Written by PETA
It sounds too horrific to be true, but officials in South Korea are piling pigs on top of each other in trucks, dumping thousands of them into mass graves, and burying them alive.
This atrocity is intended to control an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, but there is an inexpensive vaccine for the disease that the South Korean government inexplicably refuses to use. As many as 34,000 pigs have been killed in a single day. If this cruel slaughter is allowed to continue, the number of pigs killed could reach more than 1 million.
Please urge South Korean authorities to stop this massacre immediately. Send a polite e-mail to the ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the U.S., Han Duk-soo, telling him that you want the South Korean government to stop burying pigs alive and to use humane methods of controlling foot and mouth disease.
Pigs on a Korean farm. mannen av bord/CC by 3.0
Written by Michelle Sherrow
Please stop doing to animals what you wouldn't like others do to you! they are living beings, just like humans and human beings do NOT have the right to treat animals in this manner just because they cannot think for themselves!!
BE HUMAN FOR ONCE!!
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ~Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906
Pigs are known to be smarter than dogs. How can you live with this cruel inhuman barbaric methods of slaughter?
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