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abattoir a building for the slaughter of animals for human food. It may vary in size and sophistication depending on location and local government ordinance but it should contain the following facilities or have them close by: a slaughter area, an area for emergency slaughter, refrigeration area, condemned meat area and space for holding suspect meat, offal, gut and tripe area, hide and skin area, cutting room, despatch area, amenities for personnel, a veterinary officer's room, preferably including a laboratory, and accommodation for animals awaiting slaughter, called lairage. Called also slaughterhouse, meat packing plant. abattoir fever see q fever. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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depraved abattoirs of torture-film chic, real live people kill real live
people.
In fact, I honor her for her courage to speak up on anything, and not
become just another complacent victim of today's societal abattoir. In that instant a Strand paved in horseshit, or the abattoirs of
Chicago, become the subject of the richly contrived regret for urban
fremissement that so animated the Situationist International; its shade
can be felt everywhere in the exhibition. |
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