The use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs before slaughter is legal and widespread – but activists believe the industry doesn't want you to know what it looks like.
The use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs before slaughter is legal and widespread — but activists believe the industry doesn't want you to know what it looks like.Chris Delforce is remarkably calm for someone who knows this story could put him in jail."You might get caught, you might end up in prison for it, you might end up being physically attacked. There are all sorts of risks that go into getting this kind of footage.Activists looking at a computer screen.
Under the cover of darkness, they wanted to bring to light a practice that is legal and widespread but something they believe the industry doesn't want you to know what it looks like — the use of carbon dioxide gas to stun pigs before slaughter.A metal cage known as a "gondola", where pigs are stunned.
The animals are moved into steel cages called "gondolas" and then lowered into a high concentration of CO2, where in around 20-30 seconds they lose consciousness. Mr Delforce believes the pork industry hasn't been straight with consumers about what that process looks like. After climbing through the machinery, he reached the ceiling area of a gas chamber where he would spend around nine and a half hours, as hundreds of pigs were slaughtered just metres below him."At that moment, I'm thinking I'm the world's biggest idiot. What am I doing? This is crazy," he said.
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