Meat smuggling breaks record

Aftenposten ^ | 07-18-07 | Nina Berglund

[em2vn]

Police are seizing more smuggled meat than ever before, and border patrols suspect organized smuggling gangs that are supplyng a market keen on dodging Norway's high meat prices.

Customs authorities have seized 34 tons of meat smuggled into Norway so far this year. That's three times the amount seized in the same period last year.

Police, customs and officials from Norway's Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) have no doubt the smuggling has become organized. Several of the couriers caught with smuggled meat are repeat offenders, and the quantities of meat caught in some seizures is so large (2.8 tons on one truck stopped at the border crossing at Svinesund) that it can only be destined for the commercial market.

Per Jørgen Solbjerg of the customs agency told newspaper Aftenposten that some of the nabbed smugglers have openly admitted the meat was going to be sold to restaurants.

Most of the meat is seized at the Swedish border, especially at Svinesund. Officials suspect that the meat they actually find is only a small portion of that which eventually makes it into Norway. They think as much as 20 tons of meat is smuggled into Oslo alone every week.

A study released Tuesday confirmed that meat prices in Norway are high, 82 percent above the European average.

[em2vn]

Socialism at work. Read the entire site. You'll love it.

[Petronski]

I smuggle meat wherever I go.

And plums.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Meat smuggling” sounds like a euphemism for something else, but I can’t put my finger on it...

[Resolute Conservative]

Reindeer the other red meat.

[Ingtar]

Customs authorities have seized 34 tons of meat...

When's the company BBQ?

[lowbridge]

supplyng a market keen on dodging Norway's high meat prices.

How DARE they!!!! /s

A study released Tuesday confirmed that meat prices in Norway are high, 82 percent above the European average.

Can anyone here explain why that is?

[cripplecreek]

I'm sorry for this but......

[pissant]

What’s up with the meat in Norway?

[Riley]

Can anyone here explain why that is?

From another article on the same site:

Meat was especially expensive n Norway, with prices 82 percent over the European average. That's traditionally a result of measures to protect high-cost Norwegian meat producers, not least by restricting cheaper imports.

[SIDENET]

There's always a supply of meat to be had.

[JRochelle]

You didn’t have to do that.

Now i feel sick.

[JRochelle]

That link is in jibberish.

[LexBaird]

I’m considering a lucrative career in smuggling trans-fats into socialist cities. Hey, buddy ... wanna score some lard?

[cripplecreek]

I’m jones’n for some bacon grease. Can you hook me up?

[lesser_satan]

LOL, is that what they’re calling it nowadays?

[lesser_satan]

I’m considering a lucrative career in smuggling trans-fats into socialist cities. Hey, buddy ... wanna score some lard?

I'll take three five-gallon pails!

[Xenalyte]

For some reason, I keep hearing that line from the Bloodhound Gang song . . . “I’m mighty tighty whitey and I’m smuggling plums.”

[LexBaird]

I gots what you needs, mah man.

[montomike]

I’ll bet he kept the receipt and brought it back to the adult novelty store for a full refund!

[lesser_satan]

LOL, they had the funniest lyrics ever.