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TritanBear asked in PetsOther - Pets · 1 decade ago

Will you please help stop the unnecessary slaughter of innocent mares and foals by the Wyeth Drug Company?

Each year hundreds of innocent mares and foals are slaughter unnecessarily by The Wyeth Drug Company. The company manfactures the drug Premarin which is used as a hormone therapy in women. Premarin is a pill made from pregant mare urine. The company funds ranches to have these mare kept pregant to get their urine, The mares are kept in awful and inhumane conditions. Once the foals are born they are no use to the company so they are slaughtered along with the mares that can no longer make their quota. There are other alternatives to this drug that work the same, and the company's practice is unnecessary and cruel. Please help and sign the petition to end this cruel practice. Go to www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction and look for PMU Mares and foals, its under animal welfare. Please help.

Update:

You can also sign a petition from Virginia Snowdeny at www.petitiononline.com/xe3/

For those having a hard time finding the petitions its no the Care2petitionsite, go to bottom right corner -Catagories under Animal Welfare. Once you are there its about 40 down under PMU horses loose again to Wyeth Pharm

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    Of course. This has been an ongoing fight between horse advocates and drug companies. (I used to do horse rescue and have worked with people who adopted/saved PMU foals so this topic is nothing new to me) In fact, I think this is a great time to address this problem in particular especially with the anti-horse slaughter bills that are currently on in the House and the Senate. If the momentum and awareness that has been created by this issue (slaughter) can be also used to fight this form of equine injustice we could potentially have a win win situation. I say go for it.

    side note:(As for those who think this is all fun and games i.e. "I need a hamburger." You should watch a horse slaughter video and see how hungry you are then.)

  • 1 decade ago

    If you are a horse owner or would like to be one you can help save some of the PMU foals by adoping them.

    There are farms that go up to Canada and pick up the foals and bring them to the US for sale. Many are adopted and go on to be wonderful riding horses.

    If you can adopt one.

    If you can not do not support the Premarin industry by taking this drug there are alternative remedies.

  • 1 decade ago

    Already done. I am a 51 year old woman just starting the menopause and I have already told my doctor that under NO circumstances will I be using any kind of hormone replacement therapy becuase of how premarin is produced.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i am a horse owner and vet nurse i cannot abide animal cruelty and i am campainig at the moment to stop animal cruelty in labs people like you and i who ask these things open peoples eyes to what is going on i hope lots of people sign the petition and put an end to this well done for bringing it to peoples attention

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Done- I'm not in America and I wonder if this happens in Australia too. It's heartbreaking. Horses offer us soooo much, even if you aren't an animal lover, and to think they are being abused, not just physically, but in every other sense. It's tragic.

  • Most people are totally unaware of the source of this drug. I recently had a hysterectamy and my doc automatically wrote a script for this product as HRT and then (unsuccesfully) spent 20 valuable minutes trying to persude me to take it. When I told him I had decided to take the natural route, he mockingly said it might work if I was a soya bean. I sweetly replied - did that mean he thought of me as a horse?

    Touche!!

    Horse lover & competitive rider:

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    5 years ago

    seem, in my youthful years I used to seek and what I killed I ate yet those toddler seals are actually not eaten, they are killed for his or her coat and something is left mendacity interior the frozen snow. i'm sorry yet to kill some thing in simple terms because of the fact it has a appealing fur isn't the main humane element of do. we've common how you are able to make clothing that seems and sounds like that toddler seal. Sorry yet I would desire to disagree with the killing of those unfavorable little toddler seals.

  • 1 decade ago

    YES

    how can i help?

    i want to shut down ALLLLL slaughterhouses!!

    i HATE those things and people. and u kno how they take the mustangs from the wild, they sell the ones people dont buy to the slaughterhouse!

    Source(s): owner of 3 horses that are loved incredibly
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    OF COURSE I WILL BUT I CANT FIND IT SEND NE AN EMAIL AT alviessouthernbelle@yahoo.com

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes email me at spikerox19@yahoo.com

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