meat packing

American  

noun

1. the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.

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Other Word Forms

• meat packer noun

Etymology

Origin of meat packing

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

“These children should never have been employed in meat packing plants and this can only happen when employers do no take responsibility to prevent child labor violations from occurring in the first place.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023

"It is a tragedy, we are dealing with another death at a meat packing plant," Lincoln Cordeiro told Reuters.

From Reuters • Jun. 4, 2022

There are meat packing plants in all these towns, and they have immigrants — first generation — it is a real growing population.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2021

These markers for meat packing efficiency are precisely what have made these spaces ideal for the transmission of the coronavirus.

From Slate • May 28, 2020

I hated meat packing, it smells like what it is, a bunch of frozen dead animal corpses.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez