There is a growing demand from consumers for this to be indicated in butchers' and poulterers' stops.
What has struck me in the last few years is the enormous number of lapwings hanging up in poulterers' shops.
I may say that this is from a firm of fishmongers, poulterers, dealers in game and ice merchants.
It was headed by a poulter or poulterer (though this last term is more often for a merchant who deals in poultry).
If in truth this arrangement, by which poulterers' shops are stacked with these eggs in the spring, does not interfere with the plover, why have these birds disappeared?
In the case of a fowl, if a housewife orders it for delivery later, the poulterer must weigh it before it is drawn, record that weight and charge accordingly.
I took the trouble to get the receipt from the poulterer to which the hares were sold afterwards and in fact they were not torn to pieces.
So they were bought off, and no further noise came from them, but only from the small, unorganised fishmongers and poulterers and butchers who were going to suffer.
