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There was nothing particularly surprising about the international outrage over the reports of the wholesale slaughter of 50,000 dogs in rural China as part of a poorly executed campaign to curb the spread of rabies; some of the dogs, after all, were taken from their owners and beaten to death with sticks on the spot. China's official news agency has reported that up to half a million more dogs are expected to be exterminated in a separate cull over the next few days. "China's slaughter of dogs is a disproportionate, inhumane and ill response to rabies...
...followed his Divorce Italian Style, suggests Preston Sturges run riot in Sicily. In this lunatic 1964 retooling of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (unwanted pregnancy, frantic attempt to get the girl married, small town in an uproar), Botticelli-beautiful Stefania Sandrelli is Agnese, a lamb led to the slaughter of her ideals by a father, a family and a society that values honor (status) over honesty. Germi's tireless cinematic inventiveness matches his furious pace in a magnificent satire that leaves the viewer exhausted, angry and grateful...
...different, as far as I'm concerned, than if you killed dogs and sent them to France." T. BOONE PICKENS, billionaire Texas oilman, prior to testifying before Congress last week in favor of a ban on the industrial slaughter of horses in the U.S. Nearly 100,000 horses are killed each year for their meat, which is exported to Europe and Japan, where it is considered a delicacy...
...BOONE PICKENS, billionaire Texas oilman, prior to testifying before Congress last week in favor of a ban on the industrial slaughter of horses in the U.S. Nearly 100,000 horses are killed each year for their meat, which is exported to Europe and Japan, where it is considered a delicacy...
...Even more outrageous to Pickens is the fact that many sellers have no idea that their horses are going to slaughter to become food. "They're thinking their horse will go to some nice family. But those killer buyers, when they buy at auction, it's just a matter of hours before the horse is slaughtered," he says. Opponents of horse slaughtering claim that many of the horses sold for consumption are young foals as well as old racehorses and "summer camp" ponies. When California voted by referendum in 1998 to ban the slaughter of horses for consumption, Pickens notes...