The article “Horse meat found in Ikea's Swedish meatballs sold in 13 countries, authorities say “ is about how horse meat traces were found in meatballs  that was supposed to be beef and pork. The meatballs had gone to Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland. The Czech State Veterinary Administration had found horse meat in 1 kilogram packs of meatballs that were made in sweden. the meatballs were being shipped to  the czech republic to be sold in ikea stores.Meatballs from that batch were taking off the shelves of the ikeas in those countries. They were however not the only company that had traces of horsemeat in their products. Nestle Spain also had horse meat in meat that was supposed to be 100% beef.

The author wants us to feel like those companies did a bad thing but that they should not be blamed entirely. the author made me feel this way because she only gave examples of how ikea had traces of horse meat in their products. the author also gave information about other companies that had horse meat in their products. she also explained that supermarkets had horse meat in their products and that they were taken off the shelfs. the author does however say that these companies search for the cheapest food which might contain ingredients from multiple people in different countries which might contract other people for production which make things hard to monitor. the author also didn't really give that many responses on the companies that had horse meat in their products.

i thought that the companies should be responsible for what is in their products. it may be hard for the companies to monitor the meat that they sell because it come from different places but they should at least try to make a bigger effort. i agree that measures should be taken towards tougher regulations on food. the price of the food might go up but i think that it is better than eating horse meat. so overall i think that measure should be taken so people wont have to eat horse meat when it says that it is pork or beef.