stackyFACTSTo rapidly accelerate the breeding cycles of commercial pigs and sheep, industrial farmers rely on hormones extracted directly from horse blood. Elaborate agricultural networks are established solely to keep mares continuously pregnant just to harvest their highly valuable biological fluids.
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