Re: Premarin-Alert to horse lovers (long, but please read)

["buy the line" <buytheline@softcom.net>]

There is a product of which I use called The Patch. A little inconvient at
times, like when you wake up with it plastered to your husbands cheek, but
nonetheless it is what I use.  This injustice to animals should and could
be stopped if we the women jut educate our unhorsey friends about the
product or carry that picture with you and plaster it in every pharmacy you
go into.  Why should'nt husband dshare the wealth.  The hormones are what
make us able to live with them anyway.

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> From: avpinc@bellsouth.net
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: Premarin-Alert to horse lovers (long, but please read)
> Date: Saturday, December 12, 1998 9:01 AM
> 
> Hello, all.
>      This message is for all of use who have reached that stage of  life
> 
> where women are dealing with the necessity of hormone therapy.
> Many of us have had the product Premarin prescribed by our
> doctors, as it is an effective treatment for pre-post, and presently
> menopausal women.  This product is made from pregnant mare's
> urine.  What many of us may not know are the true conditions of
> these PMU (pregnant mare urine) farms.  According to my most
> recent issue of  the Hooved Animal Humane Society's "Hoofprints"
> news publication (Fall-Winter-'98):
> 
>      "  As a result  of the successful marketing of this drug by Wyeth
> Ayerst,
> more than 70,000 pregnant mares spend six months of every pregnancy on
> PMU (pregnant mare urine) farms where they stand day after day and week
> after week tied in cramped standing stalls wearing urine-collecting
> equipment.
> If this were not injustice enough, the foals that are the by-product of
> this
> industry are routinely sold at auction to "killer buyers" for meat as
> soon as
> they can be weaned from their mothers.  The mothers are re-impregnated
> after a relatively brief nursing period and face another six months "on
> the line"."
> 
>      The article goes on to discuss efforts to save and adopt these
> foals and
> the frustration of trying to buy them as they are presented in large
> lots at
> auction.  It also discusses the need for foster care and housing for
> those
> foals who are saved and purchased.  Please check the article and contact
> 
> the HAHS for more information, and if you don't subscribe, please do.
> Their ph.# is 815-337-5563.
> 
>      I know this is a distressing post, and I apologize for offending or
> 
> upsetting anyone.  I just know I will refuse the use of  Premarin in the
> 
> future, and will be sure to educate my Doctor about the injustice of
> using this product when there are so many others, equally effective,
> on the market.  Maybe if those of us who care try to make our concerns
> known, and if the manufacturerer feels the pinch, we can change things,
> and help some of these animals we love so much.  Thank you.
>                                                                Linda
> Flynn, O.B., FL
> P.S.  Please pass this info. on or forward it to those who may not
> subscribe
> to Ridecamp.