to be horrified. *TRIGGERING DETAILS ABOUT ANIMAL CRUELTY*

[IJustHadToNameChange]

After signing a petition, I now get alerts about other petitions I'd like to sign.

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/horse_blood_onb_t/?bNAFfnb&v=93727&cl=14459218643&_checksum=d6e603416bf667c75d98ed50fd0dbb53e64d2db8b57e41e007441cf32eecd618

I was alerted to one decrying the use of PMSG.

I had trouble believing what I was reading and so I looked this up.

OMG! 😱

Female horses are deliberately made pregnant and, after a certain stage of the pregnancy, have blood drawn.

There are no laws, oversight or guidelines and the details are horrifying.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/vampire-farm-hell-british-meat-9693895

The hormone extracted is used in the pig industry to artificially bring females into season and increase the number of litters they produce per year.

The cruelty to horses (and pigs) is unbelievable. 😢

Even pigs regarded as being humanely kept, are subject to treatment with PMSG, perpetuating cruelty in two animal trades.

I thought I was well read in animal welfare and always look for the Red Tractor mark. I. Had. No. Idea.

Pork is off my menu now.

Yanbu but this is not the worst thing we routinely do to animals by a long way

The meat trade is ugly through and through. I honestly wish i had either the willpower to not eat meant and animal products, or could afford organic free range everything, but sadly i can't.
I know it is hypocritical that i see some animals as pets/companions and others as food, but social conditioning from being a baby is the cause, and whilst i HATE what those poor animals go through, realistically nothing is going to change, sadly.

Pregnant mare's urine has been used for a long time to manufacture HRT drugs.

This suggests it is not much of an issue in the UK.

Isnt there a petitions board?

And I though animal cruelty was already at its lowest. ..
Seems its a bottomless pitt.

Not reassuring, though

Pig Veterinary Society statement on use of PMSG in UK Pigs

There are four products containing PMSG (pregnant mare serum gonadotrophin) licensed for
use in breeding pigs supplied by three companies.

The specifics of each product vary but their licensed uses include stimulation of a fertile
oestrous cycle in gilts and sows post-weaning; reduction of the weaning to oestrus interval in
sows with late oestrus; and treatment of suboestrus or anoestrus in sows with fertility problems.

Information from Pig Veterinary Society members attending the majority of the breeding sow
population indicates that PMSG use is minimal in the UK and most herds do not use PMSG at
all. Good management, lighting and nutrition together with the presence of a boar at the correct
time all promote a normal fertile reproductive cycle in sows. A small number of breeding herds
where infertility issues arise, on the advice of the attending veterinarian, may use PMSG to treat
a selection of sows to stimulate them to have a fertile oestrus at the normal time. It is not used
to speed up the sow’s normal reproductive cycle. There is certainly no standard or widespread
use of these products in UK breeding pigs as suggested in recent media reports.

Any use of PMSG in pigs must be under veterinary direction and takes into account the health
and welfare of the pigs in the veterinary surgeon’s care.

The Pig Veterinary Society strongly supports the ethical sourcing of raw materials for
pharmaceutical products and the need for companies producing plasma-derived products to
ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are followed by their suppliers and that the
welfare of any animals is protected.

January 27th 2017

The Pig Veterinary Society is a specialist division of the British Veterinary Association. ^The Pig
Veterinary Society exists to assist its members to care for pigs, through dissemination of knowledge about
health, disease, the pig's welfare and its management. PVS, as a society, is a champion for pig welfare
while maintaining balance with the need to maintain viability.^

Well that's OK, then

It is used. But sparingly. And not by every pig breeder that they know about.

Sorry paragraphs, spacing and italics fail.

Pig Veterinary Society statement on use of PMSG in UK Pigs

There are four products containing PMSG (pregnant mare serum gonadotrophin) licensed for
use in breeding pigs supplied by three companies.

The specifics of each product vary but their licensed uses include stimulation of a fertile oestrous cycle in gilts and sows post-weaning; reduction of the weaning to oestrus interval in sows with late oestrus; and treatment of suboestrus or anoestrus in sows with fertility problems.

Information from Pig Veterinary Society members attending the majority of the breeding sow population indicates that PMSG use is minimal in the UK and most herds do not use PMSG at all.

Good management, lighting and nutrition together with the presence of a boar at the correct time all promote a normal fertile eproductive cycle in sows.

A small number of breeding herds
where infertility issues arise, on the advice of the attending veterinarian, may use PMSG to treat
a selection of sows to stimulate them to have a fertile oestrus at the normal time. It is not used to speed up the sow’s normal reproductive cycle.

There is certainly no standard or widespread use of these products in UK breeding pigs as suggested in recent media reports.

Any use of PMSG in pigs must be under veterinary direction and takes into account the health and welfare of the pigs in the veterinary surgeon’s care.

The Pig Veterinary Society strongly supports the ethical sourcing of raw materials for pharmaceutical products and the need for companies producing plasma-derived products to
ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are followed by their suppliers and that the
welfare of any animals is protected.

January 27th 2017

The Pig Veterinary Society is a specialist division of the British Veterinary Association.

The Pig Veterinary Society exists to assist its members to care for pigs, through dissemination of knowledge about health, disease, the pig's welfare and its management.

PVS, as a society, is a champion for pig welfare while maintaining balance with the need to maintain viability.