Jackel wrote:
Los Angeles, CA
TEMPLE CITY (CBSLA.com) The Health Department has taken action after a local supermarkets frozen foods section featured an unusual item.
Inspectors from the LA County Health Department visited the Metro Supermarket in Temple City on Tuesday, after being informed that the market was selling raccoons as food.
Employees at the market declined to appear on camera, but did show entire raccoons, frozen, bagged, and selling for $9.99 per pound. The employees say raccoon is considered a delicacy in China.
Customer Christina Dow was at the market, and upon seeing the frozen raccoons, filmed the scene on her cell phone. She shared the video on social media.
The way its packaged in the store, its so real, and its so fresh, and you dont see chickens with their feathers and blood all over them, and their expression, with their tongue hanging out, Dow said.
Dow also went on to contact the LA County Health Department, who says that selling raccoons as food may indeed be perfectly legal, depending on the origins of the meat.
The market has ceased selling raccoons, since the departments visit, until it and be reviewed and officially approved.
CBS2 contacted a number of local agencies, including the LA County District Attorneys office. However, none of them were immediately able to say whether selling raccoons as food was legal or not.
Store employees say theyve been selling raccoons for years, and never experienced any issues (read: the word "problems" in politically incorrect old-fashinoned lingo) until now.
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In todays society the young people would not survive if a major catasophere was to demolish there food supply line, they would then be forced to eat coon, muskrat, o'possum, ground hog, snake etc and other creatures of the wild in order to survive. I am a survivor and will do what it takes to survive. By the way my grandparents survived the 20's and 30's by eating what wild game they could get and some of that game included coon, o'possum and ground hog.