slaughterhouse
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Actor Joaquin Phoenix is among those who has lobbied to end the slaughterhouse operation.
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
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
He had dragged me on foot from the ice-encrusted sprawl of Lake Michigan to the slaughterhouse district, which bustled with life even in the dead of winter.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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