slaughterhouse
noun
slaugh·ter·house
ˈslȯ-tər-ˌhau̇s 
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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In 2019, the Egyptian government granted Hana an exclusive contract to certify beef exports to that country as complying with halal religious rules — though Hana, a Coptic Christian, had no experience with Muslim slaughterhouse rites.
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Shayna Jacobs, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
But behind the ancient mosques, apartments, and historic coffee shops is something new and unexpected: a children’s cancer hospital built on the old bones of a defunct slaughterhouse.
—Sushrut Jangi, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2014
The conflict between ranchers and wild horse advocates has been simmering for decades, beginning in the 1950s when Velma Bronn Johnston mobilized the public after learning that mustangs were being rounded up by ranchers in Nevada and taken to slaughterhouses.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Producing beef raised without antibiotics entails extra costs that might not be paying off for Tyson, from the ranches to the slaughterhouses, where the animal and the carcass needs to be separated and tracked throughout, said Lance Zimmerman, a senior animal protein analyst for Rabobank.
—Democrat-Gazettestaff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 3 July 2024
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Shayna Jacobs, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
But behind the ancient mosques, apartments, and historic coffee shops is something new and unexpected: a children’s cancer hospital built on the old bones of a defunct slaughterhouse.
—Sushrut Jangi, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2014
The conflict between ranchers and wild horse advocates has been simmering for decades, beginning in the 1950s when Velma Bronn Johnston mobilized the public after learning that mustangs were being rounded up by ranchers in Nevada and taken to slaughterhouses.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Producing beef raised without antibiotics entails extra costs that might not be paying off for Tyson, from the ranches to the slaughterhouses, where the animal and the carcass needs to be separated and tracked throughout, said Lance Zimmerman, a senior animal protein analyst for Rabobank.
—Democrat-Gazettestaff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 3 July 2024
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slaughterhouse
noun
slaugh·ter·house
ˈslȯt-ər-ˌhau̇s
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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