slaughterhouse
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JBS began as a family-owned slaughterhouse in the Brazilian countryside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
They’re not selling it and sending it to a slaughterhouse.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
“We don’t want a slaughterhouse in Los Angeles County.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
The biggest chunk of this is for meat products, which makes sense, considering the biggest issues in meat safety stem from the farm and from the slaughterhouse.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2024
When the three fools found the communal kitchen, whose main job was to make lunch for workers in the slaughterhouse, everybody had gone home but one woman who had been waiting for them impatiently.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
There is also evidence that, almost simultaneously, another arm of the federal government was allowing inexpensive wild horses to enter a chain that could end at foreign slaughterhouses.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
They are sold to feedlots that fatten them up before being shipped to slaughterhouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
"In addition to setting up that 20 kilometre zone, we've increased the amount of testing in the slaughterhouses," Muir said.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
The pair later found employment in slaughterhouses in Nebraska, where she suffered a severe leg injury from a cutting blade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
It wasn’t just slaughterhouses and meatpacking factories that occupied the Yards’ four hundred acres.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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