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Is the statement simply an excuse made by the government? The law states quarantine workers must kill animals in a proper way by using poisonous gas and drugs before burying them. Animal groups are refuting the statement. They say the excavators push two to three pigs into the pits at a time. Since the pigs tend to try to escape, the slowly-moving excavators need to repeat the pushing three or four times. Logically the drug option would take less time than the pushing operation.

Interestingly, the government has been pushing the live burial of animals since 2000, when FMD first broke out in Korea. Surprisingly, the government has no problem ignoring the guidelines. It is undeniably true that the government is not coming up with any punitive measures against the breach of laws forbidding live burials. International animal rights groups are denouncing the nation’s culling method and demanding the Korean government works in strict accordance with international animal welfare guidelines.

Although the live burials are banned by the law, there is no exact punishment set to deter those violating the law. With government authorities continuing to bury animals alive, it is only a matter of time before the illegal and inhumane cruelty will contaminate the environment. Unfortunately, countless animals that do not yet have the disease are killed along with the diseased because they are in the vicinity of infected animals. Is such preventive slaughter effective? Is there no solution to put the break on such massacres? Can’t they be vaccinated? It seems the government doesn’t have the will to care for the little fellows since they will end up on the dinner table at one point or another anyway.