slaughterhouse
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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
When he arrived in Massachusetts for his first fellowship studying parathyroid hormone, Habener found a ready source of thyroid glands to study from a local Cambridge slaughterhouse that supplied calf meat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
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
I’ve watched cows walk up a ramp into a slaughterhouse.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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