Definition of abattoir
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Traditionally, cattle fairs and markets allow the sale of animals headed to abattoirs to provide raw materials used in dozens of industries, including leather making, soap and fertilizer.
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In Butterton, Staffordshire, a villager mistook him for a journalist investigating a scandalous local abattoir.
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Indeed, until recently this operation just off Mead’s County Road 10 was not unlike any other finishing ground for Nebraska’s beef cattle: a last stop before the abattoir.
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