AWI Letter to USDA FSIS: Petition to Require the Use of Video Cameras to Observe the Interior of Gondolas during the Slaughter of Pigs with CO2 to Ensure Compliance with the FMIA and HMSA

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Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Compassion in World Farming USA, World Animal Protection, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, and the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association have submitted a petition to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), requesting that FSIS conduct rulemaking to require swine slaughter facilities that use carbon dioxide stunning to install video cameras inside their stunning areas (referred to as gondolas). According to the petition, “[s]uch a requirement is necessary to ensure that the interiors of the gondolas, and all of the pigs inside of the gondolas, can be examined and inspected during stunning or killing, so that FSIS inspectors are able to evaluate whether the animals are being slaughtered humanely, as required by law.”

[To accompany Agency Update "AWI Submits Petition for Rulemaking on CO2 Slaughter of Pigs” from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 190]