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 "I am as docile as I am courageous, the only of earth's creatures who sacrifices its own being to exist through the will of another." Horses of the Sun
 Equine Rescue
This year more than 125,000 U.S. horses will be killed for the lucrative export of meat to Europe and Japan. At the New Holland Auction, in the heart of Pennsylvania farm country, an average of 275 horses a week go off with meat buyers. "People need to know. If you send a horse to the auction, those guys sitting in the front row aren't buying for a pleasure ranch," says Marc Paulhus, director of Equine Protection for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). "Purebred horses plunged to a fraction of the paper value", says Paulhus. "Arabians who had quadrupled in price, or in some cases soared to 10 times their initial value to a paper value of $100,000, were slaughtered." "We don't eat our dogs. We don't eat our cats. We don't eat our horses", says Cathleen Doyle of the California Equine Council. All the horses saved by rescue groups and sanctuaries combined don't add up to 1 percent of this nation's discarded horses. We must raise public awareness as to why so many horses suffer such an undeserved fate. If you are lucky enough to be responsible for such a noble creature, make a promise to never lose track of what becomes of your horse. You have the responsibility of ensuring that your horse has a humane life, and ultimately, a peaceful death with dignity.
PremarinAn estimated 75,000 mares each year are impregnated with the resulting foals, "byproducts", being taken away to be used to replace the exhausted mares or they are shipped to the slaughterhouse and bound for the dinner table in Europe and Japan. That is 75,000 foals a year being needlessly and helplessly fattened up and slaughtered. These mares must stand 24 hours a day, unable to lie down because of the short chains tying them to tiny stalls with concrete floors and insufficient bedding. Unable to even rest their heavy heads. A device is attached to them to catch the urine which ultimately rubs their underbelly and legs raw and causes painful yeast infections. Insufficient water and excercise shortens the life expectancy in these mares. In the last two years, two different pharmaceutical companies have developed generic versions of Premarin and they have been trying to get FDA approval to market them. However, Wyeth-Ayerst is doing everything they can to prevent the generic versions from becoming available to the public as these will compete with their "killer" drug that brings them $1 billion a year. Please write to Wyeth-Ayerst, the manufacturer of this drug, and tell them you will not tolerate the mistreatment of these horses. Tell them that you will not take their "natural" drug. Marc W. Deitch, M.D., Vice President, Medical Affairs & Medical Director P.O. Box 8299 Philadelphia, PA, 19101-8299 Call Wyeth-Ayerst toll free at 800-999-9384 Other Wyeth-Ayerst products are Phen-Fen and Redux, both have been taken off the market.
If and when these generic version become available sales of the
urine produced drug will dwindle. This will become our best chance at ending these horses' nightmare. Wyeth-Ayerst has
claimed these drugs cannot be called generic Premarin because they do not contain the impurities that "real Premarin" does.
Att: Dr. Janet Woodcock Center for Drug Evaluation & Research 1451 Rockville Pike MSC-HFD 003 #6027 Rockville, MD 20852 Please visit these other very informative sites regarding this "killer" drug:
The above organization represents more than 500 PMU farms. They will be introducing Thoroughbreds & other valuable breeds into their breeding program to help improve the value of the foals produced through this urine collection process. They paint a prettier picture of this collection process. Read their articles and see what they have to say. But, overall, it is still inhumane to keep these horses tied up for months at a time!! Horses are natural wanderers. They can't wander, let alone move around, when they are tied up in the front and have something hooked up to the back of them. This is ultimately equine abuse!!!
 
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