At any given time, as many as 40,000 mares in the United States and Canada are hooked up to urine collection devices.  The cruelty surrounding the collection of pregnant mares’ urine (PMU) is not widely known.  Mares are kept in narrow stalls with no opportunity for exercise.  To concentrate the estrogen in their urine, they are given just two drinks of water a day, despite needing much more.  They are separated from their foals shortly after birth and impregnated again.  The majority of the foals born to these mares go to slaughter for overseas export.  The short lifespan of these mares is miserable.

     Hormone replacement therapy is essential for many women, however Premarin is not the only source of estrogen.  There are many plant-based therapies that can work just as well.  Among the possibilities are:  Estrace, Estra tab, Estinyl, Estraderm, Estrovirus, Menest, Ogen, Tace, Ortho Dienestrol, OrthoEst, Cenestin.  If you are taking Premarin, speak to your physician about switching to a cruelty-free alternative.

     Too many women are unaware of the real story behind Premarin and other hormone replacement therapies made with estrogens derived from horse urine.   The key to informing them lies with the packaging and labeling for these drugs.

     Please send a polite e-mail or letter to the FDA asking that they require pharmaceutical companies to fully disclose that the source material for Premarin and similar products is pregnant mares’ urine.

E-mail the
Food and Drug Administration

Print out a letter to mail to
Commissioner Jane E. Henney, M.D.

E-mail this page to friends who will help.

For more detailed information on this campaign
visit the
United Animal Nations

For more information on the horrors occurring to America’s horses, visit the website of
Equine Advocates