Word: slaughters
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...Exactly a century ago, Upton Sinclair published his novel The Jungle, about an immigrant who is exploited at every turn: paying the people who bring them to America, exploited by their bosses as they work in subhuman conditions at the brutal job of meatpacking (i.e., animal slaughter) in Chicago's stockyards, where political and economic corruption is the m.o. of unfettered capitalism...
...energy with which it began. “Maude and Harold” was an affront to decency, a celebration of obscenity, and an assault on the values and institutions that most people consider sacrosanct, and that’s precisely why it was so thoroughly enjoyable. Some plays slaughter sacred cows—“Maude and Harold” turned the stage into a veritable abattoir.—Reviewer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
...Horn of Africa Project for aid and lobby group International Crisis Group, points out that "the extent of Khartoum's resistance [to a beefed-up peacekeeping force] hasn't been fully explored yet." If the talks in Abuja fail, that may be the only option left to end the slaughter...
This year could be the year of the horse. Activists in Great Falls, Mont., are lobbying their state legislature to pass the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, which would ban the export of horses to countries that slaughter them for meat. Their reason? Apparently slaughter “really disrespects an animal that we consider to be a friend,” says activist Melissa Carlson. “Disrespect,” it seems, is a loose term in Montana...
...said she then addressed the group, at which point one male grabbed her shoulders and pulled her in the opposite direction from the group. She said the assailant then pointed to one of the other males in his group and said, "That guy over there said he wants to slaughter your people...