Slaughterhouse
noun
A place where animals are killed for their meat.
The farmer sent the old bull to the slaughterhouse
Often appears as...
- slaughterhouse worker
- take to the slaughterhouse
noun
A place where animals are killed for their meat.
The farmer sent the old bull to the slaughterhouse
Often appears as...
- slaughterhouse worker
- take to the slaughterhouse
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies cruelty or negative emotions associated with killing animals.
Animal rights activists protested outside the slaughterhouse.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Setting
Slaughterhouses are typically large, industrial spaces where animals are processed on a mass scale.
He worked at a slaughterhouse that processed hundreds of cattle daily.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Workers
People who work at slaughterhouses often have specialized roles in the process.
She was a slaughterhouse worker responsible for quality control.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies cruelty or negative emotions associated with killing animals.
Animal rights activists protested outside the slaughterhouse.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Setting
Slaughterhouses are typically large, industrial spaces where animals are processed on a mass scale.
He worked at a slaughterhouse that processed hundreds of cattle daily.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Workers
People who work at slaughterhouses often have specialized roles in the process.
She was a slaughterhouse worker responsible for quality control.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies cruelty or negative emotions associated with killing animals.
Animal rights activists protested outside the slaughterhouse.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Setting
Slaughterhouses are typically large, industrial spaces where animals are processed on a mass scale.
He worked at a slaughterhouse that processed hundreds of cattle daily.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Workers
People who work at slaughterhouses often have specialized roles in the process.
She was a slaughterhouse worker responsible for quality control.
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The business case for...
So I end up meeting her, and she's the very best type of critic, in a sense that she just loves the animals, wants to protect them, but she also understands the reality of the meat business. And I'll always remember, I had never been to a slaughterhouse in my life, and so I go with her for my first trip.
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Will Potter: The...
and today we released a lawsuit challenging it as unconstitutional as a threat to journalism. The first of these ag-gag prosecutions, as they're called, was a young woman named Amy Meyer, and Amy saw a sick cow being moved by a bulldozer outside of a slaughterhouse
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Battle for Fallujah PIPE...
many enemies hide out in safe houses waiting to attack they begin a methodical sweep of the city to root out the insurgents and the Marines house-to-house thirty thousand houses and searched every one of them November 10th Marines discover the slaughterhouse used
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Why humans run the world...
concentration camps are a system of cooperation. Chimpanzees don't have slaughterhouses and prisons and concentration camps. Now suppose I've managed to convince you perhaps that yes, we control the world because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers.
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Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful...
So supermarkets, the slaughterhouses, and so on that buy products from illegal clear-cut areas, they also can be liable for the deforestation. So making all these connections to help to push the problem down. And also we work a lot on land tenure issues.
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Why should you read Kurt...
As a prisoner of war, he lived in a former slaughterhouse in Dresden, where he took refuge in an underground meat locker while Allied forces bombed the city. When he and the other prisoners finally emerged, they found Dresden utterly demolished.
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Sacred Cows Rescued From...
transported illegally under the cover of darkness you know crammed on into trucks on top of one another and they're taken illegally to slaughterhouses so two houses yes I ate this I thought this was not something that was legally
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The case for fish...
climate change, food security and so on. In the search for alternatives, the industry, on a massive scale, has reverted to plant-based alternatives like soy, industrial chicken waste, blood meal from slaughterhouses and so on.
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Goat Fetus PIPE Rare Foods
buying a cutie pie comes down to timing and luck play is a great demand if you're a little late you don't get goodbye the slaughterhouse is no neighborhood butcher shop here every part of the
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Expanding our definition...
together and think about the old days at the abattoir and at the far end of it there was a door that said veterinarian and I thought well he must be depressed you
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The business case for...
So I end up meeting her, and she's the very best type of critic, in a sense that she just loves the animals, wants to protect them, but she also understands the reality of the meat business. And I'll always remember, I had never been to a slaughterhouse in my life, and so I go with her for my first trip.
Video examples
Will Potter: The...
and today we released a lawsuit challenging it as unconstitutional as a threat to journalism. The first of these ag-gag prosecutions, as they're called, was a young woman named Amy Meyer, and Amy saw a sick cow being moved by a bulldozer outside of a slaughterhouse
Video examples
Battle for Fallujah PIPE...
many enemies hide out in safe houses waiting to attack they begin a methodical sweep of the city to root out the insurgents and the Marines house-to-house thirty thousand houses and searched every one of them November 10th Marines discover the slaughterhouse used
Video examples
Why humans run the world...
concentration camps are a system of cooperation. Chimpanzees don't have slaughterhouses and prisons and concentration camps. Now suppose I've managed to convince you perhaps that yes, we control the world because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers.
Video examples
Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful...
So supermarkets, the slaughterhouses, and so on that buy products from illegal clear-cut areas, they also can be liable for the deforestation. So making all these connections to help to push the problem down. And also we work a lot on land tenure issues.
Video examples
Why should you read Kurt...
As a prisoner of war, he lived in a former slaughterhouse in Dresden, where he took refuge in an underground meat locker while Allied forces bombed the city. When he and the other prisoners finally emerged, they found Dresden utterly demolished.
Video examples
Sacred Cows Rescued From...
transported illegally under the cover of darkness you know crammed on into trucks on top of one another and they're taken illegally to slaughterhouses so two houses yes I ate this I thought this was not something that was legally
Video examples
The case for fish...
climate change, food security and so on. In the search for alternatives, the industry, on a massive scale, has reverted to plant-based alternatives like soy, industrial chicken waste, blood meal from slaughterhouses and so on.
Video examples
Goat Fetus PIPE Rare Foods
buying a cutie pie comes down to timing and luck play is a great demand if you're a little late you don't get goodbye the slaughterhouse is no neighborhood butcher shop here every part of the
Video examples
Expanding our definition...
together and think about the old days at the abattoir and at the far end of it there was a door that said veterinarian and I thought well he must be depressed you
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Quote examples
Peter Dinklage
American Actor
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.
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Renee Olstead
American Actress
The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.
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Raoul Vaneigem
Belgian Philosopher
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
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Steve-O
British Celebrity
It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated.
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John C. Reilly
American Actor
I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.
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Ingrid Newkirk
British Activist
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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Walter Annenberg
American Businessman
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
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Henri La Fontaine
Belgian Lawyer
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
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Linda McCartney
American Photographer
If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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Paul McCartney
English Singer
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Quote examples
Peter Dinklage
American Actor
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.
Quote examples
Renee Olstead
American Actress
The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.
Quote examples
Raoul Vaneigem
Belgian Philosopher
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Quote examples
Steve-O
British Celebrity
It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated.
Quote examples
John C. Reilly
American Actor
I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.
Quote examples
Ingrid Newkirk
British Activist
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
Quote examples
Walter Annenberg
American Businessman
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Quote examples
Henri La Fontaine
Belgian Lawyer
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
Quote examples
Linda McCartney
American Photographer
If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
Quote examples
Paul McCartney
English Singer
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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