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bilby commented on the word ventilation shutdown
"What prompted both the DxE investigation and the whistleblower to come forward is Iowa Select’s recent adoption of the mass-extermination method known as ventilation shutdown, or VSD. Under this method, pigs at the company’s rural Grundy County facility are being “depopulated,” using the industry’s jargon, by sealing off all airways to their barns and inserting steam into them, intensifying the heat and humidity inside and leaving them to die overnight. Most pigs — though not all — die after hours of suffering from a combination of being suffocated and roasted to death."
- Glenn Greenwald, 'Hidden Video and Whistleblower Reveal Gruesome Mass-Extermination Method for Iowa Pigs Amid Pandemic', The Intercept, 30 May 2020. https://theintercept.com/2020/05/29/pigs-factory-farms-ventilation-shutdown-coronavirus/
December 22, 2021
bilby commented on the word ventilation shutdown
One of the most chilling euphemisms I've come across in a while. Far out.
December 22, 2021