Posted on October 14, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Pictures – CIWF London.
Last Friday, Compassion’s #CowOnTour started her 7-stop European trip to protest against live exports from the EU.
The tour was launched outside the EU offices in central London. Protestors came from far and wide to stand shoulder to shoulder and say NO MORE LIVE EXPORTS!
And those at the protest weren’t alone.
The online #CowOnTour petition has already been signed by over 68,000 people and, at the end of the tour, all those signatures will be delivered directly to the European Commission HQ in Brussels.
Compassion’s #CowOnTour has now also collected her very first real-life signatures all over her body – including that of Harry Potter star, Evanna Lynch, who was the first person to sign.
Live Export Disaster
We recently discovered that a livestock vessel with 5,000 cattle aboard, overturned while still at its loading pier, in Brazil.
Due to depart for Venezuela, the ship started taking on water and eventually capsized next to the pier.
Onlookers took videos with their mobile phones, which show the horror the cattle endured in their final moments.
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Posted on October 12, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
California Tells SeaWorld to Stop Breeding Killer Whales
SeaWorld has won the battle but lost the war in its bid to enlarge its killer whale enclosure in San Diego.
On Thursday evening, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to approve the company’s $100 million “Blue World Project” but with devastating conditions for SeaWorld: It can proceed with the expansion but only if it stops breeding 11 killer whales in San Diego.
The company also would not be allowed to transfer captive whales into or out of San Diego, though it could add up to four orcas if the animals are stranded and rescued from the wild.
Orcas “don’t belong in captivity,” said Commissioner Dayna Bochco.
Anti-captivity activists, who crammed the commission meeting at the Long Beach Convention Center, hailed the decision as the beginning of the end of orca captivity in San Diego.
“I actually didn’t even think of this as a potential outcome, and I’m happier with it than if they had said no,” Kimberly Ventre, an activist and marketing consultant from San Francisco who testified against the expansion, said in an email.
About 650 people—including activists, company officials, actor Pamela Anderson, and concerned citizens on both sides of the controversial project—attended the hearing, with an overflow crowd waiting outside.being to reproduce. SeaWorld has been hit with declining revenues and attendance since the release of Blackfish, a 2013 documentary about mistreatment of marine mammals at its entertainment parks.
“They are thriving because they are reproducing,” testified Hendrik Nollens, senior staff veterinarian at SeaWorld San Diego. “It’s a sign that the animal is living in a socially compatible group and in good health.”
What happens next is not clear. SeaWorld could still build Blue World and abandon its San Diego breeding program, or it could continue breeding and abandon the facility.
“Depriving these social animals of the natural and fundamental right to reproduce is inhumane, and we do not support this condition,” SeaWorld chief executive Joel Manby said in a statement. The company added that “it will review its options.”
“This is a major victory,” said Naomi Rose, a marine mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute. Rose was one of two orca scientists to testify against the project. The other was Ingrid Visser, founder of New Zealand’s Orca Research Trust.
“As a scientist, I believe it’s important that we separate the business rhetoric from the facts,” Visser told the commissioners. “This new tank does not meet even [the most] basic requirements,” she said. “No tank ever will.” SeaWorld now finds itself in a marine-mammal pickle. Company executives testified during the nearly nine-hour hearing that they would never abandon their captive breeding program because it is essenial for the whales’ well-being.
SeaWorld’s Expansion Gets Approved, but There’s an Epic Catch
by Alicia Graef
This week hundreds of orca advocates turned out for the meeting that would determine the fate of SeaWorld San Diego’s proposed expansion. The advocates voiced their objections and urged the California Coastal Commission to deny its permit application …and they were not disappointed.
SeaWorld’s controversial $100 million Blue World Project was touted as a “first-of-its-kind” environment for captive orcas, which would include nearly doubling the size of its existing facility, in addition to adding an advisory panel of experts and pledging $10 million for research.
While a bigger enclosure might slightly improve the welfare of the 11 orcas currently being held at the park, opponents argued that a tank is still a tank and raised serious concerns that more space would mean more breeding, with SeaWorld potentially increasing its population and negating any benefits more space would provide.
The California Coastal Commission, which has the authority to approve or deny the expansion, received an outpouring of public opposition before this week’s meeting with thousands upon thousands of people coming forward to speak up on behalf of captive orcas – more than 102,000 people signed the Care2 petition opposing the project.
Despite the massive opposition, last month SeaWorld got some worrying support in the form of a staff report from the commission recommending the expansion project be approved.
Yesterday the commission met in front of a huge crowd to decide the final outcome. Orca experts including Dr. Ingrid Visser and Dr. Naomi Rose, along former SeaWorld trainer John Hargrove and representatives from several animal advocacy organizations including Peta, the Earth Island Institute, Sea Shepherd and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, among many others and members of the public, were present to ask the commission not to allow SeaWorld to expand.
After hearing hours of testimony, the commission ultimately voted unanimously to approve the expansion, but with a huge catch.
At the end Commissioner Dayna Bochco introduced an amendment that added the condition that SeaWorld would end all captive breeding, sale, trade and transfer of the orcas in its care.
Now SeaWorld can go ahead with the project, but if it does, it will mean the 11 orcas currently at its park will be the last it ever has.
While SeaWorld said in a statement it’s disappointed by the vote and is considering its options, along with ironically saying denying them the “right” to breed is “inhumane,” animal advocates are celebrating this outcome as a huge victory in the fight to end orca captivity.
ALDF Executive Director Stephen Wells, said in a statement:
SeaWorld’s business is circling the drain as an enlightened
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Posted on October 12, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Photo – Peta
Please support PETA with this very important campaign – China again !!
PETA visited angora farms in China that were deemed “humane” by third-party auditors, and we confirmed with our own eyes that live rabbits’ fur is ripped out of their skin and they’re forced to live in horrendous conditions, despite assurances to the contrary.
On these farms, most rabbits were suffering from a severe skin irritation, and in many cases the animals weren’t offered any treatment for serious and chronic infections, sores, malnutrition, and respiratory distress.
Some rabbits were so sick and weak that they were lying in their own waste, motionless or panting. This is yet another example showing that the auditing system is a farce that protects suppliers and retailers rather than animals, regardless of “standards” that might be in place.
There is no way to mass-produce angora humanely. Because of the cruelty involved, more than 110 top retailers have banned angora, including Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Ann Inc., H&M, and Inditex.
Yet Free People, which is owned by Urban Outfitters, continues to sell cruel angora wool.
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The Video That Started It All
They were the screams heard around the world. Undercover footage shot by PETA Asia revealed extreme yet routine cruelty to angora rabbits, whose long, soft fur is often used in sweaters and accessories. See the footage for yourself: Link above.
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Posted on October 12, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Even if the UK government does not; we fully support the rights and freedom of the people of Tibet !
From ‘Free Tibet’ magazine Issue 72 October 2015.
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Posted on October 9, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Please take action for Romanian dogs – go to the following for full details:
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Has Monsanto Been Hiding Evidence for Decades
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared that glyphosate—the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup and other pesticides—a “probable carcinogen.”
What’s more: there is evidence to suggest that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actually classified Roundup as a carcinogen thirty years ago and then mysteriously reversed the decision. Now, there’s a new advancement in the plot to uncover the truth about glyphosate. This time, there’s alleged evidence to suggest that, while Monsanto maintains that Roundup is safe and environmentally-friendly, the company may have conducted research dating back to the 1970s which showed that Roundup caused serious health issues.
According to the scientists who are releasing this information to the public, Monsanto may have tampered with the evidence it sent to regulators.
An independent and well-known research scientist and member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Anthony Samsel, attempted to obtain the research and data Monsanto submitted to the government through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) without success. He then enlisted the help of his senator and along with his co-investigator Dr. Stephanie Seneff at MIT.
They successfully received over 15,000 pages of documents in response. Since reviewing the thousands of pages of Monsanto data, Samsel has come forward and stated in an interview with Dr. Gary Null on the Progressive Radio Network that “Monsanto misrepresented the data…and deliberately covered up data to bring the product [glyphosate] to market.”
According to the scientists’ assessment, Monsanto’s own research shows that glyphosate exposure is linked to: cancers of the pituitary gland, brain, heart, lungs, salivary glands, lymphatic glands, prostate, bladder, thyroid, adrenal glands and skin.
Independent research has shown that exposure to glyphosate is linked to many serious health problems. In an animal study conducted at the University of Caen, Institute of Biology, in Caen, France, researchers found a link between reproductive disorders and sterility and glyphosate-based pesticides.
Monsanto is also the biotechnology company behind the creation of Roundup Ready corn, or Bt corn, which is short for Bacillus thuringiensis—a type of bacteria whose genes are crossed with corn to create genetically-modified corn that produces glyphosate-based pesticides within every cell. This type of corn is found in many fast foods, packaged foods, and prepared foods in the form of corn niblets, corn starch, corn flour or high fructose corn syrup. This GMO corn has recently been found in children’s snack foods.
A recent study found in the Journal of Applied Toxicology found that Bt genes added to corn are not the inert substances the public has been led to believe. They also found that the GMO corn and the glyphosate it manufactures within cells can combine with other pesticide residues to cause potential health effects.
Last month a French court ruled for the second time that Monsanto is guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer with another one of its pesticide products, known as “Lasso,” which is specifically used to destroy weeds and grasses. In the government’s own Health and Human Services Household Products Database, Lasso is listed as causing blindness, respiratory irritation, liver damage, eye nerve inflammation, jaundice, bladder inflammation and other serious health concerns.
If the scientists who are involved in exposing an alleged cover-up at Monsanto are correct, Monsanto needs to be subjected to a thorough investigation and its glyphosate products like Roundup and Roundup Ready corn eliminated from the market, not to mention the corrective actions that should arise if the company is found guilty of a decades-long cover-up.
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Posted on October 9, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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Name: Susanne Heitz
Message: Dear Animals Voice-Team, would you be so kind to share/spread support this petition to Romanias President Klaus Iohannis.
It ends end of Oktober!!
Thank you very very much
In this group you will find the german original as well as an english, romanian and french translation:
Best regards Susanne Heitz
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Posted on October 3, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Is it possible that no one out of the thousands of friends I have on Facebook is able to donate anything towards the cost of cat food? Do the kitties deserve to starve just because we are not screaming, wailing and pleading for help two times a day?
Should we talk about and maybe even consider closing the shelter and turning all of the cats back out into the streets, after years of heartily fighting for them and working way beyond our limits, as they are obviously totally unimportant to people and not even worth thinking about or saving? Is there anyone out there who really cares?
Without some sort of assistance soon, everything we’ve campaigned and fought so hard for here could quickly be lost. Even the smallest donations help, they add up and it’s better than nothing at all.
Please help if you can, even sharing our plight with others helps out, you never know who’s out there that would like to get involved and see these kitties remain safe and healthy in the only place that’s shown them caring and love.
You can donate through PayPal, our YouCaring fundraising page or our project on betterplace.org and please bear in mind that we sincerely appreciate all of the help we get, even when our thank you notes are late, which they usually are.
We are deeply grateful to all of our friends and donors who have been supporting our work so unselfishly for years now and all of us here genuinely thank each and every one of you for your unlimited kindness with every ounce of our beings! Read more on my blog:
SAV Comment – Please Donate –
This Shelter Is Too Good To Close !
Thank You.
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