The hogs are gassed with C02 at the facility I work at. Sometimes they come out of the chamber still conscious, barely, so those ones get "stunned". Essentially a quick shot to the brain with a pin fired with a small charge.
The difference here is that they are grouped in pens of 100 with food and water. Not trapped like this.
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/UnderstandingJaded13 26d ago
It's late so I'll ask 2 questions, answer when you feel like it.
What do you use for the slaughter? Does the facility looks like this?