E03 → Cattle Market

The most common no-humans roaming the city back in the day were horses, as they were used for transportation and moving goods. However, there were also non-humans coexisting within the city solely for meat consumption. In 1744, an abattoir, or slaughterhouse, opened by the River Clyde next to the Glasgow Green. In the following years, a beef and mutton market opened on King Street in 1754

Later on, the abattoir and meat market were relocated to the further east end of Glasgow. In 1818, the abattoir was erected on Bellgrove Street, with meat market also located near the slaughterhouse in Graham Square. These facilities were located underneath train tracks, which carried live cattle and imported frozen meats from places such as Uruguay and Argentina. The Market sold not only cattle, sheep, and pigs for meat, but also horses. The market stood until it closed in 2001, after shich it was turned into a car market, though it is no abandoned

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Part of the meat market has been converted into housing, retaining facade of the historical building in Graham Square. Additionally, a calf statue by Kenny Hunter, featuring a quote from John Berger’s “Why Look at Animals,” has been erected there. Nowadays, the only place to see live cattle in Glasgow is in Pollok Country Park, where Highland Cattle are kept in a sanctuary on a vast land, about a twenty-minute by taking a bus from the city centre

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