(marked this as engineering because I’m not sure what it would fall under, biology maybe?)
I’ve seen in a documentary where they would put pigs in cages and lower them into a pit of CO2, but it doesn’t kill quickly and the pig would thrash around violently as it was slowly poisoned. Why not just use CO? it would kill humanely, and from what I understand, a lot of packaged meat is packaged in containers with CO to prevent spoiling, so there must be no safety issue with the meat.
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All the reason exposed are right but it can all be managed by a proper design, security measures and a work candency that actually allows to take time to do it.
Yet the meat industry don’t do that.
So the actual reason why we don’t kill humanely is because IT IS EXPENSIVE.
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