Question 11243 — animals

Summary

Mr. Christophe Arend draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to animal mistreatment in the context of the scandal of mares that were impregnated and then aborted. The associations Tierschutzbung Zürich (TBS) in Switzerland and Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) in Germany revealed the eCG scandal: mares impregnated then aborted in order to take their blood. Equine Chronic Gonadotropin (eCG) hormone is used on livestock farms, particularly in France, to synchronize the heat of animals in order to allow farmers to group inseminations and reduce operating costs. To produce eCG, thousands of mares are bred in deplorable conditions in Uruguay and Argentina. The hormone is produced by mares from the 40th to the 120th day of their gestation. For this, these breedings fertilize the equines and collect up to 10 liters of blood from them twice a week. Once the placenta no longer secretes eCG, the mares are aborted without anesthesia and by hand to be impregnated again as soon as possible. Consequences: animals can have up to 3 interrupted pregnancies per year and do not live more than 3 to 4 years. Their meat is sold to supply the horse industry and is exported to France. This scandal of “blood farms”, which broke out in October 2017, remains unresolved. In 2017, France imported more than $5 million worth of eCG purchased from Syntex-Uruguay and new practices have just been revealed. He questions him about the measures he intends to take to regulate this lucrative market (100 grams of this hormone would be sold for 1 million euros) which is to the detriment of animal welfare.

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