Friday, January 5, 2007

Belleville

I used to live in Belleville. So did Mikey and Gerard Way, of My Chemical Romance. This town occupies only one block of one side of Bloomfield Ave, from Heckel to Belmont streets, and the most notable thing on this block is the Halal Live Polutry. That's right, live poultry. The chickens are kept in cages visible from the sidewalk, but even if you couldn't see them, you could certainly smell them. It's a pretty awful place - the cages are so small that the chickens have to climb over each other to get anywhere, and you can go pick which chicken you want and then they go wring it's neck and hand it over to you. I think I would rather save the chickens by setting them free.

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