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Today, our response to the temporary closing of slaughter plants can be a permanent opening of our dietary habits to actual plants.
WHY MEAT COULD BE TOP OF MIND FOR VOTERS IN THE UPCOMING ELECTIONJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 5, 2020FORTUNE
Enraged, the meat lobby retaliated by having producers again cease sending animals to slaughter.
WHY MEAT COULD BE TOP OF MIND FOR VOTERS IN THE UPCOMING ELECTIONJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 5, 2020FORTUNE
After all, Faith says, massive herbivores like these rhinos were slow to breed and it wouldn’t take a “catastrophic slaughter” for humans to make a dent in the population.
CLIMATE CHANGE PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE WOOLLY RHINO’S RAPID DEMISESARA KILEY WATSONAUGUST 25, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
If the outcome in certain cases is less reprehensible than outright slaughter, it is only because natural selection only sometimes works to reduce the denominator of the “fitness ratio.”
JUST BECAUSE IT’S NATURAL DOESN’T MEAN IT’S GOOD - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDEDAVID P. BARASHAUGUST 19, 2020NAUTILUS
Plant outbreaks gummed up the meat supply chain, creating a backlog of animals awaiting slaughter.
THE LOGJAM OF CATTLE STUCK ON FEEDLOTS IS BEGINNING TO CLEARTIM MCDONNELLJULY 13, 2020QUARTZ
Its record is largely that of battles and sieges, of the brave adventure of discovery and the vexed slaughter of the nations.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
The city hell hounds sprang to meet them and the slaughter of inoffensive Europeans began in Darya Gunj.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
The farewell and the mourning are finished by the slaughter of dogs, that the dying man may have forerunners in the other world.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUS
This slaughter is accompanied by the tabagie and what follows it—namely, the singing and dancing.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUS
It went hard with him to slaughter the faithful creature, who knew him, and came towards him at the first sound of his voice.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO SLAUGHTER

  • exterminate
  • kill
  • kill off
  • slaughter
  • terminate
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