Mutton dressed as lamb

Life is simpler if you are a veggie.
Mutton dressed as lamb, horse masquerading as beef, doesn’t matter at all.
What surprises me is that people are surprised to find that the stuff in ready meals is not what it says on the packet.
Processed meat has always has been made from the bits you cannot sell as ordinary meat. Sausages, kebabs, burgers, pies. Who knows what is in them?
This has been going on since butchers began. Sweeney Todd used customers instead of animals in his pies.
And what you do and don’t like to find on your plate varies from place to place. We like horses and dogs so we don’t want to eat them, in other places they don’t mind eating dogs or horses, but they would hate to find pigs or cows in their pies.
I became a veggie late in life with the help of my children and an American taxi driver.
My children, with the clarity of young minds, made me think about what I ate. And the American taxi driver told me we were raising our cows badly long before mad cow disease became news over here.
Maybe this latest media frenzy will make one or two others think more about what they eat.