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The NY Times has an article about the city's slaughterhouses, noting how many have sprung up "because of the demands of immigrants from countries where eyeballing your meat while it is alive is considered common sense." A native of Trinidad explained, “I like to see it fresh and choose what I want." There's also a slideshow inside a few of them, which hold various types of animals, like cows, goats, chickens (and where, sometimes, a few escape). Still, some Queens residents weren't thrilled "about having mom-and-pop abattoirs next door"—one "feared [a potential] stink would ruin backyard barbecues"—and managed to get a law passed banning new slaughterhouses from within 1,500 feet of a residence for four years. And there's plenty of other bureaucracy for live animal markets; Tom Mylan of Marlow and Daughters butcher shop in Brooklyn blames the meat lobby and mourned, "We’re used to going into the grocery store and there’s not even a butcher counter, just a bunch of foam trays with a lot of anonymous blobs of meat in them." Photo of a halal poultry company in Astoria by webchango on Flickr
Close-Up At Halal Slaughterhouse
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There use to be a "live small animal" abatoir on Broome street just east of Thompson back in the seventies. An exhibit I was doing at the time rescued a rabbit from its fate from the place back in '76.
I don't even think the building is there anymore. It became a laundromat and then replaced by a condo I think.
And there used to be this place on Grand St in Manhattan, that has been long gone:
Chickens
For a real close-up inside a NYC halal slaughterhouse (in Queens), check out the PBS documentary
A Son's Sacrifice
or watch a clip on ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocW7c4LpfYM">Youtube
You'd think the organic people would be all over this. The logical next step to "healthy" food is to get it freshly killed, not packaged a week and 1500 miles away.
I'm onto something. Anyone want to start an industrial-sized slaughterhouse in the city?
I'm carnivorous but I don't want to know how we get the meat.
How much longer would fresh meat last vs. meat you get in the store? I'm assuming there must be at least a couple days spent in transport from slaughterhouse to store.
Meat is not organic and you're not an environmentalist if you eat meat.
How is meat not "organic"? Is it not carbon-based? I currently live in Africa. The chickens and goats eat off the land. The owners then slaughter them and prepare them. In many cases, they are DEPENDENT on this nourishment to exist! How elitist is it for Western vegetarians to make blanket, misguided statements about the "treatment" of animals?
Oops. Sorry Mr. Manhattan. I meant to reply to the Vegans. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a gizzard to fry.
It's the very definition of organic.
Did you attend high school chemistry?
Do you not have access to a dictionary?
characteristic of, pertaining to, or derived from living organisms
Even though a certain crowd has co-opted this word to describe expensive produce, its definition has not changed.
Because the term "organic" has not yet been defined by USDA, it may not be used by itself as a claim on the labeling of meat and poultry products. Also Meat is not green, you can't call yourself an environmentalist. Meat is the top cause of global warming (reported by the UN)
A 2006 United Nations report found that the meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all the SUVs, cars, trucks, planes, and ships in the world combined.2
http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM
Why do you think you see "natural", "certified", "no hormones", "no antibiotics" labeling on meat product but not the term "organic"?
Ooooh, boy, here we go! Venison medallions, anyone?
Perhaps with a side of rabbit stew & gator tail?
(now I'm getting hungry, some of my faves).
large ego, small dick
Usual response: senseless, insulting, pointless
having no relation to the subject discussed and way not
based on reality. try reversing that, you would be closer to reality.
I was replying first to your snark from above.
Secondly, anyone with even minimal familiarity with the legends of Gautama is :
1. He fortold his reaching his deathless state before the meal
2. The meal may have been pork, but could also have been a mushroom, root or veggie.
3. He said the guy who offered the meal should be revered
4. Many interpretations state he didn't die.
Like I said, it's religion, so feel free to bend fables to your own interpretation and misuse them to (as usual) fail to make any valid point
And I won't do veal, swordfish, shark or tuna because of environment & treatment issues.
Pretty much anything else is fair game, & I prefer to get personal with my meals, whether it's running or swimming.
Like religion, food is a matter of choice and taste.
I have mine, you have yours.
I say to you, feel free.
You obviously are of the "One True Faith".
Think about how well that's worked over the centuries.
Enjoy, and let's leave the shrill personal attacks aside.
Not only are you not an environmentalist if you eat meat you are also not a compassionate person. Meat is not necessary for man to thrive. A plant based diet offers everything we need - without the violence; without bloodshed. Go Vegan.
oh yes the ol' "Vegans Hold the Chalice of Moral Superiority" rigmarole.
thanks for the laughs!
I agree, but be prepared for an influx of small dicked retards saying LOL TIME FOR BACON BURGERS DELUXE!!!
whoops dadoc is already here.
I agree, but be prepared for an influx of small dicked retards saying LOL TIME FOR BACON BURGERS DELUXE!!!
whoops dadoc is already here.
There used to be a live fowl and wild game place on Manhattan and Scholes-- plus a mildly creepy one filled with ducks on Delancey near my old place on Pitt in the city.
I think that if you eat meat-- whatever sort of meat that is--you should be able to face it as a live animal. And if there's a way to create spaces that are less traumatizing to the animal (than, say, a seedy storefront in Bushwick), then I think providing a place for farmers to locally sell their animals as meat is a-ok. I have mixed feelings about it, but it's better than a styrofoam block of beef from Key Foods.
When I lived in the third world (Antigua) it wasn't uncommon to see goats hung up by the side of the road being sold by the piece.
But what do you expect from a culture so primitive that you have to use internal combustion automobiles to get around ?!???
This is why people like this need to stay in THEIR OWN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. But no, we continue to let them in for no good reason.
"We’re used to going into the grocery store and there’s not even a butcher counter, just a bunch of foam trays with a lot of anonymous blobs of meat in them."
Who the fuck cares? What is this guy crying about?
mmmmmm...those animals look really fresh and delicious.
Buddhists eat meat.
Why can't you?
Buddhist don't all eat meat and Buddha condemn the meat trade. In fact legend states he died from eating bad pork given to him. Buddhist don't kill animals but they accept meat as alms if it wasn't kill for their sole purpose. But a lot of Buddhist don't agree with this loophole and don't eat meat.
Eeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!
There are at least several slaughterhouses in Sunset Park under the Gowanus. But they don't look very clean or sanitary. Oh and another thing--they certainly don't take good care of the animals. The ones I could see were crammed together into small cages and the place stank to high heaven during the summer.