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The industry is primarily focused on producing Meat for human consumption, but it also yields a vareity of By-product s including Hide s, Feather s, dried Blood , and through the process of Rendering , Fat such as Tallow and Protein meals such as Meat & Bone Meal .

In the U.S. and some other countries the place where the meat packing is done is called a ''meat packing plant''; in New Zealand, where most of the produce is exported, it is called a ''freezing works''. An Abattoir is a place where animals are slaughtered for food.

The United States meat packing industry held a prominent focus in the '' by Eric Schlosser .


REFERENCES

  • Hinman, Robert B., Harris, Robert B. The Story of Meat. Swift & Company, 1939.



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