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[bojangles]

A stranger sight I have yet to behold,....

Just off the main street near home plus in gwangJu today was a man & a woman arguing about two kittens in a mesh sack that were trying to eat food in front of them but were unable to because they were entrapped within the mesh sack. The man, with some difficulty, untied the mesh sack and put some food inside for them to eat and then retied the mesh sack and stuck them into a cage on a truck with a dozen or so chickens in small, cramped, stacked cages, several of which were dead and dying, and the living looked not far from that fate either. Many seemed to have cataracts covering both eyes.
Animal abuse and neglect happens everywhere, I understand, but it seems unique to Korea that it is done so openly without any fear of reprisal or rebuke.
What is an appropriate response to something like this?

[Underwaterbob]

Don't eat the fried chicken.

I grew up on a farm and used to watch my dad chop chicken's heads off on a stump with a hatchet, and then they'd spaz around for a bit like nothing happened until they slowly stopped moving. I was first in line to eat that chicken.

Along comes the Korean chicken truck - a moving cubic grid of 8-inch square cages stuffed with immobile, half-dead chickens. Don't eat chicken anymore.

It's too bad really, Korea does fried chicken really well. I just can't get the image of those chicken trucks out of my head every time I feel like having some.

The kittens are a common occurrence this time of year. A batch probably popped up on the farmer's farm and he was trying to unload them on someone.