slaughterhouse
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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
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.
Ranchers supporting brands say feedlots are the last line of defense before slaughterhouses, and must be inspected.
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.
"In addition to setting up that 20 kilometre zone, we've increased the amount of testing in the slaughterhouses," Muir said.
From BBC
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