slaughterer

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The retail butchers blamed the Beef Trust, a cohort of shippers, kosher slaughterers and rabbinical inspectors that controlled every aspect of the city’s supply.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2020

Afterwards, looking at the dead animals on the ground, the slaughterers were visibly upset.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2020

Today’s slaughterers and meatpackers are still cogs in the industrial machine, “cheap, largely interchangeable, and disposable,” as Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, wrote in Mother Jones in 2001.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2016

Mr. Bowles, busy cutting "wage-patterns," cut one for the meat industry � a 16� wage boost for packinghouse workers, 1�% boost in the price of meat, continued subsidies to cattle raisers and slaughterers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Accordingly the accuser said he had been visited by the sergeant's ghost, who had told him everything, and laid on him the heavy burden of bringing his slaughterers in the flesh to their account.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill