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October 14th is the Save Japan Dolphins International Protest of this annual Taiji dolphin slaughter.
Brenda Peterson: Japan: Stop Killing Our Evolutionary Elders and Help Save Our Oceans Brenda Peterson 2010
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October 14th is the Save Japan Dolphins International Protest of this annual Taiji dolphin slaughter.
Brenda Peterson: Japan: Stop Killing Our Evolutionary Elders and Help Save Our Oceans Brenda Peterson 2010
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October 14th is the Save Japan Dolphins International Protest of this annual Taiji dolphin slaughter.
Brenda Peterson: Japan: Stop Killing Our Evolutionary Elders and Help Save Our Oceans Brenda Peterson 2010
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There is, Berman writes, "an unwillingness, sometimes an outright refusal, to accept that, from time to time, mass political movements do get drunk on the idea of slaughter."
Revolution from Above Buruma, Ian 2003
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The wind had been blowing towards the shore and favoring the use of smoke, and then it veered and began to blow straight off the shore, and to go without the smoke would have been like sending the men to certain slaughter.
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Each shot down a fat cow, and they could have secured more had not the minds of both boys rebelled at the idea of slaughter.
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This rhetoric includes describing Dr. Tiller as "a mass-murderer" and abortion as a kind of "slaughter."
Lynn M. Paltrow: In Memory of Dr. George Tiller - He Supported Women's Dignity 2009
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I don't know how we reasonably prevent this kind of slaughter.
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The killing one partridge was so like killing another, that I wondered how men could pass days after days in the pursuit of that kind of slaughter.
The Virginians 2006
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He knew I had an aversion to this kind of slaughter.
Shadows Linger Cook, Glen 1984
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