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abattoir
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abattoir (ăb'ətwär`) [Fr.], building for butchering. The abattoir houses facilities to slaughter animals; dress, cut and inspect meats; and refrigerate, cure, and manufacture byproducts. The largest abattoirs are those of the 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.  industry. Plant construction, drainage, water supply, disposal of refuse, and all operations are under government regulation. Abattoirs are also called slaughterhouses.
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In the depraved abattoirs of torture-film chic, real live people kill real live people.
Tortured Souls; 'Tis the season for carnal carnage--all year 'round by Poulos, James G. / The Weekly Standard
To identify tickborne viruses circulating in Kenya and the surrounding region, we conducted surveillance at abattoirs in Nairobi, Kenya.
Tickborne arbovirus surveillance in market livestock, Nairobi, Kenya by Miller, Barry / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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.
Sense of the city by Hobhouse, Niall / The Architectural Review
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