Premarin

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This isn't thyroid related, but since most of the people on this list are women

I thought some might be interested....

Women have lots of choices for our healthcare. Seems like Premarin is one

we can do without, and hold horses in the esteem they are worthy of -- ekn

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This awful abuse of horses must stop! Please read this short article, then copy

and post this into a new email sign your name at the bottom and forward this to

everyone you know.

What Women Should Know About Premarin

Premarin is the most prescribed of all drugs in America today. Most women don't

know what Premarin is made from or how it is made. Once they know, most react

like this women who commented on the World Wide Web, " After taking Premarin for

over 15 years, I just found out that this drug is made from pregnant mares'

urine, that the mares are kept in horrendous conditions, and that their foals

are slaughtered. I will now be using synthetic or herbal version of HRT. "

Today, there are 484 horse factories located in southern and central Canada and

North Dakota witch hold about 750,000 horses. The biggest Percherons and

Clydsdales and large thouroughbreds are used-the noblest of horses-the larger

the mare the more urine and estrogen she can produce.

The mares are artificially inseminated and forced to spend their 11-month

pregnancies in stalls so small they cannot turn. If they try to lie down there

heads are jolted upright by chains.

Long lines of pregnant horses stand, chained and strapped into cramped concrete

and steel pens like rows of four legged slaves. They shuffle uncomfortably from

hoof to hoof. A forlorn look fills their eyes as they stare. Their coats are

dull, their ears droopy-telltale signs of a horse's misery. Many develop sore,

swollen legs or become crippled from standing months on end in their tiny

concrete stalls.

The mares are kept constantly thirsty. They are denied water so that their urine

becomes thick. If they where allowed to drink as a normal horse needs, it would

over-dilute their estrogen. A rubber, medieval looking " pee-bag " and harness is

strapped over the mares vaginas by elastic hoses, secured around there flanks;

and run over a pulley to the ceiling above them, causing sores which are left

open and untreated. Most develop painful urinary tract infections due to the

inhumane conditions.

This treatment is for their entire lives, which only last for the yearsthey are

capable of foaling. Once they can no longer become pregnant, the mares will be

shot for horsemeat-just like the majority of unwanted foals to which they give

birth-their reward for producing billions of dollars made from estrogen drugs

prescribed to unsuspecting women.

There is more sad information. The baby foals are taken from their mothers a

month or two after birth. Some mares are kept as replacements, some killed

immediately. Some foals and discarded PMU mares are loaded into windowless

trucks without food and water and the door sealed (so that there doesn't have to

be an expensive veterinary examination done), then the horses are shipped to the

United States from Canada where they arrive 60 to 80 hours later. They are

shipped to foal slaughter sales where row after row of pens are crammed with

three to four thousand babies. Despite standing in the heat for several hours,

few have access to any water. Some babies try to suckle milk from each other.

All, except a handfull, are bought by meat dealers to be fattened for slaughter.

Help stop this abuse! copy and post this into a new email then sign your name

and email this to everyone you know! Would every 50th person to sign this please

email a copy of this letter to THAWKS2@...

Sign here:

1. Faith Hawks, Florida

2. Alison Hostetler, Italy

3. Joy Lesperance, Fresno, California

4. Masha Lee, Concord, CA

5. Elaine Nieberding, Bel Air, MD

6. Dan Fisher, Brunswick, Maine

7. Alice Wolf, Brunswick, ME

8. Marcia and Mike Pedde, Ontario, Canada

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