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[southernman]

As someone who grew up on a farm this whole incident is trully apalling.

Some people have said that the farmers concerned and some Government Officials have been reprimanded, well big deal...

If this happened in any first world country.

Government Officials would be named and shamed on national TV and newspapers, they would lose their jobs.

The farmers involved would be charged $1000's in fines, also, for something like that. most likely imprisoned. They would be forbidden from owning livestock again or for a period of years (possibly 10 years as has happened in NZ in extreme cases of animal cruelty). In other words they would lose their livelyhood, they would also be ostracised by the farming community.

How people can think this is Korea bashing surprises me. What that video portrays is disgusting and inhumane behaviour. It should not be accepted in any country, it is just barbaric treatment. It should be talked about and discussed but Korea bashing it's not.

This video was made by Korean's, you could hear one of the people involved in the production openly sobbing at one stage.

CARE Korea, wants this out and about and viewed on forums and discussed CARE wants a public reaction and outcry. Anyone supporting this video and saying that anyone denigrating it is a Korean basher is missing the whole point.

Korean's are saying the behaviour of their fellow Korean's is uinacceptable, I for one agree with them.

[fromafar]

[fromafar]

[earthquakez]

I absolutely agree with you.

I think anybody advocating for an end to vile and despicable animal cruelty and abuse OPPOSES clubbing seals, battery hens and cattle/pigs in tiny pens, fox fighting contests in London, dogfighting, whaling for the sake of it like the Japanese do because the idea they have the right to enter into other country's waters just because they used to whale on the Japanese coast is absolutely irrational and arrogant as well as cruel, and one of the worst instances of all, the dolphin hunt in Taji, coastal Japan, where they batter dolphins to death because their uneducated, poor, peasant ancestors did.

However, there are solid laws in western country prohibiting common animal cruelty and abuse, right down to prison sentences. There are government and non profit organisations as well as community groups that raise money for and protect animals, both domestic, wild and livestock. Most of the practices that are common in Korea are against the law in western countries and subject to punishments including financial penalties and prison sentences.

The sad fact is Korea is far behind on this issue, both practically and in concept, as many Koreans have absolutely little to no idea of why other Koreans should not be able to keep dogs in tiny boxes before they beat them to death as well as strangling them.

They do not concern themselves at all with backwards Koreans boiling cats alive to make a soup from their bones (supposedly this protects them from 'swine' flu) while at the same time you will hear plenty of Koreans slagging off backwards Chinese for eating cats. If Korean society had any real awareness of cruelty to animals they would not have those hellish dog markets where other unfortunate creatures such as cats also are tormented and killed. Neighbourhoods would oppose them, local govt would be enacting legislation against them.

There is no community will to stop the systematic cruelty to and abuse of animals in Korea. Where are the politicians calling for those Koreans who actually kidnap people's pet dogs and cats off the streets as well as sweeping them for strays to sell and butcher in markets to be subject to laws and penalties? Where are community leaders doing this? Where are the Koreans who insist on broadcasting their national pride everywhere taking a long hard look at these third world practices and realising it is not what a first world country tolerates?

Only a minority of Koreans are prepared to see it for what it is. That's the difference between Korea and western countries with anti animal cruelty and abuse laws.

[itistime]

It seems this has turned into a Korean bashing issue. Granted, I can see how on some issues Korean bashing is pseudo-justified. This is not one of them.


"Still, I think that there are far too many people who will see this video, be disgusted, and then happily go out for some samgyupsal, not realizing that the dirty, overbred drooling pigs that they use to make samgyupsal are lined up, have their throats slit, and writhe around on the floor while convulsing and evacuating themselves."

If one wants to see a halt to this type of activity, raising your support for being a vegetarian is the biggest voice you can have. Raising animals like the majority of nations do, for human consumption, is the biggest atrocity on the planet. If one wanted to make ONE decision that improves environmental conditions around the globe, they would become a vegetarian. Simple.

The bigger issue here; yes BIGGER....is that our water supply and soil has been contaminated with FandMD. Bottled water companies in Korea are making money hand over fist nowadays. One company in Jeju has doubled their profits in this short amount of time due to the hysteria. Your bottled water comes from your tap the majority of the time anyways. People are stupid that's just how it is.

[Steelrails]

Death is cruel.

The difference in cruelty between being shot in the back of the head and being suffocated by being buried alive is about 2 minutes of pain.

I mean death by landslide isn't great, and death by drive-by sure sounds better, but death-by-landslide sure beats a lot of things. Heck, I'd take it over the gas chamber.

[RMNC]

You either eat meat and learn to look at animals as a product, or you stop eating meat and recognize their cognizance.