Exceptions can be made if it's a complete slaughter (down by 5+), and you can't bear to witness the beating.
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.
Things look different from afar, and you suddenly realise how good a movie is that was totally disregarded in its time, such as Stroheim's slaughtered Greed, cut down to a fifth of its original length, or Tod Browning's famous horror show, Freaks.
At the Sikandra Bagh Palace in Lucknow, for instance, Beato photographed the scattered bones of some 2,000 rebels British regiments had slaughtered while putting down the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
For centuries, animals were slaughtered and broken down by the town butcher and by restaurants close to where they were grown, and there was no label consistency from one butcher to the next.
But anecdotes accumulate -- stories of men slaughtered while hung upside down or bound with rope or piled in a heap like logs.
The sole sign of one of the 3,500 Kurdish villages destroyed by Saddam is often a pathetic pile of stones in a field where people once lived before they were killed or forced to flee, their herds of cows and flocks of sheep slaughtered, and concrete poured down the village well.
There is also, similarly, the striking approximation of a human smile on the face of every pig, even a slaughtered one hung upside down by the hocks: the small eyes close tight in mirth and the mouth hangs open in a pleasant expression made worse by the color of the face, which, in its pallor, approximates the colour of Nordic human flesh".
The unconscious calf is hoisted upside down and slaughtered seconds later with a massive cut to its throat, showering the floor with a torrent of crimson blood.
Now stray dogs are such a menace that municipal workers are hunting them down, slaughtering some 10,000 in Baghdad just since December.
