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MONTH: June 2006

Turkish serum lab is caught killing horses

 

ANKARA––Undercover video aired in Turkey and parts of Europe in March 2006, posted by PETA in April, showed workers at the government-run Refik Saydam Hygiene Center in Ankara slashing the throats of terrified horses and slowly bleeding them to death to take blood for use in serum products.


A spokesperson for Refik Saydam told ANIMAL PEOPLE on June 6, 2006 that the video was made in 2005, and that as of October 29, 2005 the company had switched to drawing horse blood just as blood is drawn from humans. Several litres of blood may be taken from each horse.


The spokesperson said that the nine horses from whom blood was drawn on Oct-ober 29, 2005 are still at the center, “in natural and proper life conditions, with regular care and feeding.” If the horses are properly looked after, they can give blood weekly for decades.