Dangerous Practice! Meat from Riverton Dump Being Sold Downtown

Vendors have been selling meat illegally in downtown Kingston for a very long time but frightening reports about the source of these meat kinds being sold are now emerging.

A probe carried out by the Sunday Gleaner has discovered that street side vendors have been selling rejected meat from the Riverton Dump site to unsuspecting buyers for much cheaper prices.

Employees of the Gleaner, were able to buy chicken, chicken foot, pork and pink salmon for $120, $60, $120 and $120 per pound, respectively. When checks were made with locations that sell meat wholesale, it was found that whole chicken went for $155.50 per pound while parts cost $170 per pound. Chicken foot (paw) is usually in the region of $90 per pound, pork ($330) and pink salmon ($1,284 per pound).

Vendors in the area confirmed the dangerous practice. One vendor stated: “When them come dump off the meat outa Riverton, the man them wash it wid things like vinegar and then them sell it for $120 per pound or $110 per pound.”

“All of this is rejected meat,” said Robert Hill, town clerk for the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC), while pointing out that he had heard of persons scavenging meat from the dumping site but did not know it was being sold only one kilometre (0.621 miles) from his office.

“But then again, we also need to look at how these companies are disposing of these things. Because I know that it is supposed to be buried in a particular way, because the disposal of reject meat is within the Kingston and St Andrew Public Health Act.”

Some vendors in the area, who had knowledge of their colleagues’ doings, confirmed that some of the meat being sold was in fact from the Riverton City disposal site.

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