meat packing
Animal flesh industry
Meat packing is the business of slaughtering animals and processing their flesh for sale.
The industry involves butchering, preserving, and packaging beef, pork, poultry, and other meats for distribution.
Meat-packing plants are large-scale industrial facilities: He worked in meat packing for thirty years.
Also spelled meatpacking.
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- kill floorWhere animals are dispatched
- foodborne illnessSickness from contaminated meals
- marblingStreaky fat distribution
- cleaverBroad-bladed cutting tool
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- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- unpleasant jobsgarbage collection, mucking stalls, latrine duty, coal mining, sweatshop labor
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
- livestock sciencecattle breeding, livestock feed, dairy cattle, beef cattle, cattle ranching
- agroindustryfood processing, grain milling, sugar refining, cotton ginning, rice mills
- food processingcanning, freezing, drying, packaging, pasteurization
food production stage
meat packinglivestock farming
Breeding animals for food
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