Wyeth is a major pharmaceutical company that uses pregnant mare urine (PMU) to manufacture postmenopausal drugs including Premarin, Prempro and Premphase.

Stallions who no longer perform adequately, mares who can no longer produce foals, and an estimated 30,000 foals per year are unwanted by-products of this industry. Most of these PMU stallions, mares and foals are sold at auction, fattened and sent to slaughter.

NAERIC the North American Equine Ranching Information Council - is an association which purports to represent farmers who collect PMU.

For years rescue organizations have been working diligently to save as many PMU horses as possible by buying them directly from the PMU farmers and placing them in long term homes.

It is our understanding that Wyeth recently changed its policy and has elected to no longer allow PMU farmers to sell their horses to rescue organizations. We also understand that NAERIC has elected to reduce or eliminate subsidies which were previously available to rescue or placement organizations.

We believe that implementation of these new policies will result in PMU horses being sent to slaughter when they might otherwise have been saved.

This is unacceptable.

By submission of this petition, we demand that Wyeth and NAERIC not establish any further policies or enforce any current policies which would:

1. Interfere with or obstruct PMU farmers or transporters of PMU horses from dealing with rescue or placement organizations.

2. Prevent PMU farmers from giving or selling PMU horses to rescue or placement organizations.

3. Result in the termination or reduction of subsidies which are or may become available to rescue or placement organizations for PMU horses, including purchase and transportation subsidies.


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*Please note that copies of this petition will be distributed to Wyeth, NAERIC and various private and governmental agencies and that any information you provide will be available to the public.