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NY cracks down on illegal mystery meats
Yahoo AP ^ | 1 December 2006 one hour 26 minutes ago | ADAM GOLDMAN, AP Business Writer

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: armadillo; bigmacaca; cats; dogs; food; gross; iguana; kittycanapes; monkeyburritos; mousebites; possum; possumjerky; rats; realhotdogs; rodent; rodentmeat; starlingsnacks; unusual; watch
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Your government at work. You ordinary, proletarian types need protection by the elite from smoked rodent meat.
1 posted on 12/01/2006 2:33:56 PM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

Versus legal mystery meat?


2 posted on 12/01/2006 2:34:38 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
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To: shrinkermd

It all tastes like chicken anyway.


3 posted on 12/01/2006 2:37:09 PM PST by ElkGroveDan ( What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?)
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To: shrinkermd

Lovely. Another element in our transformation into a Third World country thanks to unfettered immigration.


4 posted on 12/01/2006 2:37:24 PM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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To: shrinkermd

Now watch how the dogs and cats start disappearing in those neighborhoods.


5 posted on 12/01/2006 2:37:25 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: shrinkermd

"We Celebrate Diversity"


6 posted on 12/01/2006 2:38:16 PM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Ben Mugged

Yeah, what used to show up on Wednesdays in the ol' high school cafeteria.......


7 posted on 12/01/2006 2:38:17 PM PST by Clifford The Big Red Dog (Woof!)
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To: shrinkermd

Um-Um good old beefy armadillo meat and smoke rodents! Sounds like a feast to me!


8 posted on 12/01/2006 2:38:18 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: shrinkermd
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.

Eating mystery meat that most Americans wont. Thats why we need them!

9 posted on 12/01/2006 2:38:51 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: shrinkermd
"In a city filled with clusters of people hailing from all over the world, these rules can get lost in translation."

I don't get it. Why is anyone complaining?

Perhaps if we required immigrants to learn English, we might be able to teach them our law, too.

Except I don't think a single American can reasonably understand every single law that's out there.

But hey, folks asked for diversity; now they are getting diversity.

</snicker>

P.S.

Nasher bought the chickens from a poultry market in Brooklyn, and said he didn't know he was violating state law.

"In Bangladesh, you didn't have all these rules," he said.

Nasher, you're not in Bangladesh any more.

10 posted on 12/01/2006 2:38:57 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
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To: shrinkermd

Yeah. I have mixed feelings about it, however; at one time, markets in Spain used to have to sell skinned rabbits with the ears on - because otherwise, there was no way of telling them from skinned cats. Dar gato por liebre (offering cat as rabbit), in fact, is a Spanish saying.

So I wouldn't say I'm totally opposed to food inspection, but on the other hand, of course these people are going to have to get their rodents, armadillos, etc. outside of the normal meat suppliers. Silly interference.


11 posted on 12/01/2006 2:39:26 PM PST by livius
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To: shrinkermd
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12 posted on 12/01/2006 2:39:59 PM PST by digger48
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To: shrinkermd
smoked rodent meat

GROSS

Don't y'all love multiculturalism now. s/

13 posted on 12/01/2006 2:40:01 PM PST by TOneocon
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To: shrinkermd

Uh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I can see it now. Charges of "eating while ethnic". Lawyers all over the place. The Council on Gastronomic-American Relations (pronounced see-gar) getting all wiggy.


14 posted on 12/01/2006 2:40:09 PM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: shrinkermd

Great green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Itsy bitsy birdie feet,

French fried eye-balls,

Rolling down a muddy street,

And I forgot my spoon!


15 posted on 12/01/2006 2:40:15 PM PST by Solamente (Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
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To: shrinkermd; NYTexan; SouthTexas; glock rocks

Mmmmmmm... Armadillo and Fish Paste! For those refugees from Texas.

OTOH, isn't this racial profiling?


16 posted on 12/01/2006 2:40:41 PM PST by tubebender (Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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17 posted on 12/01/2006 2:40:47 PM PST by digger48
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To: shrinkermd
Actually, these exotic meats pose a significant problem to our domestic food chain. Everything from African swine fever and Foot and Mouth disease can be transmitted from foreign meats that are not from approved and reputable sources. Armadillos carry Leprosy, rats...lassa fever and a myriad of togaviruses, reptiles...parasites that will kill humans if eaten even slightly uncooked.

These places should be dealt with harshly and rapidly IMHO.

18 posted on 12/01/2006 2:41:05 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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19 posted on 12/01/2006 2:41:08 PM PST by EX52D (Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
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To: shrinkermd

I catch my own rats. No big deal.


20 posted on 12/01/2006 2:41:47 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Naziism was in 1937.)
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