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A slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (from the French verb abattre, "to strike down"),
or freezing works (New Zealand English), is a facility where animals are killed and processed into meat foods. The animals most commonly slaughtered for food are cattle (for beef and veal), sheep (for lamb and mutton), pigs (for pork), horses (for horsemeat), goats (for chevon), and fowl, largely chickens, turkeys, and ducks, for poultry meat.
In the United States, around ten billion animals are slaughtered every year in 5,700 slaughterhouses and processing plants employing 527,000 workers;Williams73>Williams, Erin E. and DeMello, Margo. Why Animals Matter. Prometheus Books, 2007, p. 73. in 2007, 28.1 billion pounds of beef were consumed in the U.S. alone., United States Department of Agriculture, cited in Torres, Bob. Making a Killing. AK Press, 2007, p. 45. In Canada, 650 million are killed annually., Global Action Network, accessed March 18, 2008. In the European Union, the annual figure is 300 million cattle, sheep, and pigs, and four billion chickens.Stevenson>Stevenson, Peter. , Compassion in World Farming, July 2001.
Slaughtering animals on a large scale poses significant logistical problems and public health concerns, with public aversion to meat packing in many cultures influencing the location of slaughterhouses. In addition, some religions stipulate certain conditions for the slaughter of animals so that practices within slaughterhouses vary.
There has been criticism of the methods of preparation, herding, and killing within some slaughterhouses, and in particular of the speed with which the slaughter is sometimes conducted. Investigations by animal welfare and animal rights groups have indicated that a proportion of these animals are being skinned or gutted while apparently still alive and conscious.For example, see
*Eisnitz, Gail A. Slaughterhouse. Prometheus Books, 1997.
*Hershaft, Alex. , written by the president of FARM, read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse
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