SAV has been in contact with Euro friends over the new year holiday and we can now confirm that SAV has joined up with many other animal welfare organisations within Europe to form the European Alliance For CCTV In Slaughterhouses.
As part of the European Alliance, we at SAV join the others and demand the EU Commission submits a legislative proposal for mandatory CCTV in all areas concerned with the handling and slaughter of animals in all EU abattoirs.
Below you will find links to the petition in several languages. This will gradually increase as the alliance grows across the EU.
At SAV we have decided to become alliance members as animal slaughter is an issue that we feel very strongly about. There needs to be much tighter controls for standards in slaughterhouses throughout the EU. Also, and one of our main reasons for becoming a member of the alliance; we strongly feel that this requirement for CCTV in ALL EU slaughterhouses should be a requirement for any Balkans states which are currently seeking EU Accession (membership). Consequently, we will work to currently demand that all slaughterhouses in the existing EU have CCTV installed; and that this requirement will be one of the standards required for any new states (ie. Serbia) wishing to join the EU.
Please crosspost this section of the site to as many people as possible and ask them to add their names to the petition.
Thank you – SAV.
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BACKGROUND
Right now hundreds of millions of animals in Europe are at risk of avoidable suffering brutality in abattoirs across Europe.
Piece-work, low-wages, defective equipment and as little as 5 seconds to slaughter animals all contribute to avoidable suffering. There are also staff who exert additional cruelty.
On the request of the Swedish Minister of Rural affairs, Eskil Erlandsson, the EU Commission confirmed in May 2011 that within individual EU countries up to 75 per cent of the animals are slaughtered improperly or not at all stunned. Alive and fully conscious they may be scalded, have their throats cut, be cut up by machines or bleed to death, hanging from a hook.
While animals suffer unnecessarily, slaughterhouse workers are also put at risk. There are a significant number of serious and fatal accidents in slaughterhouses, plus reported thefts of firearms – all of which could be reduced by the use of CCTV.
EU consumers unwittingly and unwillingly are forced to support this system of highly subsidised, low-cost meat production which subjects animals to a horrific death and puts staff unnecessarily at risk. THIS MUST END.
We demand for the whole of the European Union:
– Mandatory CCTV in all areas connected with slaughter and handling for slaughter.
– Unannounced checks that this is in effect.
– Footage being made available to agreed independent monitors.
– Mandatory prosecution for all offences.
– The placing of enforcement under the control of a national administrative body able to enforce animal protection laws regardless of local circumstances.
AN INDISPENSABLE DEMAND
EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR CCTV IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
After discussions with individuals and organisations across Europe with an interest in manadatory CCTV in slaughterhouses collectively a number of us have decided to establish a formal alliance that will be known as the EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR CCTV IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
This initiative for EU wide legislation for mandatory CCTV will run parallel to any domestic campaigns we may have. This website contains an EU wide public petition that will be translated into individual nation’s languages and will be promoted by alliance members in those countries.
This will follow on from the existing GERMAN petition here:
http://www.petitionen24.com/europaweite_videouberwachung_an_schlachthofen_und_dokumentation
UK – http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaughterhouses.eu/petition-uk
IRELAND – http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaughterhouses.eu/petition-ie
SPAIN – http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaughterhouses.eu/peticion-es
Print out form for collecting hand-written signatures:
We would like everyone interested to take part.
Please contact us : PETITIONER
Kindly share our website http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaugtherhouses.eu and the petition links with as many people as possible.
Thank you for helping us helping the animals.
EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR CCTV IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
Scotland for Animals (UK)
Animal Aid (UK)
CIWF – Compassion in World Farming (UK)
VIVA Org. (UK)
KAALE – Kent Action Against Live Export s- (UK)
ARAN Animal Rights Action Network (Ireland)
ADDA Ong (Spain)
Animal Equality (Spain)
ROLDA Foundation (Romania)
FNPA Federatia Nationala pentru Protectia Animalelor (Romania)
VOCAL CRETE (Greece)
SAV Serbian Animals Voice (Serbia)
Veganska iniciativa (Slovenia)
ETN e.V. – Protection of Animals and Nature in Europe (Germany)
Martina Patterson (Individual capacity, Germay)
Lisa Boldizsar (Individual capacity, Austria)
Website – PETITION PAGE
Europewide CCTV in all Slaughterhouses
This petition is addressed to the
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
EUROPEAN INTERGROUP FOR ANIMALS
all in Brussels, Belgium
We demand the EU Commission submits a legislative proposal for mandatory CCTV
in all areas concerned with the handling and slaughter of animals in all EU abattoirs.
EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR CCTV IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
SCOTLAND FOR ANIMALS (UK)
ANIMAL AID (UK)
CIWF – COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING (UK)
VIVA Org. (UK)
KAALE Kent Action Against Live Exports (UK)
ARAN Animal Rights Action Network (Ireland)
ANIMAL EQUALITY (Spain)
ADDA Ong (Spain)
ROLDA Foundation (Romania)
FNPA Federatia Nationala pentru Protectia Animalelor (Romania)
SAV Serbian Animals Voice (Serbia)
VOCAL CRETE (Greece)
Veganska iniciativa (Slovenia)
ETN e.V. – Protection of Animals and Nature in Europe (Germany)
Martina Patterson (private capacity, Germany)
Lisa Boldizsar (private capacity, Austria)
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Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 
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