Definition of meatpacking
: the wholesale meat industry
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Brazil, with 1 million donkeys and world-class slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants, is now looking to cash in.
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Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen are charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction to detonate truck bombs in the meatpacking town of Garden City, 220 miles west of Wichita.
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The area once was the center of the slaughterhouse and meatpacking industries in Cleveland.
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Located in a great industrial building built around a courtyard near the railroad tracks, the space used to be a meatpacking and storage plant.
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In another nod to Chicago's industrial meatpacking past, extruded tamales, such as popular brands Supreme and Tom Tom, are more like mushy cornmeal surrounding a spicy meat paste.
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For every employee who’s detained -- from a farm, restaurant or California meatpacking plant -- dozens of others become fearful of returning to work.
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Sandwiches are named after local heroes, from meatpacking muckraker Upton Sinclair—who gets the vegan sandwich—to Sister Angie Kolacinski, longtime director of youth programs at Holy Cross/Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.
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The last flurry of public, on-site investigations happened under President George W. Bush, who sent immigration agents to several meatpacking plants and other workplaces.
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First Known Use of meatpacking
1857
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: the business of killing animals for meat and getting the meat ready to be sold
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