One Million Pigs Buried Alive

Overslop said:
It's still needlessly barbaric in the extreme. It's the government who's ordered the culling. South Korea's hardly a poor country now is it? How much extra would it have cost to have had them culled in a humane way - costs which would largely be recouped in taxes anyway. So I wouldn't say it's necessary at all.
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It's not just cost, the primary factor is risk of further infection.

Think about it,if they chose a vaccination or even a proper slaughtering programme it would take a very long time to kill 1m pigs. In that timespan further animal populations (including humans) could get sick and even more culling required. During all this time the animals would suffer excruciating pain (foot and mouth causes blistering to the body and throat so they can't really eat properly) and a long time of suffering until they were killed.

While burying them alive is barbaric as a practice, in the grand scheme of things it was the fastest and less painful way for the pigs -in aggregate- to pursue.

You shouldn't think that South Koreans, for some reason, are behaving against norms and ethics or that they are uncivilised as a people. It's certainly not a decision that they have taken lightly and no one enjoyed it (in my opinion).
 
I always get to these threads when all the good puns have been done already.

Bad people do bad things. There's plenty of bad things happening to humans before I start worrying about pigs.
 
Joyce D’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."
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Ahh, right, "allegedly" . . . I wonder why Sky (aka Fox) News forgot to include that word in their headline :rolleyes:
 
Can't say much really as I'm rather partial to bacon, however, mass culling always has a disturbing air to it, be it cows, sheep, pigs, poultry, horses etc I guess when it has to be done in large numbers, then the whole industrial process takes over... not like having a slaughter-man deal with an animal on an individual basis. If it's done right the animal rarely knows what is coming next, but I don't think that's the case with these lot.

But just a reminder to all those who say wouldn't treat a dog like that over here... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...m-canal-bridge-115875-22818528/#ixzz19ts8fozb from my local area *unpleasant picture warning*
seems nature can be cruel, but it takes a human being to lower the bar and show what real viciousness is.
Oh well, business as usual.
 
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