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- noun Plural form of
abattoir .
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Examples
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Unlike camels, which are killed in abattoirs, kangaroos are mostly killed by small-scale hunters, who are harder to regulate and don’t necessarily follow sanitary standards.
Outback Steakhouse 2010
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Unlike camels, which are killed in abattoirs, kangaroos are mostly killed by small-scale hunters, who are harder to regulate and don’t necessarily follow sanitary standards.
Outback Steakhouse 2010
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Unlike camels, which are killed in abattoirs, kangaroos are mostly killed by small-scale hunters, who are harder to regulate and don’t necessarily follow sanitary standards.
Outback Steakhouse 2010
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Under the new conditions for the trade that ensures the welfare of Australian cattle through the supply chain including in Indonesian abattoirs, only a handful of Australian exporters have been licensed to operate.
Australian Animal Exporter Says Welfare Practices Have Improved Ray Brindal 2011
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And what can be said about the dreaded abattoirs, a French word for slaughterhouse that sounds almost elegant.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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And what can be said about the dreaded abattoirs, a French word for slaughterhouse that sounds almost elegant.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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And what can be said about the dreaded abattoirs, a French word for slaughterhouse that sounds almost elegant.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Brothels in the immigrant district of Paris, where women are raped 80 times a day (and perhaps up to 160 times a day on weekends), are called abattoirs — slaughterhouses.
Extreme Torture of Animals��and Humans: A Thanksgiving Prayer for Mercy 2007
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The changes follow a public debate sparked by television footage of cattle being mistreated in Indonesian abattoirs earlier this year.
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The changes follow a public debate sparked by television footage of cattle being mistreated in Indonesian abattoirs earlier this year.
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