The meat industry calls CO₂ killing ‘humane slaughter’, but we don’t buy it. The secret formula for making a killing out of killing is to spend less on it. And so the industry found that it is quicker and cheaper to simply herd pigs into gas chambers and pump in CO₂ until they suffocate.
It isn’t humane. It's just the cheapest way to do it. And it’s how 90 per cent of pigs are killed. We should all be horrified.
For decades, the government’s own Animal Welfare Committee has warned that killing pigs in CO₂ gas chambers causes extreme suffering. Their 2003 report called for a full phase-out, yet instead, the use of CO₂ has only increased.
Don’t let the government get away with inaction while millions of pigs suffer. Ask your MP why a method of slaughter judged inhumane by government advisers is still legal.
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