A period when animals are slaughtered and the meat frozen for export.
at the end of the killing season, good cuts of meat will be scarcer
Example sentencesExamples
- Had the action gone ahead it would have closed the meatworks at the height of the killing season.
- Te Hape's killing season also starts in January, and runs through to the end of May.
- The shorter killing season in the South Island means higher labour costs.
- They have been reliant on working in the meat industry during the killing season to supplement their earnings.
- They told us of the bad old days of thinly justified strikes, usually at the peak of the killing season.