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Adrian Black

Seven charged over activist blockade at abattoir

Activists are calling for a ban on the use of gas to stun pigs before slaughter. Photo: AAP

Seven people have been arrested after animal rights activists blockaded a Victorian abattoir to protest the use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs before slaughter.

Three men and four women have been charged with trespass offences after the protesters chained themselves to machinery in the Benalla Abattoir early on Thursday morning.

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