Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Canadian Wind]

Isn’t it fine if the label says virgin or first cold pressed? I thought refined is always with heat to get the max amount of oils out.

Not here. Counterfeit olive oil is a big business here, unfortunately.

 

[Shadrach]

Not here. Counterfeit olive oil is a big business here, unfortunately.

Ghee is a fairly safe bet here. The only disadvantage with it I've found is that it skins on cast iron pans. It comes off very quickly with a wooden scraper and hot water.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Ghee is a fairly safe bet here. The only disadvantage with it I've found is that it skins on cast iron pans. It comes off very quickly with a wooden scraper and hot water.

I should try to make ghee again. Or at least clarified butter.

 

[BDutch]

Not here. Counterfeit olive oil is a big business here, unfortunately.

It happens in Europe too. But there are consumer and governmental organisations who check our food from time to time. So if a factory is selling food with a wrong label they get caught eventually. Fines and warnings make sure there wont do it twice (if they survive).

We did have some scandals in the past with poisoned food and such. Too much poison on grapes. Broken glass in a batch canned food. Cows meat (chopped) that contained horse meat and many more. The meat factury had more issues and had to close.
LOL If there is a safety issue they publish it and consumers are called to take the product back to the shop to receive another product.

 

[Canadian Wind]

It happens in Europe too. But there are consumer and governmental organisations who check our food from time to time. So if a factory is selling food with a wrong label they get caught eventually. Fines and warnings make sure there wont do it twice (if they survive).

We did have some scandals in the past with poisoned food and such. Too much poison on grapes. Broken glass in a batch canned food. Cows meat (chopped) that contained horse meat and many more. The meat factury had more issues and had to close.
LOL If there is a safety issue they publish it and consumers are called to take the product back to the shop to receive another product.

Europe as a whole has much better food safety as well as quality. Just look at all the north american foods that are banned there due to ingredients that are not allowed to be used. You also have better sourcing due to the PDO.

 

[notabitail]

Europe as a whole has much better food safety as well as quality. Just look at all the north american foods that are banned there due to ingredients that are not allowed to be used. You also have better sourcing due to the PDO.

Sometimes I wonder if the government here is trying to poison us with all that garbage they put in food here.

 

[ksbkeys]

Roo looks like our Stilton, except Stilty's dark feathers are gray, where Roo's seemed more black.

Stilton was an accidental rooster, picked out of a box of Easter Egger "pullets." It's not a stretch to believe he could've ended up dumped if the wrong people brought him home It's great you gave Roo a home and that he became part of your books.

Here's Stilton, our slightly scruffy, delightful dude, equal parts sass and serenity.

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Thank you so much for sharing!

 

[MaryJanet]

It happens in Europe too. But there are consumer and governmental organisations who check our food from time to time. So if a factory is selling food with a wrong label they get caught eventually. Fines and warnings make sure there wont do it twice (if they survive).

We did have some scandals in the past with poisoned food and such. Too much poison on grapes. Broken glass in a batch canned food. Cows meat (chopped) that contained horse meat and many more. The meat factury had more issues and had to close.
LOL If there is a safety issue they publish it and consumers are called to take the product back to the shop to receive another product.

The most recent food problem where I live involved a strawberry picker who placed pins in the strawberries. IIRC, they were tracked down and fined.

 

[fuzzi]

It happens in Europe too. But there are consumer and governmental organisations who check our food from time to time. So if a factory is selling food with a wrong label they get caught eventually. Fines and warnings make sure there wont do it twice (if they survive).

We did have some scandals in the past with poisoned food and such. Too much poison on grapes. Broken glass in a batch canned food. Cows meat (chopped) that contained horse meat and many more. The meat factury had more issues and had to close.
LOL If there is a safety issue they publish it and consumers are called to take the product back to the shop to receive another product.

It's good to have "watch dogs" checking for food safety. What's upsetting to me is the government allowing adulteration without consumer notification. I recently discovered that honey can be diluted with corn syrup and still be labeled "100% pure honey". That's just wrong. I buy from local beekeepers now.

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[BDutch]

I recently discovered that honey can be diluted with corn syrup and still be labeled "100% pure honey".

I saw on a Dutch tv program ‘Keuringsdienst van waarde’ that it seems almost impossible to see the difference between honey and syrup in a test.
‘ Keuringsdienst van waarde’ tested fifteen jars of honey from the Netherlands and sent them to a lab. Something strange came out of it. According to the official EU research method, it is pure honey.

That makes it easy to dilute honey with syrup. The EU gov works on a new test, but this will take another 2-3 years .
The ‘Keuringsdienst van waarde’ found a laboratory in Germany that uses this new testing method and found : only 4 of the 15 jars with honey were real honey.

Source: https://kro-ncrv.nl/programmas/keur...oning-echt-of-nep-aangelengd-met-suikerstroop

It seems the fake honey they sell in the supermarket is often from outside the EU (like from China). Other fakes are from beekeepers that feed sugar the whole year (often from South America).

Testing for quality at home seems easy according to a tip I have been reading. A spoonful of the fake ones, dissolves immediately in a glass of water. Pure honey dissolves much slower, often you have to stir. Bubbles: look in the jar for tiny air bubbles.makes

Best chance to buy real honey is if you buy directly from a beekeeper, with a label of nearby production or organic honey. These kind of honey is never cheap.