Pig welfare at risk as CO₂ shortage bites food industry
 

[Scotland's biggest pig processor is set to run out of carbon dioxide on Tuesday, leaving it in danger of welfare issues such as overcrowding.
The gas, which is used to stun farm animals and put the fizz in carbonated drinks, is in short supply in Europe.
Quality Pork Limited, which puts about 6,000 pigs a week through its abattoir in Brechin, may have to send some animals to England.
However, its sister plant in England is also facing CO₂ shortages.
Food and drinks firms are scaling back operations because of a shortage of CO₂]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44600298

Sign Of the Times

Less fizzy drinks can only be a good thing though, and save the piggys

Its not like that.
Mass production
means farms will have to keep them,
until the carbon dioxide liquid
is back in stock.

That Scottish Abattoir
will shut down today
Not a Good Sign.

Well it wouldn't surprise me Cherie ,if some still kill them without stunning them afterall , nothing is as important as money for some people.

6000 pigs killed a week

blimey

Hmm, how is the pigs welfare at risk. It's used as part of the process to kill them, therefore if they don't have CO2 they can't kill them and the pigs welfare is improved immeasurably

Do you really think it will stop them killing them,because I don't

i do, they have to follow strict procedures

Because the treadmill keeps rolling... What happens when 1 person stops at the bottom of an escalator full of people? Those 6000 pigs have to go somewhere. In a week that's 36000 pigs and counting to feed & house. There will be overcrowding and feed shortages... it's inevitable.

It's like the vegan idea that if we stop eating meat and dairy today, all of the farm animals will live out their lives in harmony. Err no... if they're not producing meat or milk to sell, then no one can afford to keep them alive, and 95% of them starve to death. :shrug:

Because they will be stuck on the Farm

But some of them don't do they Bots,we've seen it in secret video tapes.Wish I had your confidence in humans.

isn't that better for the pigs welfare than being dead? :shrug:

But more farm food used to feed them
Prices will go up.

How though... how is there a shortage of this gas :/

Well it's not just CO2 like from the atmosphere... It's industrially produced cannisters of compressed gas. So, supply or distribution problems from the people who make those, most likely.

Several factories are closed for maintenance, its just never happened before that they closed at the same time