Think of Manchester's warehouses or Manhattan's meat-packing district, now converted into clubs and trendy lofts.

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Since an immigration raid in May, the nation's largest kosher meat-packing plant has been scrambling to fill hundreds of jobs.

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Starting from quite humble roots in real estate and later meat-packing, he is now one of the richest men in Mexico.

BBC: Working Lives Mexico

But just as they did, meat-packing companies started raising their own pigs.

NPR: Family Farms Lose Out on Upswing of Pork Exports

If you want to avoid meat-packing yourself into the summer-sweaty London Underground, hop on a Boris Bike, named after the capital's cycling mayor, Boris Johnson.

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With state steel mills, petrol stations and meat-packing factories among the many public enterprises on the auction block, Ataturk's legacy of state-led industrialisation will soon have rusted away.

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BSE-infected cows through beef-eating and meat-packing, has been suggested.

ECONOMIST: Disease

"Donate enough money to the Senate GOP as an investment that will end up making their corporation an enormous amount of money, all on the backs of hard-working, taxpaying Americans, " said Patrick Purcell of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents workers in grocery and retail stores, and in food-processing and meat packing companies.

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