Courtesy of Danielle Langloism, Wikipedia CCLMeeting and eating your goat
This story from the New York Times showcases urban butcher shops selling live poultry, goats and lamb to a growing immigrant market.
The practice of seeing the animal that will become the family meal harkens to an Agrarian America that’s all but disappeared. Growing urban immigrant populations, however, are keeping this small industry alive, especially with a demand for halal-trained butchers who slaughter goats for Muslim families.
Tom Mylan, who carves meat in front of customers at New York’s Marlow and Daughters, says he views the live-animal markets as allies against the mass-market industry he calls “big meat.”
“To eat meat, you have to kill — something that we got pulled out of during the last 50 years in America,” Mylan told the Times. “We’re used to going into the grocery store and there’s not even a butcher counter, just a bunch of foam trays with a lot of anonymous blobs of meat in them.”
Editor’s note: The link above to Mylan’s shop is a video well worth watching. Mylan’s a former bartender turned butcher who’s zen about meat.
