The old stone slabs which traders used to cut and sell meat and other produce, like cloth, have been preserved.
Of the 13 largest U.S. supermarket chains, Whole Foods is the only chain to sell only meat and poultry raised without antibiotics.
The anecdotal evidence, however, is there for all to see: even tiny village markets in central Africa often sell smoked ape meat, particularly in Congo and the former Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is regarded as a delicacy.
Winding through the hills, the surrounding forest enclosed the road in a verdant canopy, with roadside kiosks sprouting out of it to sell empanadas (meat and potato-filled fried pastries), mofongo (mashed plantains filled with meat and vegetables, served in savoury sauce) and beach towels bearing graphics of bikini-clad women.
Justice was chopping the heads off goat carcasses just to try and scavenge a tiny little bit of meat to sell to passers-by.
The owner of the Red Lion abattoir, High Peak Meat Exports, is licensed to sell horsemeat to Europe and said it openly and legitimately bought horses from Ireland.
Eventually the public got wise to the Ponziesque flavor to ostrich farming: You couldn't cover your costs selling meat or hides, so your only hope was to sell breeding pairs to bigger fools.
Mr Avelino said a more transparent labelling system would also make it easier for consumers to avoid buying meat from the Amazon and make it harder for shops to sell items from producers who flouted the law.
However, it did not sell as well as expected and he took four or five bags of the meat home for his family.
The St Merryn plant in Merthyr Tydfil is the largest single meat processing and packing plant in the UK, according to Vion which described its decision to sell as not easy but essential.
In Britain, where consumers are especially fussy, supermarkets sell pork and chicken raised on non-biotech soya for the same price they once charged for Monsanto-fed meat.
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