More Mare Torture Revealed

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Last Chance for Animals Reveals Mare Torture to Make #1 U.S. Prescribed

Hormone Replacement Therapy, Premarin

 

 

On Anniversary of National Institute of Health Study and New Mental Health

 

Effects, Premarin Still Ingested by More Than 9 Million American Women

 

LOS ANGELES, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- On the first anniversary of the National

Institute of Health's study that showed Premarin increases risk of breast

cancer, heart attack and blood clots in women and news that shows hormone

replacement therapy contributes to dementia, Last Chance for Animals (LCA), " The

FBI

of Animal Rights, " has completed a ground-breaking investigation that documents

pregnant mares being sequestered and their foals being slaughtered solely to

collect the horses urine for the manufacture of Premarin. Premarin (name

derived from Pregnant Mare Urine) or Prempro, (produced by pharmaceutical

behemoth

Wyeth-Ayerst), is the number one prescribed hormone replacement therapy drug

in the world. Nearly nine million American women currently ingest Premarin.

Over 36% of the current US population are women aged *45+, who are entering

into or are in menopause and more than *20 million are women aged 65 and over.

Approximately 25,000 foals die each year and 75,000 horses are tortured to

manufacture the drug annually. Over 1,000,000 horses have perished in the

history

of Premarin production.

 

The investigation includes video footage, filmed by Last Chance for Animal's

Special Investigations Unit, of nursing foals in the slaughterhouse feedlot;

the inside of " pee barns " showing neglected and abused horses; a still alive

mare hanging upside down with part of her legs cut off; skinned dead mares

hanging, bullet casings in the " kill area " adjacent to where horses are stunned

to

death, and images of every type of horse used in the Premarin operation.

 

" The gruesome tortures of innocent mother and baby horses are an everyday

occurrence in the production of Premarin, " said LCA's founder and President

Chris

DeRose. " To produce Premarin, pregnant mares are confined to stalls eight by

three-and-a-half feet for 150 day gestation periods with urine collection

devices which can produce infections and lesions. After giving birth, the foals

are taken away from their mothers and either slaughtered for consumption

throughout the world or used to replace the mares. If the women taking this

drug

had any idea about the suffering that these female horses have to endure in

order to make a drug that supposedly alleviates feminine change of life

symptoms,

I'm sure they'd think twice about buying it. "

 

" Although Premarin is widely prescribed, " said best selling author on the

subject of menopause, Dr. Jesse Hanley, MD, " the National Institute of Health

(NIH) reported last year that Prempro increases women's risk of breast cancer by

24%, heart attack by 29%, stroke by 41% and blood clots by 100%. It has never

been proven that providing pre-menopausal levels of estrogen is helpful in

alleviating the symptoms of menopause! To curb symptoms, there are many safe

alternatives to Premarin such as Dongquai, Red Clover, Black Cohosh, Macca,

Vitex and Dioscorea which have been used successfully and safely for millennia

and

are beginning to collect a significant body of research as a much safer,

wiser and certainly more humane choice. "

 

Founded in 1984 by De Rose, Last Chance for Animals is the " FBI of Animal

Rights, " a national, nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to ending animal

exploitation and suffering.

 

*US census statistics (143,368,343 total US females, 52,392,178 US females

aged 45+, 20,582,128 US females aged 65+)

 

SOURCE Last Chance for Animals

 

CO: Last Chance for Animals

 

ST: California

 

SU: WOM

 

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06/04/2003 06:01 EDT

 

 

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