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The building where livestock are killed and butchered for meat, rarely seen by the people who eat it.
means A facility where livestock are killed and butchered for meat.
from A straightforward compound of 'slaughter' — from Old Norse 'slátr' (meaning butcher's meat, from the verb 'slátra,' to slaughter, itself tied to 'sláttr,' a stroke or blow) — plus 'house,' the plain Old English word for a building. So the name is exactly what it sounds like: the house where the killing stroke happens.
- industry name
- euphemized as a processing plant
- hidden location
- usually zoned far from city eyes
- job turnover
- among the highest of any industry
- etymology
- from slaught, old word for killing