ABATTOIR

ăbˌətwärˈ [Fr.], building for butchering. The abattoir houses facilities to slaughter animals; dress, cut and inspect meats; and refrigerate, cure, and manufacture byproducts. The largest abattoirs are those of the meatpacking industry. Plant construction, drainage, water supply, disposal of refuse, and all operations are under government regulation. Abattoirs are also called slaughterhouses.

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books on: Abattoir  - 558 results

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Blood Stain
Book by Peter Lalor; Allen & Unwin, 2003
Subjects: Knight, Katherine, Murderers--Australia--New South Wales--Biography, Women Murderers--Australia--New South Wales--Biography
...was his defacto. A mother of four. An abattoir worker. The grandmother who sang about...She wasn't mad either when she used her abattoir knives to remove his skin and head...the white of the bones exposed. The abattoir has been closed for nearly a year, but...
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An Experimental Study of Children at Work and in School between the Ages of Fourteen and Eighteen Years
Book by Helen Thompson Woolley; Macmillan, 1926
Subjects: Anthropometry--Ohio--Cincinnati, Child development, Intelligence tests, Youth
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The Economic Development of Iraq: Report of a Mission Organized by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the Request of the Government of Iraq
Book; Johns Hopkins Press, 1952
Subjects: Iraq--Economic History
...and more stringent sanitary supervision of abattoirs. Others would be the establishment of a number...and Skins Association; and recruitment of an abattoir specialist to train local abattoir supervisors in improved methods of flaying...
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Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis
Book by Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, Rebecca Zorach; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: City Planning, Visionary Architecture
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The Emerging States of French Equatorial Africa
Book by Virginia Thompson, Richard Adloff; Stanford University Press, 1960
Subjects: Africa, French-Speaking Equatorial--Politics And Government
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journal articles on: Abattoir  - 57 results

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The Distribution of Staphylococci in Bioaerosols from Red-Meat Abattoirs
Journal article by K. Shale, D. Tech, J.F.R. Lues, P. Venter, E.M. Buys; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 69, 2006
Subjects: Food contamination--Prevention, Food contamination--Research, Slaughterhouses--Research, Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--Research, Staphylococcus--Research
...Staphylococci in Bioaerosols from Red-Meat Abattoirs. by K. Shale , D. Tech , J...food-processing environments such as abattoirs (Chang, Chung, Huang, Su, 2001; Cundith...of indoor air associated with red-meat abattoirs (Pastuszka et al., 2000). The majority...
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Apparent Half-Lives of Hepta- to Decabrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Human Serum as Determined in Occupationally Exposed Workers
Journal article by Kaj Thuresson, Peter Hoglund, Lars Hagmar, Andreas Sjodin, Ake Bergman, Kristina Jakobsson; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
...occupational exposure (clerks, cleaners, and abattoir workers). The workers had previously...their vacation periods were not obtained. Abattoir workers. Blood samples were obtained from 18 male abattoir workers 24-60 years of age in March 2000...
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Private Sector Involvement in Prison Industries: Options and Issues
Journal article by John Gandy, Lorna Hurl; Canadian Journal of Criminology, Vol. 29, 1987
Subjects: Crime Prevention--Canada, Criminals--Canada
...government evaluation of the privately-run abattoir at the provincial institution in Guelph...suggests low recidivism rates among former abattoir inmate employees, it has been pointed...that the 12 month recidivist rate of abattoir employees was not significantly different...
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From Natty to Cymbeline: Literary Figures and Allusions in Cimino's Heaven's Gate
Journal article by James Lindroth; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 17, 1989
Subjects: Log cabins, Motion pictures, Women
...framework of the film the brothel and the abattoir function as symbolic comments on laissez...model is the Cattlemens Association. The abattoir is inscribed in an opening scene in which...settler has put together a makeshift abattoir with sheets and laundry strung from lines...
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A Short, Meat-Oriented History of the World. From Eden to the Mattole
Journal article by Alexander Cockburn; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1996
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...of Haussmanns famous La Villette abattoir, modelled on the old 1807 design approved...Abilene, and thence eastward, or to abattoirs nearer at hand and then bought up by...Commissioners a century later found work in abattoirs to be a particularly demoralized trade...
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Flesh and Blood: A Giant Secular Martyr, the Apostles as Cows' Heads in Formaldehyde and Surgical Cabinets Named after Saints ... despite the Explicit Religious Iconography, Damien Hirst's Exhibition More Closely Resembles an Abattoir Than a Temple
Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 132, September 22, 2003
Subjects: Expressionism (Art)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Expressionism (Art)--Exhibitions, Hirst, Damien--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hirst, Damien--Exhibitions, Hirst, Damien--Works
...iconography, Damien Hirsts exhibition more closely resembles an abattoir than a temple. by Richard Cork Clutching a button-eyed...way. In the main, however, these pallid remnants smack of the abattoir rather than the temple. The outraged response of Anglican clerics...
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Deadly Descent: In the Semi-Darkness, a Novel Comes to Life in Fragments
Magazine article by Michael Portillo; New Statesman, Vol. 134, October 31, 2005
Subjects: Theater--Theater reviews, Underground (Play)--Theater reviews
...Michael Portillo Underground Old Abattoir, London EC1 "If you get a panic attack...my way down into the gloom of a former abattoir in Londons Clerkenwell area. The "theatre...would encounter in the gloaming. The abattoir is vast and perfect for the purposes...
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Mechelen, Belgium
Magazine article by Nicole Estvanik; American Theatre, Vol. 24, December 2007
Subjects: Theater companies--Evaluation
Mechelen, Belgium. by Nicole Estvanik ABATTOIR FERME: This Belgian company likes to shock its audience...about its new piece, Deviant, is that its a well-made play. Abattoirs last two premieres, Tourniquet and Hard-Boiled, contain...
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Silence of the Lambs' Champions
Magazine article by David Cox; New Statesman, Vol. 130, April 16, 2001
Subjects: Animal rights movement--Political aspects, Foot-and-mouth disease--Social aspects, United Kingdom. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food--Political activity
...may anyway have been destined for the abattoir, the victims include ewes with ten years...than the appearance. On the contrary. In abattoirs, animals are not allowed to witness the...director, told me: "Terrible things go on in abattoirs in normal times. Whats the difference...
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Nationalists Gather on the Soapbox without Frontiers
Magazine article by Daniel Bilefsky; New Statesman, Vol. 127, January 2, 1998
Subjects: Europe--Information services, Internet--Usage, Political activists--Information services
...David Delaney, a Welsh sheep farmer, displays a page of "EU follies and myths" which he has been collecting since his local abattoir was shut down by a Brussels directive. Somewhere between them are grassroots groups such as the June Movement in Denmark and...
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WALES: 'Relief' as Abattoir Gets Back to Work; Plant Re-opens as Ban on UK Meat Is Lifted
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 29, 2007
Subjects: Meat industry--International trade, Meat industry--Production management
WALES: Relief as Abattoir Gets Back to Work; Plant Re-opens as Ban on UK Meat...foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey left a North Wales abattoir last night. Work at the Cig Cibyn abattoir in Caernarfon was suspended three weeks ago when the...
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Abattoir Workers Walk Out!
Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), September 30, 2009
Abattoir Workers Walk Out! Byline: Chris Nield GRAFTON Abattoir Amalgamated Metal Workers Union members walked off the...for "his unwillingness to work every Saturday." Grafton Abattoir union delegate Mr Sam Kelly said maintenance workers had...
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Abattoir Folds on Anglesey
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 17, 2004
Abattoir Folds on Anglesey. Byline: By STEVE DUBE Western...after Cwmni Cig Arfon goes into administration ANGLESEY abattoir Cwmni Cig Arfon has gone into administration owing farmers...possible. Mr Hughes said he rejected any suggestion that abattoirs were struggling to find stock, or that Common Agricultural...
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Director Tries to Quell Fears over Abattoir Inspections
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 8, 2008
Director Tries to Quell Fears over Abattoir Inspections. Byline: Steve Dube FEARS that the network of abattoirs in Wales will be decimated by changes...charging per animal to an hourly rate. Abattoir owners have argued that the change...
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Abattoir Appeal; Assembly Urged to Fund Farm Co-op's Crucial Bid
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 17, 2006
Abattoir Appeal; Assembly Urged to Fund Farm Co-ops Crucial Bid...support a new farm co-operatives bid to buy a North Wales abattoir. Former NFU Cymru president Peredur Hughes said politicians...their money where their mouths are". Three former Cig MOn abattoir managers used this weeks Anglesey Show to launch a bid...
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encyclopedia articles on: Abattoir  - 3 results

 
 
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Abattoir
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABATTOIR ab twar Fr., building for butchering. The abattoir houses facilities to slaughter animals; dress, cut and...refrigerate, cure, and manufacture byproducts. The largest abattoirs are those of the meatpacking industry. Plant construction...
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Slaughterhouse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SLAUGHTERHOUSE see abattoir ; meatpacking . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Leptospirosis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...pastures, drinking water, or feed, when contaminated by infected urine, and is often a work-related risk for farmers, sewer, or abattoir workers. Infection may also occur as a result of contact with infected uterine discharges and aborted fetuses. In cattle, pigs...


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