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slaughterhouse: see abattoir abattoir (ăb'ətwär`) [Fr.], building for butchering. ..... Click the link for more information. ; meatpacking meatpacking or meat-processing, wholesale business of buying and slaughtering animals and then processing and distributing their carcasses to retailers. The livestock industry is among the largest in the world. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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depraved abattoirs of torture-film chic, real live people kill real live
people. To identify tickborne viruses circulating in Kenya and the
surrounding region, we conducted surveillance at abattoirs in Nairobi,
Kenya. In that instant a Strand paved in horseshit, or the abattoirs of
Chicago, become the subject of the richly contrived regret for urban
fremissement that so animated the Situationist International; its shade
can be felt everywhere in the exhibition. |
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