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
“We don’t want a slaughterhouse in Los Angeles County.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
The Union Stock Yards in Chicago, the most modern slaughterhouse of the era, opened on Christmas Day in 1865 and marked a turning point for industrial beef production.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024
It said that livestock farmers, cheesemakers, slaughterhouse owners and feed suppliers had been informed about the new restrictions.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024
Because before hummingbirds could discover his upside-down bottle, a bunch of flying ants happened by, and in no time they drove themselves like lemmings up the glass tube into Herbie’s jar-shaped slaughterhouse.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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