Crossword clues for meatpacking
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat
WordNet
n. wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) [syn: meat packing, meat-packing business]
Usage examples of "meatpacking".
Manufactured ice enabled the transport of food over long distances, and the industry of meatpacking was born.
Gustavus Swift, a Chicago butcher who put together the ice-cooled railway car with the ice-cooled warehouse to make the first national meatpacking company in 1885.
May of 1898, Armour and Company, the big meatpacking company of Chicago, sold the army 500,000 pounds of beef which had been sent to Liverpool a year earlier and had been returned.
The Jungle, published in 1906, brought the conditions in the meatpacking plants of Chicago to the shocked attention of the whole country, and stimulated demand for laws regulating the meat industry.
But Republic Steel was organized, and so was Ford Motor Company, and the other huge plants in steel, auto, rubber, meatpacking, the electrical industry.
Starkey thought he had probably grown up downwind of one of the meatpacking plants up there.