History Main / SickeningSlaughterhouse

''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Implied in the "[[PropagandaPiece educational]]" reel in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E5LisaTheVegetarian Lisa the Vegetarian]]". In order to teach him on the benefits of eating meat, regular star Troy [=McClure=] leads a kid into a slaughterhouse which he sells as a "Cow College" where they go to "graduate". [[GoryDiscretionShot We're only treated to the exterior of the building]], but when Troy and the kid come out, the boy is visibly traumatized.

* The eponymous plant in the Creator/AdultSwim games ''Sausage Factory''.

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This trope is usually used to illustrate that the people in charge of the place are not nice people - meat apparently being a close third to munitions and pharmaceuticals on the list of industries to which {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s flock - along with promising plenty of NauseaFuel. And if TheMafia or some other criminal syndicate is in charge of the joint, expect the place to be used as a gruesome means of DisposingOfABody.

* In Franchise/{{Tintin}} book ''Tintin in America'' a slaughterhouse along the Upton Sinclair's ''Literature/TheJungle'' style...

* In ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'', Preston's dog food facility.

* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''
** In the original ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'', Grandpa Sawyer used to work in a slaughterhouse, before changes in technology either made him obsolete or freaked him out too much to continue working (most of his family seems to be a bit high strung, possibly due to inbreeding). This drove his family into cannibalism.
** ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2'' has the family turning an abandoned theme park into a giant CannibalLarder. A character notices blood dribbling from drywall in the funhouse, kicks the wall open, and we're treated to a lovely shot of lights spilling out onto the ground.
** ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003''. The Hewitts operate out of an abandoned (but, thanks to them, not disused) example.

* In ''Film/{{Razorback}}'', the Petpak facility, which doubles as a NightmarishFactory.

* ''Film/TheMidnightMeatTrain'' features a serial killer who's a butcher at the local meatpacker's in his day job, and who applies his work technique to his murders. Clive Barker, who wrote the original short story it's based on, meant the disturbing imagery as a way of explaining why he's a vegetarian (and his queasiness towards big cities).
* ''Film/Piggy2022'': The Stranger takes Sara to one after he hits a bull with his van and Sara loses consciousness. [[spoiler:It's where Sara encounters two of the girls who bullied her earlier, Roci and Claudia, bound and gagged and begging her to release them, and later, comes across AlphaBitch Maca's corpse]].

* There's the old American adage that goes, "Laws are like sausage -- if you enjoy them, it's best not to see how they're made." [[InsultToRocks No one is quite certain if it's meat packers or politicians who should be more offended by the comparison.]]

* ''Literature/{{The Jungle}}'': The plant Jurgis works at (with most of his family). The first half of the book consists mostly of showing how bad the conditions in the plant are. Workers who are wounded on the factory floor get no medical attention (or fired if they can't keep working), nothing is ever appropriately cleaned, and one kid gets locked in after hours and is found the next morning, dead and covered in rat bite marks. As this was ''the'' book that exposed the unsanitary conditions of the contemporary meat-processing industry to the public, it probably qualifies as the TropeMaker, or at least the TropeCodifier.
* You don't want to know what really goes on in the slaughterhouse in Matthew Stokoe's ''Cows''.

* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. Our introduction to Vicious involves one of his minions being being marched through a storehouse with rows of giant tuna laid out on the floor. As the [[YouHaveFailedMe minion has messed up]] he nervously eyes the various hooks and other implements of the trade, but as it turns out Vicious uses a katana to off him.
* [[Recap/MonkS7E16MrMonkFightsCityHall One]] episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' has Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer, and Disher searching for a missing councilwoman. Their search leads them to the warehouse headquarters of "Hot Dog Czar" George Gionopolis. While the building isn't a slaughterhouse, it is certainly gross enough to qualify for this trope. Most of the workers are smoking, the "meat" isn't beef or pork, just...[[MysteryMeat "meat"]], and not even meat treated with care, as George approves a bag of dogs with a smell that makes him physically gag, and one worker uses hot dogs he had just dropped on the ground. The kicker is George's motive, and why the cops are even there. George hated the councilwoman to her core...just because she wanted them to induce common sense health concerns, like lids on the condiment trays and putting "meat" in quotation marks.
* The Architects sketch in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', where John Cleese plays a hapless architect who has confused the purpose and intent of a luxury residential development -- with an abattoir. Cleese describes, with pride, an apartment block that will seek to slaughter its occupants in the most humane way possible, emphasizing an awful lot of incidental Gorn. Brought to a halt by the consternation of the interview panel, he apologizes: "Oh. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards the tenants. You see I mainly design slaughter houses." To be fair, he does make a point of mentioning how comfortable the tenants would be before reaching the rotating knives, and the measures he would take to ensure proper sanitation. If not for his misapprehension concerning the tenants, it could well have been an aversion.

* Rupture Farms from ''VideoGame/OddworldAbesOddysee'', Oddworld's largest meat factory and manufacturer of such products as paramite pies, scrab cakes and meech munchies (no longer available since the meeches were hunted to extinction). There's NoOSHACompliance, the Mudoken employees are treated like slaves and kept in line with beatings from the security guards, and the BadBoss who runs it is secretly planning to butcher his employees and sell their meat as "Mudoken Pops" because the regular product lines just aren't appealing to customers as much as they used to.
* "The Meat King's Party", the second mission of ''VideoGame/HitmanContracts''. As if the meat plant itself wasn't disturbing enough, Agent 47 is sent there while the owners are hosting a freaking fetish party where everyone is smoking opium. And they're throwing the party in celebration of having just won a major lawsuit, where the owner's brother was put on trial on suspicion of having kidnapped a teenage girl. Your objective is to kill the FatBastard owner and his AmoralAttorney and either save the girl or fetch proof that she is dead. The "proof" would be her severed arm, as her mutilated corpse is hanging from the ceiling of a backroom complete with a shrine to the victim that implies she was stalked for a while before being kidnapped and killed. And the song that's playing in that room... The meat plant itself is filled with animal carcasses lying around in a very unhygienic fashion, and for some reason there's a flayed dead horse in a hallway near the entrance that implies the party people have been torturing animals ForTheEvulz. Even the dialogue is creepy, the mission is set in Romania but the guards use phrases that would sound butchered and awkward in Romanian (like the infamous "I now feel your flesh").
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': In ''Warcraft III'', the Slaughterhouse is the Undead building that produces Abominations (reanimated giants made of multiple corpses sewn together) and Meat Wagons (siege weapons that catapult rotting corpses into buildings and units for huge damage).
* The eponymous plant in Adult Swim Games ''Sausage Factory''.
* The titular machine in ''Videogame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''. Not only is it a filthy, bloody, kilometric slaughterhouse with a raving lunatic of a controller, but [[spoiler:it's ''[[MechanicalAbomination alive]]'', it plotting to pull a MercyKill [[OmnicidalManiac on the entirety of humanity]], crafts {{Pig M|an}}en out of still living humans and intends to become a god by way of {{industrialized|Evil}} HumanSacrifice]].
* The Factory in ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' ''2'' is actually very clean. The disgusting part comes from how [[spoiler:the meat is made from [[HumanResources people]]. The basement is a prison full of people, still alive, including children, ready to be processed]].
* The demonic plane of [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Stygia]] in ''VideoGame/NexusWar'' games is dotted with these.

* In ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough'', the case "[[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase03TheGrimButcher The Grim Butcher]]", Raoul Coletti's butcher shop is horrifically messy and unsanitary. There's dried blood caking the floors and walls, and there's junk all over the place. And all that's ''before'' you come across the gutted corpse of a teenage girl.
** Even worse, this brutal murder is the '''third''' case of not only Grimsborough, but the ''franchise''. Pretty Simple were '''''not''''' messing around.
--->'''Jones:''' This place is COVERED with blood! How are we supposed to figure out which is pork and which is woman?!

* In a CharlieAndTheChocolateParody in ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'', the owner of a meat factory hides golden tickets for a factory tour in packages of sausages. When the children visit the factory and see the CaptainErsatz oompa-loompa gorily slaughtering pigs, they are visibly horrified.

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* Exaggerated in the case of Happy Meat Farms from the [[WebVideo/SpongebobConspiracy Muse ARG]], which performs grotesque genome experiments on farm animals to get more meat. This is ''before'' they start experimenting on humans (mostly unwitting volunteers and [[YouHaveFailedMe noncompliant employees]]) and using them for meat as well. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Unsurprisingly]], this has led to a number of people falling ill due to consumption of their goods. And ''then'' we find out that they think humans [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill need to be subjugated]] and are now planning to bring about a [[OneWorldOrder New World Order]].

* In ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough'', the case "[[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase03TheGrimButcher The Grim Butcher]]", Raoul Coletti's butcher shop is horrifically messy and unsanitary. There's dried blood caking the floors and walls, and there's junk all over the place. And all that's ''before'' you come across the corpse of a teenage girl that's been gutted.
** Even worse, this is the '''third''' case of the series. Pretty Simple were '''''not''''' messing around.

* Taken UpToEleven in "The Meat King's Party", the second mission of ''VideoGame/HitmanContracts''. As if the meat plant itself wasn't disturbing enough, Agent 47 is sent there while the owners are hosting a freaking fetish party where everyone is smoking opium. And they're throwing the party in celebration of having just won a major lawsuit, where the owner's brother was put on trial on suspicion of having kidnapped a teenage girl. Your objective is to kill the FatBastard owner and his AmoralAttorney and either save the girl or fetch proof that she is dead. The "proof" would be her severed arm, as her mutilated corpse is hanging from the ceiling of a backroom complete with a shrine to the victim that implies she was stalked for a while before being kidnapped and killed. And the song that's playing in that room... The meat plant itself is filled with animal carcasses lying around in a very unhygienic fashion, and for some reason there's a flayed dead horse in a hallway near the entrance that implies the party people have been torturing animals ForTheEvulz. Even the dialogue is creepy, the mission is set in Romania but the guards use phrases that would sound butchered and awkward in Romanian (like the infamous "I now feel your flesh").

* [[Recap/MonkS7E16MrMonkFightsCityHall One]] episode of Series/Monk has Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer, and Disher searching for a missing councilwoman. Their search leads them to the warehouse headquarters of "Hot Dog Czar" George Gionopolis. While the building isn't a slaughterhouse, it is certainly gross enough to qualify for this trope. Most of the workers are smoking, the "meat" isn't beef or pork, just...[[MysteryMeat "meat"]], and not even meat treated with care, as George approves a bag of dogs with a smell that makes him physically gag, and one worker uses hot dogs he had just dropped on the ground. The kicker is George's motive, and why the cops are even there. George hated the councilwoman to her core...just because she wanted them to induce common sense health concerns, like lids on the condiment trays and putting "meat" in quotation marks.

* The Architects sketch in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', where John Cleese plays a hapless architect who has confused the purpose and intent of a luxury residential development -- with an abbatoir. Cleese describes, with pride, an apartment block that will seek to slaughter its occupants in the most humane way possible, emphasizing an awful lot of incidental Gorn. Brought to a halt by the consternation of the interview panel, he apologizes: "Oh. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards the tenants. You see I mainly design slaughter houses." To be fair, he does make a point of mentioning how comfortable the tenants would be before reaching the rotating knives, and the measures he would take to ensure proper sanitation. If not for his misapprehension concerning the tenants, it could well have been an aversion.

** Even worse, this is the '''third''' case of the series. Pretty Simple were not messing around.

* There's the old American addage "Laws are like Sausage -- if you enjoy them, it's best not to see how they are made." [[InsultToRocks No-one is quite certain if it's Meat Packers or Politicians who should be more offended by the comparison.]]

* The titular machine in ''Videogame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''. Not only is it a filthy, bloody, kilometric slaughterhouse with a raving lunatic of a controller, but [[spoiler:it's ''[[MechanicalAbomination alive]]'', it intends to pull a MercyKill [[OmnicidalManiac on the entirety of humanity]], crafts {{Pig M|an}}en out of still living humans and intends to become a god by way of {{industrialized|Evil}} HumanSacrifice]].
* The Factory in ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' ''2'' is actually very clean. The disgusting part comes from how [[spoiler:the meat is made from [[HumanResources people]]. The basement is a prison full of people, including children, ready to be processed]].

* Rothwild Slaughterhouse, the first level of the ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]] "The Knife of Dunwall", qualifies. The classic slaughterhouse {{Gorn}} is accentuated by the fact that this slaughterhouse is for whales, and in order to extract the most value possible, parts are harvested while the animal is still alive. The proprietor is also brutally suppressing a labor dispute, and most of the employees still working are psychotic to the point of "accidentally" killing a coworker they suspect of being pro-union.

* Invoked in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', where the Slaughterhouse is the Undead building that produces Abominations (reanimated giants made of multiple corpses sewn together) and Meat Wagons (siege weapons that catapult rotting corpses into buildings and units for huge damage).

* The titular machine in ''Videogame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''. Not only is it a filthy, bloody, kilometric slaughterhouse with a raving lunatic of a controller, but [[spoiler: it's ''alive'', it intends to pull a MercyKill on the entirety of humanity, crafts Manpigs out of still-living humans and intends to become a god by way of industrialized human sacrifice]].

* Rothwild Slaughterhouse, the first level of the ''{{VideoGame/Dishonored}}'' DLC The Knife of Dunwall, qualifies. The classic slaughterhouse gorn is accentuated by the fact that this slaughterhouse is for whales, and in order to extract the most value possible, parts are harvested while the animal is still alive. The proprietor is also brutally suppressing a labor dispute, and most of the employees still working are psychotic to the point of "accidentally" killing a coworker they suspect of being pro-union.

-->'''Jones:''' This place is COVERED with blood! How are we supposed to figure out which is pork and which is woman?!

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In a CharlieAndTheChocolateParody in ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'', the owner of a meat factory hides golden tickets for a factory tour in packages of sausages. When the children visit the factory, and see the oompa-loompa expies gorily slaughtering pigs, they are visibly horrified.

* In VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough, the case "[[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase03TheGrimButcher The Grim Butcher]]", Raoul Coletti's butcher shop is horrifically messy and unsanitary. There's dried blood caking the floors and walls, and there's junk all over the place. And all that's ''before'' you come across the corpse of a teenage girl that's been gutted.

* In VideoGame/CriminalCase, the case "[[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase03TheGrimButcher The Grim Butcher]]", Raoul Coletti's butcher shop is horrifically messy and unsanitary. There's dried blood caking the floors and walls, and there's junk all over the place. And all that's ''before'' you come across the corpse of a teenage girl that's been gutted.

* Taken UpToEleven in "The Meat King's Party", the second mission of ''VideoGame/HitmanContracts''. As if the meat plant itself wasn't disturbing enough, Agent 47 is sent there while the owners are hosting a freaking fetish party where everyone is smoking opium. And they're throwing the party in celebration of having just won a major lawsuit, where the owner's brother was put on trial on suspicion of having kidnapped a teenage girl. Your objective is to kill the FatBastard owner and his AmoralAttorney and either save the girl or fetch proof that she is dead. The "proof" would be her severed arm, as her mutilated corpse is hanging from the ceiling of a backroom complete with a shrine to the victim that implies she was stalked for a while before being kidnapped and killed. And the song that's playing in that room... The meat plant itself is filled with animal carcasses lying around in a very unhygienic fashion, and for some reason there's a flayed dead horse in a hallway near the entrance that implies the party people have been torturing animals ForTheEvuls. Even the dialogue is creepy, the mission is set in Romania but the guards use phrases that would sound butchered and awkward in Romanian (like the infamous "I now feel your flesh").

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* There's the old American addage "Laws are like Sausage -- if you enjoy them, it's best not to see how they are made." [[InsultToRocks No-one is quite certain if it's Meat Packers or Politicians who should be more offended by the comparison.]]
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* Most villains in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' hang around in the obligatory AbandonedWarehouse, but the place where a possessed Cordelia goes to give birth to Jasmine in hung with sinister meat hooks.