"People that are for the slaughter should be forced to go down on that kill floor."

But in his first day on the kill floor, Mr. Cervantes looked around with amazement.

The processing line on the kill floor moves hogs past the workers at the dizzying rate of one every three or four seconds.

She ends up working on the "kill floor."

The pungent smell of blood and bleach hangs over the largest room - known as the kill floor, where the slaughtering begins at 7 a.m.

There, Muslim butchers would wait for their cattle to appear on the kill floor and then do the killing themselves.

Tim Denherder worked on the kill floor before the strike.

In the summer on the kill floor it is hot and there are special dangers.

That door is as close to the kill floor as the plant managers were prepared to let me go.

The cut floor is opposite to the kill floor in nearly every way.