It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.
Egyptian police fired teargas today in clashes with pig farmers angry at the government's attempt to slaughter all the country's pigs to guard against swine flu.
The Indian government depicted the attack on Parliament as a foiled attempt to slaughter the elected leadership of the world's largest democracy.
We want to send the message around the world that this sort of vile attempt to slaughter innocent people is not, at the end of the day, anything resembling a serious challenge to American power.
Nobody had been killed, but the paranoia surrounding the protest explains why Father Tapu may have thought they had; various Facebook groups for the movement are saturated with rumors about riot cops attempting to slaughter everyone in attendance.
This week, three right-wing extremists were found guilty of attempting to slaughter Muslim refugees living in an apartment complex in Kansas ― they too were radicalized by online anti-Muslim memes, online propaganda masquerading as news and conspiracy theories of the kind Bissonnette consumed.
Dylan Thomas himself would probably have signed the pledge after a few attempts to get slaughtered in the anaemic, plastic and chrome atmosphere of the new bar.
But as more than one whale expert in Australia confided to me, Sea Shepherd's antics, for all its popular support in Australia and elsewhere (the rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers are just one of the donors to their cause), may be actively shackling the Australian government's more diplomatic attempts to end the slaughter.
Both appointments were unpopular in the state, and on January 27 , 1817 Breckinridge formed a coalition of legislators in the House that sponsored a bill to elect "a governor to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of" Madison, essentially an attempt to oust Slaughter from the governorship.
Inspectors found no evidence of sick cattle entering the food supply after an undercover video by an animal rights group showed workers kicking and shocking downed cattle in an attempt to herd them to slaughter.
