Definition of "meatpacking" []

• The business or activity of slaughtering animals and preparing the meat for sale. (noun)

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• "Were you under the impression that the unsafe conditions in meatpacking had largely been eliminated and that the United States 'beef and poultry industry set the standard for other countries?"
• "Though the outbreak seemed small, the investigation took on urgency because the disease was serious, and health officials worried that it might indicate a new risk to other workers in meatpacking."
• "With the help of 150 million euros from the Italian government and others, she has wrought in the Flaminia district -- once a kind of meatpacking area -- a remarkably successful integration of the old military barracks which was its core and the muscular structure which has grown alongside it."