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Originally Posted by Itse
Due to fears of hoof-and.mouth disease, the South Koreans decided they needed to slaughter three million pigs at the start of this year. This is unfortunate, but not that unusual, and really nothing I have a huge problem with.
However, I do have a problem with their chosen method: burying them alive in huge mass graves.
There is a video of this filmed apparently by local animal rights people.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS SERIOUSLY DISTURBING.
Words fail me.
There's an internet petition to stop this practice.
http://www.change.org/petitions/screaming-pigs-buried-alive |
This is shocking. I didn't know there were animal rights people in Korea.
But yeah, I don't see anybody coming up with any remotely feasible alternatives.