AR-News: (US OR) Horse rescuer

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

PAUL CRAIG 

CAMAS VALLEY -- When a truckload of pregnant horses rolled up her Burma Road 
driveway, Kathy Hiles knew she had a new purpose in life.

Hiles, 45, had read about the plight of a certain group of mares, whose 
bodily functions proved a valuable resource. She was disgusted.

The urine of pregnant horses, she discovered, is used in a menopause medicine 
trademarked as Premarin. The unusual remedy, manufactured in pill form, 
serves as estrogen or hormone replacement therapy to control the symptoms of 
menopause.

The horses are kept constantly pregnant so they can keep producing the 
necessary estrogen, Hiles says, and are forced to continually stand in undersized 
stalls for hours and months at a time. 

The company marketing the drug, pharmaceutical conglomerate Wyeth Inc., has 
long been under fire by animal activist groups. According to Wyeth quarterly 
reports, sales of the product have declined since 1999.





full story:
http://www.newsreview.info/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040126/NEWS/101260021



"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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