slaughter

It's like saying "it's cheaper to slaughter your own cow than to eat at a restaurant".

While, I've never been to a slaughter house, I did spend quite a bit of my youth on my Uncle's dairy farm.

If we were talking about the actual slaughtering process, then yes, that analogy would have weight.

I am opposed to factory farms and slaughterhouses where animals are abused and tortured for profit.

If "best practices" in animal slaughter gross people out, then maybe we need better "best practices" or maybe we need to rethink our agriculture system.

If insects have no sentient attributes like mercy, how can they slaughter others mercilessly?Easy.

The history of warfare is just as this article indicates: a tool-using species coming up with more and more efficient ways to slaughter each other.

When things are tight, though, the pattern has always been one of merciless slaughter of the founder interest, as evidenced by any down round within memory.

We need look no further than other ant colonies, which, when they detect ants in their home that are not expected to be there, they mercilessly and without delay slaughter them.

Animal slaughter was sort of a commonplace until we industrialized it; people weren't squeamish about it until the last few hundred years.

Almost the whole world that is islamic became muslim through military occupation, the mass slaughter of the males who fought or would not convert, the looting of property and the selling off into slavery of their women and children.

But all these steps put together - they make a difference!Slowly and surely we're being led like lambs to the slaughter to a world where everything we say or do with our technology will be under the control of giant tech companies that ultimately care only about their own profit.