slaughtered

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• Now, in Denmark, one of the world’s major fur exporters, over 15 million mink at 1,000 farms are now scheduled for slaughter.

• Owners worried about their bottom line at that moment but did not want to slaughter potentially productive animals.

• After the industrial slaughter of whales ended in the mid-1900s, scientists estimated that nearly 99 percent of the planet’s blue whales had been completely wiped out.

• It’s likely that one day in the future—maybe distant, maybe not so much—we’ll look back in disbelief at the way we used to raise and slaughter entire animals just to get a few cuts of their flesh.

• With plant slowdowns came a backlog of pigs, cows and chickens waiting for slaughter.

• Many mercenaries slaughtered their way to power, casually betraying even close family to secure their fortunes.

• We are just coming off the midterm elections, too, where the Democrats got slaughtered.

• Assad, for his part, has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his own people, most likely with little regard for their dignity.

• Or the Hutus who slaughtered their way through 800,000 Tutsis over the course of three months?

• Last month, dozens were abducted and slaughtered—by the police.

• The revenge of the Portuguese was horrible, the Cahetes were hunted, slaughtered, and all but exterminated.

• Their version of the position was that “great fighting took place daily and the Nazarenes were being slaughtered in hundreds.”