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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Considered too cruel to be used by vets because of the clear signs of distress shown in animals to which it was administered.

Could you provide a reference for this? According to the Wikipedia article on inert gas asphyxiation:

Diving animals such as rats and minks and burrowing animals are sensitive to low-oxygen atmospheres and (unlike humans) will avoid them, making purely hypoxic techniques possibly inhumane[citation needed] for them.

This makes sense, but there's also a [citation needed] there. And even if true, it explicitly draws a distinction between these sorts of animals and humans, which the rest of the article is quite emphatic do not have sensitivity to low oxygen.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 22 points 9 months ago

They were possibly confusing nitrogen with carbon dioxide. CO2 will definitely lead to distress in high concentrations, and has been used in some slaughterhouses.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The fucking US Veterinary Association published that it is only approved for pigs and even then recommends sedating the animal first because of observations of extreme distress. This is widely published -- find it if you want, I don't care at this point. Wikipedia is not going to undermine the countless medical organizations who all objected or condemned this shit. So sick of the wikipedia PhDs in this thread claiming to know what none of the doctors or medical researchers do.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Were you aware that humans aren't a subject of authority of the US Veterinary Association?

Still waiting on that reference, BTW.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Love that you had the time to get your degree from wikipedia but couldn't plug "veterinary association nitrogen asphyxiation" into a search engine and click the first, second, or third result.

For me, the first are a couple of UN articles about the subject that contain all of this information. But you couldn't be bothered to look this up because you can only do wikipedia "research" that confirms your priors, not that might contradict them.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Again, human medicine is not an area that the US Veterinary Association should be having much to say about.

You claim to have a reference, why aren't you pasting it? Surely that's easier than rambling on about it.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

Blocking bad faith actors is my pastime.