Footage shown on ABC's 7.30 program which appears to show pigs suffocating after being stunned with carbon dioxide (CO2) gas before slaughter, a legal and widespread practice, has angered some pig farmers who say they have very limited choices when it comes to processing their animals.
Tammi Jonas runs a small-scale pig farm near Daylesford, central Victoria, and said the intensive nature of the pork industry and a centralisation of pig abattoirs to large multinationals had resulted in concerns for the welfare of Australian pigs.
