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NEW YORK, April 2 (UPI) -- Animal shelter euthanasia efforts involving carbon monoxide gas chambers could soon be outlawed in six U.S. states, a Humane Society official says.
Kimberley Intino, Humane Society of the U.S. Shelter Services Program director, said legislation that would ban the controversial euthanasia practice has been proposed in Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, USA Today said Thursday.
Intino added that 12 U.S. states already ban the use of the chambers when euthanizing animals.
The proposals for additional gas chamber bans comes in apparent response to complaints from animal rights advocates such as Daphna Nachminovitch, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' vice president of cruelty investigations.
"Death by CO poisoning can be slow and terrifying," Nachminovitch told USA Today. "During the process, which can take 30 minutes, panicked animals may gasp for breath, try to claw out of the chamber and even attack each other."
The newspaper said the gas chamber method of euthanasia is accepted by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
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