We retell the story of Abraham nearly slaughtering his son to celebrate his unflinching faith in God.
They say the whales are essentially the marine equivalent of the majestic bison, which was slaughtered nearly to extinction, protected and now is being made into burgers.
The concept of farmers sharing the costs of tackling animal diseases emerged from the foot-and-mouth outbreak of 2001, which saw nearly seven million animals slaughtered.
The election was the second since the end of Rwandan genocide in 1994, when radical Hutu slaughtered nearly one million ethnic-minority Tutsi, and gave Mr. Kagame a second seven-year term.
Despised by Catholics as "the plague of Geneva" (a reference to their origins in Calvinism), the Huguenots endured terrible persecution, such as the St Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, when nearly 6,000 were slaughtered across France.
For nearly all pigs slaughtered in the EU, the lean meat content is assessed on-line at the slaughter line.
A recent survey showed that poachers slaughtered nearly 30% of East Africa's savanna elephants from 2007 to 2014, some 144,000 animals.
For example, in February, Boko Haram slaughtered nearly 60 sleeping students in a boarding school in Nigeria's Yobe state.
He and his army entered Egypt, sacked the city of Bilbeis, slaughtered nearly all of its inhabitants, and then continued on towards Fustat.
