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C’mon ladies…there’s nothing wrong with profits! It’s what generates the research into new products. How about this. Instead of a company employing you and paying you a wage from their profits…Would you prefer to work for free? I didn’t think so.
The problem with Jeff’s comment was that he should have selected a communist country as his example…not Mexico. And Jeff…stay out of the firing line around menopausal women! We can be pretty grumpy.

And yes, I am a woman who has gone through this. I commend anyone who refuses to use products that involve the abuse of horses in order to find relief. Premarin, etc. It sucked, but I’m proud to say that I’ve made it to the other side without creating a foal to be slaughtered just so I can have relief. Lots and lots of Zumba…four to five times a week and Weight Watchers five days a week have kept the pounds down. It’s been much harder to control my weight, so I just move more. No way around that. Move your arse! The endorphins will make you feel better too.

From Wiki…
Premarin is the subject of some contention. Animal welfare groups and those opposing the industry claim that animal husbandry and urine collection methods used in Premarin’s production cause undue stress and suffering to the mares involved.[4] Allegations of abuse range from concern over stall size, access to water, exercise, cruel treatment, collection system and continuous breeding cycles, resulting in premature death for thousands of mares and foals. Some claim the numbers are more accurately in the millions.[5]

For six months of the year the mares are outside, where they are annually impregnated. The mares, stabled inside for the other six months of the year, are restrained in a variety of ways, with plastic urine-collection bags in place. These bags can limit movement on their own, but many of these horses are restrained part or all of the time, further restricting natural movement. Morbidity can result, with infection and other skin injury resulting from the urine bags, and the restriction of movement can also lead to disability. Fluid (water) intake is severely restricted, as well.[citation needed] Most horses have a far shorter life-span in this environment than would be expected.

Some of this contention may stem from the looser standards formerly held in the industry, although accurate records are lacking. The pregnant mare urine (PMU) farms have been in existence since 1942. At that time, many farms were breeding large amounts of foals because more pregnant mares meant more urine and more income. A large number of these foals were unwanted. Many of them were out of draft mares because the larger horses could produce more urine. These foals, in many cases, were reported as being sent to slaughter.

Around the time of the turn of the century, however, the industry was cut. In part, this was from research indicating that lower doses of the drug might instead be safer. As a result, some facilities reduced the number of mares that were contained on-site, and some contend that other aspects of the industry were updated as well.

The cut spurred much controversy of its own. Many animal rights groups were (and still are) very against the industry, and so this downsizing represented a victory for them — fewer farms meant fewer animals likely to be mistreated or killed. However, it also led many of these farms to sell off large numbers of horses for slaughter.

The downsizing of the industry led to another change. With a lesser quantity of urine needed for the production of Premarin, the ranchers involved in the industry were no longer limited to using only draft horses. More of a focus on breeding saleable foals has been seen, with an emphasis on selecting good quality stallions to sire the foals. Crosses now popular within the industry may include such breeds as Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, Hanoverians, Paints, and other such breeds, in addition to the more traditionally-used draft breeds. The ranchers rely on selling foals as much as they rely upon the urine collected from the pregnant mares. Many of these farms utilize websites and forms of promotion identical to non-Premarin related horse breeders, and, in nearly all ways, are indistinguishable from the average breeder of equines.

Currently, those in favor of the industry claim that standards on farms are strict and meticulous records must be kept, and that all ranchers must follow the “Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Horses in PMU Operations” in order to keep their contract. They further state that ranchers are regularly inspected to ensure they are following these codes in order to ascertain well-maintained animals and facilities.

*Unwanted foals are still sent outside the country for slaughter for consumption in Europe.

Good luck finding a plant based replacement ladies.