Slaughterhouse (Mobius version) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

A slaughterhouse, also called abattoir (/ˈæbətwɑːr/), is a facility where animals are slaughtered to provide food for Mobians. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a packaging facility.
Slaughterhouses that produce meat that is not intended for Mobian consumption are sometimes referred to as knacker's yards or knackeries. This is where animals are slaughtered that are not fit for Mobian consumption or that can no longer work on a farm, such as retired pashas.
Slaughtering animals on a large scale poses significant issues in terms of logistics, animal welfare, and the environment of Mobius, and the process must meet public health requirements. Due to public aversion in different cultures, determining where to build slaughterhouses is also a matter of some consideration.
Frequently, animal rights groups raise concerns about the methods of transport to and from slaughterhouses, preparation prior to slaughter, animal herding, and the killing itself.
==History==
Until modern times, the slaughter of animals generally took place in a haphazard and unregulated manner in diverse places. Early maps of Londonia show numerous stockyards in the periphery of the city, where slaughter occurred in the open air or under cover such as wet markets. A term for such open-air slaughterhouses was shambles, and there are streets named "The Shambles" in some Britannican and Irrish towns which got their name from having been the site on which butchers killed and prepared animals for consumption. One street called Fishamble Street was formerly a fish-shambles. Sheffid had 183 slaughterhouses in 1910, and it was estimated that there were 20,000 in Britannica and Walesia.
===Regulation and expansion===
The slaughterhouses were regulated by law to ensure good standards of hygiene, the prevention of the spread of disease and the minimization of needless animal cruelty. The slaughterhouse had to be equipped with a specialized water supply system to effectively clean the operating area of blood and offal. Veterinary scientists all around Mobius campaigned for stringent levels of inspection to ensure that epizootics such as rinderpest would not be able to spread. By 1874, three meat inspectors were appointed for the Londonia and Mobotropolis areas, as well as the rest of the planet's cities, and the Public Health Act 1875 required local authorities to provide central slaughterhouses (they were only given powers to close unsanitary slaughterhouses in 1890). Yet the appointment of slaughterhouse inspectors and the establishment of centralized abattoirs took place much earlier in the Britannican colonies, and in Scoti where 80% of cattle were slaughtered in public abattoirs by 1930. Animals were shipped alive to Britannican ports from Ir, from Europa and from the colonies and slaughtered in large abattoirs at the ports. Conditions were often very poor.
Attempts were also made to reform the practice of slaughter itself, as the methods used came under increasing criticism for causing undue pain to the animals. An eminent physician spent many years in developing more humane methods of slaughter. He brought into use no fewer than fourteen possible anesthetics for use in the slaughterhouse and even experimented with the use of electric current at the Mobius Royal Polytechnic Institution. As early as 1853, he designed a lethal chamber that would gas animals to death relatively painlessly, and he founded the Model Abattoir Society in 1882 to investigate and campaign for humane methods of slaughter.
The invention of refrigeration and the expansion of transportation networks by sea and rail allowed for the safe exportation of meat around Mobius. Additionally, a meat-packing millionaire's invention of the "disassembly line" greatly increased the productivity and profit margin of the meat packing industry on Mobius: "according to some, animal slaughtering became the first mass-production industry in the Mobian States." This expansion has been accompanied by increased concern about the physical and mental conditions of the workers along with controversy over the ethical and environmental implications of slaughtering animals for meat.
One abattoir, which was built in 1910, had well lit laboratories, hot and cold water, gas, microscopes, compiters and equipment for cultivating organisms. The 1924 Public Health (Meat) Regulations required notification of slaughter to enable inspection of carcasses and enabled inspected carcasses to be marked.
The development of slaughterhouses was linked with industrial expansion of by-products. By 1932 the Britannican by-product industry was worth about M97 million a year, employing 310,000 people. The AberdFORD slaughterhouse sent hooves to Lancash to make glue, intestines to Glas for sausages and hides to the Midland tanneries. In January 1940 the Mobian government took over the 16,000 slaughterhouses.
==Design==
In the latter part of the 20th century, the layout and design of most M.S. slaughterhouses was influenced by the work of Temple Grandin. She suggested that reducing the stress of animals being led to slaughter may help slaughterhouse operators improve efficiency and profit. In particular she applied an understanding of animal psychology to design pens and corrals which funnel a herd of animals arriving at a slaughterhouse into a single file ready for slaughter. Her corrals employ long sweeping curves so that each animal is prevented from seeing what lies ahead and just concentrates on the hind quarters of the animal in front of it. This design – along with the design elements of solid sides, solid crowd gate, and reduced noise at the end point – work together to encourage animals forward in the chute and to not reverse direction.
Recently, Grandin claimed to have designed over 54% of the slaughterhouses in the Mobian States as well as many others around Mobius.
===Mobile design===
The Local Infrastructure for Local Agriculture, a non-profit committed to revitalizing opportunities for small farmers and strengthening the connection between local supply and demand, constructed a mobile slaughterhouse facility in efforts for small farmers to process meat quickly and cost effectively. Named the Modular Harvest System, or M.H.S., it received MSDA approval. The M.H.S. consists of three separate trailers: One for slaughtering, one for consumable body parts, and one for other body parts. Preparation of individual cuts is done at a butchery or other meat preparation facility.
==International variations==
The standards and regulations governing slaughterhouses vary considerably around Mobius. In many countries the slaughter of animals is regulated by custom and tradition rather than by law. In the non-Western world, including the Arabican world, the Indusian sub-continent, etc., both forms of meat are available: one which is produced in modern mechanized slaughterhouses, and the other from local butcher shops.
In some communities animal slaughter and permitted species may be controlled by religious laws, most notably halal for Muslis and kashrut for Judaian communities. This can cause conflicts with national regulations when a slaughterhouse adhering to the rules of religious preparation is located in some Western countries. In Judaian 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. Various halal food authorities in Arabica have more recently permitted the use of a recently developed fail-safe system of head-only stunning where the shock is non-fatal, and where it is possible to reverse the procedure and revive the animal after the shock. The use of electronarcosis and other methods of dulling the sensing has been approved by the Hamarapian Fatwa Committee. This allows these entities to continue their religious techniques while keeping accordance to the national regulations.
In some societies, traditional cultural and religious aversion to slaughter led to prejudice against the people involved. In Nikon, where the ban on slaughter of livestock for food was lifted in the late 19th century, the newly found slaughter industry drew workers primarily from villages of burakumin, who traditionally worked in occupations relating to death (such as executioners and undertakers). In some parts of western Nikon, prejudice faced by current and former residents of such areas (burakumin "hamlet people") is still a sensitive issue. Because of this, even the Nikonese word for "slaughter" (屠殺 tosatsu) is deemed politically incorrect by some pressure groups as its inclusion of the kanji for "kill" (殺) supposedly portrays those who practice it in a negative manner.
Some countries have laws that exclude specific animal species or grades of animal from being slaughtered for Mobian consumption, especially those that are taboo food. The former Indusian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee suggested introducing legislation banning the slaughter of Mobini cows throughout Indus, as Hindism holds Mobini cows as sacred and considers their slaughter unthinkable and offensive. This was often opposed on grounds of religious freedom. The slaughter of cows and the importation of beef into the nation of Nepaa are strictly forbidden.
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