slaughterhouse
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"They should stay at their slaughterhouse in Shropshire," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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
Companies are snapping up Vernon properties and upgrading them, adding advanced cooling systems to old office buildings and filling a shuttered slaughterhouse that once housed hogs, with advanced chips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
The parade pranced, staggered and reeled to the gate of the Dresden slaughterhouse, and then it went inside.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Somehow, even if they do, there is a successive chain of Agriculture Department inspectors, including at slaughterhouses and things like that, that are going to notice a gaping wound on an animal.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 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
I cringed at the thought of becoming a gravedigger, but it was better than searching for work at Chicago’s sweatshops and slaughterhouses.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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