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[cw: animal murder] Secret video reveals gas chamber deaths of egg industry hens
(www.independent.co.uk)
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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.