meatpacking

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Meaning

wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)

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I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January. Genevieve Gorder

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory. Donald Ray Pollock

Also, because meatpacking plants are very loud, workers often have to shout to be heard, thereby using the deeper recesses of the longs to spread aerosols. Source: Internet

“All the meatpacking plants and the poultry plants were grossly unprepared for Covid,” said Garcia, who blamed the early outbreak not on any individual company, but on a “total lack of national leadership on this very dangerous condition.” Source: Internet

A major meatpacking plant in northern Colorado that closed because of an outbreak that killed four workers was set to reopen Friday after a two-week disinfection, even as some questioned how employees can maintain social distancing inside the facility. Source: Internet

As meatpacking plant workers fall ill with COVID-19 and some shutter, state leaders seek creative answers to avoid euthanizing animal. Source: Internet

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