Video: Butcher caught cleaning meat with broom

Published Tuesday, December 04, 2012

By Staff

A Saudi man who went to the butchery to buy meat froze when he saw a worker cleaning the meat with a broom in a dirty bucket while blood covered most of the floor and walls. He instantly pulled his mobile phone and filmed the worker.

The unnamed Saudi said the Egyptian worker was apparently doing so to lure in customers by making them think the meat is clean and fresh.

The YouTube film, carried by Sabq newspaper, showed the worker was brushing the meat inside a dirty blue bucket before piling the stuff in the sink.

“What this worker was doing violates cleanliness and hygienic rules by the municipality,” the Saudi told the paper in a report from the central town of Artawiya.