animal processing
Butchering livestock commercially
Animal processing is the series of operations that convert livestock into meat and other products—slaughter, butchering, packaging, and preservation.
The term encompasses industrial-scale meatpacking plants as well as smaller facilities: The company runs animal processing facilities in three states.
It serves as a neutral, technical alternative to more graphic descriptions of what happens between farm and table.
- slaughterKilling for meat
- kill floorWhere animals are dispatched
- stun gunDevice that incapacitates electrically
- butcherOne who sells cuts
- meatAnimal tissue for food
meat packing · carcass · abattoir · rendering · hides · tanning · offal · viscera · cutting · cutting room · skinning · packing · hooks · cold · cold storage · sterile · white coat · blood
animal processingwildlife conservation
Protecting animals and ecosystems
animal rescue · wildlife rehabilitation · animal protection · animal liberation · animal welfare
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