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Nevertheless, despite the absence of gunpowder, mass slaughter proceeded throughout the world’s oceans.

With its descriptions of cattle with tuberculosis being slaughtered and workers with other diseases handling meat, “The Jungle” sparked an outcry about unsanitary and unsafe conditions in the meat industry.

Then again, the experience humiliates Carrie to such an extent that she slaughters everyone at her prom and limps off to die in the woods, so . . . hooray, feminism?

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

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Another called for their families in Kurdistan to be slaughtered.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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