Premarin drug users - will you still use this product after you've found out the truth?

Every year, doctors prescribe hormone replacement therapy (HRT)鈥攁lso referred to as menopausal hormone therapy鈥攖o hundreds of thousands of women experiencing menopausal symptoms.

There are about 100 ranches in remote areas of North Dakota and Canada that house thousands of pregnant mares who produce urine for Premarin and Prempro.(1,2) For most of their 11-month pregnancies, these horses are confined to stalls so small that they cannot turn around or take more than one step in any direction. The animals must wear rubber urine-collection bags at all times, which causes chafing and lesions, and their drinking water is limited so that their urine will yield more concentrated estrogen.

The fate of the thousands of foals born on PMU farms each year is equally disturbing. Some are used to replace their exhausted mothers. Some foals end up getting adopted while the rest (considered by-products) are sold and slaughtered at less than a year of age.

If you'd like more info - check out a Yahoo! or Google search engine. Look up "cruelty of Premarin" or something along those lines.

drugs are bad.

animal cruelty is bullshit.

i love animals to death!!!!

i support the a.a.c.

so all the drug users are just plain gay

i use Vivelle -it works great and is applied via patch so it doesn't go thru my entire system like a pill.

Whether that is true or not, I would not take it because i believe in letting nature take its course.

But unless you have gone through menopause, I would not judge people.

Yes it is pregnant mare urine. Thats how it got its name pre-mar-in. And this is a big agenda driven stretch of what happens. It is no more cruel than chickens being raised and slaughtered so you can eat them. The foals that are born are sold for a use just like any other horse, not just the ones who are producing the drug.

Its just a fact of life that people use animals to improve their own lives.

And no, there is no generic equivalent for Premarin. But there are other hormone replacement therapy options.

GOOD POINT TO THE DUDE THAT ANSWERED BEFORE ME.