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BeforeReading
Stamping-out policy: Defined in the OIE (World Organization for Animal Health) Terrestrial Animal Health Code as “The killing of
animals which are affected and those suspected of being affected in the herd and, where appropriate, those in other herds which
have been exposed to infection by direct animal to animal contact, or by indirect contact.” Stamping-out policy is divided into
generaltypeandpreventivetypedependingonwhetheritisadefiniteriskorapotentialrisk.Generalstamping-outpolicyiscarried
outtopreventdamagecausedbythediseaseafterconfirmingtheinfectionofthediseasethroughepidemiologicalinvestigationsor
precisiontestsinresponsetotheidentifiedrisk.Preventivestamping-outpolicyreferstostamping-outpolicyperformedwhenthere
isariskofdamageregardlessofwhethertheanimalisinfected.Inthecaseofliveburial,animalsareburiedinthegroundtodie.
Problem
1.LiveBurialofAnimals
According to Article 10 of the Animal Protection Act, if an animal is
ⓒlawissue
exterminated, it is stated that either gas or electricity must be used to stun the
animal and minimize the pain and move on to the next stage, which is actually
killing the animal while it is unconscious. However, these laws and other
guidelines are usually not followed at the stamping-out policy sites in Korea.
An unconfirmed number of animals are subject to the extreme distress of being
buried alive. Lee Won-bok, a representative of the Korea Association of Animal
Protection,said,“Ihavebeenactiveinthisanimalorganizationformorethan20
years,butthemostunbearableandpainfulsitewasthesiteofstampingout.”
Burying conscious pigs alive clearly violates the African Swine Fever Standard
Operation Procedure (SOP), the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural
Affairs’ guidelines for stamping-out policy. The SOP prepared and distributed
▲Korea Association of Animal Protection
by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs stipulates, “Stamping-
protests against the live burial of chickens
due to preventive stamping-out against
out policy has to be done in a method easy to apply in the field and can be
AvianInfluenza.
completed quickly, and it has to done in a way that minimizes animal pain,
inducesimmediatelossofconsciousnessandcausesdeathwhileunconscious.”Butitisjustarecommendation,soitdoes
nothavetheforceoflaw.RepresentativeLeealsosaid,“ThecurrentAnimalProtectionActalsostipulatesthatstamping-
out policy must be done by minimizing the pain animals feel, but the regulations set by the SOP are not followed in
the process even though thousands of animals are exterminated every year. It is an illegal slaughter of animals.” Live
burial can be a big problem in that it not only adds to the pain of animals that must die, but also does not comply with
humanitarianstandardsunderKoreanquarantineguidelines.
2.ContaminationofLandandWater
Stamping-outpolicyalsoposesamajorenvironmentalproblem.InNovember2019,tensofthousandsofexterminatedpigs
were piled up without being buried in the ground. Blood from the dead pigs flowed into a tributary stream of the Imjin
River in Yeoncheon county, Gyeonggi province, 59 kilometers from Seoul, causing Paju city to stop taking water from
the Geumpa water intake. The Korean government, as well as Yeoncheon County, said they would conduct a thorough
investigationofpigburialsites.ButasithappenedinYeoncheonCounty,poormanagementofstamping-outpolicyburial
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SEPTEMBER 2022
BeforeReading
Stamping-out policy: Defined in the OIE (World Organization for Animal Health) Terrestrial Animal Health Code as “The killing of
animals which are affected and those suspected of being affected in the herd and, where appropriate, those in other herds which
have been exposed to infection by direct animal to animal contact, or by indirect contact.” Stamping-out policy is divided into
generaltypeandpreventivetypedependingonwhetheritisadefiniteriskorapotentialrisk.Generalstamping-outpolicyiscarried
outtopreventdamagecausedbythediseaseafterconfirmingtheinfectionofthediseasethroughepidemiologicalinvestigationsor
precisiontestsinresponsetotheidentifiedrisk.Preventivestamping-outpolicyreferstostamping-outpolicyperformedwhenthere
isariskofdamageregardlessofwhethertheanimalisinfected.Inthecaseofliveburial,animalsareburiedinthegroundtodie.
Problem
1.LiveBurialofAnimals
According to Article 10 of the Animal Protection Act, if an animal is
ⓒlawissue
exterminated, it is stated that either gas or electricity must be used to stun the
animal and minimize the pain and move on to the next stage, which is actually
killing the animal while it is unconscious. However, these laws and other
guidelines are usually not followed at the stamping-out policy sites in Korea.
An unconfirmed number of animals are subject to the extreme distress of being
buried alive. Lee Won-bok, a representative of the Korea Association of Animal
Protection,said,“Ihavebeenactiveinthisanimalorganizationformorethan20
years,butthemostunbearableandpainfulsitewasthesiteofstampingout.”
Burying conscious pigs alive clearly violates the African Swine Fever Standard
Operation Procedure (SOP), the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural
Affairs’ guidelines for stamping-out policy. The SOP prepared and distributed
▲Korea Association of Animal Protection
by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs stipulates, “Stamping-
protests against the live burial of chickens
due to preventive stamping-out against
out policy has to be done in a method easy to apply in the field and can be
AvianInfluenza.
completed quickly, and it has to done in a way that minimizes animal pain,
inducesimmediatelossofconsciousnessandcausesdeathwhileunconscious.”Butitisjustarecommendation,soitdoes
nothavetheforceoflaw.RepresentativeLeealsosaid,“ThecurrentAnimalProtectionActalsostipulatesthatstamping-
out policy must be done by minimizing the pain animals feel, but the regulations set by the SOP are not followed in
the process even though thousands of animals are exterminated every year. It is an illegal slaughter of animals.” Live
burial can be a big problem in that it not only adds to the pain of animals that must die, but also does not comply with
humanitarianstandardsunderKoreanquarantineguidelines.
2.ContaminationofLandandWater
Stamping-outpolicyalsoposesamajorenvironmentalproblem.InNovember2019,tensofthousandsofexterminatedpigs
were piled up without being buried in the ground. Blood from the dead pigs flowed into a tributary stream of the Imjin
River in Yeoncheon county, Gyeonggi province, 59 kilometers from Seoul, causing Paju city to stop taking water from
the Geumpa water intake. The Korean government, as well as Yeoncheon County, said they would conduct a thorough
investigationofpigburialsites.ButasithappenedinYeoncheonCounty,poormanagementofstamping-outpolicyburial
25
SEPTEMBER 2022
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