Dear Editor,
It' time for health care consumers and animal advocates
to write to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to request that they provide
financial assistance for terminated Premarin mare ranchers to adopt
out their horses rather than sell them for slaughter.
By helping these ranchers adopt out these horses to homes or rescue
organizations, Wyeth could save thousands of lives. Many people
are willing to pay more than meat rate to adopt “retired”Premarin
horses; yet high transportation costs can be an obstacle.
Wyeth has the financial means - thanks to the enormous success for Premarin and Prempro (the products these horses were enslaved to produce) - to help ranchers fill this gap. Those horses deserve to live out the rest of the lives in settings where they are treated as companions not producers.
Wyeth’s production needs built this network of farms on the backs of tens of thousands of horses. As Wyeth downsizes it’s
reliance on these ranchers and their horses, it needs to recognize
and fulfill its ethical obligations to them.
I urge everyone to write to Wyeth today.
Address your letters to: Mr. Steve Tasher, Senior Vice-President,
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, 5 Giralda Farms, Madison, NJ 07940-1027
Do it for the horses that have suffered for so long producing the means for this giant pharmaceutical company to become wealthy. These horses should not suffer the final indignity of being slaughtered for meat.
Susan Kemenyas
