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Premarine
Foals
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27 x 29 framed
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Premarine
Foals
The painting featuring two premarine foals carries an important
and disturbing messages regarding the cruelty which exists to manufacture
a drug by Pharmaceutical companies as supplement or used in conjunction
with estrogen products to help woman in menopause. Premarine stands
for Pregnant Mares' Urine (PREgnant MARes' urINE); PMU for short.
As you can see from the name, this drug is extracted from pregnant
horse urine. There are more than five hundred PMU farms in North
America and Canada. In the US, there are farms located in North
Dakota and some on the edge of the Canadian border. The concerns
from animal rights supporters is as millions of "Baby Boomers"
reach menopausal age it is estimated (by the Humane Society) that
these farms will increase dramatically.
Since
urine is collected only from pregnant mares, they are artificially
inseminated during six of their eleven-month pregnancies. A rubber
funnel is positioned between the mares' rump and tail to collect
the urine as they are held for days in place by overhead supports
and body harnesses. Throughout this six-month period the mares are
held in intensive confinement in tiny stalls with metal bars on
three sides. They are tethered short, preventing from moving around
or lying down.
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They
are given half the amount of water a horse normally drinks so that
the urine is more estrogen enriched. The collection harness restricts
movement and causes abrasions. They have inadequate light and sanitation,
and receive no grooming or physical care, or little vet care.
And
to make their cruelty worse, upon the birth of their foals, they
are sent out to have their babies in open pastures, sometimes in
the harshness of the elements, some perish while others are only
allowed to stay with their traumatized and underfed mothers for
a few months. The foals are sent directly to slaughter or unsheltered
feedlots to gain weight before being sent to slaughter for meat
production for human consumption in Europe, Japan and Mexico. And,
American Airlines is one of the largest carriers of frozen horsemeat.
Young foal meat is very much in demand since according to the USDA
it is much more tender. The mothers are led back to the stalls and
re-inseminated. Some of these mares can be used up to 20 years.
It is estimated that there are between 50,000 and 75,000 mares giving
birth annually at the PMU farms. This drug has been marked for more
than 50 years and is currently prescribed to more than 9,000,000
American Woman.
The
inhumane treatment of pregnant and foals is yet another example
of the unnecessary suffering of animals when there are non-animal
treatments on the market. There are at least seven plant based and
four synthetic based estrogen replacements drugs that are available.
An estimated 1.5 million will experience the first symptoms of menopause
this year and 650,000 women will undergo the removal of the uterus,
usually associated with the removal of the ovaries.
As
a woman who has been there, we can make conscious choices to investigate
alternatives, and engage in dialogue with our doctors on hormone
replacement therapy. As woman, we CAN insist on the use of other
HRT drugs besides Premarin! If enough women become aware of the
source of Premarin demand will go down. When demand goes down the
PMU farm operators will no longer find it economically feasible
to torture these mares and foals.
For more information on Premarine, reference the following sites:
http://www.premarin.org/
or www.doubled.org
or search the web under Premarine
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