning from a raiding party into Mexico. Some of their loot was a stack of some tortillas. When they got back to the United States they shot a wild burro and cooked it. They threw some burro meat into the tortilla and rolled it up and they had a burrito. :lol:
 
I was always told that the food came to be called "burrito" because the vendors that sold them traveled on donkeys so the food came to be known as the burrito or "little donkey". I've never heard they were called that because they were made from donkey.
 
I see. Well here in America we think they're adorable and would just as soon see a glimpse of them on the forests edge now and again as to shooting them. :)

In my country they're feral pests that should be shot and fed to the Chinese.
 
In my country they're feral pests that should be shot and fed to the Chinese.

Yeah I get that. I won't speak for the whole country but on my rural property the coon, armadillo, possum, and skunk are the nuisance pests and they are sent to Jesus with regularity. The fox on the other hand, is very seldom seen and has never bothered me, and when I do see one (4 sightings in 17 years here), I just stop and watch it which is always brief.
 
Not talking about the small little Mexican donkey, but a burro. Wild American burros, that are off breeds of old miners burros who prospected in the American Southwest during the 1800's. There's thousands and thousands of them running wild in the California, Arizona and Nevada deserts today. And American Indians in the American Southwest have been eating them for just as long.

The burrito is Sonoran.

As the story goes, some Chihuahua's (Apache) were returning from a raiding party into Mexico. Some of their loot was a stack of some tortillas. When they got back to the United States they shot a wild burro and cooked it. They threw some burro meat into the tortilla and rolled it up and they had a burrito. :lol:


If that was how it originated then, then it would still be common to get a burrito filled with donkey meat. I have never heard of this or known anyone in Mexico or the US to eat donkey meat or that the name originated like that. Also, they would have just called it a taco de burro. It wouldn't make sense to call a tortilla filled with meat a "little burro"
 
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