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German Court Orders Deletion of Footage Exposing Pig Gas Chambers
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They use gas chamber as a sort of tranquilizer
Let pigs walk unknowingly into a chamber. They pass out and are then stabbed right in the heart ❤️, while passed out. No stress, no pain, nothing.
Thats how they do it at the slaughter house in Denmark (Danish crown)
You can tour it…. https://www.danishcrown.com/da-dk/kontakt/besoeg-danish-crown/
From the article:
I believe, there's a way to gas pigs that just makes them sleepy and then pass out. I think, it was by using nitrogen. But yeah, that's not commonly done.
I'm not too well versed in animal physiology, but for humans it's closer to 3-4 minutes. And panicking doesn't influence the speed or terror much.
Drowning in water and suffocating with CO2 are the worst feelings of dread in existance. Animal or human, period.
And panicking won't speed it up, nor will doing medidation slow it down much since the body literally fights for its life and the adrenalin makes you very much awake and hyperalert during pretty much the entire process.
You think right.
When panicking for lack of oxygen, the nervous system (mamallian and human alike) doesn't actually look for the lack of oxygen for some reason, but for the overabundance of certain "common displacers". Such as water and CO2. And that's pretty much the exhaustive list.
Nitrogen doesn't cause a panic response. Neither does CO (carbon monoxide).
You don't feel anything if you're suffocating in nitrogen or are poisoned by CO for a few minutes. Then you might feel a bit drowsy for some 10 seconds right before you lose consciousness.
Then you don't feel anything again. A few more minutes, and you're gone without even knowing.
Probably because Nitrogen is more expensive.
Most likely. And actually humane gases would be rarer and more dangerous to ... well, humans working there.
CO^2 is The gas that causes panic since that's what the body uses to regulate it's oxygen/carbon cycle. It's a built in alarm. Plus you can just vent it to atmosphere. And it's cheap.
CO2 is also denser than air, which means it stays in the "pit" the animals get lowered into.
I'd think you could build some machine to (re)harvest nitrogen from the air and it would eventually be free. But maybe that doesn't exist / super hard to do...
IIRC, it's literally any other gas except CO2 - the human body detects suffocation not by the lack of oxygen in blood, but the presence of carbonic acid (which is acidic). Since every other gas doesn't create carbonic acid (except maybe some gases that contain carbon?), they all silently/painlessly kill.
Nitrogen, argon, or hydrogen would all work and be fairly cheap. Hydrogen would be explosively flammable though, so you could combine two steps into one!
The footage is linked in the article. The animals are clearly panicking and stressed.
Just because some people do things one way in Denmark that doesn't mean everyone in Germany does it the same way.
I remember seeing a video of a pig in a gas chamber who literally ripped their fucking leg off while thrashing around. Humane? Fuck no.
thats so sad, ive not eaten meat for 6 years or so but i dont know how to handle this evil
❤️ stabbed right in the heart ❤️
❤️ "humane" slaughter ❤️
❤️ Living Animals on Tour 🐷❤️
Your link doesn’t show any info on how “humane” these gas chambers are?!
Now this takes real balls. Props to them. Actually ideally this would be a legal requirement for all slaughterhouses