I feel like most of the reasonable outrage is on how the chickens were culled and the treatment of the workers. If pumping the barn full of CO2 is an option, wh

I feel like most of the reasonable outrage is on how the chickens were culled and the treatment of the workers. If pumping the barn full of CO2 is an option, why not use nitrogen instead? Painless death whereas CO2 causes pain. Giving thousands of chickens deadly heatstroke seems inhumane as well. 104F isn't going to kill a virus so it's just going to cause pain like heatstroke in humans. Its unfortunate that they had to kill so many birds but it seems entirely necessary given the risks of avian flu. As for the workers, culling a significant number of your livestock is going to mean there will be a significant number of workers no longer needed although I'm sure this will be temporary until the facility is back to normal capacity. The state government needs to make sure that these workers can receive unemployment payments until they can find new work or their jobs reopen since laying off that many people at one rural location is going to have significant impact on the community.