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.
