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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.
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 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.
The sale was completed on August 1. What is now known as Sara Lee Frozen Bakery will be based in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. [33] In mid-2018, Tyson Foods agreed to acquire the organic chicken and chicken-sausage brand Smart Chicken and parent company Tecumseh Poultry. [34] [35]
National Beef also owns and operates a slaughterhouse and beef packing plant in Liberal with a capacity of processing 6,000 cattle per day [9] and employing about 3,500 people. That number of employees comprises about one-third of the total employed work force in Seward County where Liberal is located. [10]
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.
Cargill Meat Solutions is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc—a multi-generational family-owned and operated, multinational agribusiness giant.Cargill was America's Largest Private Company, with revenues of US$106.30 billion in 2008 and 151,500 employees, according to Forbes.