Sentence examples for raised for slaughter from inspiring English sources

Horses are not livestock — not raised for slaughter.

"Horses are different than cows and pigs in one very important sense, in that they are not raised for slaughter," he said.

Unlike cattle, which are raised for slaughter in controlled conditions, the lame horses or former plow animals that are sometimes killed for consumption do not carry the same guarantees of origin or quality.

It is a tiny proportion of hunters who can, he says; he guesses fewer than 1%, although he is upfront about the distinction between hunting a wild lion and a "canned" one, an animal raised for slaughter.

It'd be hard to find any argument that can justify the conditions in which animals are routinely raised for slaughter today in the concentrated, industrial-style form of husbandry that is required to provide cheap meat to growing and increasingly prosperous populations.

It is a story steeped in biblical metaphor: the monarch butterflies transform the land as if "trees have turned to fire, a burning bush"; lambs are raised for slaughter, the Turnbows' principal business as farmers; and ultimately the onset of spring soaks the land in a flood of Old Testament proportions.

It's in most animals we eat, because it's fed to most animals we raise for slaughter; it's in most of the beverages we drink, because high-fructose corn syrup, which is derived from flint corn, is the most commonly used commercial sweetener; it's even in our cheese, because our cows munch on it instead of grazing on grass.

While living in the lowlands that cover Buenos Aires, Alessandra Sanguinetti conceived her first book of photography, On the Sixth Day, a look at the lives of farmers and their relationships with the animals they raise for slaughter.

Take the opening location: a factory of pigs raised for the slaughter, who are one day herded into a big truck which they believe is taking them to "pig paradise, a place so wonderful that no pig has ever thought to come back".

More than 9 billion broiler chickens (raised for meat and slaughtered at 6 7 weeks) were produced in the US in 2007 [6].

The only cattle seen occasionally are groups of bullocks being raised together for slaughter.