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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.
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.
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]
A slaughterhouse is being accused of illegal slaughtering methods after an animal rights group released undercover video this week. Graphic leaked video shows 'appalling' pig slaughter Skip to ...
In July 2021, the company closed its original slaughter plant in Smithfield, Virginia. [8] [9] In February 2023, Smithfield Foods closed its meatpacking plant in Vernon, California. [10] [11] [12] In May 2023, the company closed 37 sow farms in Missouri. [8] [13] [14] In October 2023 the company shut down a pork plant in Charlotte, North ...
As of mid-August, more than 26% of Texas was at the highest level, characterized by widespread loss of pastures and crops as well as water shortages. Dry pastures force Texas ranchers to slaughter ...
Joseph W. Luter III began his expansion of Smithfield in 1981 with the purchase of its main competitor, Gwaltney of Smithfield, for $42 million. [20] This was followed by the acquisition of almost 40 companies in the pork, beef, and livestock industries between 1981 and around 2008, [26] including Esskay Meats/Schluderberg-Kurdle in Baltimore, Valley Dale in Roanoke, [20] and Patrick Cudahy in ...
In May 2023, undercover footage taken by Joey Carbstrong at a Pilgrim's Pride pig slaughterhouse in the United Kingdom was released. [20] The video shows pigs being lowered into carbon dioxide to stun the animals prior to being slaughtered. The investigation showed that many pigs remain conscious throughout the process.