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.
Abattoirs are not for the faint hearted. When such a large proportion of the population live in cities where the keeping of farm animals is largely banned then the protein has to come from somewhere - and I refuse to eat insects.
…just saw it on ch.2 was awful to see the looks on the faces of those piglets …horrifying …how can we be this cruel to any animals…I weep🥲🥲
Good on the pork industry industry. Most dont want to see this shit again. People already know all animals are killed cruelly. that's why some become vegans. Most want to eat meat and dont care. The ABC has questions to answer for showing this disgusting law breaking footage.
More of abc’s war on farmers.
Let us all eat grass!
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