Let them eat burgers, says MP, to keep fillet steak cheap "We need to keep eating beef burgers," she said. In order for the middle class to enjoy - this is a terrible thing to say - and eat their prime fillet of beef, hung for 28 days, we've got to be able to use the bottom, which is the cheaper cuts. Ms Creagh said it was a "middle-class fallacy" that good quality meat must be expensive, arguing that "good value burgers" for families on low incomes must be "horse free." "It's not people's fault for being poor, on low incomes as the cost of living rises and their wages stagnate," she said. It's not people's fault for wanting to feed their children red meat, which is what a beef burger is. I love beef burgers. Ms Creagh, who has dismissed talk of her being a possible successor to Ed Miliband as party leader, said she had tried vegetarianism as a teenager but could not do so again and had a hatred of eating carrots. She indicated that state-funded catering contracts may need to be rewritten so that taxpayers" money is "used to support good food." She made the suggestion as Sodexo, the catering giant, wrote to schools in Gloucestershire informing the head teachers that horse meat had been found in a frozen beef meal. The company, which supplies school meals throughout the county, said in the letter that all the products concerned had been recalled.