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  2. Animal slaughter - Wikipedia

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    Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock. It is estimated that each year, 80 billion land animals are slaughtered for food. [ 4 ] Most animals are slaughtered for food ; however, they may also be slaughtered for other reasons such as for harvesting of pelts , being diseased and unsuitable for ...

  3. Pastoralism - Wikipedia

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    A catt of the Bakhtiari people, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran Global map of pastoralism, its origins and historical development [1]. Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds. [2]

  4. Tauroctony - Wikipedia

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    Other than that the killing of the bull is a sacrificial act – as identifiable from reliefs where the bull is adorned with a dorsuale – the function and purpose of the tauroctony is uncertain. Since the tauroctony scenes are complemented by the cult meal scenes (sometimes even represented on two sides of the same monument), it may be that ...

  5. Slaughterhouse - Wikipedia

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    Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942. In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ ˈ æ b ə t w ɑːr / ⓘ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food.

  6. Henbit - Wikipedia

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    Henbit may refer to: Any of several plant species with the common name "henbit": Lamium amplexicaule, wild flower known as henbit dead-nettle, common henbit, or greater henbit; Lamium album, white henbit or archangel; Lamium confertum, garden henbit; Lamium galeobdolon, yellow henbit or yellow archangel; Lamium maculatum, spotted henbit

  7. Cattle mutilation - Wikipedia

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    [24] [25] On December 6, a killing on the Lavern Hiner farm in Cloud County was reported to be the butcher's ninth. [26] By December 13, Kansas law enforcement reported having investigated total 40 mutilations, most occurring on land near US Highway 81. [23] [27] On December 20, State Senator Ross Doyen reported a cattle mutilation on his ranch ...

  8. Animal sacrifice - Wikipedia

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    Animal sacrifice was general among the ancient Near Eastern civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia, as well as the Hebrews (covered below).Unlike the Greeks, who had worked out a justification for keeping the best edible parts of the sacrifice for the assembled humans to eat, in these cultures the whole animal was normally placed on the fire by the altar and burned, or ...

  9. Exsanguination - Wikipedia

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    The word comes from the Latin 'sanguis', meaning blood, [1] and the prefix 'ex-', meaning 'out of'. Exsanguination has long been used as a method of animal slaughter . Humane slaughter must ensure the animal is rendered insensible to pain , whether through a captive bolt or other process, prior to the bloodletting.