slaughterhouse
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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
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
The biggest chunk of this is for meat products, which makes sense, considering the biggest issues in meat safety stem from the farm and from the slaughterhouse.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2024
When Hugh was in the fifth grade, his class took a field trip to an Ethiopian slaughterhouse.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Instead of multiple 20- to 50-mile daily hauls to the nearby Lexington plant, Maloley’s trucks will have to drive to slaughterhouses as far away as Colorado, some 300 miles away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
"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 link between disdain and action may not form, in the same way that people who don’t like slaughterhouses still eat steak.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2025
We often don’t want to think of the barbarism of the act, which is why slaughterhouses and factory farms are often located out in the middle of nowhere.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024
She knew that London was a large, bustling, and confusing city, and that one wrong turn might send them wandering down dark cobblestone streets that dead-ended at smelly slaughterhouses and riverfront establishments of ill repute.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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