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slaughterhouse
Sign in to saveAlso known as abattoir, slaughterhouses, abattoirs, slaughter, freezing works
thumb|Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942
Research
12,122 papers- Towards the use of on-farm slaughterhouse.Meat science · 2023
- Valorization of Chicken Slaughterhouse Byproducts to Obtain Antihypertensive Peptides.Nutrients · 2023
- Campylobacter contamination of broilers: the role of transport and slaughterhouse.International journal of food microbiology · 2020
- Slaughterhouse wastewater characteristics, treatment, and management in the meat processing industry: A review on trends and advances.Journal of environmental management · 2015
- Slaughterhouse by-products composting: can microorganisms inoculum addition mitigate final compost odor emission?Journal of environmental science and health. Part. B, Pesticides, food contaminants, and agricultural wastes · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- agricultural structure
- Image
- Abattoir-vache-sang-saignee-langue-sortie.jpg
- Has use
- animal slaughter
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- Commons category
- Slaughterhouses
- topic's main category
- Category:Slaughterhouses
- OpenStreetMap tag
- industrial=slaughterhouse
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000925
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Reform movement
- Regulation and expansion
- Design
- Mobile design
- International variations
- Preservation techniques
- Law
- Animal welfare concerns
- Worker exploitation concerns
- Slaughterhouse mortality impact
- Psychological impact
- Working conditions
- References
- External links
thumb|Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942
In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a meat-packing facility.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “slaughterhouse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.