Animals on the lam(b)
The city has nearly 90 slaughterhouses, called live markets, offering chickens, goats sheep and other animals. The markets serve mostly immigrants accustomed to cooking freshly butchered meats.
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The city has nearly 90 slaughterhouses, called live markets, offering chickens, goats sheep and other animals.
Some animals escape slaugther and, if lucky, manage to live the rest of their lives at Farm Sanctuary, a nonprofit to protect animals in upstate New York and California.
The late-model Mercedes van looks like a rock-star tour bus, but this one has a very different purpose: to transport frightened farm animals on the lam in New York City -- some escaped from the city's nearly 90 storefront slaughterhouses that mostly serve customers from cultures accustomed to cooking with freshly butchered meats.
