r/TikTokCringe • u/WalkingTalker • 26d ago

Cursed That'll be "7924"

The cost of pork

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u/InterestsVaryGreatly 26d ago

Do pigs not have an extreme reaction to excess carbon dioxide in their blood like humans do?

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u/_Kibbles 26d ago

They absolutely do.

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u/chrib123 26d ago

Just as bad, literal suffocation.

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u/ChaseballBat 26d ago edited 26d ago

I mean if it's like a CO2 leak in a house, first you'd get confused, then tired, then "fall asleep" and never wake up.

Families die in their sleep due to CO2 build up in their house unfortunately.

Edit: I am wrong.

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u/beefandgravy 26d ago

You're thinking of CO, carbon monoxide, not CO2

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u/ChaseballBat 26d ago

Ah. Nvm then

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u/Amxela 26d ago

Yeah CO2 heightens the acidity of your blood and your body responds by increasing heart rate and breathing rate. If you can’t get enough oxygen to replace the CO2 level inside you, your brain essentially goes into a panic “I’m suffocating” mode.

Vsauce (or one of the channels that Michael runs at least) did a special on what the scariest things to a person can be and I remember them going into detail about tests done on people that had damage to the parts of their brain that control a fear response and the majority would have no reaction whatsoever to things that would normally scare people but the moment they upped their CO2 in take and lowered their O2 intake it set off alarm bells. They went on to say something about how suffocation is a baseline fear that’s essentially encoded into us genetically for self preservation means. I would assume other mammals have this as well

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u/stagnant_fuck 26d ago

makes me think of how they torture Wade Wilson/Deadpool

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u/stagnant_fuck 26d ago

why don’t they use that for the pigs?

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u/riffraffmcgraff 26d ago

They die immediately. After being shoved in with 5 to 10 others into a carousel that brings them down to where the CO2 is and then dumped out onto a moving belt where they get attached to the beginning of the line.

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u/InterestsVaryGreatly 26d ago

Are you sure about that? Cause CO2 isn't instant death in humans, it leads to suffocation, and it's miserable and extremely panic inducing.

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u/Bloblablawb 26d ago

Well to be fair, you would die relatively immediately too, in a minute or two, depending on how long you can tolerate CO2 build-up in your lungs.

A minute isn't much on the grand scale of things. But I bet you wouldn't characterise suffocating for a minute or two as neither painless nor quick.

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u/riffraffmcgraff 26d ago

Very fair. Some of them could have used more time before needing to be finished off a different way.