slaughter
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Some subsequently appeared in the slaughter pipeline; inspection records showed mustangs ending up on trucks bound for Canadian slaughter plants.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
It separately aims to sell its Pasco, Wash., facility that can slaughter about 2,000 cattle a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Celebrating life-giving plant produce rather than fish slaughter would be more in line with the compassion and warmth Wales is known for," it added.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Jareb Gleckel, legal director at Animal Outlook, said ritual slaughter is governed by different regulations, but that there is in some ways “less margin for error” than at conventional commercial slaughter facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
There was no longer a supply of foreign laborers to mold steel, unload lumber ships, or slaughter cattle.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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
Truckers, feedlot operators and cattle ranchers face hits to their bottom line without the Lexington facility, which slaughters up to 5,000 cattle a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
"We condemn the resurgence of these mass slaughters and call on government to take its responsibility to secure lives and property very seriously or it should leave the stage."
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2022
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
Companies that haven’t beaten earnings estimates—and raised their outlooks—have “gotten slaughtered in this market,” says Nancy Tengler, CEO and CIO at Laffer Tengler Investments.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
More than 120,000 eagles were slaughtered over the course of Alaska’s bounty system alone.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026
And from the mid-1930s, onwards improved refrigeration saw more birds slaughtered and sent on trains and lorries.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
Solution: investment in machinery that moved slaughtered livestock from one place to the next, eliminating slowdowns.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
“I will never go into the meat slaughtering business,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2016.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
Muslims mark the event by slaughtering sheep or other animals and the meat is shared among family and donated to the poor.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025
This Mycah was the worst; a butcher's boy, thirteen and wild, he slept in the meat wagon and smelled of the slaughtering block.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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