killing floors
Where animals die
A killing floor is the area of a slaughterhouse where animals are slaughtered—the floor where the killing happens.
The term appears in blues music as a metaphor for any place of destruction, suffering, or powerlessness: The blues done got me on the killing floor.
Led Zeppelin's "The Lemon Song" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" draw on this imagery of being brought low and helpless.
- butcheringProcessing animals into cuts
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- bloodshedKilling and wounding
- carcassSlaughtered animal's body
- abattoirMeat processing facility
packing house · meat hooks · humane slaughter · livestock · processing · packaging · worker safety · animal rights · hygiene · Upton Sinclair · factory farming · industrial scale · assembly line · stun gun · hook · blood drain · union organizing · grinding
killing floorsoperating rooms
Surgical procedure spaces
emergency rooms · intensive care units · trauma centers · veterinary hospitals · animal hospitals
killing floorssanctuaries
Protected places of refuge
animal sanctuaries · refuges · havens · safe havens · shelters
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