Carbon Dioxide Gas Chamber Myth

The Carbon Dioxide Gas Chamber Myth is a false conspiracy in belief that that animals in slaughter houses are being put into gas chambers filled with Carbon Dioxide to immediately kill them. There are no carbon dioxide gas chambers in slaughterhouses, this is a common myth used by the animal rights community to try and spread fear and turn people away from eating meat. This myth originated from a video that was taken by a hidden camera on a slaughter line that showed pigs being stunned using the CO2 method. However, this is not a gas chamber but instead a stunner method, the gas is used to subdue the animal in a less painful way so that they can be slaughtered and put to sleep in a quicker and more humane way.

Origin of the term

There was a video that circled around the internet that showed what is falsely believed to be so called "carbon dioxide gas chambers" that was taken by a hidden camera which was secretly installed in a slaughterhouse in the United States. The video showed a line of pigs that were being stunned with carbon dioxide gas and then killed in a inhumane way. It was later revealed that the video was taken by members of the animal rights group "Animal Liberation Front" (ALF) who infiltrated the slaughterhouse to expose the brutality of the meat industry.