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		aarongough on July 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CO2 shortage: Lessons learned from a storm in a pi... I think this is poorly written in the article... Likely the Co2 gas is used to power bolt-guns which are in turn used to stun larger animals like cows before slaughter.

delecti on July 9, 2018 [–]

No, the slaughter industry does in fact use CO2 to asphyxiate animals. It even has a fun euphemism, "Controlled Atmosphere Stunning".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation#Animal_...

aarongough on July 9, 2018 | [–]

Interesting, I didn't realize that was done at scale... As the comment above me said, seems harsh to use CO2 for that...

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