What Does Slaughterhouse Mean?

A slaughterhouse, also called abattoir, is a facility where animals are slaughtered, most often to provide food for humans. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a packaging facility.

What is the meaning of slaughter house?

: a building where animals are killed for their meat. See the full definition for slaughterhouse in the English Language Learners Dictionary. slaughterhouse. noun. slaugh·​ter·​house | \ ˈslȯ-tər-ˌhau̇s \

What really happens in a slaughterhouse?

At a slaughterhouse, you have big animals entering at one end, and small cuts of meat leaving at the other end. In between are hundreds of workers, mainly using handheld knives, processing the meat. So during that whole production system, there are many opportunities for the meat to be contaminated.

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

Automotive & Future Transportation Editor

Robert Thorne covers electric vehicle innovations, autonomous driving systems, global mobility trends, and automotive engineering developments.