Cull Massacres - An Annual Korean Ritual

They euphemistically call it "depopulating," but let's cut through such attempts at mind-numbing semantics and get to the truth. Depopulating 100s of thousands of factory farm animals is all about mass executions. And it happens in Korea on a regular basis, especially in the name of Avian Flu.

To find out more about Avain Flu and culling, see this report.

Culling is done quickly yet it is not done cleanly. Factory farm animals have been enduring wretched lives, cooped up in dark sheds, where any chance to fulfil or express their natural instincts are denied. From this terrible environment they are snatch up and thrown in holes without ever knowing freedom or joy.

Most people do not realize that when culling in Korea, animals are buried alive. Here is how it is done.

How to Massacre Chickens 101:

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Find a massive battery hen farm in Korea.

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Get a bunch of people together.

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Dress them up so they look like spacemen from a B grade Sci-Fi movie. Make sure their costumes are white to impress on media that the operation is sanitary and scientifically conducted.

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Go into a battery hen shed and start grabbing and throwing chickens into bags.

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Careful now, you don't want to hurt them.

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Once a bag is full, throw it out the door onto a pile. You will notice that invariably some chickens break through the bags gasping for air. They are ignored.

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Once the shed is cleared, start throwing the bags onto a front-end loader so they can be dumped into the back of a truck.

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Massive holes are dug nearby and lined with huge sheets of plastic. The bags with the chickens in them are then dumped into the holes, dead or alive.

Once the hole is full, everything is covered with lime and chemicals to disinfect and deter other animals from digging anything up.

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Finally, it's time to cover everything over with soil and forget about it. Any birds still alive with eventually suffocate.

You see, it's all very simple. Live animals are stuffed in bags and then in holes, and no one has to see the suffering. So, it's not only simply, it's convenient, too.

Culling is becoming such a regular phenomenon in this age of massive scale industrial factory farming that studies are done on maximizing efficiency. It has already been proposed that firefighting foam be used to kill chickens, as it uses less man-power and is supposedly more humane--but this has been disputed.

For some reason in Korea, the old style of just burying animals alive appears to be the preferred method of the many used around the world.

(Pictures from 거꾸로 보는세상 http://blog.daum.net/hyunphoto/14674984 ).

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The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Henry David Thoreau

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

Alice Walker

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

Theodor Adorno

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Leo Tolstoy

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Edison

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Charles Darwin

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein