High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arbogast Bastian (also A B Meats) was the name of a slaughterhouse and meat packing plant located in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Once a national leader in hog slaughtering, the company had the capacity to process most of the 850,000 hogs raised annually in Pennsylvania for slaughtering. In its heyday, Arbogast Bastian slaughtered an average of 4,000 hogs daily.