Farmers could be forced to slaughter 100,000 pigs because of CO2 shortage

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Farmers could be forced to slaughter 100,000 pigs because of CO2 shortage
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Those poor pigs 😞

Around 100,000 pigs are currently left on farms as the industry contends with staffing shortages

CO2 is needed to stun animals so they can be killed humanely, but the shutdown of two fertiliser plants which produce carbon dioxide as a by-product has left abattoirs with a shortage. ‘We’re facing a really dark day on UK farms because if we get to a point that we have to euthanise pigs on farm simply because they can’t then get butchered, that would be devastating.’

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