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  2. Labor rights in American meatpacking industry - Wikipedia

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    This trend reversed in 1983 when slaughterhouse worker wages fell below the average manufacturing wage. By 2002, slaughterhouse workers' wages were 24% below the average manufacturing wage. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2006, the median wage for slaughterhouse workers was $10.43 per hour which comes out to $21,690 per year. [8]

  3. Legal aspects of ritual slaughter - Wikipedia

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    In an appeal by a Turkish citizen who practiced Islamic ritual slaughter, the German court struck down Germany's former ban on ritual slaughter, [76] holding that the German Basic Law's guarantee of religious freedom prohibited the German government from applying a law requiring stunning prior to slaughter to observant Muslims who practice ...

  4. Slaughterhouse - Wikipedia

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    This can cause conflicts with national regulations when a slaughterhouse adhering to the rules of religious preparation is located in some Western countries. In Jewish law, captive bolts and other methods of pre-slaughter paralysis are generally not permissible, due to it being forbidden for an animal to be stunned prior to slaughter.

  5. Humane Slaughter Act - Wikipedia

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    Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 27, 1958 The Humane Slaughter Act , or the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act (P.L. 85-765; 7 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.), is a United States federal law designed to decrease suffering of livestock during slaughter .

  6. Janatorial service breaks child labor laws at Iowa ... - AOL

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    In the latest chapter of the child labor abuse across the U.S., federal officials on Wednesday alleged a janitorial service hired as many as nine teenagers to clean a pork slaughterhouse in Sioux ...

  7. Slaughter-House Cases - Wikipedia

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    The Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision which ruled that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution only protects the legal rights that are associated with federal U.S. citizenship, not those that pertain to state citizenship.

  8. Labor Dept. says Tennessee firm employed minors to ... - AOL

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    Fayette is the second large slaughterhouse cleaner found by the Labor Department to have employed children. In 2023, the Labor Department found the national company Packers Sanitation Services Inc ...

  9. Meat-packing industry - Wikipedia

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    The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.