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

This approach would allow the federal government to impose effective regulations where the most serious food safety concerns originate: on the farm and in the slaughterhouse.

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2024

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

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

A man in uniform opened the slaughterhouse door and stepped out, looked the men over, then pointed his finger—you, you, you.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield