slaughterhouse

Perhaps we really do live in a “demented slaughterhouse of a world,” as the unhinged newsman Howard Beale says in one of his apocalyptic broadcasts, and have all along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

They’re not selling it and sending it to a slaughterhouse.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

He's written about slaughterhouse workers, the family behind Tyson Foods, the value of a 7-Eleven Slurpee, and the failed supermarket megamerger between Kroger and Albertsons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 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

On the way back from the slaughterhouse, we stopped for Cokes in the village of Mojo, where the gas-station owner had arranged a few tables and chairs beneath a dying canopy of vines.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

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

The pair later found employment in slaughterhouses in Nebraska, where she suffered a severe leg injury from a cutting blade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

Each breath I took was soured by the scorched, sickly sweet odor of the glue processing plants, while the canal, polluted with animal carcasses from the slaughterhouses, reeked of ghastly carnage.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros