slaughterhouse

Example Sentences

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"In addition to setting up that 20 kilometre zone, we've increased the amount of testing in the slaughterhouses," Muir said.

From BBC

“She was in a bus or a truck on the way to the slaughterhouse,” said Goldstein, who works in healthcare.

From Seattle Times

The agency’s official position was that processors and slaughterhouses had no responsibility for pathogens in their products, even though contamination from feces and gut contents was widespread.

From Seattle Times

One reason is that the dirty work occurs far away from them, in isolated institutions — prisons, slaughterhouses — that are closed to the public.

From New York Times

The news outlet found evidence contradicting claims about the authenticity of some of the gruesome videos Ching shot of animals being tortured and killed in horrifying ways, including by blowtorch, at slaughterhouses in Asia.

From Los Angeles Times