page_title: Meat packing industry
hierarchical_section_title: Meat packing industry
caption_attribution_description: English: Pork packing in Cincinnati. Print showing four scenes in a packing house: "Killing, Cutting, Rendering, [and] Salting." Chromo-lithograph of the cartoons exhibited by the Cincinnati Pork Packers' Association, at the International Exposition, at Vienna. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873 by Ehrgott &amp; Krebs in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C. Français&#160;: L'industrie du Porc à Cincinnati en 1873. Figures montrant quatre étapes de la transformation du porc (L'abattage, le découpage, la cuisson et la salaison). Réalisée par l'association des industriels du porc de la ville pour l'exposition internationale de Vienne. Türkçe: Domuz eti paketleme süreci; Öldürme, Etleri Parçalama, Yağı Çıkarma, Tuzlama, 1873 Viyana Dünya Fuarı'nda Cincinnati Pork Packers' Association tarafından sergilenen çizim (Kromolitografya, Ehrgott &amp; Krebs, 1873)
context_page_description: The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. Poultry is generally not included. This greater part of the entire meat industry is primarily focused on producing meat for human consumption, but it also yields a variety of by-products including hides, feathers, dried blood, and, through the process of rendering, fat such as tallow and protein meals such as meat & bone meal.
  In the United States and some other countries, the facility where the meat packing is done is called a slaughterhouse, packinghouse or a meat packing plant; in New Zealand, where most of the products are exported, it is called a freezing works. An abattoir is a place where animals are slaughtered for food.
  The meat packing industry grew with the construction of the railroads and methods of refrigeration for meat preservation. Railroads made possible the transport of stock to central points for processing, and the transport of products.
context_section_description: The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging,  and distribution of meat from animals such  as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. Poultry is generally not included. This greater part of the entire meat industry is primarily focused on producing meat for human consumption, but it also yields a variety of by-products including hides, feathers, dried blood, and, through the process of rendering, fat such as tallow and protein meals such as meat & bone meal.
  In the United States and some other countries, the facility where the meat packing is done is called a slaughterhouse, packinghouse or a meat packing plant; in New Zealand, where most of the products are exported, it is called a freezing works. An abattoir is a place where animals are slaughtered for food.
  The meat packing industry grew with the construction of the railroads and methods of refrigeration for meat preservation. Railroads made possible the transport of stock to central points for processing, and the transport of products.
caption: Pork packing in Cincinnati, 1873
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