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Meet Your Meat 1-8. Lots More To Come Re Food Production.
Posted on December 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Gone for 400 Years, Returned Beavers Get Protected Status in Scotland.
Posted on December 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Gone for 400 Years, Returned Beavers Get Protected Status in Scotland.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/12/02/gone-400-years-beavers-get-protected-status-scotland?cmpid=tpnews-eml-2016-12-03-weekly
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EU: Anti-Brussels protests are a CRIME – fears at Eurocrat crackdown on ‘dissent’.
Posted on December 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment: If we consider that the EU is not doing enough, say, for animal welfare, and the export of live EU animals to Turkey for example; then do we not have a fundamental right to attack Brussels for NOT enforcing its own legislation ? – allegedly Regulation 1/2005 on the welfare of animals in transport.
Call it ‘dissent’; call it what you want – we suggest ‘the truth’ would be appropriate.
It appears now that Brussels would even think we are wrong to say anything that shows that they are wrong – not enforcing the rules type thing – their rules that is !
Are we going to be blocked or shut down with many other groups ? – human rights groups; animal rights groups, etc, etc ? – Brussels is scared of opposition to its fundamentals which is growing throughout the EU – and so it has to come up with pathetic actions such as this to keep us all quiet and happy little EU citizens !.
We shall see !!!
EU CENSORS: Anti-Brussels protests are a CRIME – fears at Eurocrat crackdown on ‘dissent’
SINISTER plans to criminalise “political dissent” against the EU project took a step closer to becoming reality today, prompting a dismayed response from free speech campaigners.
Human rights groups have reacted with horror after EU member states approved draconian new anti-terror laws which critics have warned could be used to suppress eurosceptic movements by force.
In a rare show of universal anger seven leading civil rights movements tore into unelected Brussels bureaucrats over the shadowy plot, warning that it endangers “fundamental rights and freedoms” including the right to protest.
The new EU Directive on Combatting Terrorism has sparked concern and consternation across the globe due to its incredibly vague definition of what constitutes a terror offence.
Leading lawyers and campaigners have warned that it could easily be used to mercilessly crack down on eurosceptic movements and thwart protest against controversial EU initiatives.
Worry about the draconian new law is running so high that seven top human rights groups have penned an open letter to the European Union urging them to reconsider it.
Amnesty International, the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Fundamental Rights European Experts (FREE) Group, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) all called for the legislation to be comprehensively amended or else scrapped altogether. They voiced concern that, in its current form, the law could “lead to criminalising public protests and other peaceful acts, to the suppression of freedom of expression protected under international law, including expression of dissenting political views, and to other unjustified limitations on human rights”.
The directive, which will become law in Britain until we leave the EU, is so vaguely worded that terrorist offences include “seriously destabilising” a whole set of EU structures from the “political” to “economic”.
Amongst the powerful measures contained in the bill is a measure, borrowed from recent laws in France, that allows Brussels to order internet firms to block sites that “glorify” terrorism without any input from judges.
Critics have warned that the definition of terrorism is so vague that the law could easily be used to take down eurosceptic blogs and websites which are critical of the EU project.
Last month in France, where the measure was first coined, telecoms giant Orange was ordered to shut down Google and Wikipedia for an entire morning, with Internet users being directed to a French interior ministry website, where their IP addresses were then recorded by the authorities.
Continue to read more at:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/738849/European-Union-Human-Rights-Watch-concern-EU-anti-terror-law-free-speech-eurosceptic?utm_source=CRM&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Dissent_crackdown_EU&utm_campaign=Brexit_email
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Vietnam: These are the bile farm bears we’re trying to get home.
Posted on December 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
These are the bile farm bears we’re trying to get home
04 December 2016
These six bears have lived for years on a Vietnamese bile farm – we’re desperate to get them “home for Christmas” and the happiest new year of their lives.
Trapped in medieval-looking cages, six forlorn moon bears – four males and two females – peer out. Through these tiny holes they can see precious little of an outside world they must surely believe has forgotten them.
Each one has routinely suffered the agony of bile extraction. Their cages are lined up side by side but they’ve never been able to reach out and touch a friend. Surely their memories of sunlight and nature are all but gone.
Now, with your help, Animals Asia hopes to rescue them. The Forest Protection Department (FPD) of Dak Lak province where the bears are being kept has been pressurising the owner to give them up. If successful a small window of opportunity to finally end their suffering will open and the rescue team won’t dare delay.
Animals Asia’s Vietnam Director Tuan Bendixsen said:
“We’ve been putting a lot of pressure on Forestry departments in the region to force farmers to give up their bears and it’s starting to bear fruit. Thanks to our welfare work helping rescued elephants like Jun and Gold in the province, we’ve earned the trust of the local Forestry.
“They know that if they can convince the farmers, we can move quickly, take the bears and give them the health care, companionship and happy lives they deserve.”
Any rescue would be a major undertaking – moving six bears, 1,300km from Buon Ma Thuot city back to Animals Asia’s Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao, just an hour outside of Hanoi.
Animals Asia founder and CEO Jill Robinson MBE said:
“The bears desperately need help. It’s likely that they have been trapped in these tiny cages for up to a decade each. All we know about their health is that they have been tapped for bile and they have most likely lived without any vet care.
“Our priority now is to get them out of there. Then we take their pain away, build up their strength and give them a new life.”
To donate, please go to:
https://my.animalsasia.org/donate/en/usd/2016xmas?lang=en
https://www.animalsasia.org/uk/media/news/news-archive/these-are-the-bile-farm-bears-were-trying-to-get-home.html
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Video: An Abused Puppy Is Shown Affection For The First Time !
Posted on December 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Romania: Petition – Mr Mayor, Stop The Killing of Dogs in the Giurgiu Public Shelter and Conntinue to Work With German Welfare Groups.
Posted on December 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Petition in deutsch, english, romana
https://www.change.org/p/nicolae-barbu-bitte-verhindern-sie-die-euthanasie-von-hunden-im-tierheim-giurgiu-rum%C3%A4nien
To Mr. Barbu, Mayor of Giurgiu and all the city councils from the PSD
We the signers of this petition challenge you not to begin with the killing of dogs in the Giurgiu public shelter and to continue the co-operation with the German animal protection group DsN.eV to continue caring for the dogs and work towards a sustainable and permanent solution for Giurgiu’s street dog problem.
The contractually regulated co-operation between the Giurgiu town administration and the DsN.eVhas been in effect for 2.5 years. The contract stipulates that among other things the DsN e.V secures the complete supply of food, the standard treatment of dogs (inoculations, chip implants,castration and de-worming). The DsN e.V also contributes to the costs of constructional changes and supplies consumer goods such as washing powder, water bowls and food troughs. In return the town desists in killing the dogs.
This co-operation has been running for 2.5 years. In this time the DsN e.V has invested around €350,000 of donated money in the shelter and the region of Giurgiu. If one takes into account the purchase and extension of the property for our dogs, we have invested a sum in excess of a half a million Euros.
The town has saved this money, and according to the town employee, Mr. George Palalau the shelter has a budget of 20,000 Euros per month. What happens to this budget we can only guess. The wages in the shelter are not high, excrement is not properly disposed of. It is simply tipped into the bushes next to a recreational area. The refuse disposal comes irregularly and rubbish is disposed of in the country. The veterinarian who should be paid by the town for all other treatment, tumour operation, treatment of bite wounds etc has not received payment for several months. We challenge you to use the available money sensibly and sustainably eg for the castration of strays and dogs with owners.
A new shelter construction to west European standards has been promised several times in as many meetings. Use the money for that!
Romania has the duty to set chip implants, registration and castration of the dogs. Please ensure that this is enforced and controlled in Giurgiu, as so often discussed.
Other towns in Romania have understood that only blanket castration can stop the problem effectively. The shelter management under Ms. Isaia and Mr. Palalau is causing the shelter to deteriorate. The cleaning work is unacceptable, there is no pack management practised and death through illness and injury are consciously accepted. Mr. Barbu, you gave your word. No more rounding up of puppies, mothers with puppies or dogs that have already been castrated.
Mr Barbu you have the choice, whether you want to be one of the innumerable communities in Romania who go the seemingly simple way of killing, or if you want to continue with an exemplary project in German-Romanian animal welfare and find a long term sustainable solution for the stray dog problem in Giurgiu.
Other towns and cities in Romania would be happy about investments and the positive image in Europe that goes with it.
Please make the right decision for Giurgiu, for the dogs and for your own conscience.
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Romania: Take Action For Romanian Live Exports – A Useless Van Goethem / EU As Always !
Posted on December 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Yet another failure by the EU regarding non compliances with EU Regulation 1/2005.
Mr Van Goethem – I am an EU official, but I can do nothing !!
USELESS !!
Deutsch and English versions
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Stoppt das Massaker
von Millionen von rumänischen Tieren im Nahen Osten –
Kampagne/PETITION
In einer veganen Welt müssten wir nicht gegen die grausame Behandlung von Tieren kämpfen. Aber bis wir lernen und akzeptieren, dass Tiere nicht einfach Menschen zum Gebrauch zur Verfügung stehen, müssen wir wenigstens versuchen, das Leiden, das sie während ihres kurzen Lebens und beim Sterben erfahren, etwas zu verringern.
Rumänien steht an der Spitze der europäischen Länder, die Tiere grausam behandeln, eine Situation, die von ignoranten und korrupten rumänischen Behörden aufrechterhalten und gefördert wird. Dieselben ignoranten und korrupten Behörden haben es geschafft, Rumänien noch eine “Auszeichnung” in Sachen Tierquälerei zu “schenken”: es ist das Land, das die meissten lebenden Tiere exportiert! Millionen von rumänischen Kälbern, Kühen, Lämmern, Schafen usw. füllen eine Marktlücke, die dadurch entstanden war, dass andere Länder mit höherem ethischen Niveau das grausame Schlachten ihrer Tiere nicht zuliessen!
Das Leiden und Sterben der Tiere fängt mit der Minute an, wo sie auf Lastwagen gefrachtet werden, um zum Haven transportiert zu werden. Auf unzulänglichen (aber von ANSVA — der Nationalen Behörde für Veterinärwesen und Lebensmittelsicherheit “genehmigt”) — Transportwagen von Arbeitern, die oft unmenschlich (aber “qualifiziert” und “ausgebildet”) sind, zusammengepfercht, reisen sie ein bis drei Tage lang, bis sie von dern Lastwagen runter und auf Schiffe geladen werden. Obwohl sie durstig und erschöpft sind, werden sie auf grausame Art und Weise gezwungen, den steilen Laufgang des Schiffs raufzugehen – dazu werden Elektroschocker verwendet, oder es wird ihnen an vielen Stellen tief in den Korper gestossen.
Im Dienste einer Export-Industrie von lebenden Tieren, die einige Wenige sehr reich macht, werden Millionen von Tieren auf “Toten-Schiffen” zusammengepfercht und auf eine Reise übers Meer geschickt, die ungefähr 8 Tage dauert und den Nahen Osten zum Ziel hat. Einige Tiere sterben schon auf dem Transport, sie haben kein Wasser, sind erschöpft und ersticken. Man kann sagen, die haben Glück gehabt, denn ihre Qualen sind zu Ende.
Die, die noch am leben sind – noch erschöpfter und kaum fahig, sich aufrecht zu halten – werden auf andere Lastwagen geladen und zu unautorisierten Schlachthöfen gefahren, wo sie in Metalldrehkörpern getötet werden, was enorme Qualen verursacht und in denen die Tiere einen langsamen und schmerzvollen Tod erleiden. Andere werden zu Märkten gefahren, wo sie untrainierten Leuten ausgeliefert sind und primitive Massnahmen erleiden müssen. Sie werden an einer Strassenecke festgebunden und dann einfach erstochen, bis sie nach vielen qualvollen Minuten sterben.
Hier ist die Antwort von ANSVA (der Nationalen Behörde für Veterinärwesen und Lebensmittelsicherheit) in Bezug auf eine Beschwerde über die tragische Situation der Tiere während des Transports und am Bestimmungsort: “Es ist das erklärte Ziel von ANSVA, Rumäniens Teilnahme am internationalen Markt, was den Handel mit lebenden Tieren betrifft, UNBESCHRÄNKT ZU GARANTIEREN “
Rumänische Behörden stellen weiterhin Export-Lizenzen aus, obwohl sie genau wissen, dass die Exporte von Rumänien die Europa-Rat Regelung Nr. 1/2005 verletzt, welche laut einer Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs auch dann wirksam ist, wenn der Bestimmungsort der Tiere ein nicht-europäisches Land ist.
Die Korruption von rumänischen Behorden, besonders die, die Einhaltung von Regelungen überwachen anstatt Verstösse erlauben sollten, schafft es also, auch die Straßen von anderen Landern mit dem Blut und dem Leiden von rumänischen Tieren zu tränken.
Was der Transport von lebenden Tieren bedeutet und um mehr über die schockierende Behandlung zu lesen, die rumänische Tiere in anderen Ländern erleiden müssen, siehe hier:
http://inpremiera.antena3.ro/reportaje/sacrificati-de-stat-1-378.html
http://inpremiera.antena3.ro/reportaje/sacrificati-de-stat-2-379.html
FNPA (Nationale Vereinigung fur den Tierschutz) beteiligt sich bei einer Kampagne, die zum Ziel hat, den EXPORT VON LEBENDEN TIEREN ZU STOPPEN. Sie wurde von “ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL” begonnen, der Organisation, die diese Untersuchung eingeleitet hatte. Bitte, macht mit!
Bitte unterschreibt die internationale PETITION zum STOPPEN DER TODES-SCHIFFE hier:
www.animalsinternational.org
Vielen Dank!
Carmen ARSENE
Präsident FNPA
Rumänien
Die Tiere werden mit Gewalt auf die Schiffe getrieben, mit Elektroschockern oder Messerstichen in den Körper
The animals are forced to climb into the ship by electric prodding or by stabbing the body
Rind wird in Gaza getötet
Cow killed in Gaza
Verängstigte Kühe werden in Metalldrehkörpern getötet
Terrified cows killed in the rotation boxes
Stop the Massacre of Millions of Romanian Animals in the Middle East – Campaign/PETITION
In a vegan world we wouldn’t have to fight against cruel treatment of animals. But until we learn and accept that animals are not for human use, we must at least try to reduce the suffering they experience during their short life and at their death.
Romania ranks right at the top of European countries that commit animal cruelties, a situation that is upheld and encouraged by ignorant and corrupt Romanian authorities. Because of the same ignorant and corrupt authorities, Romania has managed yet another “accomplishment” in terms of animal cruelty: it is the country that exports MOST live animals! Millions of calves, cows, lamb, sheep, etc. from Romania fill the demands of a market that had been depleted because other countries with higher ethical standards would not allow the cruel slaughtering of their animals!
Suffering and death of the animals start the minute they’re being loaded on trucks to be transported to the port. Crammed into inadequate vehicles (but “authorized” by ANSVSA – National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority from Romania) by workers who are often inhuman (but “qualified” and “trained”), they travel one to three days until they’re unloaded from the trucks and loaded onto ships. Exhausted and thirsty they are brutally forced to climb the steep gangway of the ship with the use of electric cattle prods or by deeply stabbing the bodies in many places.
On behalf of an export industry of live animals which deeply lines the pockets of a few, millions of animals are crammed on “death ships” for a journey across the seas which lasts about 8 days, on their way to the Middle East. Some die during the transport, due to lack of water, due to exhaustion and suffocation. We would say those are the lucky ones, because their torment has ended.
Those still alive – even more exhausted and barely able to sustain themselves – are loaded onto other trucks and taken to unauthorized slaughterhouses where they are killed in rotation boxes which produce immense torture and cause the animals to die a slow and agonizing death. Others are taken by truck to markets where they are at the mercy of groups of untrained people and have to endure primitive behavior. Pulled to a street corner and tied up there, they’re being stabbed many times until they die after tens of minutes of agony.
The answer of ANSVSA (National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority from Romania) in response to the complaint about the tragic situation of the animals during transport and at their destination: “The stated purpose of ANSVSA is to ensure WITHOUT LIMITATION Romania’s participation in the international market, to trade with live animals”
Romanian officials continue to issue export licenses for live animals, despite being very well aware that exports from Romania are violating the European Council Regulation No.1/2005, which, according to the Decision of the European Court of Justice, is also applicable when the animals’ destination is a non-EU country.
The corruption of Romanian officials, namely those who should monitor compliance with regulations and not facilitate breaking them, “manages” to fill also the streets from other countries with the blood and suffering of Romanian animals.
What the transport of live animals means and to read about the shocking practices that Romanian animals in other countries are subjected to, see below:
http://inpremiera.antena3.ro/reportaje/sacrificati-de-stat-1-378.html
http://inpremiera.antena3.ro/reportaje/sacrificati-de-stat-2-379.html
FNPA -National Federation for Animal Protection- participates in a campaign that aims to STOP THE EXPORTS OF LIVE ANIMALS. It was started by “ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL”, the organization which carried out the investigation. Please get involved!
Please sign the international PETITION to STOP THE DEATH SHIPS from:
www.animalsinternational.org
Thank you!
Carmen ARSENE
President FNPA
Romania.
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