Meat-packing industry
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title:
Meat-packing industry
text:
The meat-packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. Poultry is generally not included. This greater part of the entire meat industry is primarily focused on producing meat for human consumption, but it also yields a variety of by-products including hides, dried blood, protein meals such as meat & bone meal, and, through the process of rendering, fats. In the United States and some other
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description:
Industrial production of food and by-products from animals
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat-packing_industry
date created:
2004-07-31T11:05:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T03:52:18Z
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