Saturday, December 6, 2008

A DAY AT THE MARKET

Today my friend Amber and I went to the market in Catania. You can get literally ANYTHING there...clothes, shoes, home decor, cookware, produce, antipasti, cheese, meat...you name it! There's even a pet store! There are a FEW disturbing things to see. Here's one of them:

I felt bad later when I saw a little girl standing by the bucket taking snails and ripping them out of their shells and throwing them back in the bucket. Poor snails!

Ok, so if THAT's not disturbing enough...you haven't seen the meat market! Sorry I don't narrate, but many of these vendors get upset if they see you taking pics of their goods, so I tried not to draw attention to myself taking this video. I need to learn to say, "It's ok! I swear I'm not from PETA" in Italian!

You'll see a whole pig here on a hook and whole chickens. The animals hanging in the back are sheep. The meat I zoom in on is horse.

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