slaughterhouse

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Federal prosecutors in Iowa say a former CEO for a kosher slaughterhouse has been arrested on a bank fraud charge.

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  • All these years later, well more than half a lifetime, those early, stunned weeks at what I came to think of as the slaughterhouse are as vivid in recall as they were staggering through that brilliant, hard summer. —  F ;SF - vol 104 issue 06 - June 2003
  • When they look up from grazing on the grass and find themselves in the back of a truck being shipped to the slaughterhouse, they will wonder how it happened. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • At this ramshackle slaughterhouse, the animals are killed like Mafia capos. —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
  • Suddenly jamming a bolt though the brain of a cow in a slaughterhouse is 'brutal.' —  Rule .303
  • The mood is vividly captured by a resident who said that, in the fall of 1996, Tirana smelled and sounded like a slaughterhouse, as farmers drove their animals to market to invest the proceeds in the pyramid schemes. —  Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog
 

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