{"id":2899,"date":"2011-01-15T04:03:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T08:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2011-01-15T04:03:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T08:03:57","slug":"no-republic-for-pigs-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/no-republic-for-pigs-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"No Republic for Pigs in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2898\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_2898\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 234px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/15887068.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2898\" title=\"South Korea Pigs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/15887068-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/15887068-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/15887068.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_2898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what it looks like when you dump pigs into a pit to bury them alive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every now and then something across the desk of the Grumpy Vegan which makes him so mad that he can&#8217;t stand it. Here&#8217;s the latest one. Burying alive pigs because they may be sick. Go figure. If isn&#8217;t stupid enough for many reasons to raise animals for food, then, how ridiculous can it be to start killing because they may be infected with foot and mouth &#8212; a disease which isn&#8217;t even harmful to people when they chose to eat charred bottoms of dead pigs.<\/p>\n<p>As if a policy of using animals to produce food isn&#8217;t Kafka-esque enough. Dumping one million live animals into pits to bury them alive surely must rank as the cruelest and stupidest public policy on earth.<\/p>\n<p>The much more sensible organisation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciwf.org.uk\/news\/compassion_news\/live_burial_continues_in_republic_of_korea.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Compassion In World Farming<\/a> steams away in its own very polite anger by saying,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Republic of Korea is a member of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and live burial of animals is in clear breach of OIE Guidelines on the Killing of Animals for Disease Control Purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciwf.org.uk\/news\/compassion_news\/live_burial_continues_in_republic_of_korea.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Compassion&#8217;s<\/a> Web site now to register your protest with the Korean Ambassador in London. Americans please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfablog.org\/2011\/01\/tell-south-korea-to-stop-burying-pigs-alive.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mercy for Animals<\/a> to protest. Also, for on the ground updates, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/animalrightskorea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Rights Korea<\/a>, which has a section on its home page dedicated to this atrocity and further information on other pages. They report<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Latest reports put it at 1,410,000 animals killed, perhaps 90% of them or more buried alive, since November 29, 2010. This includes pigs and cattle.Latest reports put it at 1,410,000 animals killed, perhaps 90% of them or more buried alive, since November 29, 2010. This includes pigs and cattle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then something across the desk of the Grumpy Vegan which makes him so mad that he can&#8217;t stand it. Here&#8217;s the latest one. Burying alive pigs because they may be sick. Go figure. 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