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Preach: Premarin and Horses |
Posted by
Ironboots on Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 04:41 AM PST
Premarin provides women with the relief they need from hot flashes, night sweats, and vaginal dryness. Well, that’s a nice goal, but what about the horses? Confused? Read on.
The word Premarin comes from the drug’s main ingredient: Pregnant mare urine. Farmers get their horses pregnant and stick a catheter into their bladder for the whole gestative period. Some of you may know the discomfort of a catheter. Well, how about for nine months while you’re going through the pains of pregnancy? That’s what these poor mares must go through. 60,000 of them. And from those 60,000 mares come 60,000 newborn foals. But the farmers have no use for foals. They just want pregnant mares. So 90% of the newborn foals are shipped off to slaughter since its convenient and cost-effective. They hardly get a chance at living. Recent changes in the industry have lengthened the lifespan of these doomed foals to three months so the mare and her offspring can enjoy the summer in the pasture. But as soon as possible, the mare is inseminated, hooked up to the machine, and the foal is killed. And for what? So that women can get a little relief from menopause. Something that women have been going through for thousands of years, but I guess these days personal comfort is more important than thousands of horses’ lives. And isn’t it ironic that the same women who may have wanted a pony when they were young are now indirectly paying to have them killed… If you want to help, have $1000 dollars to spare, and land to put the horse on, you can go to <a href='http://www.ransomranch.com'>www.ransomranch.com</a> or <a href='http://www.unitedpegasus.com'>www.unitedpegasus.com.</a> These two organizations are trying to save as many of the foals as possible by buying them from the farmers.
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Re: Premarin and Horses
by Catiana on Sep 28, 2003 - 02:56 PM
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I had never heard of premarin before, but I am disgusted to hear about this. One more reason to continue my avoidance of buying medication, you really dont know whats in it. I wish I could buy one of those foals :(
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by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Sep 28, 2003 - 10:11 PM
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You might be able to find "human" in "humane" but you'll never find "humane" in "human". All those middle aged women who worry about the cute fuzzies in the polluted forrests while fueling up their SUV's and driving to their tract housing in "the woods" and taking a "natural" suppliment for their poor withered poonanays.
Oh, I'm sorry, do I sound a tad too angry?
Now compare this to the dairy industry. Cows don't produce milk for shits and giggles kids. They aren't born as portable refreshment carts..just like the pregnant mares and their miracle piss, america's favorite fluid dispensers require babies born for slaughter as well.
Good informative article...you may want to pick up the "animal products A-Z" dictionary. Even if you're not a vegan or vegetarian, but don't want to take drugs that are dirived from or tested on animals, it lists every chemical, compound, and component in existence and it's manufacturing/harvesting.
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Re: Premarin and Horses
by Anya on Oct 01, 2003 - 08:27 PM
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While I'm not extreme on supporting animal rights, I think that's just too harsh. What makes it even worse is that it's to be relieved of "minor" things, contrary to actual health problems. That's like kicking a dog just because it makes you feel good.
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Re: Premarin and Horses by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Oct 02, 2003 - 01:07 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/ | Unfortunately tho you see this as "too harsh", if you and anyone else took a good hard look at the animal products/drug industry in general and the treatment they recieve (which is every bit as harsh if not harsher than the mare's plights) you'd realise that there are millions of animals, hundreds of species, that are being treated as cruelly and on a much larger scale. I actually typed quite a bit more, but out of simple politeness and consideration I"m holding back many words on the subject that aren't directed at you but the sick situation alltogether :) |
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Re: Premarin and Horses
by Starlight (elenmea@hotmail.com)
on Oct 02, 2003 - 02:53 AM
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I can't help but be amused when someone talks about their health problems associated with Premarin and the like. It's rather like when someone talks about their allergies to cow's milk and how they can't understand why cow's milk would be disagreeing with them. Well it would be because cow's milk is for baby cows...not adult humans...so cosume at your own risk and deal with the results. I especially love it when someone complains about how they hate any redness left in their hamburgers. Gee let me think...if you want to eat meat...and since meat has blood in it...well blood is generally red in a mammal...so you have the pink there to make you remember this fact. I'm sickened by what is done to animals in the sake of human comfort...and I try to do my part to help with animal rights. I'm delighted to see others doing the same.
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Re: Premarin and Horses by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Oct 02, 2003 - 11:49 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/ | So am I, and tho I would fall into the "fanatic" range of the whole animal rights issue, it does give me happiness when even people who aren't on that side give some thought and say "no" to even ONE of the many unnecessary cruelties dealt out in the name of "progress" I get really angry when I hear people hypocritically talk about how much they LOVE all the animals, while they're chowing on a cheeseburger (this argument does not always apply to some who do have a need for animal protein, tho in MOST cases it's purely psychological, or those who buy free range). Pretty much they love all the animals that are cute, fuzzy, and cater to their egos and make them feel good. In essence if you aren't adorable, pettable, and make the person who feeds you feel important, you're scrap parts. You're not an animal, you're dinner, you're an object, you're a test subject, you're expendable. I've heard the argument that we're stewards of this world, by god's decree or by natural selection. As a steward who feels the right to use what they wish, most people forget the other side of the bargain, which is to care for them too. You abuse it, you lose it. I got into a fight with some horrid cow of a woman at starbucks over this, after she butted into a quiet private conversation that I was having with a co worker in line, then proceeded to tell me I'm "wrong" and that vegetarianism is "wrong" because, I quote "they're here for a REASON". "Okay, ma'am, if you believe that for religious reasons or otherwise.." , "Oh no, I"m not religious, it's just that if we didn't eat animals they'd take over." As I stood stunned by her own stupidity, my co worker (who isn't even a vegetarian) simply stated. "You're right, they are here for a reason. To keep us COMPANY." |
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Re: Premarin and Horses
by Tanya (blurredeyes666@yahoo.com)
on Oct 10, 2003 - 05:39 PM
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I heard about the cruelty involved with Premarin a while ago and was outraged and horrified. Me, being someone who would have done anything to have a horse as a child, cannot believe people consider foals by-products. I'm very pleased to find others who share similar thoughts as me.
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Re: Premarin and Horses by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Oct 10, 2003 - 10:23 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/ | At risk of repeating myself, all infant animals born in the animal products industry are byproducts. It is sad, I wholeheartedly agree with you on that. |
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Re: Premarin and Horses by Meranda_Jade (Meranda@mymind.com) on Oct 10, 2003 - 11:04 PM (User info | Send a Message) | I would *love* to have a horse. Have wanted one since childhood. And if I'm not woman enough to handle menopause like my great-great grandmother, then I'm no woman at all. It's bloody hateful that women think they're entitled to a break from that. Like childbirth, it's one of the things that proves that we're stronger than all manhood combined. (I'd like to see any one of them go through what we go through without drugs) and without whining the whole time. We give birth, bleed every month, go through hormonal upheaval, and go through all kinds of shit just to see that new people come into this world. Sorry guys, but all you do is provide a seed and occasional support. You have no idea what a woman goes through just to be a woman. I do think that premarin and other hormonal drugs are unnecessary and not needed by the general female population. I think that we should accept our strength and realize that the reason we're given this is because we're the only ones who could ever cope with it. Peace out. |
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