Burning pyres of slaughtered animals caused widespread revulsion.
Devotees take the slaughtered animals back to their villages and then eat them during a feast.
Among the contaminants was a 10,000-gallon concrete tank that had stored the blood of slaughtered animals.
It was Lao Lan who invented the scientific method of forcing pressurized water into the pulmonary arteries of slaughtered animals.
The Vienna-based Actionists became famous for pouring the blood of ritually slaughtered animals over naked bodies.
In ancient times, the Celtic new year was celebrated at summer's end, by some accounts with a bonfire using the bones of slaughtered animals.
Testing sick or slaughtered animals for mad cow disease (news articles, Jan . 1 is closing the door after the horse is out of the barn.
By Mo Yan It was Lao Lan who invented the scientific method of forcing pressurized water into the pulmonary arteries of slaughtered animals.
Tons of manure from cows, horses and mules, and the entrails from slaughtered animals, only added to the filth of a typical Civil War encampment.
"I saw the dead bodies all around me, lying like slaughtered animals," said Noor al-Haq, 22 as he sat waiting for treatment at Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar.
The smoking bonfires of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2001 consumed 7m slaughtered animals and forced Tony Blair, then prime minister, to postpone a general election.
