▲ 141 ▼ German Court Orders Deletion of Footage Exposing Pig Gas Chambers (veganhorizon.substack.com) submitted 4 months ago by inari@piefed.zip to c/vegan@slrpnk.net 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ODuffer@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (4 children) Probably because Nitrogen is more expensive. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] homik@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] oatscoop@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago CO2 is also denser than air, which means it stays in the "pit" the animals get lowered into. permalink fedilink source parent [–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) 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... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago Or you could just run a pipe from the building's furnace or generator exhaust to the pig-gassing room and use the CO2 your facility is already generating. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] homik@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago CO2 is also denser than air, which means it stays in the "pit" the animals get lowered into. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) 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... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago Or you could just run a pipe from the building's furnace or generator exhaust to the pig-gassing room and use the CO2 your facility is already generating. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago Or you could just run a pipe from the building's furnace or generator exhaust to the pig-gassing room and use the CO2 your facility is already generating. permalink fedilink source parent