The European Commission is not planning to ban the use of high-concentration carbon dioxide gas (CO2) for stunning pigs, the commissioner for health and animal welfare has indicated. According to a report by the Brussels Times, Olivér Várhelyi has set out the Commission’s position to animal welfare NGOs. The NGOs had written to him, calling for the removal of high concentrations of CO2 from the list of permitted stunning methods for pigs. They highlighted this as among the areas where they felt no progress had been made to revise the EU’s ‘outdated animal welfare legislation’, including stunning methods, particularly following…