Premarin Horses and China
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM Tuesday's Horse
July 2019

The last PMU (pregnant mare’s urine) facility operating in N. America — in Canada — is reportedly closing down.

For thorough information about PMU/Premarin, please read Pushing Premarin: Big Pharma, Big Bucks...

PMU Farm in Xinyuan County, China (2012)

The last PMU (pregnant mare’s urine) facility operating in N. America — in Canada — is reportedly closing down. This has been a long time coming.

However, while that sounds like good news, HRT (hormone replacement therapy) drugs made from pregnant mare’s urine is on the rise in China where millions of women are already taking various forms of it.

China is also where most of the world’s pregnant mare’s urine farms are.

Pregnant mares are repeatedly impregnated and milked for their urine in revolting conditions. The foals are immediately disposed of, often sent to local restaurants to be turned into “fresh off the hoof” dishes. Or, like the mares who can no longer get pregnant, are sent straight to a slaughterhouse.

There are no rescues we know of for these horses anywhere in China. 

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