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A chicken runs past customers after escaping its cage at a live market in Queens, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2013.
The city has nearly 90 slaughterhouses, called live markets, offering chickens, goats sheep and other animals. The markets serve mostly immigrants accustomed to cooking freshly butchered meats.
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A goat stares as it mingles with kids at a live market in Queens, Aug. 14, 2013.
The city has nearly 90 slaughterhouses, called live markets, offering chickens, goats sheep and other animals.
Some animals escape slaugther and, if lucky, manage to live the rest of their lives at Farm Sanctuary, a nonprofit to protect animals in upstate New York and California.
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Farm Sanctuary rescue team member Mario Ramirez holds a piglet named Winston, after he was found wandering alone down College Point Blvd. in Queens, N.Y., July 26, 2013.
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A rescue van at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., July 22, 2013.
The late-model Mercedes van looks like a rock-star tour bus, but this one has a very different purpose: to transport frightened farm animals on the lam in New York City -- some escaped from the city's nearly 90 storefront slaughterhouses that mostly serve customers from cultures accustomed to cooking with freshly butchered meats.
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Elliot, a goat, leaps in the air at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., where he was brought after being rescued in Brooklyn, N.Y., following his escape from a live market, April 18, 2012.
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A butcher carries a chicken after it escaped its cage at a live market in Queens, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2013.
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Imran Uddin, owner of Madani Halal live market, tours a section of his market housing goats and sheep in Queens, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2013. Uddin, who supplies some of the city's top chefs, said there has been no escapes from his facility.
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Lucky Lady, a sheep, stands in a meadow at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., where she was brought in 2007 after roaming the streets of New York's South Bronx following her escape from an auction house, April 28, 2008.
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A chicken walks between caged ducks after escaping its cage at a live market in Queens, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2013.
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The piglet Winston trots through a field at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., where he was brought after being found wandering alone in Queens, N.Y., July 29, 2013.
