SPY CAMS REVEAL GRIM REALITY OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE GAS CHAMBERS:
AT 4 AM one morning in October of last year, animal rights activist Raven Deerbrook sat... in East Los Angeles, looking at a live video feed... from three pinhole infrared cameras she’d hidden in the Farmer John meatpacking plant 20 miles away, owned by Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world… anticipating and dreading what her cameras were about to reveal.
A day earlier, Deerbrook snuck into the slaughterhouse with a fake uniform and badge and climbed 26 feet underground into a “stunning chamber”—essentially a three-story-deep elevator shaft designed to be filled with carbon dioxide.
Here, pigs in cages are lowered into the shaft’s invisible swimming pool of suffocating, heavier-than-air CO2, where the animals asphyxiate over a matter of minutes before being dumped out of the chamber onto a conveyor belt, hung up, drained of blood, and butchered.
Deerbrook had hidden one camera pointed at that chamber from the plant’s wall. She’d mounted two more with microphones on the car-sized cages within. When she’d tried to descend further down the shaft’s ladder, a burning “air hunger” from residual CO2 in the chamber had forced her to climb out again, gasping for breath, unable to plant her remaining cameras..
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