Word: slaughtered
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Largely as a result of this relentless slaughter, the populations of some shark species have plummeted an estimated 80% over the past decade. "At the current rate," predicts marine biologist Merry Camhi of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, "some species will reach ecological extinction within 10 years...
...understand a different aspect of shark behavior. In 1992 two people were killed by tiger sharks in Hawaiian waters, the first such deaths there in three decades. An earlier spate of killings had provoked an all-out program to eradicate tiger sharks, but it was never clear whether that slaughter had been really effective...
ROME: Fifty-four years after a massacre in an Italian cave, two former Nazi S.S. officers have finally been found guilty. Former SS captain Erich Priebke, nearly 84, checked off the names of the 335 men and boys as they were led to slaughter. On Tuesday, a Roman court ordered him to serve five years of a 15-year term. His co-defendant, former S.S. Maj. Karl Hass, 84, who shot at least two of the victims, was given a suspended 10-year, eight-month sentence and allowed to go free. The two were convicted despite Italy's 30-year...
...direction or lie down. And because Premarin farmers receive more money for concentrated urine, these helpless mares are denied adequate amounts of water and suffer from dehydration, in addition to a host of other illnesses. Within a few years, they become physical and mental wrecks who end up in slaughter houses, as do their babies, who are the by-products of the Premarin industry. Each year, many tens of thousands of foals are sold to feed lots, where they're fattened until they reach meat weight. Then they're slaughtered and end up on dinner tables in Europe and Asia...
...skin). Yet Premarin continues to be the most widely prescribed. Why? Because it has been on the market for a very long time, and doctors, like most persons, are creatures of habit. It's therefore extremely important that women inform their doctors that they will not participate in the slaughter of horses, young or old, and demand that they prescribe one of the plant-derived drugs...