The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating after an alarmed customer found whole, dead, frozen raccoons for sale in her local Asian market. It’s difficult to discern exactly what alarmed the customer most: the shock of discovering that yes people do eat raccoon, and yes raccoons are wild animals that forage for food waste, or that the deceased animals in question look rather more like road-kill-in-a-bag than the “game” they are legally classified as.
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