<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/55820484-ebd8-4da3-881b-203792f587cf/F0920922-1943-468C-8DC3-6EF87FE23C44/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Slideshow-Bakery-owner-claims-animal-sacrifice/qxvGjWzxL0i8-qfc4xq5Wg.cspx" href="http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Slideshow-Bakery-owner-claims-animal-sacrifice/qxvGjWzxL0i8-qfc4xq5Wg.cspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.woai.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Slideshow-Bakery-owner-claims-animal-sacrifice/qxvGjWzxL0i8-qfc4xq5Wg.cspx"><DIV> SAN ANTONIO -- Skins of animals and hooves nailed to a tree, those were just some of the bizarre things found right next to a bakery. When code-compliance officers arrived they noticed a number of things that didn't look right. That included around 15 animals in the back of the business. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Slideshow-Bakery-owner-claims-animal-sacrifice/qxvGjWzxL0i8-qfc4xq5Wg.cspx"><DIV>When News 4 WOAI asked Jesse Mercado, the owner of Celia’s Bakery, about what was going on, he explained “this is part of the religion, you need to eat the animals, you need to eat it."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Slideshow-Bakery-owner-claims-animal-sacrifice/qxvGjWzxL0i8-qfc4xq5Wg.cspx"><DIV>Mercado says the religion is called <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_religion" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia: Yoruba Religion">Yoruba</A>, and it's similar to <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia: Haitian Vodou">voodoo</A>. When we were out there, he demonstrated some of the rituals that are part of his religion. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Slideshow-Bakery-owner-claims-animal-sacrifice/qxvGjWzxL0i8-qfc4xq5Wg.cspx"><DIV>There had been complaints of animal abuse, drug activity, and prostitution. Code compliance found sick animals in the bakery next door, bad wiring throughout the building and a mattress in the vacant building on the end. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Slideshow-Bakery-owner-claims-animal-sacrifice/qxvGjWzxL0i8-qfc4xq5Wg.cspx">Mercado is not facing any charges for that. But he was arrested on animal cruelty charges. And for now the place has been shut down. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F0920922-1943-468C-8DC3-6EF87FE23C44/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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