Meat_packing_industry

The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Canada, circa 1920. At the time, this facility was the second largest pork packing plant in North America.

The meat packing industry is an industry that handles the slaughtering, processing and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.

The industry is primarily focused on producing meat for human consumption, but it also yields a variety of by-products including hides, feathers, dried blood, and, through the process of rendering, fat such as tallow and protein meals such as meat & bone meal.

In the U.S. and some other countries the place where the meat packing is done is called a meat packing plant; in New Zealand, where most of the produce is exported, it is called a freezing works. An abattoir is a place where animals are slaughtered for food.

References

• Hinman, Robert B., Harris, Robert B. The Story of Meat. Swift & Company, 1939. Katherine

External links

• NOW on PBS - Meatpacking in the U.S.: Still a Jungle Out There?

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