Cookie Policy Feedback Monday, Feb 24 2014 9AM 29°C 12PM 29°C 5-Day Forecast Market butcher is forced to STOP displaying meat and game after 'townies' object: Family firm targeted with hate mail because of carcasses hanging in the window

Staff at JBS Family Butchers in Sudbury, Suffolk, spent hours every week perfecting their window displays. Unplucked birds and the occasional pig or deer head were hung up in its shopfront. But it has reluctantly had to remove the display after it became the target of a campaign including anonymous hate mail and people hurling abuse in the shop. Others wrote to the local papers and posted remarks on Facebook calling for a
boycott of the shop and its neighbours. Assistant manager Richard Nicholson (left) said staff had been stunned. Pictured (top right) is a sign that has been placed in the window, and (bottom right) is the display at another butcher's in the town in 1955. 

For more than 100 years, butchers in the market town of Sudbury have proudly displayed their meats in their shop windows.

But now one has been forced to stop hanging game such as pheasants, partridges and rabbits in his shopfront after a vicious campaign, blamed on ‘townies’ who have recently moved in.
Staff at JBS Family Butchers, which has sawdust on the floor and takes great pride in its link to local suppliers and the countryside way of life, spent hours every week perfecting their window displays featuring meat and game.

 

Unplucked birds and the occasional pig or deer head were hung up in its shopfront in a small precinct in the Suffolk town.
But it has reluctantly had to remove the display after it became the target of a campaign including anonymous hate mail and people hurling abuse in the shop.