Word: slaughterous
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Even with the ban, some conservationists fear that poachers will continue to slaughter the big cats, since the skins can be sold in other countries. Now this avenue appears to be closing too. The International Fur Trade Federation, a London-based union, has announced an embargo on otter, tiger and snow and clouded leopard skins...
...Maybe it is a good thing that the moon has no wildlife. Despite our progress in some areas, we persevere in our slaughter of this earth's creatures. Whether it be the killing of leopards or baby seals or alligators or whales for economic reasons or the killing of thousands and thousands of sea fowl by unnecessary dumping of oil wastes at sea, this planet's wildlife suffers unto extinction at our hands...
Conservationists look to the 14-nation* International Whaling Commission to regulate the $150 million industry and reduce the slaughter. But last week, after a long conference in London, the agency issued a communiqué that drowned all hopes. Instead of lowering the limits on each year's whale kill, the commission decided to maintain the already absurdly high quotas...
...cooling-off period in labor disputes affecting the national welfare. On the Isle of Man last week, delegates to the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions' convention warned against interference in industrial relations. "The unions," shouted one speaker, "will not be led like lambs to the slaughter!" A national dock strike set for July 14 could paralyze Britain's crucial export trade...
...there came Old George-a little chubby, a toneless voice, but those steady eyes, that sense of hidden pow er. Was there something here after all? Each day he hit the "senseless slaughter" in Viet Nam, with the accent on senseless; and he talked about the glacial impersonality of government and bureaucracy and political parties...