You can say that again.

That was awful!!! I wonder how much the owner really knew. The handler was fired, but if the owner knew something about it, he should have charges brought against him! I always thought that circuses were weird...

That's just... horrible. If that animal had been healthy and unshackled, I bet it would've run that stupid handler right into a wall. I mean, maybe the handler was having a bad day, but it shouldn't be taken out on anything alive!

I can't help but put a cultural angle on this (you can ignore it if you like). Found this on the news:

I'm not gonna buy that Samsung TV anymore.

FUCK I get so anrgy, all i hear is talk about immigrants and racism from these socialists and wanna be world saving angels.

And this is going on in our world without notice.

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!

Well, people aren't completely oblivious (PETA, ASPCA, etc.), but it is somewhat unknown. And when you do hear about it, it's usually pertaining to animal experimentation. Unfortunately, animal life simply isn't as highly valued as human life, and even human lives fall through the cracks sometimes, otherwise we wouldn't have poverty, I guess.

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.

I wonder if the Genva Conventions can be circumvented for these guys.

Seriously, do the same to them as they did to the elephant. Digusting waste of human flesh.

Indeed. Elephants have a very long memory span, I read a story long time ago about some sailors mistreated an elephant during its shipping, a few years later they went to a zoo and the elephant in that zoo was actually the same elephant, it recognised them and went rampage and killed them all, hope the same thing happen to these people.

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.

Aw... I was expecting a sceintific article about some new amazing scum discovery.