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Rural Hill (Once thriving, died after local slaughter house, the main employer, closed its doors) [citation needed] San Toy; Sprucevale [3] (Canal town abandoned in 1870 with the closing of the canal, whose locks are still present) Tadmor [4] Utopia; Waterloo (Hancock County) - small town in Madison Township
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.
An illustration of the “Journey to the Slaughterhouse,” depicting pigs being herded through the streets of Cincinnati, was published in Harper’s Weekly, Feb. 4, 1860.
FREMONT, Neb. — Big-city mayors may be complaining about the economic impact of an influx of migrants, but the residents of a small city near Omaha can’t decide how they feel. Fremont ...
Until the mid 20th century, the meat-packing industry usually moved live cattle or carcasses by rail from producing areas to meat-packing facilities near large cities such as Chicago and Kansas City. This began to change in the 1960s, as companies began to move slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants to where cattle were raised.
Many neighbors of the Vernon slaughterhouse are glad to be free of its stench. However, the factory's 1,800 to 2,000 workers are left wondering what's next.
In a report by Oxfam America, slaughterhouse workers were observed not be allowed breaks, were often required to wear diapers, and were paid below minimum wage. [33] Slaughterhouses in the United States commonly illegally employed and exploited underage workers and undocumented immigrants.