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Outrage Over South Korea’s Mass Live Burial Of Pigs

Posted by JacobSloan on March 24, 2011

Factory farming practices are always bloody and cruel, but this seems to go above and beyond. Following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, since December South Korea has killed 20% of its domestic livestock — 3 million animals have been exterminated, mostly pigs, who are being buried alive by the thousands in gigantic pits. The practice is traumatizing workers (who hear the pigs’ screams in their sleep) and provoking outrage around the world. Video footage is difficult to sit through:

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  • Rockwhatugot

    I’m watching this video at work, in horror already.  Didnt think I could feel any worse for these poor pigs until I paused it so my computer could catch up.  3:17 and I believe my world just changed.