Slaves taken to the slaughter yard of the municipal slaughterhouse.

All slaves, urban or rural, owned by people or companies, can be used, killed, and punished at the choice of their owners. However, the municipal slaughterhouse pays so well for the slaves that all the owners usually sell them for slaughter when they decide to get rid of the animals or when they need money for some purpose. The slaughterhouse does not buy animals under 16, over 60, or sick and pays the animal by assessing its condition, health, and weight. According to this rule, the most common is that when the animals are almost 60, the owners fatten them and sell them to the slaughterhouse.

At the entrance to the slaughterhouse, slaves are initially examined, weighed, evaluated, and paid for. Employees take the animals to the slaughterhouse on leashes, walking on all fours, gagged and blindfolded so as not to get too stressed. The loudspeakers play soft music at a high volume so that the animals do not hear the groans and hammers breaking the heads of other beasts.

Employees tie the animals firmly in position, while hammer operators expect the animals to be in place and calm. With a single robust and accurate blow, with the long two-pound hammer on the side of the heads, more or less at the height of the ears, the animal dies immediately and without unnecessary suffering. The slaughterhouse floor is mud so that the soil absorbs the blood that drips from the head.

Slaughtered cattle are dragged by the ankles to the refrigerator to be dismantled: the tenderest meat goes to slaughterhouses and butcher shops, the vital organs for donation, and the blood to hospital blood banks. Everything is used, from bones to leather.

When animals are bought for slaughter, we have no more information about history, but we can see by the attitudes, the manners, and the marks and scars on his leather whether he was a hard-working animal or not. Its leather was thick, sunburned, and grimy; its back and limbs were so scarred from lashes and blows that it looked like a map. This beast looked frightened, it was tense, listening for all the noises and movements, it seemed to smell the urine and blood in the air. Perhaps it realized, just before its death, that it would be slaughtered there, that its end was near.

Other animals are calm and docile. Their bodies are soft, without marks of torture and beatings. These animals must have worked on household chores, which are lighter and may have been treated well. They were real pets, used with the company or sex toys, for their own use or as prostitutes. Often, they don't even imagine that their owners would hand them over for slaughter. They enter the company, are examined and sold, are taken to the slaughter yard without even imagining what will happen to them. Others collapse in tears, in despair, have to be dragged by force, urinate and defecate, because they know they are going to be killed.