slaughter

Roughly 90% to 95% of birds in a commercial chicken barn survive the six to eight weeks it takes until they are ready for slaughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

And that calf needs another year to reach slaughter weight, so the extra beef takes three years to arrive.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Khan declined to directly address the allegations but said customers had largely been involved in the slaughter of animals they either brought themselves or purchased from him, with some assistance from employees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

On Monday, the September contract for feeder cattle FCU26 — those that are fattened up for slaughter — fell 2.8% to end at $3.32 per pound in Chicago.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Back in my hometown, slaughter had been something performed in yards or in the fields.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Bigger chicken breeds and flocks not being decimated by disease over the summer have led to a glut in an industry that slaughters more than nine billion birds a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

A meatpacker is the plant that slaughters the animal and breaks the carcass down into the cuts that reach shops or restaurants.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The June 26 complaint filed by Animal Outlook described slaughters captured on video by Scott David, the organization’s director of investigations, when he visited the ranch during its Eid al-Adha event.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

While participants seek prey in the name of fundraising, animal rights advocates are training their sights on contests they see as senseless slaughters.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

Fruit and slaughters are not usually combined, nor are gods and peasants.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

About half of the cattle slaughtered at JBS’s Pennsylvania plant were trucked long distances, including from Iowa and Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

More than 120,000 eagles were slaughtered over the course of Alaska’s bounty system alone.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

Baldwin wisecracked, fully aware that he was about to be slaughtered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

And from the mid-1930s, onwards improved refrigeration saw more birds slaughtered and sent on trains and lorries.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

Chicago companies slaughtered and packaged only enough meat to satisfy the needs of local residents.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

A vivid memory for Sanchez is his grandfather slaughtering a pig and driving around South-Central on his pickup truck selling it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025

On Wall Street, the arrival of Thanksgiving means it’s time for tax-loss harvesting, the wholesale slaughtering of the market’s worst-performing stocks.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

With a mischievous monkey-like creature as a sidekick, Dek and Thia wander the landscape slaughtering scary critters while pulling off some lightly comical beauty-and-the-beast shtick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Today, just four companies control more than 80% of the beef slaughtering and packing market.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025

Whether discussing Herod slaughtering infants or Christ rising from the dead, her voice registered the same faint level of disapproval.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy