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Pig forced to bungee jump by Chinese theme park and then sent to slaughterhouse

A theme park in China has apologised after a video of a live pig attached to a bungee rope and pushed off a platform 70 metres (230 feet) high sparked fierce backlash on social media.The “vulgar” stunt went viral on Weibo, China’s most widely used social media platform, and showed the pig being...

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A theme park in China has apologised after a video of a live pig attached to a bungee rope and pushed off a platform 70 metres (230 feet) high sparked fierce backlash on social media.

The “vulgar” stunt went viral on Weibo, China’s most widely used social media platform, and showed the pig being carried by two men up a metal staircase onto the platform.

The 75kg pig, which had its feet tied up so it could not escape, was then dressed in a cape and secured to bungee ropes before being pushed off.

Squeals can be heard from the pig as it plunged down, accompanied by laughter and cheering from a crowd that had gathered to watch.

The theme park, located in the south-western municipality of Chongqing, said the stunt was meant to promote the opening day of the park’s bungee attraction on 18 January.

It said in a statement: “We sincerely accept netizens’ criticism and advice and apologised to the public.

“We will improve [our] marketing of the tourist site, to provide tourists with better services.”

The Chinese public condemned the act, calling it animal cruelty and “torture”.

One commenter said: "You can't torture pigs just because the Year of the Pig has passed."

Another said: "This is animal cruelty, no doubt about it. I recommend we tie the organiser up to do the bungee jump instead."

According to local reports, the park’s owner said: “We let the pig make the first jump [on our opening day] because pork prices have been very high this year and recently they dropped a bit.”

The owner, who was unnamed, also said the stunt would mark the end of Year of the Pig and ring in the Lunar New Year, which is of the Rat this Saturday.

A public relations officer reportedly added the pig was taken to a slaughterhouse after the incident and its trauma during the stunt was “just a bit of entertainment”.

Animal cruelty is not prohibited in China, but a growing awareness of animal welfare issues in recent years has seen petitions and calls for the government to implement policies.

Jason Baker, PETA Asia's Vice President of International Campaigns, told the Independent: "This is cruelty to animals at its worst. A bungee jump is a scary experience even for consenting humans – just imagine the outright terror of being forcibly strung up by your legs and thrown from a high platform. That's the treatment that this pig received, all for a cheap laugh.

"Pigs experience pain and fear, just as we do, and this kind of disgusting PR stunt should be illegal.

"The theme park deserves every shred of the backlash it's receiving online, and the Chinese public's angry response should be a wake-up call to China's policymakers that they must implement animal protection laws immediately," he added.

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Leave it to a chinese theme park to not only have bungee jumping pigs but to eat them afterwards. This almost sounds like one of those 'beat the dogs so they get scared and taste better' situations they went on about a few years back

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

Since when do the Chinese give enough of a fuck about animals to apologize for something like this?

This is the same country that keeps bile bears.

And defends the yulin dog festival as culturally important. And believes imbuing meat with adrenaline makes it taste better, instead of tough as hell.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

Why do that to an innocent animal? That sounds messed up to read, let alone do or watch. China is fucked up.

China boils cats alive and cuts off the heads of living snakes as well. They don't treat the people who live there so great, either. This is nothing new.

 

[Damn Near]

Not even close to the worst thing a chink has done to an animal. Soulless insects.

 

[edboy]

Better than the other Chinese alternative...

Spoiler: Pigs being burned and buried alive in pit

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[Iron Hamster]

How disgusting. I can't believe no one took the time to make a when pigs fly joke.

I'm still in shock the story even made it out of China.

 

[WonderWino]

Better than the other Chinese alternative...

Spoiler: Pigs being burned and buried alive in pit

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Jesus fucking christ that has to be one of the most horrific things i've ever seen. Anyone who would so something like that to any animal should be put against a wall and shot. Thats flat out serial killer behavior right there. Even for china thats fucked up

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Fuck China, every chance they get they cry about the Japanese and Unit 731 without acknowledging they do the same or worse to their own citizens and even defenseless animals.

 

[ZehnBoat]

chinese don't know how to make pulled pork

 

[gypsy screaming in a cage]

torturing your food makes it delicious

reminder

 

[Looney Troons]

I knew better than to read that and look at the images. I’m going to be sick.

Spoiler: Story time

I lived near a Cuban family growing up, and they had become family friends. They had brought home a pig one day, named it, and the neighborhood kids would play with it. They kept the pig exceptionally well-fed. One day, there was a party - for the life of me, I cannot remember what for - and they had dressed the pig up in silly costumes. At one point, they forced the sow to wear a top hat. It was hilarious.

Toward the end of the afternoon, the adults began to isolate us children from the pig, trying to get us to go inside of the house. We didn’t. Costumes were removed of the pig and the Cuban family patriarch retrieved a sledgehammer from a nearby shed. The first strike was glancing and the sow squealed so loud in agony that it could have been heard for kilometers away. Second blow struck the skull and did the poor creature in, but you could hear odd gurgling coming from the felled creature. They impaled it on a spit and started immediately grilling it over an open flame.

I remember crying, and I remember being forced to eat it. I also recall it being some of the most delicious, succulent meat I had ever tasted and it made me sick to my core knowing that I wanted more. The thought stayed with me until about my teen years, and I honestly hadn’t thought of it much until reading this story now. The squealing of pigs is absolutely terrifying to behold in person. Despite how heartless the Chinese are, I’m fairly certain that any small children in attendance will have those profane sounds haunt their dreams.

 

[Pope of Degeneracy]

I knew better than to read that and look at the images. I’m going to be sick.

Spoiler: Story time

I lived near a Cuban family growing up, and they had become family friends. They had brought home a pig one day, named it, and the neighborhood kids would play with it. They kept the pig exceptionally well-fed. One day, there was a party - for the life of me, I cannot remember what for - and they had dressed the pig up in silly costumes. At one point, they forced the sow to wear a top hat. It was hilarious.

Toward the end of the afternoon, the adults began to isolate us children from the pig, trying to get us to go inside of the house. We didn’t. Costumes were removed of the pig and the Cuban family patriarch retrieved a sledgehammer from a nearby shed. The first strike was glancing and the sow squealed so loud in agony that it could have been heard for kilometers away. Second blow struck the skull and did the poor creature in, but you could hear odd gurgling coming from the felled creature. They impaled it on a spit and started immediately grilling it over an open flame.

I remember crying, and I remember being forced to eat it. I also recall it being some of the most delicious, succulent meat I had ever tasted and it made me sick to my core knowing that I wanted more. The thought stayed with me until about my teen years, and I honestly hadn’t thought of it much until reading this story now. The squealing of pigs is absolutely terrifying to behold in person. Despite how heartless the Chinese are, I’m fairly certain that any small children in attendance will have those profane sounds haunt their dreams.

Your neighbor needs to be dealt with like how Tony Soprano dealt with Ralphie

 

[Damn Near]

Despite how heartless the Chinese are, I’m fairly certain that any small children in attendance will have those profane sounds haunt their dreams.

nah they're bugs, they'll be ok

 

[McGregor]

I knew better than to read that and look at the images. I’m going to be sick.

Spoiler: Story time

I lived near a Cuban family growing up, and they had become family friends. They had brought home a pig one day, named it, and the neighborhood kids would play with it. They kept the pig exceptionally well-fed. One day, there was a party - for the life of me, I cannot remember what for - and they had dressed the pig up in silly costumes. At one point, they forced the sow to wear a top hat. It was hilarious.

Toward the end of the afternoon, the adults began to isolate us children from the pig, trying to get us to go inside of the house. We didn’t. Costumes were removed of the pig and the Cuban family patriarch retrieved a sledgehammer from a nearby shed. The first strike was glancing and the sow squealed so loud in agony that it could have been heard for kilometers away. Second blow struck the skull and did the poor creature in, but you could hear odd gurgling coming from the felled creature. They impaled it on a spit and started immediately grilling it over an open flame.

I remember crying, and I remember being forced to eat it. I also recall it being some of the most delicious, succulent meat I had ever tasted and it made me sick to my core knowing that I wanted more. The thought stayed with me until about my teen years, and I honestly hadn’t thought of it much until reading this story now. The squealing of pigs is absolutely terrifying to behold in person. Despite how heartless the Chinese are, I’m fairly certain that any small children in attendance will have those profane sounds haunt their dreams.

That's some Silence of the Pigs shit right there. God damn, Clarice.

 

[Coldgrip]

I can't wait till they colonize Australia. Remember, China Big Numba Wan! So Smart and Superior! The U.S. is doomed!!

 

[WonderWino]

At one point, they forced the sow to wear a top hat. It was hilarious

Thus, the capitalist pig was born

 

[LazloChalos]

Fear floods the body and salts the meat.

The crowd doesn't seem to be outraged.
Many outlets either mute the video or make an longer one just to cram their opinions in there.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

I knew better than to read that and look at the images. I’m going to be sick.

Spoiler: Story time

I lived near a Cuban family growing up, and they had become family friends. They had brought home a pig one day, named it, and the neighborhood kids would play with it. They kept the pig exceptionally well-fed. One day, there was a party - for the life of me, I cannot remember what for - and they had dressed the pig up in silly costumes. At one point, they forced the sow to wear a top hat. It was hilarious.

Toward the end of the afternoon, the adults began to isolate us children from the pig, trying to get us to go inside of the house. We didn’t. Costumes were removed of the pig and the Cuban family patriarch retrieved a sledgehammer from a nearby shed. The first strike was glancing and the sow squealed so loud in agony that it could have been heard for kilometers away. Second blow struck the skull and did the poor creature in, but you could hear odd gurgling coming from the felled creature. They impaled it on a spit and started immediately grilling it over an open flame.

I remember crying, and I remember being forced to eat it. I also recall it being some of the most delicious, succulent meat I had ever tasted and it made me sick to my core knowing that I wanted more. The thought stayed with me until about my teen years, and I honestly hadn’t thought of it much until reading this story now. The squealing of pigs is absolutely terrifying to behold in person. Despite how heartless the Chinese are, I’m fairly certain that any small children in attendance will have those profane sounds haunt their dreams.

Giving it a name and treating the pig well is just par for the course for humane dispatch, but dressing it up and letting you play with it beforehand is pretty fucked. And the sledgehammer is fucking weird. What happened to plain old bolting? I'd say even decapitation, but if they're doing whole roast pig I guess just for aesthetics they like to keep the head on.

 

[Neil]

I thought China banned the Simpsons.

 

[Vlinny-kun]

It may be because I am a heartless drone, but this just doesn't look as bad as everyone makes it sound. While I'm sure the thing was terrified and thats a horrible thing to do to an animal, some people skydive with their dogs (not making excuses).

 

[Mrs Paul]