For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com or<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />Buddhist monks in Seoul held a memorial service for livestock culled due to a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the country. Activists protested that most of the animals had been buried alive.<br /><br />On Wednesday, Buddhist monks in Seoul, South Korea held a memorial service for the culling of livestock.<br /><br />The culling is an effort by the South Korean government to contain outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease.<br /><br />One Buddhist said she was shaken by the treatment of the animals.<br /><br />[Lee Kyong-ja, Buddhist]:<br />"I was shuddering when I saw animals culled and wondered why my country should suffer from the disease. So I prayed to Buddha there would be no more outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease."<br /><br />In a shopping area in Seoul, about a dozen animal activists staged a protest rally against the culling.<br /><br />[Jeon Kyong-ock, Animal Activist]:<br />"We noticed that more than 90 percent of animals had been buried alive. So we are here to ask the government to cull the animals from a humanitarian standpoint."<br /><br />The South Korean government said on Tuesday that it had culled about 15 percent of its combined pig and cattle population.<br /><br />According to the agriculture ministry, 2.1 million animals and 3.6 million poultry had been killed.<br /><br />The nationwide outbreaks of foot-and-mouth originated in pigs in the city of Andong on November 28.
