In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir, is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which the
Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942
In the slaughterhouse, Lovis Corinth, 1893
London's Smithfield Market in 1855, before it was reconstructed
Pork packing in Cincinnati. Print from 1873 showing four scenes in a packing house: "Killing, Cutting, Rendering, [and] Salting."
Animal–industrial complex is a concept used by activists and scholars to describe what they contend is the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals. The term was adapted from the "Mili
Pigs confined in gestation crates, which scholars such as Barbara Noske state is part of the animal–industrial complex. According to Noske, animals "have become reduced to mere appendages of computers and machines."
Gavage of a mulard duck in the production of foie gras
Male chicks shortly before they will be killed