Police Instructions on How to Distinguish Between Rat Meat and Mutton in a Restaurant!

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Chinese authorities announced on Thursday that more than 900 people had been detained over the past three months for "meat-related offences". One alleged gang is suspected of using illegal chemicals to transform rat, mink and fox meat into counterfeit mutton slices - popular for their use in hot pot - and selling them to local markets. Responding to the scandal, police in Zhejiang province posted a guide to distinguishing between real and fake mutton on China's most popular microblogging site, Sina Weibo. Here is a translation of their instructions.

China fake meat scandal: telling your rat from your mutton | World news | guardian.co.uk
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Um..............thanks, I guess. At least they're using real meat. Here in the US we have fast food restaurants that call their stuff meat (chicken mcNuggets is a good example) when there's not much actual meat (of any sort in them). Does tempt one to become a vegan sometimes.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Um..............thanks, I guess. At least they're using real meat. Here in the US we have fast food restaurants that call their stuff meat (chicken mcNuggets is a good example) when there's not much actual meat (of any sort in them). Does tempt one to become a vegan sometimes.
      HECK YEAH! There should be a law against selling something fro what it clearly isn't. OH WAIT! There ARE those pesky fraud and false advertising laws.

      But YEAH, fake meat is SO ubiquitous that we see things that are clearly NOT REAL, and don't even question it. And when you see a long paragraph that is so long it is almost exhausting to read, and the main ingredient is not even chicken, and it is for a product called chicken, yu KNOW you have a problem.

      When I was a kid, I used to wonder what "beef byproducts" were, and nobody seemed to have them, and now MCDONALDS effectively had chicken byproducts in their mcnuggets! The recipe they have NOW is:

      White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning [autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil,
      dextrose, citric acid], sodium phosphates, natural flavor (botanical source). Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced
      iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid
      pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, dextrose, corn starch.
      OK, let's analyze this!

      MODIFIED starch! Some methods are BAD, and they NEVER seem to describe the method!

      AUTOLYZED yeast? partially digested? AGAIN, HOW!

      ENRICHED flour? This is like a thief that paid you $100, after stealing a million dollars, thinking you should be grateful!

      BLEACHED wheat flour?

      sodium ALUMINUM phosphate? ANOTHER thing to cause ALZHEIMERS! YUM!

      With all THIS, it makes you wonder if ANY of the other stuff is real!

      Did YOU know that tilapia is SO carnivorous, etc... that the female puts the eggs in her mouth, and acts like a kangaroo until she can't any more? Obviously, this is difficult, so she goes WITHOUT EATING! That means the females grow slower during that time. What do many tilapia farms do? They infect them with a virus to change DNA, or bath them i hormone baths, to make them act like MALES, etc... I say ACT LIKE, because genetically, they are inferior, and the quality of fish degrades if they mate with females.

      AMAZING what people go through JUST to lower costs and increase profit!

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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    I am sure mutton and other meat consumption is going to take a massive hit in China now. Of course, there is also the horse meat scandal in Europe. Years earlier, kangaroo meat was found in beefburgers as well. But rat meat draws the line for me as far as acceptability is concerned.

    I have always taken for granted that there could be all sorts of unsavory ingredients such as offal in sausages and hamburgers
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by derekwong28 View Post

      I am sure mutton and other meat consumption is going to take a massive hit in China now. Of course, there is also the horse meat scandal in Europe. Years earlier, kangaroo meat was found in beefburgers as well. But rat meat draws the line for me as far as acceptability is concerned.

      I have always taken for granted that there could be all sorts of unsavory ingredients such as offal in sausages and hamburgers
      Depends on the type of Rat I guess.
      I've eaten Rat, Muskrat, and Mutton before. Given a choice I'd take the Muskrat meat over the other two. Regular Rat would come in second but only if it came from a clean environment.
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