Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Municipal Archives brings you the history of the Municipal Abattoir, the official city slaughterhouse. It might seem strange to citizens today, but a municipal ...

Slaughterman David Partridge can’t answer when I ask what his abattoir smells like. “I can’t smell anything,” he explains, suggesting, slightly irritably, that once I get in there, I should tell him.

A ban on slaughtering animals anywhere except at a central abattoir has come into force in the Somali capital. Until the start of the civil war in 1991, all meat had to be butchered at the Mogadishu ...

The abattoir has been an ongoing concern for artists since its inception, from Lovis Corinth’s 1893 painting In the Slaughter House, to Chaim Soutine’s gristly Carcass of Beef (1925). Aria Dean’s ...

MEATY DILEMMA: Recent growth in the local economy may make a Western North Carolina slaughterhouse feasible, says Foothills Local Meats owner and former NC Choices coordinator Casey McKissick. He ...

An abattoir in Queensland, Australia, will be investigated by animal welfare agencies for alleged animal mistreatment after a video surfaced that appeared to show former racehorses being abused, ...