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Abattoirs

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Meat industry and trade

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Images from the collections

Images about Abattoirs

97 images from works
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • Egg production : laying hens: imprisoned for life / Friends of Animals Under Abuse (FAUNA).
  • Indian men slaughtering a camel; a sheep being skinned in the background. Watercolour.
  • Meat handling: translucent ringworm spores around
  • Later orf lesion in a sheep.
  • Lesion of orf and milker's nodes in man
  • The Lethal Chamber Company : sole manufacturers of the Richardson Lethal Chamber, patented : 25, Craven Street, Strand, W.C.
  • Chronic salmonelliosis in poultry
  • The Lethal Chamber Company : sole manufacturers of the Richardson Lethal Chamber, patented : 25, Craven Street, Strand, W.C.
  • Human ringworm: single lesion on the arm.

Works from the collections

145 works

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    Description of the abattoirs of Paris / by Richard Boxall Grantham ; with an abstract of the discussion upon the paper.

    Grantham, Richard Boxall. | Date: 1849
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    The cattle traffic / by Francis H. Rowley.

    Rowley, Francis H. (Francis Harold), 1854-1952. | Date: [Between 1922 and 1929?]
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    Streptococcus pyogenes: colonies growing on blood

    Royal Veterinary College
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    Public slaughter-houses : rules & regulations / City of Carlisle.

    Carlisle (England) | Date: 1887
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    • Online

    Specification of Robert Milburn and Henry Jackson : decomposing noxious vapours.

    Milburn, Robert. | Date: 1876
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Related topics

ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE
United Kingdom
Meat
Animal Welfare
Meat industry and trade
MEAT HANDLERS
Animal Welfare
England
Food Supply
Meat industry and trade

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