Word: slaughtered
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...southwestern English county of Devon lie fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack...
Jacky talks about killing him, slitting his throat from three till nine and hanging him upside down so the blood drains out of him the way it ran from the baby pigs they used to slaughter in her village before a funeral feast. He deserves it, really, she says, for his freeloading, for his hanging around, for how he just stands there, spindly-legged and narrow-chested and pimple-faced with his big yearning eyes, and just begs for another...
...average of 27% last month and export markets have collapsed. In Germany, Spain and Italy, sales have plunged between 40% and 50%. France's turnover has fallen by some 30%. Only in Britain, where the epidemic started in the 1980s, causing 83 human deaths and prompting the slaughter of nearly 5 million cattle, has consumption returned to pre-bse levels...
...across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury 400,000 cows in an effort to rid the country of the disease...
Rwanda's judicial system was crippled by the genocide, as a vast majority of its judges were either perpetrators or victims of the slaughter...