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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

 

[Billy_Sama]

Chinese Charlotte's Web is even more dark and depression than the original version.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

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

The Chinese have no empathy for each other, which is why they massacre each other whenever there is no strong central government. Sometimes even when there is. They have even less empathy for other living creatures. Get a group of Chinese together and they'll torture puppies, laughing gleefully the whole time. I think they find it more amusing when the object is innocent.

 

[Kheapathic]

Not gonna lie, I laughed. Not because of what they did to the pig, or that they dresses it up with a cape; but at the absurdity of it, topped off with the so called owners explanation. Because the year of the pig is over and the falling pork prices? Nigga, I know China do what it want, but talk to a PR firm or some shit first.

 

[heyilikeyourmom]

Say what you will about cruelty but that pig lived a fuller life than most internet people.

 

[ZehnBoat]

The Chinese have no empathy for each other, which is why they massacre each other whenever there is no strong central government. Sometimes even when there is. They have even less empathy for other living creatures. Get a group of Chinese together and they'll torture puppies, laughing gleefully the whole time. I think they find it more amusing when the object is innocent.

so the chinese are cenobites?

 

[Karl der Grosse]

No, because when the cenobites torture and mutilate someone there's a purpose to it and it's their basic nature. The Chinese do it because they're bored and vicious. I guess that's their nature, too.

 

[Parsnip_FitzGarlic]

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.
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Poor fella should have taken a shit on the rebound and showered the fuckers.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Pussies

Pig Squealing should a national pastime

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Still more humane than what goes on in a slaughterhouse.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

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

Where do you think meat comes from, a vat? Granted the guy maybe should have aimed more carefully but animals move sometimes when you're trying to slaughter them. I'm willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and say that he was probably aiming to kill with the first stroke but those are the breaks sometimes; at least he put the poor thing out of its misery with the second.

 

[XYZpdq]

yeah while I respect the idea of not torturing animals for the fuck of it, food animals meet a pretty grizzly fate in most cases and suffer plenty anyways, especially in China

 

[Ira the Weatherman]

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.

Wait, am I missing something here, they stuck it on a spit immediately after stunning? They didn't bleed it out, remove its hair and gut it, they just impaled a brain dead, still living pig? What the actual fuck.

No wonder their slaughter was such a clusterfuck. Anyone remotely competent could've handled it better, and without the sick theatrics. Here's some Hungarians who do pretty much the same things your Cubans did (sledgehammer, in front of kids), but efficiently and properly. The pig doesn't make a sound and is completely docile (likely because these people raised it from birth, so it's completely at ease), and the stunning and killing is done in a second.

Speaking of tasteless slaughter and the Chinese, I've found probably the most tonedeaf ad in human history:

>that fucking narration and soundtrack

 

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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.

Indeed, this is relatively tame behaviour for Chinamen. They think that fear and pain flavors the meat in a good way (no wonder they smell funny).

I am told that in some of the more traditional, rural areas, they will gradually chop bits of the animals they eat- think taking a drumstick or two off a chicken or a dog- before they actually kill them.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Did their mothers never tell them not to play with their food?

Okay maybe letting the Pig go first is not without some merit...

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

This is the best primer on shame vs guilt based cultures:

The origins of Northwest European guilt culture

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Reread the Chinese apology: they don't know what they're apologizing for, they have no idea.

 

[Pissmaster]

Just execute anyone who abuses an animal. Straight up exsanguinate them halal meat style.

 

[jjabramsisdumb]

Typical Americans. REEEEing about one pig going bouncey bounce on a bungie cord, but couldn’t give two shits about gun violence in their own backyard.

It’s a just a stupid pig, most of you couldn’t even identify what animal your meat was from, let alone how it was raised and slaughtered.

 

[Stoneheart]

some people skydive with their dogs (not making excuses).

But he was a good boy and now he gets to see the world from above.



I realy dont understand why they would do something like that. a pig in fear sounds horrifing and i wouldnt want to eat for the next half our or so after hearing it.

 

[Bagronkleton]

It's like they have NO ability to grasp that what with putting a cape on a pig and gleefully heaving it off a bungee tower. It's all good fun for the spectators, apparently. There is something deeply fucked up about the Chinese and how they treat animals.

That's just scratching the culinary surface of bug land. Ever hear of Jiao Lu Rou? Means water donkey meat. The pitiable creature is skinned and boiling water is poured on the exposed flesh before being cut away in small portions.

Oh the donkey is alive for as long as possible during the whole ordeal. Sweetens the meat or some shit like that.

 

[Roast Chicken]

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 cook dogs alive. I had the misfortune of stumbling on a video on Twitter of one that had just been roasted, its body was stiff, hairless and its eyes melted shut and its mouth was contorted into a permanent snarl but it was still yelping. The chink recording it was giggling. I fucking hate China.