Horse-wary Britons spurning ready-meals, all meat: poll
- Published: 17 Feb 2013 at 13.44
- Online news: World
A poll out Sunday found that almost a third of adults in Britain have stopped eating ready-meals as a result of the horsemeat scandal, while seven percent have stopped eating meat altogether.
A butcher cuts up beef in London on February 15, 2013. A poll out Sunday found that almost a third of adults in Britain have stopped eating ready-meals as a result of the horsemeat scandal, while seven percent have stopped eating meat altogether.
The ComRes survey, for the Sunday Mirror and The Independent on Sunday newspapers, found that 31 percent have given up eating ready-meals as the discovery of horse flesh in products labelled beef spreads across Europe.
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