Posted on 12/01/2006 2:33:53 PM PST by shrinkermd
When a food safety inspector walked into a market in Queens, he noticed the store had an interesting special posted on its front window: 12 beefy armadillos. In Brooklyn, inspectors found 15 pounds of iguana meat at a West Indian market and 200 pounds of cow lungs for sale at another market. At a West African grocery in Manhattan, the store was selling smoked rodent meat from a refrigerated display case. An inspector quickly seized a couple pounds of it.
All of it was headed for the dinner table. All of it was also illegal.
Authorities say the discoveries are part of a larger trend in which markets across New York are buying meat and other foods from unregulated sources and selling them to an immigrant population accustomed to more exotic fare.
State regulators have responded by stepping up enforcement, confiscating 65 percent more food through September than they did in all of 2005.
The seizures also cast a spotlight on the eating habits of this ethnically diverse city, where everything from turtles and fish paste to frogs and duck feet make their way onto people's plates.
"At one time or another, we've probably seen about everything," said Joseph Corby, director of the state's Division of Food Safety and Inspection.
In an attempt to stamp out the activity, Corby's agency has ramped up efforts, working with the Food and Drug Administration, to prevent this illicit food from reaching store shelves.
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Yuck was my reaction. Armadillo?
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HAHAHAHAHA,,,No Crawfish,?..;0)
The point is that we have developed a system which aims to ensure that we have wholesome food. The prospects of a large outbreak of cholera, hepatitis or other food/waste- associated disease increases dramatically when there is a source of uninspected food being provided by and for a large, isolated population of people, many of whom haven't had the basic health screening required of legal immigrants.
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is the cats that were caged and skinned for the use of the fur that was used to make pretty little kittens and cats in various positions. They were sold here until animal rights had a fit about it and put an end to it.
The second thing that comes to mind is how many would object to their precious little dog or cat appearing on a hook in the local grocery for sale (so long as it was FDA approved)?
I don't care to go to any store and see a filthy rat, a cat, a dog, an iguana or an armadillo. My culture does not eat these animals and the proof is that the FDA is seeking this stuff out. Assimilate is the issue. When are people here going to notice the difference?
If these folks want to eat cat and dog or rat and iguana they can go to their country and eat it. I am sure they would expect me to assimilate. I am no animal rights advocate. I simply find it rather uncivilized and primative. I suppose you can't wait for the living worms/larva next to the potato salad in the deli? Shall we accept cannibalism too--afterall it is their culture? We just need to get the FDA to approve it and go along with their tribal laws.
Assimilate, assimilate, assimilate! Some things we just don't have to go along with and I do not believe it is a cultural issue but rather an issue of available food.
Hehehehehehehe ;)
Please pass the Frank's Hot Sauce...
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....;0)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,,,,Hey,,hehehhhehehe,,This is funi,,,
Between moozzi wanting a room at the airport(thread)and
the "Food" thread,,,,,TOO funi,,,Serve this stuff in the
moozzi room...;0)
HAHAHAHAHA.. heck ya.. hot sauce and pork
LOL,,,I've eaten roasted "something" on a stick long ago,,
We never knew what it was !
Went and got another one ,,
Good...LOL..;0)
ummmmmmmmmmm what did it taste like???
BWAHAHAHAHA,,,"Tastes like Chickin' "...;0)
That's really too bad, rodents are too plentiful. Can you imagine millions of immigrants eating rodents? The rodents might even be eliminated as a problem.
Armadillos are for racing, not for eating! They might have killed a *champeen.*
Horrible thought!!!! LOL.
Just terrible - can't imagine "Texas Flyer" being served as "Hoover Hog on the Half-Shell." Tain't right!
I thought the job of meat inspectors was to make the world safe FROM Tyson.
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