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Letter: Better way to go

Published 20 November 2013

From Norman Gregory

The vacuum technology described in your article about chicken slaughter reduces the oxygen concentration to lower levels than required for life. Coincidentally, it also reduces the CO2 levels, and it is this that avoids suffering. A similar result could be achieved by subjecting the animals to an atmosphere of pure nitrogen, so letting their breathing flush out CO2, without taking in oxygen.
Oxford, UK

Issue no. 2944 published 23 November 2013

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