Mares pay a painful price for HRT drug
It is not widely known that tens of thousands of pregnant mares are kept in captivity where their urine is collected for the making of this drug due to its oestrogen content.
The mares are fitted with a collection cup attached to a hose and confined in a narrow stall for the entire eleven months of their pregnancy.
As soon as possible after the birth of their foals, which are routinely slaughtered, the mares are reimpregnanted and the urine collection process begins again.
The mare has no opportunity to use her maternal instinct to lick and suckle her new-born foal.
Germaine Greer wrote in The Whole Woman, that the whereabouts of the horse hormone farms and the number of animals involved are bothwell kept secrets.
There were 80,000 mares on US urine farms in 1999, according to one estimate.
Most women who take the HRT pill do not know where it comes from because the drug’s maker does not tell them as it would adversely affect this multi-million dollar/euro industry.
If you want to learn more about alternatives to HRT, read ‘Eat Right, Live Longer’ by Neal Barnard MD and ‘Menopause Without Medicine’ by Linda Ojeda PhD.
Pauline O’Mahony,
Milford,
Charleville,
Co Cork.
