![]() ![]() Except, behind those sterile words and that detached acronym is a hidden reality that was recently exposed by activists in the U.S., and further amplified in an exposé by, then the New York Times this past weekend: We use gas chambers to slaughter pigs in North America, and new footage from within the bowels of one of these facilities shows that the method is far from humane.Īnd to make matters worse, in Canada a number of provinces, including Ontario, have made gathering this important evidence, very illegal. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency does too. ![]() The pork industry certainly wants you to believe that. ![]() This process complies with humane handling and slaughter laws in Canada and is deemed by some farmed animal welfare experts as a somewhat nicer way to knock out animals - via CO2 rather than electrocution - before they are bled out. Across Canada, 13 meat processing plants currently utilize a method of rendering pigs unconscious prior to slaughter called controlled atmospheric stunning (CAS). ![]()
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