Example Sentences

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Ranchers supporting brands say feedlots are the last line of defense before slaughterhouses, and must be inspected.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

The link between disdain and action may not form, in the same way that people who don’t like slaughterhouses still eat steak.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2025

A Tennessee-based sanitation company has been fined more than $649,000 after an investigation revealed that it had illegally employed at least two dozen children at slaughterhouses and meatpacking facilities, the Labor Department said this week.

From New York Times • May 7, 2024

He also pointed to New York Times reporting that federal officials repeatedly ignored warnings that migrant children were increasingly working in slaughterhouses, factories and on roofs, in violation of child labor laws.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

When I crossed the river’s northern bend, I avoided glancing at the brownish water churning below, noxious with runoff from the slaughterhouses.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros