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More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War One, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
The slaughter of millions in the trenches and in the death camps have caused people to ask, "Where is God in all this?
What was different this time is the way that the terrorists used modern information communications technologies to locate additional victims and slaughter them.
Here is an example from an op-ed on Thanksgiving, in the Boston Globe a couple of years ago, where the writer wrote, "The Indian life was a difficult one, but there were no employment problems, community harmony was strong, substance abuse unknown, crime nearly non-existent, what warfare there was between tribes was largely ritualistic and seldom resulted in indiscriminate or wholesale slaughter."
You're not allowed to identify anyone by ethnicity, which is, of course, what started the slaughter in the first place.
These birds were hunted for meat that was sold by the ton, and it was easy to do because when those big flocks came down to the ground, they were so dense that hundreds of hunters and netters could show up and slaughter them by the tens of thousands.
But immediately, the government said, that's it, let's get rid of them, and they paid people to slaughter every one that they saw.
I'm convinced that in 30 years, when we look back on today and on how we raise and slaughter billions of animals to make our hamburgers and our handbags, we'll see this as being wasteful and indeed crazy.
Using automatic weapons to slaughter uncontacted peoples is the single most despicable and disgusting human rights abuse on our planet today, and it has to stop.
I thought she was going to slaughter me, but she didn't.
For 100 years, this coast was the scene of a wholesale slaughter, where more than 20,000 gray whales were killed, leaving only a few hundred survivors.
The first time I heard about this Christian Coptic community was in 2009 when the Egyptian authorities under the regime of Hosni Mubarak decided to slaughter 300,000 pigs using the pretext of H1N1 virus.
Do I tell her the men died first, mothers forced to watch the slaughter?
We're going to be as humane as possible to them, until we take them to the slaughter.
Over the next three to four months, the cows gain an additional 180 kilograms before they are shipped off to slaughter.
It takes six weeks to grow a chicken to slaughter weight.
Yes, we slaughter, you know.
What do we do with things like unmanned slaughter?
What is unmanned slaughter?
And each time we just look at our phone after hours, we can be reminded of work and ruminative thoughts can slip out and slaughter our evening or weekend.
At the same time, all of our firepower was impotent when it came to halting or even stemming the slaughter in Rwanda, Darfur, Myanmar.
And I've worked really hard on improving how cattle are treated at the slaughter plant.
You know, the slaughter plants I worked with in the '80s; they were absolutely awful.
I developed a really simple scoring system for slaughter plants, where you just measure outcomes: How many cattle fell down?
It actually is the largest marine mammal slaughter on the planet, with hundreds of thousands of these seals being killed every year.
A traveling couple (Horton and Hamilton)stumble onto the town of Gatlin, where kids have slaughtered the adults and are always eager to slaughter more, along the way they're separated and Peter Horton of course must save his wife from these tiresome, er terrible tykes in this very bad adaption of one of King's best short stories.
Here we get the expected animal slaughter scenes (gutting a gator; natives eating live snakes), plus some additional nudity and a castration.
This films starts out with two young teenagers getting wild ideas about going into a chat room and going out on blind dates, and quite possibly they will wind up like a little lamb to the slaughter house.
If you're looking for a mindless slaughter fest, this may fill the bill.
Senseless scene the brutalising of pig... why do so many directors see no problem with animal mutilation and slaughter?
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