What are PMU Foals?
Premarin or PMU (PREgnant MARe urINe) foals are mere by-products of the Hormone Replacement Therapy drug Premarin that is prescribed to women in menopause or who have had hysterectomies. This drug is made from the urine of approximately 60,000 pregnant mares (female horses) and their foals are usually shipped to slaughterhouses for their meat, which is marketed overseas to European and Asian countries for human consumption. When the mares can no longer conceive they too are generally shipped for slaughter and replaced on the “pee lines”. These horses and foals vary in breed, the majorities are; Paints, Appaloosas, Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, Drafts, and crosses of each. The very concept of this industry is outrageous. Even the passing interest of those with no connection to animal rights is stirred by the idea of the slaughter of over fifty thousand baby horses each year. There are alternatives to this drug and to hormone replacement therapy. For more information visit http://www.pr
