Wet market
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A wet market is a marketplace selling fresh foods, such as meat, fish, and produce, and other consumption-oriented perishable goods in a non-supermarket setting, as distinguished from "dry markets" th
A meat stall at a wet market in Hong Kong
A fruit stall at a traditional open-air street market in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong
Cages with pangolins and snakes at a wildlife market in Mong La, Myanmar.
Cages with owls and tree shrews at Jatinegara Market in Jakarta, Indonesia
Slaughterhouse
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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
Wet market
…fresh meat is mainly distributed through traditional wet markets or meat stalls. Wet markets selling fresh meat are often attached to, or located near, slaughter facilities. If sanitation standards are not maintained, wet markets can spread disease. Those that carry live animals and wildlife are at especially high risk of…
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."](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Pork_packing_in_Cincinnati_1873.jpg/500px-Pork_packing_in_Cincinnati_1873.jpg)
Pork packing in Cincinnati. Print from 1873 showing four scenes in a packing house: "Killing, Cutting, Rendering, [and] Salting."