Clandestine slaughtering is proliferating

The slaughterhouse of the great Souk of Sidi Bennour, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and the concessionaires of Agadir in this butcher shop, everyone calls it the "gourna", the butcher shops follow one another and look alike. Huge cattle carcasses are on display. Some are so large that they touch the ground and drag on the floor. Streams of blood flow from the butcher shops, and unbearable odours float in the air. A large part of these carcasses has no sanitary stamp. The animals were slaughtered in the butcher shop itself, in deplorable sanitary conditions and without the slightest veterinary control.This market is well-known, and it is not unique. In total, it is considered that slaughtering provides a third of the meat market in Sidi Bennour. An enormous figure, when one knows the risks run by the citizen consumers. The private veterinarian is clear: "When you eat uncontrolled meat, you…