PhaedraMcSpiffy
Good point. If you're gonna kill animals for food, isn't it is more productive and realistic to use any part you can?
However, I've heard horror stories that I thank and hope are unfounded about horses. Apparantly, there are places where they farm mares, get them pregnant to use their hormones for hormone replacement, and then slaughter or abort the foals. That's horrible if it's true. What a cruel waste. I'm hoping hair-placenta does not share a similar origen.
However, I've heard horror stories that I thank and hope are unfounded about horses. Apparantly, there are places where they farm mares, get them pregnant to use their hormones for hormone replacement, and then slaughter or abort the foals. That's horrible if it's true. What a cruel waste. I'm hoping hair-placenta does not share a similar origen.
They are called PMU mares.
And it's true.
A horrible truth.
During the 90's 'premarin' which stands for 'pregnant mares urine' was a hit drug for menopause.
It only took a decade of animal abuse for the drug to become unpopular.
Basically the mares (female horses) are bred non stop.
They stand in stalls all day with bags attached to them to collect the urine.
The stalls are soo small the mares can not even turn around or lay down - so they don't spill the urine.
Eventually they go crazy or die from complications at birth.
If the foals are females, they take their mother's place, if they are male and sometimes unwanted females, go to auctions and kill buyers usually buy these horses by the hundreds.
There they are taken in semi truck trailers to slaughter houses and made into horse steak for people in europe or into dog food.
It's a sad, cruel reality.
'Premarin' is even stilled made today.
Though most of the horrors are now taking place in canada (to get the mare's urine)
Though for a bit of hope - there are people out there that try to save these mares and foals and there are organizations in which you can adopt these horses.
