“Blood Farms” Documentary Shocks the Nation Skip to content
Icelandic horses are a unique breed, bred in isolation in Iceland since settlement times.
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Since the 1980s, horse farmers in Iceland have been able to gain extra income by extracting the hormone Equine Chorionic Gonadotropin (eCG) from their pregnant mares. This hormone exists in pregnant mares’ blood and can be removed and sold for hefty sums. To begin with, blood farming was a secondary practice on horse farms, but […]
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