Object

• cattle: It is funded through a Meat and Livestock Commission levy paid on all sheep and cattle slaughtered in England.

• livestock: Soviet agriculture had still not yet recovered from the forced collectivisation of the early 1930s, when peasants destroyed crops and slaughtered livestock.

• animal: Could they have spared many of the slaughtered animals by acting earlier?

• cow: But even the man's most devoted admirers might find difficulty with the sacred cows slaughtered in these pages.

• carcass: These casualty animals or slaughtered carcasses together with subclinical cases will end up in the rendering industry in increasing numbers.

Preposition: at

• abattoir: True, they can now sell cattle of a certain age, slaughtered at a specific abattoir, to some European countries.

Adjective modifier

• senseless: We hope you will join us in our fight to stamp out the senseless slaughter of billions of helpless insects across the world.

• indiscriminate: The indiscriminate slaughter of the buffalo has brought many evils in its train.

• humane: Radical legislation is needed to ensure that all UK abattoirs operate hygienic and humane slaughter of farm animals.

• wholesale: Then our news sources were delighted to pound us with horror stories of wholesale slaughter - which turned out to be entirely untrue.

• needless: Only with widespread help will we be able to stop this unnecessary and needless slaughter.

• wanton: Seeing the sights of wanton slaughter, To another bloody tour across the water.

Noun used with modifier

• ritual: The ritual slaughter of the Australian sheep in Kuwaiti slaughterhouses.

• poultry: Will FAWC look at poultry slaughter once it has completed its study of red meat slaughter?

Preposition: without

• prestunning: Slaughter without prestunning has been banned in Norway, Sweden and New Zealand.

Preposition: of

• innocent: Someone who is not a member of the religion of Satan might say, " But your god has ordered the slaughter of innocents!

• civilian: The US has no qualms about the slaughter of innocent civilians: the Phoenix program in Vietnam, Death Squads in Central America.

• cattle: These measures include the compulsory slaughter of cattle suspected of having BSE and the removal from the food chain of their milk and carcasses.

Preposition: for

• consumption: No animal appearing to suffer from such a disease could be slaughtered for human consumption.