A livestock shop caters to immigrants and allows them to shop for meat the way they are accustomed to. Not a bad way for anyone to shop, you know the meat is fresh! - - Donna Poisl
By Kia Gregory, Inquirer Staff Write
Along the shopping strip of Woodland Avenue, between the pizza shop and an abandoned building, a wind chime carved with the Chinese symbol for luck dangles in the doorway, next to a well-used fly strip. In walks a young woman chatting in Spanish on her cellphone. A regular, she passes through a second glass door to the middle of the store, stands in front of a wall of cages that house live chickens, and picks out a plump red pullet.
A clerk holds the prized poultry by its feet and places it on the scale. After an agreement of sale is reached, he takes the bird in the back to dress it, which at Woodland Avenue Livestock in Southwest Philadelphia means to slaughter it and prepare it for the stove, while the woman waits outside.
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