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. the vast plains of south america, a home to hew, tubs of semi wild horses. some are subject to a brutal practice. so cold blood farms extract blood from pregnant mask to provide a hormone used in pig farming around the world. old to produce cheap pork. you couldn't be treated food, this hormone, p, m, as g, is used to control the reproductive process. doyle are 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. midco 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 for the animal welfare foundation in germany, who visited the blood farms in south america. it suggests systematic abuse and neglect, all because the mass blood contains the sought after hormone p. m. s g which plays a major role in industrial pick farming. the auto tinian company syntex runs blood farms in argentina and uruguay. the mass 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 pulling 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 monassa. dazzled during the short period as much blood as possible as taken from the mares. much more than international guidelines. recommend even for horses that aren't pregnant. miss christy compton. this poses great health risks as both for the mayor's and their unborn falls. slaughter went alford younger one 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 makeup i tough. this worker is using an iron hook to go the mayor into the restraint box to book see, and you can see how scared she is, how me see for she's resisting and panicking. see via she undergoes this every week ever. and so each time she's even more scared than the last one and fights even harder to resist going into the box up the knock me out. i'd so gainey need to fix your books. syntex has since invested a lot of money and security measures to prevent any more footage getting out. this mistreatment 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. ah, 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 and western germany does not use p. m s g, which is banned in organic farming. the heard includes $168.00 pigs plus their young for the past 40 days, the mothers have been suckling their young and this store now it's time for the pickets to be weaned. so farmer hover not and his son leo not will separate them from their mother's mcmoney america, so that we don't have to crawl through the small hold on all i stand in here and drive the pigs out. i thought leona guides them outside from it, but he locks the pig. whats in it? um, jamante is the mothers to worry when they realize what's happened and on the spoke of. but this worry and also the milk pressure on the utter. and he helps to bring them back in heat from 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 have

a 5 day break. the swanson yet is mother. it works 95 percent of the time does what a day is saturday. so on wednesday we'll inseminate them again. missiles are given especially nice feed to sweeten the separation from they picnics. this would be the time to administer p. m s d. but as this is an organic farm, that doesn't happen. so now now it's time for our breakfast. am i not as the 5th generation in his family to found the land? he runs the business with his 2 sons. by the time a piggly is winged, 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 labor 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 2021, 51800000 pigs was lost in germany. cells have been dropping for years, but poke is still the most popular meat in germany. the average person consumed $31.00 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. ashley vaillant is specialized in livestock breeding. in conventional meet production, every cent counts, full farm is seeking to remain profitable. because of the pressure on prices, there's very little room for maneuver. or because the sword is an i'm between defense often the case that while the mothers remain and one farm the fact the pigments once they reach a certain age are passed on to another farm that a specialized and funding them up on the farm. that gets the pickets for fattening

once uniform groups because the next stop lost a slaughter house and they also want uniform groups. all. that's because the slaughtering and then cutting up the meat is all organized based on certain norms. which you could say at the end of the day, a piece of toast has to fit in the toaster. what was in and taught, and you can achieve that by forming these homogenous groups, will gain called mirage. tickets are also less susceptible to disease if they all come from the same bon conventional fattening 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 to gather t m s g 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 11 than father william horses are not separated, entreated by a vet. behind. they remain in the group blackening the culprit. he asked the man that's about here. you can see to mares that are both badly injured, was he haven't they both have deep open wounds on their legs, on the fat locsin as a band facing delink. and how many teeth are awfully wound them. when c t o m, you can still see the puncture marks of the canyon, the neck newly as a user, shes had blood drawn relatively recently. and norman, and you can also see here when she walks that she can't put much weight on her right hind leg that osman car veterinarian, stephanie grama is professor of laboratory animals, 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. ah, 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

al bowden, there some evidence that the more amazed he added the mayors are of the worst their condition including their nutritional status. you know, the higher the level of p m. s g stand is to through who up is dea, p a? miscarriage? so you could conclude that they actually want the mayor's to be an especially poor condition and undernourished on those left to get the highest possible yield of p a mess g. him on a nucleus 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 farmers. we attended an important veterinary congress in hanover z 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. zillow, that bound book sells a drug that contains p. m. s g from syntex source from the farm and antenna where the animal rights activists filmed the many lame horses. in march 2022, we wanted to talk to salen 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 keen to talk about the use of p. m. s g. neither the companies nor the farmers, nor veterinarians that had the organic farm run by ha 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 was insemination 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. is that all? she's restless. it hasn't worked all she's in heat again and it has a pick and heat needs to be insemination quickly. so $420.00 is now

a problem. all the others in 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 in seminar had for another 5 days or diverted your i'll use the board to meet with her to day league while i ordered the seamen from an insemination station or because i wouldn't do that for a single animal martin does, but that's why we have the board who will inseminate her decking lesson. everything that deviates from the norm leads to extra costs, like this litter, 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 bathroom, the entire we want to castrate the pilots within the 1st 7 days. yeah. costume. so i'm going to have to castrate these pickets 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 faculty newborn's alo, file. then we vaccinate articulates twice,

and she now they won't fit into the vaccination schedule either. oh, fun. ok. so these things create more work and can have financial and occasions. and also if you like, we have a 13 pickets here. that's in fact if i open a pack with 20 shots of vaccine was i have to throw 7 away like 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 ox event 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. beyond between because what we looked for commercial ron farms and also not hobby farms museum or open air museums or

university farms. indeed the but those that are in the commercial market. but don't use p s m g problem. as long as we collect their experiences to see him yet as we bought this at work and practice, darcy and we found that farms that produced a glitzy, as i said, commercially, you managed just as well without p m. s g as those that do use p m s j. now's a good of come. mid p a mosquito. this farm has experienced with using p. m. s g, but decided to do without it. nadine and heinrich hank, his farm in western germany is not organic. they have 1250 pigs who produce 40000 pig. let's. e t n one is getting birthright. now nadine hanker is a trained veterinarian. she makes sure the pickets are looked after. 524617 and o nadine hanker used to work for a major veterinary practice in northern germany that specialized in pigs. many of

her colleagues prescribed p. m. s g, but she never had a good feeling about it. as i have all fallen up when i was a 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 could manage without it . yeah, i was, i want to get p. m s g 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 up time, what i couldn't see any advantage to it that really from theology was recommended by the vet on. so we gave it a try, but it didn't really achieve anything yet. so we just let the pigs have their natural cycle involved. again, they're not really no with

a little extra help from the farms full balls. once a day the farmer usher is a bore past the south that are ready to get pregnant. again, the name of them from if you have, you know, the bore works like a pin up on the idea is that the so see him and smell him a knowing that their pilots are gone back. have a desire to follow their natural urge again, and to produce more offspring. you might not turning it off. well yes, we got off novels anyway. that's not why we need like a real bore to bring us so into heat all her once the board has done the rounds, and besides, already, 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, his help of course not like that. i know hello 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 hope when did you as a warrior coined is that vets of course, earn money from the sale of the p. m. s g guys, you know, in the heart of their income, you know, he owns. i feel that something that, as a veterinarian, you don't want to lose. he asked me counted off with the p. m. as g isn't only harvested in far away south america. until relatively recently, the practice also existed in germany. mo, her in 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. they had gimme one permit. do you have for extracting blood from the horses? cried none. but why not by cut, because you don't need one that's out of country. good fortune. jasmine, actually i can well imagine that people at moira assumed they'd acted correctly because the authorities didn't intervene. have in the at faulkner's. but after the tv program, the state office responsible for consumer protection did get involved. it checked the conditions at the farm and then gave its approval. really, stephanie cram, i can't understand why the authorities didn't bound the practice right away. as

manase shed, in my opinion, it violates animal welfare standards because the horses are subjected to a level of as that goes way beyond anything that's acceptable on 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 happy man, but you don't actually know what harm you might be inflicting on the horses in the process leaking shot, and mondays and patent 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 they are general guidelines for horses that are not pregnant. these recommend a break of 30 days before collecting blood again. at mortar, 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, it's to produce b, m s g. and the useful life of the mares if you could put it that way is also relatively limited. they might be used for 2 or 3 years, but after that their bodies can't cope any more. severe and cleanliness male. in former communist east germany, pierre, miss g was an important source of income from state farms like more of her. when taba would be breeding, the horses was only profitable because the blood of pregnant mares can be used in veterinary medicine. the p. m is g from moya, was processed by a company called e d t b. you log into 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 is gee, that we use for our medicines is sourced from iceland. because p m. s g from south american now has a bad reputation. more and more pharmaceutical companies are turning to iceland for the hormone into it. also sources. it's p a mystery from iceland. but other mess they're better off rights activists. sabrina. good now 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 is completely legal but even just capturing them is hugely stressful for the

horses in his ransom badge be having in iceland we saw one mares struggling in the blood collection boxy up and trying to break free ice and move 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 any sh they are big enough. and of course, that can lead to serious injuries cache and me. 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 panza his that already poses countless ways for the horses to injure themselves. the damsel followed, and then the way the mare is tied up through means that when it tries to resist the act like you see it doing here, it can do itself serious harm. the hang that nice land, a course weighs around $300.00 kilos. vendors, p i,

when that are all starts to move and rotate around that sensitive axle of the neck and it can lead to very severe injuries, eyes by and comes to hear from your so valid on the pharmaceutical companies. 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 where necessary. but we want to know why the use of these hormones is allowed in germany at all when they involve the process that is clearly distressing to the mass. we wanted to ask the german agriculture minister from the green party chem estimate why they are not binding animal welfare standards in the production of medicines. but he had no time for us either. his ministry replied that he is pushing for animal welfare rules

governing veterinarian 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 broke organisation, but didn't substantiate their claim. they'd send suspended p. m. s g deliveries to germany citing illegal. trespassing by n g o's and pending legal action back on the 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 farm. and notice as that one of the pickets is much smaller than the others. can oh yep, this one's very small. does. it was probably smaller than the others right from

birth and then couldn't catch up. or did he want to pat as much milk from the mother as his siblings on? i'll put him back into the cycle with the sow that doesn't have so many pig woods or 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 meat justify the abuse suffered by the horses? long as this, i don't think all the pig farmers are aware of the conditions under which the hormone is produced, as if they knew they might think differently. and also, i think with unfortunately consumers can't tell where p m s g has been used. there is no labeling system that includes the hormone, the only way to be sure you're getting pulled that hasn't involved the abuse of horses is to buy organic, meet or do without it completely. come

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