And he took on the slaughterhouses, ending the practice of hoisting conscious cattle into the air by a leg to await slaughter.

Similar arguments to those just put forward can be used to defuse the claim, frequently made by liberationists, that animals awaiting slaughter are aware of their fate.

He did not know how it had been done, but his Protectors had become pennedqwelloq awaiting slaughter.

In Denison, Iowa, hundreds of cattle and hogs awaiting slaughter were swept to their deaths by fast-rising water.

If you come to the poultry shop, where chickens, turkeys, ducks, pigeons and rabbits await slaughter while crammed in wooden cages, you have gone too far.

In some circumstances, confinement of such animals awaiting slaughter at other premises.

If we are to die, then it should be with honour and in action, not standing like bulls in a pen awaiting slaughter.

As a result, some older cows have been found abandoned by roadsides, and about 58,000 elderly dairy cows are awaiting slaughter.

They swung across the bridge over the railway at Flemington and passed the saleyards where sheep came to await slaughter, and then leftwards into the main road.

Could any of the crew have survived, any of those men huddled like sheep awaiting slaughter in the narrow alleyway out of which I'd clawed my way?