South Korea Buries 1M Pigs Alive

Ricky · Mar 29, 2011

Source - http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo..._Pigs_Buried_Alive_In_Foot_And_Mouth_Outbreak

South Korea has been heavily criticised for burying up to one million pigs alive as it grapples with a foot and mouth disease outbreak.

Since the first case of the disease was confirmed in November the country has embarked on a mass cull.

Foot and mouth disease affects all cloven hoofed animals such as pigs, cattle and goats, and any country that has cases of it is unable to export the animals' meat.

The South Korean government has so far refused to vaccinate pigs against the disease and is now slaughtering them in record numbers despite appeals to stop.

On January 4 in one area of Gangwon-Do, 33,900 pigs alone were destroyed, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) told Sky News Online that South Korea's actions contravene international guidelines.

Michele Danan from the organisation said: "Live vaccinations are the best route but if they do have to kill them we would prefer that they were at least slaughtered humanely."

The estimated cost of the cull so far is believed to have reached around Â£230m when a mass vaccination programme would have cost an estimated Â£63m.

Some animal rights campaigners have criticised the government for putting economic considerations ahead of animal welfare.

The Republic has begun inoculating cattle in some areas and the OIE reported on Thursday that sows and boars are starting to be vaccinated but only in a few locations.

It is believed the live burial of pigs began at Christmas and the figure is likely to climb far above the one million mark.

Joyce Dâ€™Silva, Director of Public Affairs for CIWF said: "Compassion in World Farming is appalled that the Republic of Korea is allegedly throwing pigs into pits and burying them alive.

"This is totally contrary to international guidelines on humane culling, which the Korean government endorsed five years ago.

"We urge the Korean government to end this horrendous practice at once and to ensure that, if animals are culled, this is done humanely."
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kid elvranqe · Mar 29, 2011

Wow that's pretty fuckin sick.
You would think that they wouldnt want to risk the international drama this has caused and would have vaccinated them even if it cost more. I guess since its just taxpayer money, who cares.

malakadang · Mar 29, 2011

Wait what did they bury them alive?

oblivion9032 · Mar 29, 2011

I can only imagine what PETA will say.

neschn · Mar 29, 2011

Wow, thats fucking inhumane and disgusting.

Jets Fool · Mar 29, 2011

Damn thats crazy how they just don't give a shit lol.

S · Mar 29, 2011

Blasphemy

TobyL65 · Mar 29, 2011

That is literally horrific, I am not surprised animal protesters have attacked them they completely deserve it

Gohan · Mar 29, 2011

Disgusting is all I can say.

Opn · Mar 29, 2011

very bad, imagine seing it by yourself. i would start crying probably..

xi momo xi · Mar 29, 2011

This is just sad.

Pakistani · Mar 29, 2011

Well i'm not a big fan of pigs. >_<

It is pretty disgusting but didn't the same happen here in the UK when they had to kill a lot of sheep because of foot and mouth disease?

Found the wiki page:

The epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in the spring and summer of 2001 was caused by the "Type O pan Asia" strain of the disease.[17] This episode resulted in more than 2,000 cases of the disease in farms throughout the British countryside. Around seven million sheep and cattle were killed in an eventually successful attempt to halt the disease. The county of Cumbria was the worst affected area of the country, with 843 cases. By the time the disease was halted by October 2001, the crisis was estimated to have cost Britain Â£8bn ($16bn) in costs to the agricultural and support industries, and to the outdoor industry. What made this outbreak so serious was the amount of time between infection being present at the first outbreak loci, and the time when countermeasures were put into operation against the disease, such as transport bans and detergent washing of both vehicles and personnel entering livestock areas. However, the extreme overkill of many disease-free animals (80% of culled livestock were clean) was a result of inappropriate poor mathematical modelling that did not reflect the epidemiology of the epidemic.[18] The epidemic was probably caused by pigs which had been fed infected garbage that had not been properly heat-sterilized. It is further believed that the garbage contained remains of infected meat which had been illegally imported to Britain.[19]
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Immartijn · Mar 29, 2011

PATHATIC I would perm ban them seriously.

Smurfette · Mar 29, 2011

yuck, look at those nastly lil honkers

Warlace · Mar 29, 2011

I simply think the smell of pigs is horrid. I don't blame them for doing this. Pigs are filthy.

CrackerJack59 · Mar 29, 2011

Thats quite cruel tbh.

kill dank · Mar 29, 2011

That's fucking nasty. The pigs should be slaughtered humanely, if you can even consider what goes on in slaughter houses remotely humane.

KingCrackerJacks · Mar 29, 2011

kill dank said: ↑

That's fucking nasty. The pigs should be slaughtered humanely, if you can even consider what goes on in slaughter houses remotely humane.
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not humane by one bit, but its better than slow suffocation/being crushed by other pigs and dirt

Coinshare · Mar 29, 2011

Animal Abuse to the limit.

As kill dank has said, at least kill them properly, this is just sad and straight up inhumane.

Jeezal · Mar 29, 2011

Not much/ nothing at all we can do about it hm?

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