kill floor
Where livestock die
The kill floor is the area of a slaughterhouse where animals are slaughtered—the literal floor where killing happens.
The term is straightforward and industrial, used by workers and in descriptions of meatpacking operations: He worked the kill floor for twenty years.
The image sometimes appears in metaphors for brutal or merciless environments.
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- abattoirMeat processing facility
- factory farmIndustrial-scale livestock facility
- butcherOne who sells cuts
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
meat · meat packing · blood · blood drain · hooks · carcass · cutting room · knife work · processing · hogs · stunning · stun gun · bolt gun · cleaver · industrial · packing · rendering · conveyor
kill floordeli counter
Store section for prepared foods
butcher shop · farm · feedlot · stockyard · pasture
kill floorwildlife refuge
Protected area for animals
petting zoo · nature preserve · humane society · no-kill shelter · wildlife hospital
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