“World-first footage”? Dominion has been out for years.
Was that for chickens though? It showed pigs in the gas chamber, but I don’t think it showed egg hens.
May be right. Kinda assume all “livestock” are subjected to this to some degree. “First footage of gas chambers used on former egg-laying hens in factory farms in rural England on a chewsday” seems like a clickbait stretch but I guess if it gets more people to
then it’s less annoying than usual.
Do they do this because it’s more cost effective or because it scales better or something? Maybe it clears the conscience of the people who would otherwise be doing the killing. Or is the cruelty the point?
While cost efficiency is probably a factor, id lean a lot more to cruelty being the point. Not to justify mass killing of animals here, but theres absolutely better choices than CO2 which causes suffering in basically all oxygen breathing creatures.
It’s definitely cost. They don’t give a fuck about animals, workers, environment, etc. This is likely deemed cheapest because it’s mostly mechanized and requires fewer workers.
I will tell you that CO2 euthanasia is generally considered a humane method, although in research they tell us that and then also don’t allow its use on anything bigger than a pre-adolescent rat.
I do not like this method, and have always thought it was really weird that it was considered acceptable. Seems like N2 or CO would be much better choices, and aren’t more expensive. But generally CO2 is accepted by animal ethics boards.
