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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 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.
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 expensive. Prior to about 1910, chicken was served primarily on special occasions or Sunday dinner.
"So, in 2024 we saw bird flu jump from our poultry and wild birds, to mammals, to cows. And that was a very startling change," she said. Until 2024, there was only one human case in the U.S.
JBS USA and Perdue Farms will each pay $4 million for employing children through third-party staffing agencies, officials announced this week.
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 ...
Poultry found to be sick with avian flu need to be culled, and their eggs also need to be destroyed. MORE: Long Island farm forced to euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after bird flu detected
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. [1] They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments.