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It mandates that owners of the nearly 200 horses would not be allowed to sell them for slaughter or for the purposes of other horse-carriage businesses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

This legislation requires the “humane disposition of carriage horses” and prohibits their sale for slaughter or for use in another horse-drawn-carriage business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

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

After all of his months of antics, after the weighing-in act that Cassius had put on, this calmness should have tipped off some of the sports writers who were predicting Clay’s slaughter.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

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

"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

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

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

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

But one senior Tory told the BBC they expected the party would be "slaughtered" in May by Reform UK.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

Wolves have since recolonized the state — a development hailed by conservationists as an ecological win but derided by many ranchers whose cattle are slaughtered by the skilled pack hunters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

I had only seen him shoot the rifle when we slaughtered pigs in the fall.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

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

King Mohammed VI has asked Moroccans to abstain from performing the Muslim rite of slaughtering sheep during Eid al-Adha this year due to a sharp drop in the country's herd.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

An H5N1 outbreak that recently infected five poultry workers and 1.8 million chickens in northeast Colorado may have been fueled in part by heat wave conditions and slaughtering methods, according to federal health authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024

My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats and calves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela