Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Red China was hit by crop failures, the Chinese have begun to slaughter sheep and yak herds for meat, forbade farmers to shear their sheep without permission or to eat animals that died of natural causes. Food rations have been cut to 16 Ibs. of grain per person a month. In many villages, the refugees reported, Tibetans have been reduced to eating grass weeds and wild tubers. Estimated deaths due to Tibet's enforced starvation diet...
...hatred that excuses the Jewish terror," which your reviewer claims to be not different from the extermination activities of the Nazis! To us Israelis who have fought for our freedom as an ill-armed minority against a well-equipped army (and for a just cause), a comparison to mass slaughter-by an organized military power-of innocent defenseless people, is just shocking...
When a king dies, the Buganda of Uganda raditionally slaughter all his wives-along with hundreds of ordinary tribesmen-to keep the old boy company. Poles abstain from sewing, for fear of pricking the soul of the departed. Many Jews, after the death of a close relative, abstain from sexual intercourse for seven days...
...trouble and chronic lameness. Produced by a virus, the disease is rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter of an entire herd if even one animal has been stricken. Since the current outbreak began in early November, Ministry of Agriculture officers have killed 42,000 cattle, sheep and pigs, paid out $2,800,000 in compensation to farmers...
...however, field trials of the Pirbright vaccine have been limited to South Africa, Kenya and Tanganyika, and until a surefire vaccine is discovered, the British government sees no alternative to mass slaughter of infected herds. Chief reason is that to do otherwise would end Britain's profitable exports of breeding stock to Canada and the U.S., both of which refuse to admit cattle from areas where foot-and-mouth disease is endemic and controlled only by immunization. This was a precaution Britain could well understand, since the most likely cause of Britain's own current troubles was frozen...