H.O.P.E., The Humane Organization to Protect Equines (
H.O.P.E. ) was born when our founder realized that the general public in
America was unaware that horses were being slaughtered in the United
States so that they could be eaten by people in other countries whose
gourmet tastes allow the enjoyment of horse flesh. As you know little
horse flesh is eaten in the U.S.
The method used to kill horses at the slaughterhouses is
unimaginably cruel. The horses do not die instantly and certainly not
painlessly. Eyewitness accounts from the slaughterhouse workers
themselves, tell of the dreadful screams, urinating from the fear of the
sounds, how their terrified eyes followed the workers around as they
hang suspended by one leg on the bleed line, drowning in their own blood
after their throats were slit. Some are even skinned while still alive.
Unborn foals growing in their mother's wombs die when the mare is
gutted, and are put in dumpsters with the rest of the slaughter waste.
Horses are not slaughtered in this country for pet food
as many people believe. Horsemeat that appears as an ingredient in some
pet foods comes from the waste meat of the beef industry.
H.O.P.E. will also address the issues surrounding the
foals from PMU farms that breed mares every year to produce urine to
manufacture the estrogen replacement drug Premarin. The drug is
manufactured by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, but their patent on the drug
recently expired, and other manufacturers are planning to put out
generic forms. The generics still require urine from pregnant mares.
Killer buyers who wait patiently at auctions all across
the country to purchase the leftover horses and transport to the
slaughterhouses are a major part of the horror but it is important to
note it doesn't end here. Recent reliable estimates show that
approximately 40,000 foals are being born as a result of Premarin
production each year. Efforts are being made to rescue some of these
foals each year, however the sheer numbers make rescue of all foals
impossible, and as a result, many go to slaughter sometimes as young as
2 months old. The PMU foals should never be born for the reason they
come into this world. Our fight against Premarin must take two
directions if we are to succeed; end slaughter and educate women and the
medical professions, including your doctors, to reduce the use of
Premarin (and its sister drugs), so the vast profits that are now
promoting other companies to begin manufacture, causing an increase in
PMU farming, are no longer there.
The Humane Organization for the Protection of Equines
(H. O. P. E.) will hold a Rally in Lafayette Park, in Washington, D. C.,
on September 18, 2000. Watch for more information on this in future
issues of Animal Writes, or contact Kandi59274@aol.com
Go on to
9 August 2000 Issue
Return to Website of Note
Return to Newsletters
** Fair Use Notice**
This document may contain copyrighted material, use of which has not been
specifically authorized by the copyright owners. I believe that this
not-for-profit, educational use on the Web constitutes a fair use of the
copyrighted material (as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright
Law). If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your
own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright
owner.
