The financial success of the 480 members of the Shakopee Tribe — whose ancestors 150 years ago were hunted down, slaughtered and eventually exiled from Minnesota — derives from their flourishing casino and resort operation, which on weekends swells the population of their tiny reservation to the size of a city.
Last year, Britain suffered its worst outbreak of the highly contagious disease in decades, eventually slaughtering some six million animals at risk of infection, but ruling out vaccinations, which makes animals ineligible for export.
All of this stuff is commonplace now – it's what both gave birth to and eventually slaughtered Family Guy's success – but in 1992 it was fresh.
A man had set up a booth along the boardwalk showing graphic detail how animals were caged and kept confined for food, separated from their families, and how they were abused and eventually slaughtered.
Variety called the film "woefully thin on ideas, originality (beyond new zombie-offing methods) or directorial flair [with] no serious undertow to counterpoint the eventually repetitive slaughter".
Eventually, the slaughter will be overshadowed by drama elsewhere in the vast island chain of 210m people, and the problems in Kalimantan will be left to fester until they again cry out for attention.
We may take it for granted that dairy cows will eventually be slaughtered.
Many owners, faced with the choice of keeping retired horses and continuing to pay for their feed and care, instead opt to sell them at auction for $300 to $500 a horse, not realizing or not caring that if they are exported they can eventually be slaughtered.
Legend has it that it killed 30 men and was covered in scars and punctured with spears from previous attempts to harpoon it; before eventually being slaughtered in 1838.
The cost of each pig, its feed and the cost of slaughter came to £286, which eventually worked out at £6 a kilogram for all our various products.
