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p. m as g is used to control the reproductive process. doyle, i normally the pigs would come and heat at different times when speech by synchronizing that you can increase efficiency. but for the horses, it involves terrible suffering. images filmed on south american farms have drawn criticism from experts, da houses. so they suggest a lack of veterinary care and a fundamental failure to exercise the duty of care for the horses that are living creatures, ship fat cake. ringback as our desire for cheap meat, the driving factor behind the cruel treatment of thousands of horses. ringback ah, the footage is hard to watch. it was filmed by campaign is will the animal welfare foundation,

germany has visited the blood farms in south america. it suggests systematic abuse and neglect, all because the mare's blood contains the sought after hormone p. m. s g which plays a major role an industrial pick, farming theater. tinian company syntex runs blood farms in argentina. and uruguay. the mares here are kept in a constant state of pregnancy and forced to give large quantities of blood and it's all perfectly legal since 2015 rights activists. sabrina. good. now from the animal wealthy foundation has been recording the appalling conditions on south american blood farms. yet site the bow in them, he suspended a period of time that the p m. s g is present in the horses blood is very limited. yup. as if it's just 2 or 3 months, i more nothin dazzled during the short period as much blood as possible as taken from the mare's much more than international guidelines. recommend even for horses

that aren't pregnant, miss pasty good in this poses great health risks, both for the mayor's and their unborn false daughter, won't alford younger born and fallen. the farms are not keen to have the operations observed and have screened off the area where the blood is extracted. but in 2018, the activists managed to obtain images from a camera hidden inside the stables. they revealed the brutal procedures involved the so i'm meter bite of this worker is using an iron hook to go the mayor into the restrained box to book see, and you can see how scared she is. how miss eva? she is resisting and panicking the veil. she undergoes this every week ever, and so each time she has even more scared than the last one and fights even harder to resist going into the box, the up, the not me that i'd so gaining the civic, see a book syntex has since invested a lot of money and security measures to prevent any more footage getting out. this

miss treatment of horses and argentina, and uruguay is serving the demand for cheap pork and faraway europe. to understand this, we need to look at how meet is produced. let's take germany as an example for the business to be profitable. everything has to be timed exactly both on conventional pick farms and organic operations like this one. this farm in west and germany does not use p. m s g, which is banned in organic farming. the herd includes $168.00 pigs plus they're young. for the past 40 days, the mothers have been suckling their young and the store. now it's time for the pickets to be weaned, so farmer hover not and his son leo, not. we'll separate them from their mothers that make money america, so that we don't have to crawl through the small hold on all i stand in here and drive the pigs out. either. leona guides them outside from it,

but he locks the pig. what's in your mind is the mothers do worry when they realize what's happened and on the spook of but this worry and also the milk pressure on the utter. and he helps to bring them back in heat for that. so this is an important thing for us, this because of her being in hate means they're able to conceive again their lead straight into the center where they will later be impregnated. but 1st they had a 5 day break. the function yet is mother. it works 95 percent of the time does what a day is saturday or so on wednesday, and that will inseminate them again. missiles are given especially nice feed to sweeten the separation from they picnic. this would be the time to administer p. m s g. but as this is an organic farm, that doesn't happen. so now now it's time for our breakfast.

am i not? is the 5th generation in his family to found the land. he runs the business with his 2 sons. ah, by the time a picket is weaned, it should weigh around 11 killers, puzzles they were all okay in terms of their weight on them. like in many german families as ham and saw such meet on the table. here it's made from their own picks. of course phones i'm good. that's right. it's our aspect and our libra patty, we've already eaten the pork sausage, but we've just had another slaughter and are waiting for the results. well, it's really nice that we can eat our own meat here. i can of worst. yeah, for this but only one percent of polk in germany is produced in this way. the oil tear in

hanover is the world's largest trade fair for livestock farming. here we get an insight into industrial farming methods. it's clear that life on many german pig farms is a world away from the romantic view of country life. it's an industry. the price competition is huge, especially in pig farming. the animals are a product and it's all about maximizing their value by increasing efficiency. optimizing all processes and minimizing costs. in 202151 point 8000000 pigs were slaughtered in germany. cells have been dropping for years, but poke is still the most popular meat in germany. the average person consumed 31 kilos of polk that here. that accounts for more than half of overall meet consumption at $55.00 kilos per person at the university of gibson's veterinary clinic off levelland, a specialized in livestock breeding in conventional meet production,

every cent counts will form is seeking to remain profitable because of the pressure on prices, there's very little room for maneuver or because the sawdust and i'm between defense often the case that while the mothers remain on one farm, the factor bigots once they reach a certain age are passed on to another farm that a specialized and fattening them up. when did the farm that gets the pickets for fattening once uniform groups? because the next stop was the slaughterhouse in. they also want uniform groups off . that's because his law trying and then cutting up the meat is all organized based on certain norms. but we should, we could say at the end of the day, a piece of toast has to fit in the toaster. what goes into it? and you can achieve that by forming these homogenous groups, will gain cold mirage. pickets are also less susceptible to disease if they've all come from the same bon conventional fashioning farms like to buy as many pickets as possible in one go. that's another reason why piggly produces one,

there sounds to come and he together and give birth together. p m s t allows this whole cycle to be synchronized. so the sex hormone found in the blood of pregnant mass is more valuable than gold. just 100 grams of concentrated hallman can fetch 1400000 euros. that makes it an extremely lucrative business. back in argentina, in march 2022 animal rights activists once again found severely injured mares on the premises of the syntex blood farm. it's clear the operators was still paying no attention to the animal's welfare illumined and father. lilian horses are not separated and treated by a vet behind. they remain in the group bargaining the culprit. he asked the man that's about here. you can see to mares that are both badly injured as he haven't. they both have deep open wounds on their legs, on the fet locsin as a band facing glank. and how many teeth awful. i wound them when c t m. you can

still see the puncture marks of the canyon, the neck newly as o u. so she's had blood drawn relatively recently. no, ma'am. and you can also see here when she walks that she can't put much weight on her right hind leg, aspen cut, veterinarian, stephanie clamor is professor of laboratory animal science and animal welfare at the university of keyson. when she saw the footage from the blood farms, she said the way the blood is extracted from the horses already violates animal welfare standards. does his niece? it's not normal for it to leave behind a visible wound. who's he? what would you conclude from the condition of the wounds here? um they suggest a lack of veterinary care and a fundamental failure to exercise the duty of care for the horses as living creatures eat dim. the mid gotcha fat cake. mm. but it's not just argentina.

neighboring uruguay also has blood farms. in 2021 activists sabrina good. now captured footage of especially emaciated mass. here she even found the remains of dead horses in the field. the unwonted falls are generally aborted late in pregnancy. the poor condition of the mass appears to be intended. as i said, us her, her val, that is the perverse thing. it's basically all about efficiency. if you'd seen to all biden, there is some evidence that the more amazed he added. the mayors are on the worse their condition, including their nutritional status. you know, the higher the level of p m. s g stand is there through who are, is, dea pm escaped. so you could conclude that they actually want the mares to be an especially poor condition and undernourished on the left to get the highest possible yield of p. m. s g on and mucous to war. pier mosquitoes, boy it's watson. there are no official statistics on how often p m. history is used

in germany. experts estimate between 10 and 30 percent of farms work with the hormone. there are 3 companies in germany that off a p. m. s g for use and pick farming. z home back bound book seaver and into vet once the blood has been extracted from pregnant mass on farms like those in argentina and uruguay. it's sold to the 3 pharmaceutical companies in germany. they then turn it into the cover to drugs that are sold to pick fulness. we attended an important veterinary congress in hanover. the home vac bound book had a stand here. but we weren't allowed to film and no one from the company was willing to speak to us either 0. that bound book sells

a drug that contains p. m. s g from syntax source from the far managed tina, where the animal rights activists filmed the many lame horses in march 2022. we wanted to talk to zealand vac bound book to ask if those responsible in germany were aware of the abuse going on at the farm. but we only received a written statement. we found no such information of the allegations made to you by the animal welfare foundation regarding the farm where the p m. s. g for our product was obtained. no one appears came to talk about the use of p. m. s g. neither the companies nor the farmers, nor veterinarians. dock at the organic farm run by hud note we learn more about why the cycle of pregnancy, birthing and suckling needs to be synchronized, even without p. m. s t. the farms, 168 cells are kept in 7 groups. these pigs are almost ready to move into the

birthing or furrowing pen. the group opposite wasn't se emanated 3 weeks ago. havoc no can tell from their behavior if the insemination has worked. this is already through this sound. number 420 has got a discharge. they're all, she's restless. it hasn't worked with all she's in heat again and it us a pick and heat needs to be inseminated quickly. so $420.00 is now a problem. all the others and her group all 3 weeks into their pregnancy. she doesn't fit into the group of nearly separated mothers either as they won't be insemination for another 5 days or so. the very with your i'll use the bore to meet with her to day league while i ordered the seamen from an insemination station i'll because i wouldn't do that for a single animal. martin does me. that's why we have the boar. who will inseminate her decking. lesson, everything that deviates from the norm leads to extra costs, like this letter, for example, takes i usually pregnant for $114.00 days. but in this case,

the mother has given birth early a week before her group mates. but disrupts the workflow your voice in our be after the entire we want to castrate the pilots within the 1st 7 days. yeah. cost you. so i'm going to have to castrate. these pigments before the rest of the group or some others. that means i have to set up the equipment and prepare everything again later on the back of the newborns alo. i'm then we vaccinate our pig, let's twice in shima. now they won't fit into the vaccination schedule either off on top. so these things create more work and can have financial implications. and also if you like, we have a 13 pig. let's hear parts. and 2nd, if i open a pack with 20 shots of vaccine was i have to throw 7 away was vaguely ah, on organic farms. the higher costs can at least be compensated in part by the higher price at the meet hovered notes gets about $160.00 euros for each pig lit. depending on the market. non organic farmers often get barely

a 3rd of that breeding expert, oxy, vaillant from geese and university, conducted a study in this area. he wanted to know where the conventional farms have to rely on p. m. s g to stay profitable. the number 3 because what we looked for commercial ron farms, so not hobby farms museum or open air museums or university farms and d d, but those that are in the commercial market. but don't use p s m g problem gazoomba . we collected their experiences to see him as he bought us at work and practice. darcy and we found that farms that produced a glitzy, as i said, commercially managed just as well without p m. s g as those that do use p m s j. now's a good off come mid peer mosquito. this farm has experienced with using p. m. s g, but decided to do without it. nadine and highly hank,

his farm in west and germany is not organic. they have 1250 pigs who produce 40000 pig let's e t n one is giving birth right now. not in hanker is a trained veterinarian. she makes sure the pickets are looked after 524617. and oh, nadine hank, who used to work for a major veterinary practice in northern germany that specialized in pegs many of her colleagues prescribed p. m. s g, but she never had a good feeling about it as it had all fallen up when i was practicing that i try to avoid p. m. s g because i was aware of how the mares were being treated in south america on. and i know that you can manage without it. yeah, i don't want to get p. m s t is expensive. it costs around $9.00 euros for single dose on a big farm like this one. the costs would run to more than $20000.00 euros

a year. the hank has stopped using p. m s g 7 years ago, and even before that, i never used it on a grand scale uptime. what i got really i couldn't see any advantage to it that you know from the odd i was recommended by the vet on. so, so we gave it a try, but it doesn't really achieve anything yet. so we just let the pigs after natural cycle is only about. yeah, and you're not really know with a little extra help from the farms full balls. once a day the farmer ashes bore past the sounds that are ready to get pregnant again. the name of them from earth you have you been on the bore, works like a pin up going in. the idea is that the so see him and smell him and knowing that their pilots are gone, vet, have a desire to follow their natural urge again and to produce more offspring m. i'm not turning it off. well yes, we got off novels anyway. that's not

it. was a real bore to bring us so into heat all her once the board has done the rounds and the cells are ready, the father needs to act fast. the sooner he inseminate the pigs, the greater the chance of them becoming pregnant. meanwhile another so is having problems giving birth and needs. nadine hank has help us cloud like that. i low there in germany. prescription medications can only be obtained directly from the vet. that's in charge of the animals nadine hanker believes that's part of the problem with p. m. s t. i wanted to ask for one your coin is that vets of course, earn money from the sale of the p. m. s g. if you're not in the heart of their

income, you know, he owns, and that's something that as a veterinarian, you don't want to lose the r mcdaniel or her sister. p. m. s. g isn't only harvested in far away south america until relatively recently, the practice also existed in germany. mo, her and east and germany is europe's largest stud farm for having her horses. until 2021. blood was extracted regularly from pregnant mares here. unlike in argentina and uruguay, the horses here are at least used to humans. in december 2019, a television crew visited the farm and spoke to the manager. she showed them the equipment used to extract the blood and photos of the practice. this is denise wouldn't permit. do you have for extracting blood from the horses? cried none, but why not? because you don't need one. had said he can her good fortune. jasmine,

actually i can well imagine that people at moira assumed they'd acted correctly because the authorities didn't intervene and haven't yet for this. but after the t v program, the state office responsible for consumer protection did get involved. it checked the conditions at the farm and then gave its approval. stephanie came, i can't understand why the authorities didn't bound the practice right away. i was manase shed, in my opinion, it violates animal welfare standards. because of the horses are subjected to a level of stress that goes way beyond anything that's acceptable to the horse is used as a producer to generate this hormone empties. and because it's their blood that contains the hormone, you extract considerable quantities of blood from them in a hip beaming. but you don't actually know what harm you might be inflicting on the

horses in the process leaking shot, and mondays and platen that we were to. there are no scientific studies available to show how often and how much blood can be taken from pregnant mares without harming them or their unborn falls. but there are general guidelines for horses that are not pregnant. these recommend a break of 30 days before collecting blood again. at murder, the horses had to give blood several times a week is lobby only to father. i think considerations about how the fall or even the mares are doing or not really factored in. because they're basically just the means of production. the goal is not to produce a fall is to produce p. m s g. and the useful life of the mares if you could put it that way, is also relatively lim said they might be used for 2 or 3 years. but after that their bodies can't cope any more than cleanliness. in former communist east germany pierre miss g was an important source of income from star

farms like mortar. when tommy would be reading the horses was only profitable because the blood of pregnant mares can be used in veterinary medicine. the p. m. s g from moya was processed by a company called e d t b u log ika in des. so in 2019 it was bought up by french pharmaceutical seaver, which ended the contract with moira in 2021. moya stopped extracting blood from mess. since then no p m s g has been harvested in germany. cba didn't want to talk to us but sent a statement saying the p m. s g that we use for our medicines is sourced from iceland. because p m. s g from south america now has a bad reputation. more and more pharmaceutical companies are turning to iceland for the whole men into it. also sources. it's p a mystery from iceland. but other

mares they're better off rights activists. sabrina. good night. and the team from animal wealthy foundation also shot footage of p m. s g collection in iceland 1st and 2019. and again in 2021. the mares here are semi wild taking blood from them as completely legal but even just capturing them is hugely stressful. for the horses in these on somebody coming in iceland, we saw one mayor struggling in the blood collection boxy up and trying to break free ice and motion as a result. one of her legs got trapped in the side wall and thought she was stuck there like that for a number of minutes. and you are so kind enough to relish may i be getting that. and of course, that can lead to serious injuries caching and she could also injure her head when she thrust it against the cross beam hit. by a construes a animal welfare experts,

stephanie coma studied this footage for us to. when can your son, you can see the poor condition of the wooden pens. he is in that already poses countless ways for the horses to injure themselves, it'll be dawns upon it. and then the way the merest tied up through means that when it tries to resilience, like you see it doing here, it can do itself serious harm. the hang by nice land, a course weighs around 300 kilos and us feel when that all starts to move and rotate around that sensitive axle of the neck. and it can lead to very severe injuries, eyes, boy, and comes to hear from your so on its own seen the pharmaceutical company. cba is familiar with these images from 2021 and told us that since then, all those involved have been monitoring the horses welfare very closely on a regular basis. our internet also told us that they are now keeping a constant check on the situation and take corrective measures when necessary. but

we want to know why the use of these hormones is allowed in germany at all when they involve a process that is clearly distressing to the mass. we wanted to ask the german agriculture minister from the green party chem estimate why there are not binding animal welfare standards in the production of medicines. but he had no time for us either. his ministry replied that he's pushing for animal welfare rules governing veterinary medicines. in the e u. the argentinian firms syntex wouldn't comment on the allegations of abuse. they suggested the animal welfare foundation is a rogue organization, but didn't substantiate their claim. they've been suspended p. m. s g deliveries to germany citing illegal. trespassing by injury owes and pending legal action that only organic pig farm in germany operations continue perfectly well without p . m. s g. these pickets are now old enough to thrive without milk from their

mother's. in 6 weeks time, they'll be sent to another organic farm to be fattened up while rounding them up the foam. a notice as that one of the pickets is much smaller than the others can. oh yeah, this one's very small. does. it was probably smaller than the others right from birth and then couldn't catch up. or does he want to pat as much milk from the mother as his siblings on? i'll put him back into the cycle with a sow that doesn't have so many pig let's not. whether it's pigs giving birth early, all pickets who need to be suckled for longer. everything that is out of the normal rhythm ultimately adds to the price of the meat. but does our desire for cheap need justify the abuse suffered by the horses global as, as this, i don't think all the pig farmers are aware of the conditions under which the

hormone is produced, if they knew, and they might think differently on those unfortunately, consumers can't tell where p m s g has been used there's no labeling system that includes the hormone. the only way to be sure you're getting pork that hasn't involved the abuse of horses is to buy organic meat or do without it completely.

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