Te meer daar er duidelijk alternatieven zijn en doktoren maar al te snel dit middel voorschrijven omdat een 'vrouw op een bepaalde leeftijd' niet helemaal zichzelf meer is.
Nu weet ik wel dat de ene overgang de andere niet is, maar iets meer informatie voor je ergens aan begint zou toch wel nuttig zijn.
Citaat:
FACTS ON PREMARIN
Premarin is an Estrogen Replacement Therapy (ERT) drug manufactured by the Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical corporation Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories.
The name Premarin comes from PREgnant MARes urINe (PMU). As its name implies, Premarin is made from the urine of pregnant horses.
Wyeth-Ayerst and its parent company, American Home Products, have enormous clout in the marketplace and with the media. In 2000, AHP spent nearly $38 million promoting the Premarin "family" of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs.
ABOUT THE HORSES
As of 2001, approximately 35,000 to 40,000 mares are kept pregnant year after year in order to produce Premarin. The quality of their care and the tragic fate of many of their offspring have been animal welfare issues for several years.
There are about 480 PMU farms, located mostly in rural areas in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada. In the United States, about 50 PMU barns are located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Indiana.
Every year in September, auctions are held to sell the large number of surplus foals, typically when they are between 3 and 4 months of age. Many of the approximately 30,000 foals sold at auction end up as meat in butcher shops in Japan, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany Holland and Switzerland.
Every year, the mares are kept in barns from October until April in narrow tie-stalls, fitted with rubber collection pouches suspended on pulleys. They cannot turn around, lie flat out at night to sleep deeply or roll in the dirt. Exercise is unregulated and minimal.
A growing number of grassroots animal rescue groups are helping to find homes for the approximately 30,000 "surplus" foals but this is a formidable task. It is estimated that about 500 PMU foals were rescued at the September 2000 auctions and brought to homes in the United States.
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