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    Illegal meat on most UK High Streets, official says

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    1. gogoluke on

      Guys. Shall we trust the drivers to turn up for inspection 22 miles in land?

      Yeah!

      This is what sovereignty looks like… total lack of control…

    2. VitrioPsych on

      I haven’t seen any monkey meat or any other exotic meats available on my high st.

      BBC spreading fake news as usual.

    3. socratic-meth on

      > Illegal meat on most UK High Streets, official says

      Ask your butcher for the ‘special stuff’, watch out for the nose bleeds though.

    4. Thaiaaron on

      Kangaroo is excellent, very red meat, makes a great burger. Cobra snake is chewy like eating a garden hose you need to use a ton of spices. Mink whale is pretty bad, its texture is like steak but the taste is fishy. Puffin is awful, tastes like slimy meaty liquorish.

    5. grapplinggigahertz on

      >Under the post-Brexit system, checks on commercial vehicles do not take place at Dover itself.

      >Instead, drivers are ordered to travel 22 miles (35km) away to a border control post at Sevington.

      Not exactly rocket science to put a security seal on the meat trucks at Dover and then if they don’t turn up at Sevington with them intact within a set time, then seize the truck and impose a massive fine when it subsequently tries to leave the UK.

    7. badgerandcheese on

      They used to have “illegal meat” business cards up inside phone boxes back in my day.

    9. Ok-Chest-7932 on

      OK, reckon I’m buying only the stuff marked British for a while, and cooking properly.

    10. HypnoBlaze on

      All I can say is lol and lmao. My dad’s been a HGV driver practically his whole life, and if someone told him he had to drive 22 miles to have his vehicle inspected before delivery I know for a fact that he’d tell them right where to shove it. All that does is slow down transport for no good reason. Want the vehicles inspected? Inspect them when they arrive at port. Don’t waste the time of the people who need to keep moving them.

    11. est-12 on

      But DEFRA says there are *robust* measures in place. And DEFRA is famed for their high standards, their intervention efforts, and the value they place on accountability.

      The fact they won’t respond to FoI requests regarding this matter is all the proof i need to be satisfied.

    12. Exotic_Task_9769 on

      If illegal meat is making its way into most high streets, it raises serious biosecurity and health risks. The fact that many lorries aren’t even turning up for checks just makes it worse. Hopefully, the inquiry pushes for stricter enforcement before this becomes an even bigger issue.

    13. Optimaldeath on

      I hope chickens aren’t involved in this or we’re going to have a serious problem controlling H5N1.