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Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942. In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ ˈ æ b ə t w ɑːr / ⓘ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a meat-packing facility.
Number of slaughtered poultry annually in millions 1 LDC Group: Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France: 578,5 2 2 Sisters Food Group (Part of Boparan Holdings) [3] Birmingham, United Kingdom: 520,0 3 MHP: Kyiv, Ukraine: 492,0 4 Plukon Food Group: Wezep, Netherlands: 468,0 5 Gruppo Veronesi: Verona, Italy: 350,0 6 PHW Group: Visbek, Germany: 350,0 7 Gap ...
The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is a meat processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian multinational JBS S.A. The subsidiary was created when JBS entered the U.S. market in 2007 with its purchase of Swift & Company.
After a few false starts, such as the Maine Experiment Station's failure at improving egg production, [13] success was shown by Professor James Dryden at the Oregon Experiment Station. [14] The culling and slaughter of non-egg laying chickens created a source of poultry meat. However, poultry meat supply continued to lag demand, and poultry was ...
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Rank Country Meat production (in tonnes) Year 1 China 92,948,520 2022 2 United States 47,530,724 2022 3 Brazil 30,397,944 2022 4 Russia 12,244,950 2022 5 India ...
A Mississippi slaughterhouse that supplies chicken to Chick-fil-A is directly to blame for the death of a 16-year-old worker who was sucked into equipment in July and killed within minutes, the ...