GOAT MEAT, DOG MEAT And DEMOCRACY - Thinking Out Loud With Dr. Yinka Dixon

GOAT MEAT, DOG MEAT, AND DEMOCRACY
A "Thinking Out Loud With Dr. Yinka Dixon" Series

(c) Dr. Yinka Dixon, PhD (hon) | 18 August 2025

(This edition of  "Thinking Out Loud With Dr. Yinka Dixon" is a satirical reflection on food, trust, and democracy in disguise.)

IN THE NEWS: “Dog meat found in London freezer disguised as goat.”

✍️ Outrageous and Scandalous!!!

When goat is labelled as dog, or democracy is labelled as truth – what are we really swallowing?

It began with a headline shocking enough to make even the strongest stomach turn: inspectors in London uncovering dog meat labelled as goat. 

Immediate disgust and outrage rippled across Britain, as it always does when food scandals hit the news.

But pause for a moment. 

Is this only a story about one restaurant and its freezer, or is it a story about all of us – about trust, identity, and what we are being served in daily life?

If goat can be dog, then what else in Britain is being disguised?

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🥘 Food, Trust, and Labels – What Are We Really Swallowing?

If goat can be dog, then what else might we be swallowing under another name?

This is not the first time Britain has been duped. 

Cast your mind back to the horse-meat scandal, where lasagnas and burgers across Europe turned out to be galloping in disguise. 

The shock, then as now, was less about the meat itself and more about the betrayal of trust.

When a label says “goat,” we want to know it is goat. 

When a leader says “truth,” we want to believe it is truth. 

The problem begins when disguise becomes normalised – in food, in politics, in public life. 

If we can’t trust the label on our food, how can we trust the labels on our politics, policies, or promises?

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🥩 Cultural Identity and Double Standards?

There’s another layer here: culture.

Why does dog meat spark immediate horror while black pudding (made from blood), haggis (sheep’s stomach), or foie gras (force-fed goose liver) sit proudly on the menus of fine and exclusive dining? 

Why do we gag at one, and boast about the other?

Food is never just food. It is culture, identity, belonging. 

And every scandal like this is also a reminder of double standards. 

When large corporations or supermarkets mislabel food, it is brushed off as an “error.” 

When immigrant businesses are involved, it becomes a “national outrage.” 

In Britain's national kitchen, what does that say about who gets to cook...  and who gets cooked? 

Who decides what counts as “food” and what counts as “fraud”?

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🐐🐕 From the Kitchen Freezer to the Parliament Chamber

This may sound cynical, but the freezer tells us as much about Westminster as it does about food hygiene.

• A restaurant disguises dog as goat.

• Parliament disguises broken promises as policy.

• Corporations disguise cost-cutting as efficiency.

The trick is always the same: disguise it, label it well, and hope no one checks the freezer.

When a goat can be dog, then democracy can also be a hollow label slapped on public life, what are we really swallowing?

Perhaps, in politics, "rebranding" is not scandal; it is called "strategy." What do we know?

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🍽️ Public Outrage and Selective Morality

Why does the public erupt in disgust over a hidden cut of meat, but are not remotely disgusted when:

• schools serve children mouldy lunches,

• hospitals serve up unsafe food to patients,

• supermarkets quietly add chemicals to bread,

• or unsafe housing leaves families sick?

• GMO seeds are served to farmers in place of healthy seeds (knowing fully well, the health risks and dangers they carry?

Perhaps it’s easier to be horrified by one restaurant freezer than to face the bigger freezers we all live beside every day.

We gag at the thought of swalloing dog instead of goat, but gladly, we swallow everyday poisons without complaint or protest.

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🔍 The Bigger Mirror in the Meal – Democracy in Disguise

• This issue, like many others, is not just about food. This identity crisis is about more than meat. It is about us.

• About how quickly we condemn the unfamiliar while excusing the familiar.

• About how easily labels lull us into believing.

• About how outrage can be selective, cultural, and convenient.

If we peel back the packaging, we may discover that Britain itself is struggling with an identity crisis – not only about meat, but about truth, belonging, and democracy.

Our democracy itself is goat-meat dogged: labelled one thing, served as another. What you vote for is not always what is served on your dinner plate.

Is the freezer in our politics a symbol of bigger freezers in every government house where uncomfortable truths are stored away until they are discovered?

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🎯 Closing Bite

So yes, the meat found in that freezer is troubling. 

But so too is the way we label and consume everything around us – from politics to promises, from policies to identity.

This is not just about what one restaurant hid in its freezer. It’s about what our politicians in every nation hide in plain sight. Goat meat, dog meat, or democracy

The truth is that, from Big Brother to Big Ben, lies are being normalised – and people are becoming more critical of truth itself. 

Is it that truth now sounds more outrageous, more unbelievable, and somehow less acceptable?

The real scandal is not just that dog was passed off as goat. The scandal is that disguise itself has now become the flavour of our times.

GOAT MEAT, DOG MEAT, OR DEMOCRACY 

- the question remains: do we really know what we are being fed?

Dr. Yinka Dixon, PhD (hon), CIPM, MPM, PME
Queen of New Beginnings 
BookPreneur | Public Interest Journalist | Education and Life Transitions Coach

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