Whip up a creamy layer of financial engineering, lovingly press down costs across the board, sprinkle all kinds of subsidiaries across various tax-efficient territories, add a thick, tasty layer of organised equine crime, distribute randomly across the food supply chain, garnish with powerful animal tranquilisers and there you have it: a great, steaming plateful of Christ knows what from God knows where.
As Charlton Heston so rightly said: ‘SOYLENT GREEN IS…no, hang on, I’m not sure what Soylent Green is…”
Do we really want the disgraced heads of the meat industry running our privatised NHS?
How long before we get granny burgers?
Posted by: johnf | February 09, 2013 at 11:25 PM
"No one in the company is responsible for communications as a full-time job. The company is not set up to manage a crisis." Not surprising given that consideration for their customers and the general public hasn't been the driving force behind their business. I'm guessing their main communication priority will be with their bankers to ensure they're not about to breach some covenants.
Posted by: Ben Leeson | February 10, 2013 at 11:06 AM
Reading the story suggests that the private equity firm involved was responsible for the development of those mini weetabix with chocolate chips in them, however, and so I am prepared to forgive them more or less anything.
Posted by: dsquared | February 10, 2013 at 04:24 PM
(Heh, we tell him it is chocolate.)
Meanwhile, I will be mostly launching a new range of "Mostly Mammalian Meat Products*
* may contain traces of lizard, or whatever"
Anyone anxious to invest?
Posted by: des von bladet | February 11, 2013 at 07:01 AM
...I bet whoever it was at the banco de Vatican is regretting buying those shares in Findus...
Posted by: Stephen | February 11, 2013 at 01:10 PM
...I bet whoever it was at the banco de Vatican is regretting buying those shares in Findus...
Damn right. He's had to resign.
Posted by: chris y | February 11, 2013 at 02:47 PM