slaughter
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“Halal,” meaning permissible under Islamic law, is a designation most typically associated with procedures for animal slaughter and with the absence of pork or alcohol in consumable products.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Mass or individual culls are generally restricted to notifiable disease control, welfare emergencies, or licensed slaughter.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
In January 2024, the country passed a law banning the breeding, slaughter and sale of dogs for food.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Tateh would take us there to slaughter the cows in the kosher faith I made it a point to go see them.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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Bigger chicken breeds and flocks staying free of disease over the summer led to a glut in an industry that slaughters more than nine billion birds a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
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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
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
Fifty-six days is the amount of time it would take the chickens to grow big enough to be slaughtered.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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The red ink is mounting for companies in the business of slaughtering cattle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
“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
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
Today, just four companies control more than 80% of the beef slaughtering and packing market.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
Joel wouldn’t begin slaughtering cattle and turkeys till later in the summer.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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