25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Slaughterous \Slaugh"ter*ous\, adjective Destructive; murderous. --Shak. --M. Arnold. -- {Slaugh"ter*ous*ly}, adverb

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

slaughterous

adjective: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: {gory}, {sanguinary}, {sanguineous}, {butcherly}]
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