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...answer depends on whom you ask. De Beers and the rest of the diamond trade would say yes. Watchdog groups like Global Witness would say no. Eight years ago, Global Witness produced damning evidence of jewel-related slaughter in several African nations. It caused an international scandal and gave rise to a policing mechanism called the Kimberley Process, which requires diamond-exporting nations to seal their stones in a tamperproof container, with a document stating they were not mined in a war zone. It also requires better data collection from customs agencies...
Thus, if conception is the moment at which a human being is formed, and if an early-stage embryo is an entity capable of receiving a “death penalty,” then a slaughter of mass proportions is taking place and has been since the dawn of man. Some may try to write this atrocity off as “natural”; death of adults, however, is equally natural, but we give it enormous significance within our society. Where, then, are the funerals for these billions of lost souls, whose only crime was being created through...
...nation's major pig-producing states are North Carolina, Iowa and Nebraska. Arizona has only one industrial pork operation, Pigs for Farmer John, a subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corp., which ships a quarter-million animals to slaughter each year and houses, on any given day, about 13,500 pregnant sows. The gestation crates, according to a spokesman for Pigs for Farmer John, keep the sows safe from other pigs and allow individual feeding and care. Prop 204 opponents, led by Jim Klinker of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, have erected billboards around the state dissing the initiative as "hogwash." Outside...
...Kurdish minority. Churchill later described Iraq's forced unity as one of his biggest mistakes. In 2003 the U.S. not only unseated the last and most brutal of Iraq's tyrants but also destroyed the institutions--notably the army and the Baath Party--that held Iraq together. The sectarian slaughter that followed the Feb. 22 bombing of the Shi'ite Golden Mosque in Samarra accelerated Iraq's disintegration...
...slaughter nonhuman animals in factory farms, and they do have nervous systems and do suffer. People of faith are not very interested in their suffering...