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Urin från fölston används i östrogenbehandling mot klimakteriebesvär. För att man ska kunna samla upp urinen krävs det att dessa fölston står uppbundna i trånga spiltor, där de knappt kan röra sig och inte kan lägga sig ned under sex månader. De har gummislangar kopplade runt omkring sig, som samlar upp urinen, vilka hindrar dem från att kunna röra sig och som dessutom orsakar stora otäcka skavsår. För att urinen ska innehålla koncentrerat östrogen så tillåts de knappast att dricka vatten. Fölen som de föder är en biprodukt, alldeles för svaga att möta ett annat öde än döden.
Här är en länk som leder till ett s k PMU - uppsamlingsstall.
http://www.friendsofanimals.org/pmu/pmu1.htm
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Några citat från den 5- sidiga weblänken:
PMU stands for Pregnant Mares’ Urine, the main ingredient in the popular drug Premarin, used to treat the symptoms of menopause. Premarin is marketed by Wyeth-Ayerst, a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical giant American Home Products. Millions of menopausal women are prescribed this drug every year, most unaware that it is derived from the urine of pregnant mares who are forced to stand for months at a time while their urine is being collected.
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Visitors are not welcome here. This is a PMU farm, and it is one of a growing number of such operations within the U.S.
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Rubber tubing runs from a pulley suspended from the ceiling to a hard plastic funnel-like device positioned under her tail and between her rear legs. A larger tube attached to the funnel passes between her front legs to a collection jug at the front of the stall. The contraption prevents her from moving more than a step or two in any direction. The skin under the rubber tubing along her hindquarters has become raw from the friction of her restless movements. She is thirsty, but the automatic watering device in her stall is dry. A few stalls down, a large roan draft horse shifts her 2,400 pound weight from side to side, searching for a comfortable position. Now in her eighth month of pregnancy, she wants to lie down but the narrow stall prevents a mare of her size from doing so.
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The mares are put “on line” in the barns in October where they will remain until mid-March. They are often subjected to water restriction in order to produce a more estrogen-concentrated urine.
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In March, the FoA investigator travelled to a Canadian horse feedlot and slaughter plant -the final destination of thousands of PMU foals every year. The investigator observed hundreds of horses in the unsheltered feedlot awaiting their deaths on the kill floor only yards away. There were many young horses, undoubtedly unwanted PMU foals from last year’s season. Animals too weak to survive the stresses of travel, harsh weather conditions or illness are left to die; in one holding pen a small dark horse lay dead, left there among the living for days.
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AE
Här är en länk som leder till ett s k PMU - uppsamlingsstall.
http://www.friendsofanimals.org/pmu/pmu1.htm
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Några citat från den 5- sidiga weblänken:
PMU stands for Pregnant Mares’ Urine, the main ingredient in the popular drug Premarin, used to treat the symptoms of menopause. Premarin is marketed by Wyeth-Ayerst, a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical giant American Home Products. Millions of menopausal women are prescribed this drug every year, most unaware that it is derived from the urine of pregnant mares who are forced to stand for months at a time while their urine is being collected.
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Visitors are not welcome here. This is a PMU farm, and it is one of a growing number of such operations within the U.S.
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Rubber tubing runs from a pulley suspended from the ceiling to a hard plastic funnel-like device positioned under her tail and between her rear legs. A larger tube attached to the funnel passes between her front legs to a collection jug at the front of the stall. The contraption prevents her from moving more than a step or two in any direction. The skin under the rubber tubing along her hindquarters has become raw from the friction of her restless movements. She is thirsty, but the automatic watering device in her stall is dry. A few stalls down, a large roan draft horse shifts her 2,400 pound weight from side to side, searching for a comfortable position. Now in her eighth month of pregnancy, she wants to lie down but the narrow stall prevents a mare of her size from doing so.
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The mares are put “on line” in the barns in October where they will remain until mid-March. They are often subjected to water restriction in order to produce a more estrogen-concentrated urine.
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In March, the FoA investigator travelled to a Canadian horse feedlot and slaughter plant -the final destination of thousands of PMU foals every year. The investigator observed hundreds of horses in the unsheltered feedlot awaiting their deaths on the kill floor only yards away. There were many young horses, undoubtedly unwanted PMU foals from last year’s season. Animals too weak to survive the stresses of travel, harsh weather conditions or illness are left to die; in one holding pen a small dark horse lay dead, left there among the living for days.
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AE
