Posted on February 21, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark,
I am following up on an email I sent you recently, about a crisis in Mongolia.
After an unprecedented winter last year, animals continue to struggle as this year winter arrived two months earlier than expected.
Right now animals are not only suffering to withstand temperatures much colder than usual, but they are having trouble breaking through the snow to find food, and are starving.
Now that we are in February, temperatures are brutal and these animals need us now more than ever.
World Animal Protection is on the ground providing aid and nutrients to the households that own these animals, but we need help. I’m afraid time is running out for these poor animals.
Please considering donating a gift to help the animals of Mongolia, and others around the world, who desperately need our help. Thank you for caring, and for being a friend to animals when they need you most.
Thank you
Donation link –
A gift of $51 could provide an emergency nutritional pack for one household and assist 83 animals.
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Posted on February 21, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Hi Mark,
Our old campaign link:
We did it.
HSBC have just announced that they’ll stop funding palm oil companies that destroy the rainforest. [1]
Whether you signed the petition, donated, or badgered them online, you made this happen – and it’s not everyday you topple a bank! [2]
We should feel pretty powerful today – and that’s why
it’s probably not the time to rest on our laurels. HSBC isn’t the only bank that’s been putting orangutan habitat at risk. If right now, we make HSBC’s decision as public as possible, we can show just how easy – and what good PR – it would be for other banks to do the same.
Please will you chip in a few pounds for an advert in the Financial Times demanding change from banks like Standard Chartered? If we use our momentum right now to win over other banks, people across South East Asia will be safer and swathes more rainforest could be saved. [3]
HSBC are the biggest bank in Europe, which is why we went straight for them. At first they told us they weren’t doing anything wrong, then that palm oil funding is too “complex” for them to clean up. But after just a few weeks of campaigning, they backed down.
If a bank as big as HSBC can do it, other banks are going to find it hard to make excuses. But right now, they think nobody knows what they’re up to – this ad will change that.
140,000 of us in the UK joined the campaign against HSBC.
Take a minute to picture 140,000 individuals all over the UK who you haven’t met. It’s pretty amazing that you were part of a team that beat one of the biggest banks in the world. You’ve done a lot. But if each of you can chip in £1 today, we can make sure this victory reverberates around the banking sector and creates exciting, long lasting change. Let’s get this ad in the paper next week!
Thanks for standing up for people and primates,
India.
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Posted on February 21, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on February 20, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Speak up for the dolphins.
Dear Mark,
For many calves, a hot iron in the face is just the beginning of years of torture.
A PETA exposé of cattle ranches in Brazil that supply JBS S.A.—the largest leather processor in the world—reveals that ranch workers dragged calves away from their mothers before twisting their necks and standing on their faces while using a hot iron brand to burn a symbol into their flesh.
For the next three years, these animals will endure beatings, electric shocks, and neglect, until the day they are kicked and shoved into the trucks that will take them to the slaughterhouse. There, workers will slit their throats and peel off their skin so that it can be turned into the leather we see in cars, furniture, footwear, belts, jackets, and accessories sold around the world.
From the cattle farms of Brazil to the hellish slaughterhouses in China where dogs are among the animals stripped of their skin to make the leather in gloves, cat toys, and other consumer goods, the global leather trade is responsible for nightmarish cruelty to animals.
It takes an average of three cows’ hides to cover the interior of a single standard car (but up to eight for some models), and what those animals endure even before they’re sent to slaughter makes it easy to see why the popularity of animal-friendly fabrics is growing. Our exposé reveals that in addition to the face-branding of calves, adult cows are forced into chutes and painfully branded on the back. Workers applied hot irons without administering any pain relief at all, counter to Brazil’s minimum animal-welfare recommendations. “Handling” on these ranches is typically extremely rough, involving beatings and sometimes electric shocks. The video shows that panicked cows in chutes were shocked, kicked, and pulled by their delicate ears and tails. The eyewitness also saw a calf with a severe maggot infestation, a cow with a swollen head, and animals with open, bloody wounds.
Every year, millions of cows are killed at JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil. Workers slit their throats before removing their skin and sending it to JBS tanneries. In 2015, the most recent year for which records are available, JBS’ 26 factories on three continents processed 10 million individual animals’ skins—but much of the cruelty revealed in this exposé is far from unique to that company. Around the world, branding, electric shocks, and severe neglect—even of animals with serious, painful medical conditions—is commonplace in industries that use cattle, and PETA affiliates have documented similarly violent treatment during transport in India and during slaughter in Bangladesh.
By making a much-needed gift today, you’ll be strengthening PETA’s work to stop animals from suffering for something as trivial as a car seat.
Synthetic and plant-derived materials are both compassionate and fashionable—and PETA’s innovative campaigns are informing consumers, designers, and manufacturers every single day about sustainable, durable fabrics for which animals aren’t harmed. Today, 13 automobile manufacturers, including BMW and Nissan, offer at least one completely vegan interior—and together with our international affiliates, we’re continuing to push Toyota and other hold-out companies to follow their lead.
Please, think of the mother cows whose calves were torn away from them and mutilated and support our work to help them and all other animals. Together, we can put the brakes on cruelty.
Thank you for your compassion and generous support.
Kind regards,
Ingrid E Newkirk
Founder
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Posted on February 20, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Regarding our very recent appeal:
We now have some great news from ‘Free Tibet’, London.
We made it – Thank you
Thank you to all those who have donated to Tibet Match 2017, raising an incredible £6,448.60 so far.
£6,000 of this will be doubled, meaning a total of £12,448.60 for Tibet Watch. During Tibet Match week, any donations made (up to a £6,000 limit) are matched by a handful of generous benefactors, and with just 10 hours to go, we have surpassed that limit, securing the entire match pot for our research partner.
Our Senior Researcher in Dharamsala wished to pass this message on to all those who donated:
“Thank you very much for your support and donations. It’s truly an inspiration for all of us to see your generosity when someone is in need of help. A single coin you give to Tibet Watch makes a big difference in highlighting Tibet and raising awareness of human rights violations. It means a lot to us and a lot for our work. Thank you once again.”
Thanks to your fantastic support, we have the funds needed to run the entire Tibet Watch field office for more than half the year.
Thank you.
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Posted on February 17, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Progressing the cause of animal protection
Dear Mark
Already in 2017 we’ve been working on a forthcoming new website that will explain our work more effectively, and helping to plan major international research and publishing projects on the blockages to improving animal protection.
A significant obstacle is the lack of government bodies dedicated to protecting animals – but we have some positive news on that front!
Our major proposal for a UK Government Animal Protection Commission has now gained cross-party momentum. The Conservative and Labour animal protection policy groups are now promoting this vital measure within their parties – it is already official policy in the Green and Liberal Democrat parties. Establishing this idea in the manifestos of the political parties is an essential step towards achieving this historic milestone for animals – find out how you can help here.
We are also delighted to announce that our PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield, Lucy Parry, has now successfully submitted her thesis and passed her oral exam (‘viva’) to gain her doctorate in animal protection politics. The CASJ is delighted to have supported the advancement of knowledge to help animals. We’d like to thank the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield and her supervisors Dr Alasdair Cochrane and Dr Hayley Stevenson. Lucy, who has now established herself as Britain’s leading expert on the foxhunting debate and has already published in peer-reviewed outlets, summarises her findings here.
Our work has also been featured in a forthcoming documentary about the ongoing ‘mad cow disease’ disaster. You can view a trailer here which includes some of my comments about how the lack of farmed animal welfare regulation harms animals at the same time as making another public health fiasco more likely.
Brexit represents a critical juncture in the history of farmed animal protection. While some ministers have said they want to try to improve standards, other commentators are expressing deep concern at the impact of future free trade deals with countries such as the USA with much weaker welfare rules, which could put pressure on the government to allow worse standards in this country to promote a competitive agricultural industry. It’s a fascinating debate with implications for billions of animals into the future.
It’s a topic that, naturally, we’re keeping a close eye on, and here are some of the interesting reports and perspectives I’ve come across:
And an article by Professor Anne Peters of the Max Planck Institute (which can be downloaded for free from here) provides an excellent basic understanding of the impact of international animal protection regulations (or the lack of them, particularly outside the EU).
(By the way, if you want to keep abreast of animal protection news, I recommend you follow me on Twitter.)
As you can see, the CASJ’s work is unique in focussing on the root causes of industrial-scale animal abuse. Please show your goodwill for animals by supporting our essential research and advocacy.
You can donate to us via our website, or you can text ‘CASJ11 £10’ (or any figure between £1 and £10) to 70070. Thank you!
With best wishes
Dr Dan Lyons
CEO, Centre for Animals and Social Justice
www.casj.org.uk
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Cross-party momentum for government animal protection body
February 17, 2017
The Centre for Animals and Social Justice’s major proposal for a Government Animal Protection Commission has now gained cross-party momentum. The Conservative and Labour animal protection policy groups are now promoting this vital measure within their parties – it is already official policy in the Green and Liberal Democrat parties.
The need for a body to ensure animals’ interests are represented in government has been highlighted by the CASJ’s research into the government’s current reluctance to enact effective measures to protect animal welfare.
This indifference has been highlighted once again by the government’s recent rejection of MPs’ calls for a ban on third party sales on puppies and increased prison sentences for animal cruelty crimes. Another quietly devastating indictment of the state’s institutionalised disregard for animal welfare can be found in the Zoological Society’s response to a DEFRA consultation on the badger cull.
You can help by contacting your MP (if Labour or Conservative) to ask them to support their respective animal welfare group’s call for an Animal Protection Commission. Or you could contact your local constituency Conservative and/or Labour Party to urge support. Establishing this idea in the manifestos of the political parties is an essential step towards achieving this historic milestone for animals.
Why we need a government animal protection body
Industries that harm animals, such as intensive farming and animal experimentation, have come to dominate the UK government to the exclusion of animal protection and public opinion. This set-up is perpetuated by a government structure that prioritises ‘competitiveness’ and deregulation, including the various agencies and departments that sponsor the commercial interests of animal harm industries. Conversely, there are no laws or institutions to promote animal welfare protection and ensure it is a meaningful consideration for government.
Our research shows that this situation of institutionalised government bias against animal welfare is the fundamental reason for weak animal welfare laws, feeble enforcement and, consequently, levels of animal harm that go way beyond public acceptability. This also explains why current animal advocacy campaigns aimed at government are generally unsuccessful.
Therefore, establishing a governmental animal protection body is the key to a paradigm shift towards genuine respect for animals.
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Posted on February 17, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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