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Flash Walken · 03-27-2011, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Tinordi

Zyklon gas was anything but pain free. Do some research.

I don't know if you know, but sometimes fotze makes joke posts.

ynwa03 · 03-27-2011, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Jake

Obviously they should have been put down in a humane way, but animal welfare in many parts of the world is far less than in Canada and the USA.

Resolute 14 · 03-27-2011, 06:14 PM

Oh you #######... now I want a Big Crunch with a side of animal cruelty.

Flames_Gimp · 03-27-2011, 06:16 PM

i only watched for 30 seconds and that was too much. horrible...not a lot disturbs me but that does

Shazam · 03-27-2011, 07:13 PM

As a Korean, I am mortified that the pigs weren't eaten.

T@T · 03-27-2011, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Shazam

As a Korean, I am mortified that the pigs weren't eaten.

You want to eat a pig that nobody will even breath around? It's quite obvious these pigs were diseased (swine flu..etc)

PIMking · 03-27-2011, 08:02 PM

we have a family pig farm and last year we lost a whole barn of 1000 pigs when some dumb ass contractor didn't turn the exhaust fans back on after they got done. Then earlier in the year one of our floors caved losing another lot of pigs.

Every once in a while you get a sick pig and we have to put them down. So that's when we used a rifle and ended it. We tried to go for the brain stem since that is instant. But it's so sad seeing a truck load of babies come in and a short time they're gone.

Killing these animals like this is just disgusting. I know bullets cost money but there has to be a much better way to end the lives of these animals more humanely.

Machiavelli · 03-27-2011, 08:41 PM

I shouldn't have watched that. It made me cry and now I feel like puking all over the place.

I don't like most animals, but I love pigs....used to work in animal sciences and a lot of our behavioural studies involved them.

Absolutely vile, what was done to those poor things.

Shazam · 03-27-2011, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by T@T

You want to eat a pig that nobody will even breath around? It's quite obvious these pigs were diseased (swine flu..etc)

When's that ever stopped an Asian?

Dorkmaster · 03-27-2011, 09:53 PM

Humane is such a tough issue to gauge. There's some obvious ones, but its all pretty terrible either way. When you're dealing with a mass slaughter of these proportions, its always terrible and there's no way around it.

Gassing, shooting, eletrocuting millions of pigs would be equally disturbing to watch. Its not comforting to watching millions of an animal suddenly die regardless how its done.

To Be Quite Honest · 03-28-2011, 03:12 AM

Put them through the demilitarized mine field.

Throw them into an electrified pool.

Confine them to diesel gas chambers.

Through them in car compactors like in the movie Top Secret starring Val Kilmer!

Just a few cost effective ways to choose from. This way was brutal. Even a lethal injection would have worked better and create jobs!

Now to watch Top Secret again. Who's with me!

Flames89 · 03-28-2011, 09:06 AM

Wow. That is a BRUTAL video. The tossing in the pit is nothing compared to the large pile of live pigs screaming for hours on end as they await their burial.

Pinner · 03-28-2011, 09:26 AM

At the end the pit was full of squealing pigs, on top of more and more squealing pigs...Shameful

burn_baby_burn · 03-28-2011, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

This is pretty much on par with the horrible types of things that happen to animals here in Canada or anywhere else in the world for that matter, just on a much larger scale.

I'm not gonna say I don't care or that I'm not sickened by this, because I am, but this really isn't a "woah" moment. It's just another horrible thing we do to our livestock that goes largely unnoticed.

Would you care to elaborate on that statement? Are you really suggesting that farmers and ranchers in Canada bury alive, or perform other horrible acts of cruelty that are on "par" with burying alive, to their livestock?

Coys1882 · 03-28-2011, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

Would you care to elaborate on that statement? Are you really suggesting that farmers and ranchers in Canada bury alive, or perform other horrible acts of cruelty that are on "par" with burying alive, to their livestock?

The trapping industry can be quite cruel. A trapped animal will sometimes chew or rip it's own paw off to escape a trap only die a 100m away.

chemgear · 03-28-2011, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Shazam

When's that ever stopped an Asian?

Kinda like how white people can't get enough cat/dog? LOL ginger "beef."

MelBridgeman · 03-28-2011, 02:35 PM

Considering the facts - I don't see a better way that will address all concerns including humane treatment of the animal. Not a single alternative mentioned in this thread holds up either. Being humane is one thing, stopping the spread of disease to other animals and humans is another, time, cost all this must be considered. I really don't see any other way, it's too bad.

Sliver · 03-28-2011, 02:41 PM

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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.

burn_baby_burn · 03-28-2011, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Coys1882

The trapping industry can be quite cruel. A trapped animal will sometimes chew or rip it's own paw off to escape a trap only die a 100m away.

The trapping industry and agriculture are two different things. Sure, some farmers and ranchers may trap fur animals. However, many people outside of agriculture take part in this practice as well.

Traditional_Ale · 03-28-2011, 02:56 PM

While it's horrible to see, what we must remember is that because of their highly infectious and contagious disease these pigs are/were essentially the piggy equivalent of "rage zombies."

If this was 28 Days Later and those were pits of zombies, would we really feel bad?

Close interaction with those kinds of sick pigs is not a good idea.