Schlagwort: Mares

Blood Mares

The sun is shining. I stand on the edge of a paddock and watch a mare and her foal. The little one goes wild, but if anything is what scares it, it quickly runs to mom. It hides there and feels safe, secure and safe. It’s so good to see that, but then I can’t help but think of a report I recently saw about mares that were supposed to become mothers, but never were allowed to, because the baby was cruelly snatched from them ahead of time, unborn, directly from the womb, by cutting open the amniotic sac and taking out the little one, just to throw it on the trash. And because all of this is so horrible that you don’t want to know anything about it, it doesn’t happen behind closed doors, but far from prosperity and bourgeoises, in Uruguay and Argentina. And why the whole thing?

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Feel-good Hormones

„Duavive“ is the name of the medicine that the doctor prescribed for her. It comes from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, whose motto is „Breakthroughs that change patients’ life“. A noble claim, one would like to think, whereby nobody knows in which direction the life change is going or which breakthroughs are meant. At least not in the direction of reducing animal suffering, on the contrary. This nondescript drug, which is said to help with estrogen deficiency after menopause, is said to contain nothing more than conjugated estrogens and bazedoxifene. Sounds harmless, but it is not. So, let’s take a look at where these estrogens come from and how they are obtained. Until 2012 there was no long way to go. Now you have to go to China, Kazakhstan or Poland. In China alone there are 90,000 mares, from which the hormones are obtained, because the change symptoms are so annoying, almost life-threatening. There are other treatments, but who wants to do that when a lot of them make good money.

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