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We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.
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God has instituted in our time holy wars, so that the order of knights and the crowd running in their wake, who following the example of the ancient pagans have been engaged in slaughtering one another, might find a new way of gaining salvation.


— c.1097  Gesta Dei per Francos, in Recueil des historiens de croisades occidentaux, edited by L'Acade  mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1847-95), vol.4, p.124.

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Then old Nobodaddy aloftFarted and belched and coughed,And said, "I love hanging and drawing and quarteringEvery bit as well as war and slaughtering."

william blake

— Let the Brothels of Paris, st. 2

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It was terrible. They were slaughtering villagers like so many sheep


— Sargent Larry La Croix[[2]] (Sourced)

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Whether we like it or not, we must go on slaughtering the natives in English fashion, and taking what muddy glory lies in wholesale killing til they have learned to respect our arms. The more difficult task of getting them to respect our intentions will follow.


— New York Criterion, 1899 [3]

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