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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.
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Its plants slaughter approximately 155,000 cattle, 461,000 pigs, and 45,000,000 chickens every week. [14] Their largest meat packing facility is their beef production plant in Dakota City, Nebraska. Other plants include feed mills, hatcheries, farms and tanneries. [citation needed]
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.
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The plant employs 3,600 people and slaughters 6,000 cattle every day. The facility is now owned by Tyson Foods. [3] Finney County induced the company to locate the plant near Garden City by providing the company with $100 million in industrial revenue bonds and $3.5 million in property tax relief. [4]
A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets, slaughter houses, or may be self-employed. [ 2 ] Butchery is an ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock ; its practitioners formed guilds in England as far back as 1272. [ 3 ]