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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.
The Humane Slaughter Act, or the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act (P.L. 85-765; 7 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.), is a United States federal law designed to decrease suffering of livestock during slaughter.
Emily was a cow (Bos taurus) who escaped from a slaughterhouse in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, by jumping a gate and wandered for 40 days eluding capture.She found lasting refuge at the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts, until her death in 2003.
The slaughterhouse is currently managed and operated by Ng Fung Hong Limited, who were contracted by the Hong Kong Government. Today, the slaughterhouse can accommodate 12,000 pigs and 2200 cows . It is outfitted with sewage treatment , a water recycling plant and advanced slaughter machines which can operate mostly without manpower.
A captive bolt pistol (also known as a captive bolt gun, a cattle gun, a stunbolt gun, a bolt gun, a stun gun and a stunner) is a device used for the stunning of animals prior to slaughter. The goal of captive bolt stunning is to inflict a forceful strike on the forehead with the bolt in order to induce unconsciousness .
There is also a related program called cowthink, with cows with thought bubbles rather than speech bubbles. .cow files for cowsay exist which are able to produce different variants of cows, with different kinds of eyes, and so forth. [3] It is sometimes used on IRC, desktop screenshots, and in software documentation.
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The Deonar abattoir is an abattoir (slaughterhouse) located in Deonar, in the eastern suburb of Mumbai, India.The abattoir used to be the largest in Asia in 1971. [1] Goats, Bulls and Ox are made available differing in size and breed cost with ranges anywhere between ₹ 1,056,789,000 (US$12 million) and ₹ 50,000,000,789 (US$580 million), the highest a shop has demanded at the abattoir.