slaughter
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The bill does not allow the horses to be sold for slaughter or for the same purpose.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Some have proposed reimbursing fishers or using acoustic deterrents instead of mass slaughter.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
It wasn’t until after the Soviet collapse in 1991 that the newly independent Ukraine permitted Polish archaeologists to conduct exhumations in Volhynia to reveal the extent of the slaughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The human slaughter operation in the final area was stopped when a local farmer offered to buy some of the remaining cattle.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
We slaughter a cow for its meat only to mark a big occasion.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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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
The company slaughters nearly 30 million hogs a year and is a major supplier of ham, bacon and other pork products to grocers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
"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
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Through the first six months of this year, companies slaughtered more than 4.9 billion chickens, up 3% from the same period last year and up 6% from five years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Department of Agriculture that livestock had been inhumanely slaughtered during a May event at Shahnawaz Ranch for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, and that the operation had sold the meat without required federal inspection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
An estimated five million dogs and one million cats are captured, stolen, trafficked and slaughtered for meat in Vietnam each year, according to Humane World for Animals.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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
But he grew ill at the sight of blood, and wept to see even a chicken slaughtered.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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“If anyone does have an idea of buying it for the purpose of what it’s being marketed as, for slaughtering animals, they’ll have a large contingent of public opposition,” Williamson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
The government's policy of slaughtering entire herds where a single animal has been infected has run up against bitter opposition from two of the three main farmers' unions.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 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
With fourteen children, after slaughtering time, we didn’t have much left to sell.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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