UK gas crisis could force farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of pigs

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British farms could be forced into a mass pig cull as supplies of CO2 gas used to humanely kill the livestock run short as a side effect of the gas price hike crisis

Pigs could face a "dark day" of early slaughter as gas stocks used to humanely kill livestock run perilously low amid the unfolding gas price hike crisis.

 

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