slaughterhouse
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"They should stay at their slaughterhouse in Shropshire," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
Realizing that they’re headed to the slaughterhouse, the animals rebel against the humans, save themselves, and reinhabit the farm, establishing their own system of checks and balances to ensure their survival.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
“Two weeks ago. There was a worker whose body was found at a kosher slaughterhouse down in the Yards. Lev and Gavril took care of tahara on their own.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
Somehow, even if they do, there is a successive chain of Agriculture Department inspectors, including at slaughterhouses and things like that, that are going to notice a gaping wound on an animal.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 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
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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