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Porcupine_I on 28 March 2011
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Rath said:
ssj12 said:
 

I agree, buy a Sony or Toshiba, but why the hell did they do this? I can;t see anything logical about this as they just wiped out a shit ton of food! They probably caused a food shortage!

nvm: researched a bit. "hoof and mouth disease" is the reason. Which is completely treatable/preventable in all curved hoof animals. Its also not contagious to humans. SK is spending more money burying the pigs alive than it would be to treat them, but they refuse to allow them to receive the vaccinations that would cost $63~ million dollars versus the currently estimated $230~ million dollars they are wasting doing this. Basically SK's government is retarded and enjoy wasting perfectly good food and money, while having zero common sense.

A mass cull is the only way to deal with an outbreak of foot and mouth. Britain did basically the same thing a few years ago. It's highly contagious and can completely decimate the nations agriculture industry.

Vaccination is not only difficult because there are several strains of foot and mouth but also because vaccinating the animals severely reduces the access to export markets (many of which will only buy animals if they are foot and mouth free and not vaccinated against foot and mouth).

 

Before you guys go apeshit on SK for this, in 2001 Britain culled 7 million sheep to stop the spread of foot and mouth.

but i suppose they killed them BEFORE they buried/burned them ?



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

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