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The following extract is from
the BBC News website: ‘Tesco have used full-page adverts in national newspapers
to apologise for selling burgers in the UK that were found to contain 29%
horsemeat. Traces of horse DNA were also detected by the Food Standards Agency
of Ireland in products sold by Iceland, Lidl, Aldi and Dunnes. But a beefburger
rarely contains 100% beef. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has two
classifications for burger products - standard and economy. A standard
beefburger can only be classified as such if it comprises a minimum of 62%
beef. The percentages take a tumble when it comes to economy or
"value" burger products’.
What does this mean? One thing
would seem to be the need to find cheap food. Cash-strapped families, and
individuals, are always trying to find the elusive ‘bargain’ to try and make
their limited resources go that little bit further. So, why the furore? Why has
the government insisted on food testing and regular reports in the news about
their latest finding? I suspect one of the main reasons is that feeling that we
have all been deceived. We have been told something when the reality is
radically different. What we thought we were buying and eating is not all beef
but contains some horse!
Being deceived is not just a matter
of horsemeat. Many people will speak with emotion about the partner that
deceived them. Others will tell you of ‘scams’ perpetrated by unscrupulous
criminals who prey upon the vulnerable. It seems true to say that ‘you can fool
some of the people all the time’. Humanists would say, ‘There is probably no
god so enjoy life’. Christians would indicate that this is a deception, one
that could have disastrous consequences for the life beyond this one.
What about you? The story is
told of the atheist heckler who shouted at a preacher on Hyde Park Corner. The
preacher simply said, ‘If you are right and there is no God and no life beyond
this one, what have I lost? However, if I am right and there is a God, whom you
have rejected and despised in the person of His Son Jesus Christ, what have you
lost?’ This is an important question. Jesus Christ died upon a Roman cross, was
buried, and rose again the third day to provide a full and free salvation for
sinners like me (and you!). Are you one of the deceived who follow the common
theory that there is no God, no one to whom we must answer? Have you been
deceived?
