slaughterhouse

The Sawyers became monsters due to abandonment and neglect; members of the family were employed at the local slaughterhouse until the bolt gun replaced the sledgehammer as the cattle-killing method of choice.

Department of Indian Affairs constructed a slaughterhouse on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and required tribal members to provide the factory's labor in exchange for its beef.

The Union Stock Yards in Chicago, the most modern slaughterhouse of the era, opened on Christmas Day in 1865 and marked a turning point for industrial beef production.

As is well known, it is wrong for immigrants to kill mammals outside the confines of an American slaughterhouse, where they are by contrast encouraged if not expected, even as children, to carry out the assembly-line killing that results in plastic-wrapped “meat” showing up at the local grocer and being consumed by red-blooded Americans.

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.