While shopping at an Asian supermarket in LA, Christina Dow came across a freezer full of frozen raccoons. Like: FULL-ON RACCOONS, FROZEN IN THEIR FURRY LITTLE DEATH THROES. The meat, which employees informed her is a delicacy in China, was selling for $9.99 a pound. “The way it’s packaged in the store, it’s so real, and it’s so fresh, and you don’t see chickens with their feathers and blood all over them, and their expression, with their tongue hanging out,” said Dow. Yeah, it’s kind of yucky. But, then, you can’t freak out over Asian delicasies if you’re at an Asian market, right? Says one commenter on YouTube: “If you go into an ethnic market you should expect to see foods from another culture.”
“This woman is what is wrong with this country when it comes to animals and how food is made,” writes another. “She obviously thinks that chicken and steak just magically appears. I would love to take her deer hunting or turkey hunting.”
LAist calls the woman “dumb” and even offers some suggestions about other stores where you can purchase raccoon. What do YOU think? (via The Daily What)
From Youtube: “Whatever, people in the south eat raccoon, possums, even roadkill regularly! Just cause you haven’t actually seen an animal other than a cow, pig, chicken in the grocery store, doesn’t mean that’s all there is. Go back to the white grocery store, no raccoons there. Sterile prepackaged meat that doesn’t look like the animal for your mental frailty. What other people wanna eat does not bother me at all. You know what is disgusting? Ignorance. Btw, it’s not even ILLEGAL to sell it. The only thing really wrong is that you went to an asian market and started bitching about what other people can sell or buy. It’s like gay marriage, who gives a fuck what other people choose to do if it doesn’t affect me, live and let live. Fuckin’ americans.”
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