Hygiene scandal in Montpellier: On Sunday morning, a poultry farmer who had set up shop in the illegal market of Mosson cut poultry’s throats and sold them at unrivalled prices. These public scenes quickly came to the attention of the butchers of Mosson-La Paillade, who are now protesting.
“If the authorities turn a blind eye, will it be the turn of pigs and calves to be sacrificed on the spot?”
“As I passed by a corner of the TaM 3M car park, not far from the post office and the Grand Mail, I saw five or six people queuing in front of a stall that I first spotted in the illegal market. Then I witnessed an unbelievable scene, I couldn’t believe my eyes: a living chicken was being taken from the stall in a large cage as the seller got into his parked van to bleed the chicken and hand it over to a buyer. There had never been anything like this before,” an eyewitness revealed to Métropolitain on Monday evening.
A butcher contacted by the editorial team, who is always well informed and is based in the Mosson-la Paillade neighbourhood, confirms everything and wonders: “After the fruit and vegetable sellers on the street every weekend, who give unfair competition to traders who pay taxes, etc., the same trade in chickens is now taking place, and in the middle of Ramadan too. If the authorities turn a blind eye, after poultry, pigs and calves will now be sacrificed locally?”. Who is this breeder who had set up shop in the wild market for the first time that Sunday? So far he is said to have not been identified….
(…) But this butcher is worried about hygiene: it is strictly forbidden to cut the throats of chickens in a public market, “strict health regulations must be observed, even in Africa there is no such thing, these are barbaric practices in 2022, it is unbelievable, it is frightening. And to think that on Sunday the buyers went home with the slaughtered poultry, which they then had to scald to pluck so they could eat it”. Actu.fr