slaughterhouse

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Smithfield Foods SFD 2.24%increase; green up pointing triangle plans to build a large hog slaughterhouse in South Dakota, marking the first new facility built by America’s top pork producer in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Actor Joaquin Phoenix is among those who has lobbied to end the slaughterhouse operation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

It said that livestock farmers, cheesemakers, slaughterhouse owners and feed suppliers had been informed about the new restrictions.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

He was just getting started when news broke that 1986 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand had reportedly died in a slaughterhouse in Japan.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

He had come to the slaughterhouse to recruit men for a German military unit called “The Free American Corps.”

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut