THE SHOCKING FACTS ABOUT PREMARIN . . .
. . . AND WHY YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT!
Text courtesy of People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA)
Veterinarians are now prescribing Premarin to treat incontinence and other health problems in dogs.
If your vet suggests Premarin, ask for a humane alternative.
According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, Premarin is easier to obtain, but there are other options.
Diethystillbestrol, also known as DES, and Phenylpropanolamine are two drugs that are used to treat incontinence in dogs.
Even if your companion animal does not need treatment, ask your vet if he or she prescribes Premarin. You may be able to educate him or her about the cruelty involved in the production of the drug and convince your vet not to prescribe it for any dog.
THEN, educate others with a letter to the editor and email it to your local newspapers and others. (As usual, change and shorten it a bit) -
Dear Editor,
Although millions of women take Premarin to help manage their menopausal symptoms, few know about the drug's hidden ingredient: animal suffering.
Premarin is made from horse urine. To obtain the urine used in Premarin, mares are impregnated and confined in small stalls for six months of their 11-month pregnancies, unable to turn around or lie down comfortably because of the short chains and the urine-collection bags strapped to them.
For most mares, this cycle of pregnancy and confinement continues every year until they are barren or lame and are sold for slaughter.
The more than 70,000 foals who are born on PMU (pregnant mares' urine) farms each year are considered mere "byproducts" of urine production, and most end up on the dinner tables of Europe and Japan.
A growing number of doctors believe plant-based and synthetic estrogen-replacement therapy (ERT) drugs (such as Estrace, Estraderm, and Tace) are superior to Premarin. Dr. Stephen Rosenman, fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, has said, "Premarin's estrogen, made from pregnant mares' urine, is not the same as that in humans. And, like all animal-derived products, it shares the possible problem of inconsistency, while synthetics, produced in sterile, laboratory conditions ... are constant, always in the same concentration, and without the impurities contained in animal waste."
Readers who would like to know more about Premarin and its alternatives can write to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals', PO Box 3169, London, SW18 4WJ.
Yours sincerely,
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women for men." (Alice Walker "The Color Purple").
"In a world older and more complete than ours, animals move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth." (Henry Beston "A New Concept of Animal Cruelty")
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