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Zoe and Lazar PMU Babies
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(Make sure you read below about what Premarin is and how bad it is for horses
and for the woman who take it)
Our intention had been to rescue 2 veal
calves and 2 PMU horses to promote awareness about dairy and Premarin through our program, our website, our media channels
and our "open to the public" days. We began the process of getting set up for the rescues with a donation from a
nearby ranch of about 400 feet of fencing.
Before we had the chance to get the fencing and shelter built or any
money raised for it, we got the call that 2 twin PMU baby horses were in need of immediate rescue, so we brought them home.
Now the 2 month process of fundraising, building the shelter and building the pasture needs to be done immediately.
Even though the fencing was donated, it is used. The posts were cut out of the old ranch and need to be extended by
a welder. We need to purchase cement, rent a tractor to level the land and drill the holes for the posts, and then have the
welder attach the 20 or so panels together. Then we need to purchase the rest of the materials that we need for the shelter
(we have some of the parts already), and then have it built. Lastly we need to pipe water over to the pasture
and plant about 10 shade trees.
The total needed to complete the job is $5,125.30. We have a donor who has paid
for the increased feed and pledged to pay for the cost of rescuing the calves. We need volunteers ready to help with the construction
and the rescue process as well.
We would be so grateful for your support; will you please help us with this
most worthy project? If you would be willing to donate all or part of the money needed or if you would like to volunteer,
we welcome your support and would be most grateful on behalf of the animals. ALSO, if one person donates
the entire amount, we would be willing to let the person name the calves or, if half of the money is donated by one person,
the person can name one of the calves.
Contact us for more information or make a donation on line now. Remember, every bit helps!!!
Thank you for your support!
About the Premarin (PMU) Industry “PREgnant MARe UrINe”
What is Premarin?
Menopause affects every woman, and doctors have treated the symptoms of menopause for nearly 60 years with a drug called Premarin, which has become the third most prescribed drug in the world (just behind Tylenol), bringing its single maker over one billion dollars per year.However, the production of this drug has cost the lives of over a million horses. Several medically sound alternatives now exist which completely avoid this slaughter and cruelty and are safer for the women who take them. The cruel manner in which Premarin is produced is outdated and is no longer necessary. With numerous medically recognized alternative choices for effectively treating menopausal symptoms, including synthetic estrogens, women now have the opportunity to end a fifty-eight year catastrophe for horses. Cenestin approved by the FDA in 1999, it has been dubbed "synthetic Premarin". Because of this latest development, no horses should ever be used to produce estropgen replacement drugs again.What you don’t know
Since 1942, a drug called Premarin (pregnant mares' urine) has been prescribed by doctors to treat the symptoms of menopause in women. Premarin (conjugated estrogens) is extracted from the urine of pregnant mares (female horses). Because so much of this drug is prescribed, its production requires the operation of around 700 "farms", in which around 80,000 horses live their entire lives penned in tiny stalls, unable to turn around or meaningfully lie down, deprived of water, repeatedly impregnated, and continuously connected to plumbing collecting their urine. When they can no longer produce adequately, most are immediately slaughtered. Most of their offspring are either put in stalls or slaughtered. Over fifty-eight years of Premarin production, well over a million horses or perhaps millions of horses, have lived in cruelty and have then been slaughtered. Only in the last twenty years has this dreadful secret become known at all. Premarin is central to what is called "hormone replacement therapy" ("HRT"), although it replaces only estrogen, not progesterone or the other naturally occurring hormones whose levels drop after menopause. This makes any estrogen medically controversial. Premarin is also controversial because the health risks to women of absorbing a substance made from equine waste may not be fully known. Further, Premarin is also said, even by its maker, to contain various unknown and unidentified substances. All of these issues have been buried by Premarin's maker, Wyeth-Ayerst, a division of American Home Products, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who have spent tremendous time and money to sell the notion that only Premarin can treat the symptoms of menopause. The practical monopoly Wyeth-Ayerst has achieved by avoiding these controversies and, at least so far, burying alternative medications brings Wyeth-Ayerst over $1 billion in revenues each year from sales of Premarin and other drugs (including Prempro, Premphase, and Prempac) made from pregnant mares' urine ("PMU"). As a whole new generation of women enters menopause, it is vital that they be allowed to make informed decisions about the drugs they should or should not take. This requires knowing what different drugs are available and, most specifically, how Premarin is produced. Read more...Enter content here
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