The Health Department has taken action after a local supermarketâs 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.
As long as it's raised in a humanitarian cage, California should be ok
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.
âThe way itâs packaged in the store, itâs so real, and itâs so fresh, and you donât see chickens with their feathers and blood all over them, and their expression, with their tongue hanging out,â 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 departmentâs visit, until it and be reviewed and officially approved.
CBS2 contacted a number of local agencies, including the LA County District Attorneyâs office. However, none of them were immediately able to say whether selling raccoons as food was legal or not.
Store employees say theyâve been selling raccoons for years, and never experienced any issues until now.
Hurrah for the social justice warriors, forcing a stop to an apparently perfectly legal practice that harms no one.
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