Hi, Alex!!! What a soapbox you have there!!! I just want to say that I have been talking about hormone replacement therapy here because there are women who are interested in it, some of them just lurking, and there are also people here who have medical and pharmacological and chemical knowledge about these drugs. I hope you don't think I'm some sort of silly bimbo who makes personal medical decisions based on what I read of other people's opinions on the internet. Assertiveness with doctors, research at university libraries and healthy skepticism are all part of the way I figure things out.
I do believe there is truth to the allegations of pregnant mare abuse, and I will check into it further. I have very mixed opinions about PETA. I think that when they released those minks recently who starved to death because they were totally helpless outside of their cages--if that part of the account is accurate--the whole thing was pretty ill-conceived. I mean--unclear on the concept!!!! But in other ways, like throwing paint on fur coats, that is not actually violent and it is the only organization which really brought the plight of fur animals to public attention.
Like Critical Mass, the current San Francisco bicyclists' way of getting attention, there is quite a lot of civil disobedience, but they are not at heart organizations of violent people. In five years, I predict that both these movements will have changed perceptions, and the good each is trying to do for the environment overshadows some of the ways they have gotten public attention. So although I have reservations about some of the things PETA does, I would not discount information about mare abuse simply because they are a bit radical.
Back to hormones--I think the critical issue is whether the breast cancer risk is underestimated. Some doctors believe so, and books are being written about it. It would be ironic to come closer to the end of a longer life less wrinkled, more energetic, with minimized bone loss, plenty of sexual energy and moist tissues where they are really important, only to find that you have developed cancer as the result of the therapy. What a bad cosmic joke!!
Anyway, thanks for your common sense response!! < : ) |
