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Re:The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming by mewse-hn on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:16PM (#26937247)
Purely speculation but drug companies a few years ago stopped shipping the chemicals for execution by lethal injection on moral grounds - vets may have been affected by that and had to resort to less effective substances
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Re:The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming by hackbinary on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:31PM (#26937348)
Pentobarbital, aka Euthasol, aka bluejuice, is a barbiturate and is what is commonly used for small animal euthanasia.

Europe imposed strict export controls on it and other drugs in 2014, but I don't think vetinary supply has been affected.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16281016

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenytoin/pentobarbital

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