This often results in health hazards through contamination of the meat during slaughter operations and of the surrounding land and water through uncontrolled release of waste and effluents.

这种屠宰方式常常会产生健康危害，肉类在屠宰过程中受到污染，而周边的土地和水源也会被任意排放的垃圾和废水污染。

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Some 100m hectares of America's forests went in the 19th century, in an arboreal slaughter similarly reinforced by a belief in the godliness of thus “improving” the land.

19世纪，美国在一次“树木大砍伐”中就损失了约1亿公顷林地。 同样的，对神的信仰，认为这样做可以“改善”土地，因而更加巩固了这一做法。

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And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

约拿单和拿兵器的人起头所杀的约有二十人，都在一亩地的半犁沟之内。

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The government remains adamant that the surest way to eradicate the disease is the mass slaughter of infected animals within 24 hours and livestock on neighbouring land within 48 hours.

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