Lawyers for the store managers say that categorizing the fish and other creatures as wildlife does not make sense, because they were farm-raised for eating.
Some samples were a complete enigma, displaying neither their origin, species, nor information about whether they were farmed or wild.
Whether you put a lid on the pan can make more of a difference than how they were farmed, or whether they were produced locally or not.
At one cluster of shacks, members of three families admitted they were farming illegally.Iem Somean, a 27-year-old mother of seven, is one of them.
Over the centuries, they were farmed by Greeks, then by Bulgarians and Albanians, and, since the nineteen-fifties, by migrants from the Black Sea region of Kastamonu.
Instead of five or six, the channel had hundreds, and they were farmed out to anyone clever and creative who wanted to have a go.
Once the nurses arrived, they were farmed out, through a staffing agency operated by Kalu, to jobs in nursing homes, where they were paid less than the $72,000 a year they had been promised.
The RSPCA has raised concerns about micro pigs being kept as pets since 2009, when the trend first started, and has reminded owners that they are farm animals in the eyes of the law and must be cared for accordingly.
"But they're farm-raised," Mr. Melena assured me of the deer used.
