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Bookmark or Share- Slaughterhouses: What are they and how are animals killed in them ...Every year billions of live animals enter slaughterhouses across the U.S. only to leave as cuts of meat or whole carcasses on refrigerator trucks, and as byproducts such as bones, blood, and inedible tissue that will end up as trash or be turned into glue or pet food.
- Slaughterhouses: The Harsh Reality of How Meat Is Made - Sentient MediaSlaughterhouses are places where humans kill nonhuman animals for the production of meat as food. This act of killing animals alone could be considered cruel. Animal welfare advocates have found, however, that there are degrees of nuance within the main function of a slaughterhouse.
- Analysis: Slaughterhouses still huge source of water pollutionSlaughterhouses are the largest industrial point source of nitrogen pollution. Several meat and poultry plants are located in the Mississippi River watershed, and scientists predicted last week that the nutrient-fueled Gulf of Mexico dead zone will extend 6,700 miles this summer.
- Slaughterhouses: How Are Animals Killed In a Slaughterhouse?According to the USDA, there are over 3,000 slaughterhouses in the United States. 2,785 slaughterhouses exist to execute and butcher large mammals such as cows, pigs, and sheep, while the rest are committed to the perpetual mass extermination of birds and fish.
- Slaughterhouse - WikipediaIn livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir ( / ˈæbətwɑːr / ⓘ ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a meat-packing facility .
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