South Korea buries 8 million animals alive

http://news.change.org/stories/8-million-animals-buried-alive-in-south-korea

due to disease and instead of vaccination, they decide to kill them and not just kill them, but bury them alive.

This killing has been so traumatic for workers — even those who are accustomed to the day-to-day cruelties of factory farming — that South Korean officials started offering therapy after hearing reports of people suffering from insomnia, fear, and hallucinations.

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

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Fucking Asians
Nuke Africa.
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oh cmon, some poor bastards whining cuz they cant do their jobs
i feel so fucking sorry for those poor animals. asian people is so damn weird. i dont understand them
why recording this shit? seriously idiots
some undercover photographs did ...
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animal activists
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haha

Why dont you make journals about the poor little kids starving to death in Africa
cuz its "common sense". d'oh?
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Yeah...


I giggled a little seeing those pigs sliding down to their pit of death
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It's great you have your values set correctly, will be a fruitful life ahead of ya.
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I am pretty sure my values are better than yours if you care about pigs but people starving with our resources these days is common sense. :D
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animal cruelty is also "common sense", do you understand the concept of 'news'?
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i think his life is gonna suck now!
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save them god
That's so fucked up. Even massively poisoning the animals would be less cruel.
Would cost way too much.

I can not see any problems doing it like this, cruel sure but thats about it.
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I do not know what the 'best' option would be, it's messed up anyway.
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Meanwhile in japan: http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=14372

"For example, Japanese government call-in advice lines are telling people to simply rinse off any produce covered with radioactive dust."
justice is done
They're infected with foot and mouth disease as far as I know (that or some other easily spreading disease which makes the meat inedible), so the options are:

- Kill them, then burn/bury the remains (costly, takes a lot of work)
- Burn/bury them, which kills them (cheaper, more practical + they won't feel a thing because they will pass out from the loss of oxygen)
- Let them die slowly and painfully from the disease
- (PETA + some of you idiots here preferred) hope that a magical fairy comes and cures them and then takes them with her to wondrous Piggy Paradise where they can freely roam and roll around in mud for ever and ever

You'll realise why they had to do this when you stop thinking emotionally and start thinking rationally.
so youre saying you dont believe in vaccination? or you somehow figured that they are all infected? this was countermeasures for widespread.
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When the virus is widespread it is practically impossible to contain it. Either have all of the pigs in South Korea die from the disease or kill that bunch and leave the rest alive.
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the first question was quite essential in this case.
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Are you really that stupid. Medicine for 8 million pigs?
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nice way of bringing forth you ignorance lol :D
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The first answer was quite essential in this case.

Not only is vaccinating all the pigs extremely expensive (and it won't even work in cases where the sickness has developed far enough), it is also rather inreliable. There are several types of foot-and-mouth disease, and the disease evolves at a fast pace so last year's vaccination will not necessarily protect from the disease this year. On top of that, vaccinated animals still carry the disease and it can spread to not vaccinated animals from them. Wikipedia has more on this.
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wikipedia :)
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So you are questioning Wikipedia with a smiley, how convincing. Too bad I still find it easier to trust than what you are saying.
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Actually, it was more of my own amusement. Reliability of wiki is another topic entirely.
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Yes. Wikipedia. A nice, centralized source of rather reliable information - or very reliable if compared to many other internet sources, such as the OP's video. Problems?
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wiki for consensus reality, but if youre a supporter of such, I see no reason why not to stop using wiki.
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I'm rather unsure what you're trying to say. For some reason your comment gave me the impresson that you're trying to imply that there's some global conspiracy which distorts and modifies information, spreading lies and their own point of view as the truth.
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not a conspiracy, observable fact.
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Observable fact, such as that the Earth orbits the Sun, and that foot-and-mouth disease spreads easily?

I venture to disagree. We live in a world of opinions. People have varying opinions, which they have built by observing information they receive and building their own consensus. Organizations consist of people, and organizations' opinions are a sum of the opinions of the people who form the organization. However, opinions are not facts or knoweledge and should not be mistaken for such. You seem to have done this.

Wikipedia on the other hand is a source that aims to provide facts and knoweledge, not opinions. Unlike opinioins, facts are neutral, universal. Knoweledge is not dependant on the observer. They are something everyone can observe and then build their opinions on them. Things like "Hoof-and-mouth disease spreads easily and the virus causing it evolves fast making vaccination difficult". You can go out there right now and observe this, which makes it a fact, knoweledge. On the other hand, "Not vaccinating animals against hoof-and-mouth disease is simply laziness because a vaccine exists" is an opinion.
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actually went on to write a relatively long reply, but accidentally closed the browser and most against my nature is repeating myself so I will try with fewer words.

What can you honestly say you know for a fact? You make a hypothesis and you build everything on it in order to prove the hypothesis either wrong or correct. once you have a 'world' as massive as ours built on a hypothesis that's false, it tends to affect all reasoning. if X is Y, then Z is F. How do you perceive news agencies? are they giving us facts? are they giving us truth?
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Obviously that depends on the news agency. While news sites and other public service announcements generally aim to have a neutral point of view and tell their stories as accurately as possible, sometimes sensationalism occurs to e.g. boost sales. This is why one should have several sources of information, i.e. follow multiple news agencies.

And there are several ways one can know something for sure. One is having first-hand knoweledge and observing the said thing themselves, such as: "I have visually seen that my foot has five toes on it, and I can send signals through my central nervous system to contract and extend muscles in order to control them. Hence I have five toes" and "If I lift up an apple in my hand and then let go of it, it starts moving at an increasing speed of 9.81m/s^2 towards the surface of Earth, until colliding with something and coming to a stop. Hence gravity does indeed exist".
However, it is also possible to know something for certain without necessarily having first-hand knoweledge of it. For example, I have never been to New York but I can still safely say that it indeed does exist, as I have multiple sources of information stating so, I have seen photographs of it and I have met multiple people who say they live in New York. In addition I could easily verify the existance of New York by booking a flight ticket there and going to see it myself.

So information is something anyone can validate themselves as true. One seldom has to do this validation, though, as information is often paired with sensible arguments that back up the claim.
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This kind of reply I was afraid of and I consider it pointless to continue this any further if indeed you upkeep such view on news agencies. When only some of the information or facts are given, the big picture tends to be distorted. While an agency might announce 3 facts of a situation, they fail to mention 7 others, which included would change the overall picture.
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Indeed, and that is the very reason you should follow multiple news agencies when building your opinion on what is happening.

Also, welcome to the world. Nobody really cares about you and no, there is no global conspiracy bound to fuck you over.
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Mainstream news share the same information pretty much. painoarvo is also highly questionable.
They seem to have rather neutral view, this of course is debatable, but for the sake of this lets say yes, it's still a perspective nevertheless.
Vaccines are extremely expensive. is that a fact or opinion and who's perspective?
Same for killing the animals before burying them. Any possible relief from the government should also be expected and/or requested. You suggested alternatives, which many of them are better than what happened. Oh and it's 3/8 pigs, rest are other fauna.

and of course there's no conspiracy for my head, just those in power taking steps to insure they stay in power.
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QuoteNot only is vaccinating all the pigs extremely expensive (and it won't even work in cases where the sickness has developed far enough)

Yes it is expensive! Do u even know how vaccines work? Vaccine isn't cure for any desease, it's to prevent getting sick/ill. And when You start growing an animal then You have to be prepared to these kind of things, if You can't pay for vaccines then don't even start a business with animals.
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Hurr durr idiot, the virus is constantly changing, evolving, and even if you pumped your livestock up with every single vaccine out there, there still is a chance that they will get ill.
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sadly livestock pretty much everywhere are viewed in such ways - uk did similair burning + burying a few years ago over foot and mouth.

afaik I saw some news report recently where because of the economic crisis, syndicates who had got together to buy a race horse had opted for the decision to destroy the animal and save money.

normal cuntish behavior from lowlife people :O(
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vaccinating doesnt work on animals that are already suffering from the disease, it will only make the ones that arent, immune for it. also, vaccination doesnt stop the spread. it makes them immune but they still carry the virus and can spread it.
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"You'll realise why they had to do this when you stop thinking emotionally and start thinking rationally." You're so enlightened man -_- A wealthy country like south korea should never get away with these cruel methods, ofc they had to be put down but there's better alternatives.
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Quote- Burn/bury them, which kills them (cheaper, more practical + they won't feel a thing because they will pass out from the loss of oxygen)


They won't feel pain but burying alived is one of the worst death any living creature can experience.
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How about internal hemorrhage caused by excessive insertion of phallic objects into one's fundament?
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Where did you get that from:DD
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PETA are just a joke
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horrible :\

let's hope south korean government won't take excessive gaming as a disease some day
PLS u ruined this sunny day......

God bless this poor animals
nuke asia.
who cares? just some pigs. no one of u cares how they have been treated - as long as u get ur meat and now u see a vid like that and scream like OMG WTF ITS SO CRUEL THEY ARE LIVING ANIMALS WHICH DESERVES RESPECT. get lost hypocrites.
Indeed. People with simple minds who try to act like intellectual beings is always a sad view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_G8GjMxkQU

Time for another journal
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Many people care of many things, but there just isnt much way to affect anything, no channels. we have a systematic power structure with questionable morals. politicians juggling with words, media juggling with words, scientists juggling with words. A system that is divided into sections while each section is dependent on each other, thus preventing any real change as you cannot affect a section, without modifying the others also. These institutes are fighting against effect, not cause. Only through the change of human consciousness can any change (for the better) happen.
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which sadly won't happen in our lifetime
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what makes our time unique to others is the raise in consciousness, the awareness. Technological advancements, overall growth of humanity. as if Time is going a lot faster and we are about to reach the climax soon. people are starting to see the big picture. More and more people are questioning their doings, our financial system is only holding due to authorities backing it up with people's money, technological advancements are giving us breakthroughs in several sections and peopl are starting to demand action.
whatever is going to happen, it's going to be interesting times ahead.

in a nutshell, questioning things have become easier, when more and more things are absurd.
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Neither human nor nature proceeds in a linear manner. History does not proceed in a straight line of evolution or progress from 'primitive' to 'modern', with our own technological phase of Western civilisation being the apex or 'climax' of history.
Rather, man has fallen from a high state through a succession of ages and man's primal state, far from being animalistic, or ape-like was "more than human".
Our present state biologically and culturally is a debasement and technology is one thing to blame.
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"Rather, man has fallen from a high state through a succession of ages and man's primal state, far from being animalistic, or ape-like was "more than human"."

I dont quite get what youre trying to say with this one, when ruling out that, I see your point in technology being achilles heel of mankind. However, if you try to conceive the world from a perspective where people are being controlled and suppressed, both spiritually and technologically, we are getting closer and closer to solutions that can break us free from the oppression of our rulers. Ever imagined a world with free energy and how it would affect it?
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The materialistic triumph over the spiritual side of man has resulted in a new human type.

The economic classes have replaced the castes that were reflections of 'divine' order, resulting in a "shift in power" from the warrior to the merchant and to the capitalist oligarchies.

In the power structure, the merchant replaced the warrior; the kings of money replaced the old kings of War.

"Do you want total war
Throw out Christ and bring back Thor?
Do you want total war
Unleash the beast in man once more?
Do you want total war
To see life's will return once more?

Yes, you want total war!
Yes, you want total war!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3aeWHz6Zok
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yes, we are far away from our roots. We have people selling dreams to those who work hard and most work generated in the world is nonsense. now that the whole reply is processed, I dont see a disagreement?
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as long as money determines who has power and who doesnt, nothing will change. also you cant deny the fact that most people dont care where there food comes from, or dont want to know it - if we stick to this specific topic. its not im like 'heyho lets burry some pigs its so imba funny hehehe' but no one ever will burry so much money (which they actually are) without a good reason.

but as u said.. as long as the far majority of the society wont refuse such things, nothing will change in this interleaved system.
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this is sick :S
I don't see why you worry. They are going to a better place. God saves them all, oh, those lucky pigs.
Amen.
Yes, they are getting somewhere else, but its just not the way I'd want to go, what about you?
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You know it's really hard to commit a suicide as a pig. That's their chance to get away faster.
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good point, didnt think of that, though it goes that if you do a suicide, you wont get to a better place, It's a simple reset button.
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Then reset it is! Can't get much worse than South Korea.
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though some say you just make it a lot worse for yourself... go figure
e: no, dont go figure xD
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Pigs, like gingers and homosexuals and all other animals, don't have souls according to the Bible so they're not going to heaven. Only humans go to heaven.
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don't trust the bible! everything has an intellect living force, just because ours is more advanced(conscious), doesnt mean they are without.
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Those were the holy pigs, if you weren't watching closely. They do have souls.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUC0s0tHBw
All pigs must die
This ain't August '69
I love bacon image: smoking-smiley-7578
I hate bacon
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you love anime
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I loved that song also!


all pigs must die...
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I see a black one. No rasism involved here atleast!
YOU SON OF A BITCH
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hopefuly everyone seeing this understands why it is needed to be done. If you dont then im eternaly grateful for you not being in a position of power in my country. Risk the lives of the entire country for the sake of animals with a disease? i dont think so.

sleeping gas, when all pigs are asleep then gas them properly in their sleep. No poultry will feel anything or know what is going on. that has to be the single humaneist way to kill something.

vaccination for 8 million pigs is way to unreliable, It would take weeks or even months to do it by that time the disease is developed enough that their is no cure much like cancer. you detect it early its a cureable disease, it develops then its not. could you imagine if you vaccinated 8 million pigs then sold them in supermarkets to people then 8 million people died as a result? You would go down in history under the likes of Hitler and Stalin and the biggest idiot the planet has ever seen.
QuoteYou would go down in history under the likes of Hitler and Stalin and the biggest idiot the planet has ever seen


Really? killing some jews and so on was obviously not so nice, but hey cmon hitler for example did many great things too.
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he didnt say hitler is an idiot, but he got to history books for mass death.
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letting 8 million pigs be sold who had a fatal disease which in turn kills 8 million people.

na reckon the public would love you for that rofl. Hitler killed 3 millions jews and a clown btw.
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why the clown?

- see? nobody...
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My main problem is the fact that they were buried alive. I dont want to pretend I know much about alternative methods for killing them, but letting the situation get this bad in the first place, the way things are handled simply seems absurd. also, it's 8 million animals, not pigs. But yeah, you said it, if you do things well in the first place, when the cancer is still curable, we would have more humane options. also the way animals are mass produced, that's a big issue, however, its not "news" so making a journal about it on crossfire seems pointless unless you'd just want to provoke conversation.
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land and ground water are getting polluted. the carcass make leachate and stink there. I know they had to do something but it seems like it wasnt a good choice after all. many people in here worry about it as well
OVER 8 MILLION PIGS
I laugh at all the 'intellectual' people here who feel like they're smart and rational because they don't give a fuck when they see tons of other living creatures being exterminated.

Way to go guys, can't wait for the completely rational society.
Why should anyone really give a fuck how they are killed? Really.
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every post you make on a journal like this makes me want to knock you out.

CARE, NOT MY PROBLEM, why should i care?

you must be such a nice guy irl :D, see someone dying on the side of a road whose been in a car crash, just laugh at him and say meh... not my problem :D.
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Example u made is totally different situation, obviously i would care about situation like that, totally different.

I cant understand ppl who care about shit that isnt really anything special at all, pigs had to be killed -> pigs are killed, i dont see why should i care how they are killed as long they are killed. Obviously it isnt nice to bury them alive but hey, most likely that is the cheapest & safest way to do it.
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Because we are talking about living creatures.

The whole idea of having a billion- and billion-dollar industry based purely on the systematic breeding, caging and slaughtering of countless of animals for the sole purpose of human interest and money just doesn't feel right to me. Fundamentally, I don't believe humankind is in any position to treat fellow creatures in a way that simply defines them as drones or units of which we can dispose ourselves when the shit hits the fan. However, we are in this position though and I do not know which way would be the most suitable to 'get rid of the problem'.

It just pains me to see dozens of animals being buried alive and killed, do I need to sign a fucking non-hypocrite contract in order to be allowed to express my disgust at that? Geez.
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yet u eat these living creatures without any problems & so does everyone else here most likely

And sure it is ok if u feel pain cause of this, yet it doesnt mean that everyone should or that u are right and others wrong.
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wtf, ik post men comment en lees dan de jouwe :$

<3
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I'm keen on hearing how you would have treated the problem with eight million pigs with a deadly contagious disease. You do not have infinite resources to solve this problem - time and money are limited.
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nice way of missing the point
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What was the point? Do note that everyone who has posted here has given a fuck. If they didn't give a fuck, they wouldn't reply.
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I'm not saying that we should keep these pigs alive or that there is necessarily a better way to deal with the problem, I'm just appalled by the sight of people massively burying and annihilating fellow earthly creatures. I don't see what's wrong with that or why it would make me a hypocrite.
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YAWN

An intellectual conversation on CF is like asking a Monkey to do your weekly shop. S'not gonna happen.
A coherent conversation with Decem is even more unlikely.
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You expect me to explain this to you through the means of a Coherent conversation?

Oh you.
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so you're implying that me having coherent conversation with you is very unlikely? Problem might just not be on just my side then.
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General consensus indicates it is.
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so it was about it after all. Everything is connected, see it or not, but yes, I admit, that wasnt very coherent conversation, at least not before the circle closes however what I've said wasn't without cause.

e: to make it simple, it may seem far fetched, but is in fact relevant.
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Sorry but i have to "wat" this post. wat?
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ure native speakers, u really dont get my point? :(


so it was about it after all. (referring to the consensus conversation)
Everything is connected, see it or not, ( the conversation isnt disconnected, however it may be hard to see)
but yes, I admit, that wasnt very coherent conversation, (yes, it maybe be hard to see)
at least not before the circle closes ( sorta like, dont judge the book by the covers or dont quit watching the movie just because you think you know how its going to end)
however what I've said wasn't without cause. (it's connected)
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I'm not trying to hate on you or anything but you write a lot of bullshit. You're either being vague because you don't have a point or you're being deliberately obtuse so you can feel superior when people don't understand your point.
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Thats what I was thinking all the time but couldnt find words for it
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to narrow it down, can u be more specific? I mean, are you talking of the conversation I had with burneddi or this one or maybe both? I'm not acting deliberately dumb, though I may have given wrong impressions and have been vague, It's not always so easy to express yourself, especially if you have to use a foreign language.

the way I see it, I asked if burneddi doesnt believe in vaccinations as he left it out of the choices and his response was from wikipedia, which amused me and lead me to having a conversation about it, which was my mistake, if I were to stick on the subject. I actually intended to leave another, separate reply, but by then, things sorta got out of hands with multiple conversations. However, as I ventured into the wikipedia realm I was trying to make a far fetched point about integrity of information and importance of perspective. By the time the decision about mass death was made, It might have or might have not been too late, but it's still questionable how things were handled, how fast information was spread and what could have been done if proper action were to be performed.
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thats bananas
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No you're bananas RyanDunn!
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no, I'm RyanDunn!
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Fuck Asians and generally people are so fucking dumb. Cant imagine how is possible that this dumb fucking race can survive.
B'AAAAAAAAAAAAW POOR PIGS B'AAAAAAAAAAAAAW.

Hey mum where's my bacon?

LLOLL!!!
journal actualy made me hungry and i went to go cook some bacon for lunch
go smoke some more weed and wear your tin foil hat to stop the government reading your mind, fucking hippy
nah, they see me harmless, so I dont see a reason for the hat. however Ive been thinking about getting this cloak around your bed to keep insects and unwanted "energies" away, should give better night sleep :)
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dont have insect problems here, would get one if we did though
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You live in a protective bubble anyway you baby.
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same, though during summertime wasps do get in, accompanied by the regular flies of course.
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close window, turn fan on

no bugs, cool air!
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who fucking care
yes its kinda sad. and to those saying make a jounral about kids with aids or starving in africa there is actually people helping them out and such so stop bringing that up.

anyway if they were infected it was more safe to kill em i guess... but man... buried alive? thats messed up.
If its with animals its no problem, but if you swap the pigs with humans you are hitler #2, gg world.
And if it's with sperm, it's just another standard session
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It's really cruel but as someone said before, there isn't another solution. Eventhough they'd had enough money for gas or smth everyone would whine that's brutal and nazi. But it's really really sad...

And fuck you all who's shouting "kill fucking asians!". Like we are somehow different... we would do same thing to them.
kill fucking asians
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I can't watch videos like this... its just rly fucked up.
I'd be more concerned about the effect of killing 8 million animals would have on the Human population.

The fact that people give more money to the RSPCA than cancer charities show than people are idiots who seem to care more about animals than other human beings.

Animals are treated cruelly on a daily basis so that you are able to eat meat. If you really have a problem with it, become a vegan and die of malnutrition.
You'd be more concerned, but when it comes down to it, you dont give a fuck about them either, right?
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I think my life is more important than someone else's, damn I'm evil.
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so why care of humans either? at least animals are always innocent.

ps. saying you die for being a vegan is just plain stupid.
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Saying humans matter less than animals because they are "innocent" is plain stupid.

ps. I wasn't seriously suggesting that if you became vegan you are destined to die of malnutrition.
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It wasnt what I was saying.
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You kind of implied it.
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just sayin'
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Because becoming a vegan really has a lot of draw backs that you'd die of malnutrition? LOl
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I was exaggerating, but to avoid things like B12 deficiency you would have to be taking supplements all your life.

Canines didn't become an evolutionary imperative because it allowed Humans to rip the flesh from a tomato.
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http://www.pamrotella.com/health/b12.html ???

I know many vegans and not one of them have a single health problem, most eating a lot better than your average folk. Probably comes down to more knowledge of the subject and knowing the best foods to be eating, was only vegan for 2 years myself but vegetarian for over 17 :pp
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All vegans are faggots that have the muscle tone of Meez, and the hipster attitude of... well Meez.
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Great muscle tonez idd

image: side41

Although ofc not all the case like this :P!
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I've yet to see one.

My aunt is a vegan, and she's a faggot who won't even watch the tele or use the microwave because she thinks that radiation will kill her or something. She won't have an electrical fan on where she's sleeping because she thinks if she does, she will die.
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conclusion; the radiation must be healthy cuz faggot veggie thinks otherwise.
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Your powers of deductive reasoning are impressive.
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Thank you, I went ahead to make my conclusions of your implying.
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You may have inferred it, I did not imply anything.
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I'd say they are pretty much synonymous in this case.
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Hi I'm Decem and I'm a pseudo-intellectual faggot who in fact knows shit about anything
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Hi, I'm Slarto. I get easily offended.
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Who could not be offended from your stupidity
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intellects xDDDDD
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this site is more fucked up than that video
squeal piggy
fucked up, but I wont sleep any worse or smting ;p
Sure, the concept and existence of the meat industry itself is grotesque, but that doesn't mean we are hypocrites when we would like to see scenes like this avoided. Keeping a livestock is one of the things that got us this far, as humanity increased in scale, so did the livestock industry. So we are in fact the ones who set the stage for such mass infectations of animals and the least we could do is show some grace, respect and care when confronted with our own mishaps. It's gotten to a point where we have an unsurpassed control over our environment, so why not try to control this without rushing to action?

They might be animals, but we have more in common with them than we like to admit. They too feel pain and despair and other such basic insticts. One more reason for me why I hate to watch animals or kids suffer, is because the despair and pain has to be alot worse when you can not place or understand what is happening.
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