meat packer
Processes animal carcasses
A meat packer is a person or company that processes and packages meat for distribution and sale.
The term covers both the workers who slaughter animals and prepare cuts, and the industrial operations that employ them: His grandfather worked as a meat packer in Chicago.
Meatpacking was among the first American industries to face labor reform after exposés of brutal working conditions.
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- kill floorWhere animals are dispatched
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- hogsPigs, or monopolizes
- factory farmIndustrial-scale livestock facility
processing · carcass · cleaver · cutting room · cold · cold storage · bloody · Chicago · stockyards · The Jungle · union · union dues · assembly line · refrigerated · sides · hooks · apron · sawdust
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- blue-collar jobsfactory work, factory worker, factory workers, construction, farm hand
- essential workersdoctor, nurse, paramedic, EMT, firefighter
- factory workersfactory worker, factory hand, assembly line worker, floor worker, machine operator
- hourly jobshourly worker, day laborer, fast food worker, factory hand, laborer
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
meat packerrancher
One who raises livestock
cattle rancher · hog farmer · stockman · grocery store · cattle breeder
meat packerveterinarian
Doctor for animals
wildlife conservationist · animal shelter worker · zookeeper · animal rescuer
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