Slaughterman David Partridge can’t answer when I ask what his abattoir smells like. “I can’t smell anything,” he explains, suggesting, slightly irritably, that once I get in there, I should tell him.

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The slaughtering of cattle has been put off for the week as the abattoir is being upgraded but pig slaughter is unaffected by the works. Slaughtering at the Gozo abattoir has also been stopped ...

SIR: The state of our abattoirs/slaughter houses and meat markets is not only an eyesore but unhygienic and harmful to health. This situation has been worsened by government’s seemingly indifference.

IT is an outright state of anomie in most abattoirs across the country – there is no other way to describe it. It is indeed a wonder that the country does not suffer persistent outbreak of diseases ...