Posted on March 12, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Are hunts spreading bovineTB?
Contact the government and ask them to suspend all hunting
SAV Comment – but badgers are paying the price – currently being killed by Defra in selected zones.
Bovine TB, the disease ravaging herds of cattle across England and Wales, has been discovered in a pack of hounds used for fox hunting. Between 25 and 40 hounds from this pack have already been put down.
However, we estimate that there are more than 3,000 hunting hounds in the bTb epidemic zone alone, which may be out in the countryside an average of two days a week during the six-month hunting season.
Hunting needs to be suspended indefinitely to ensure that the thousands of hounds used in the ‘sport’ cannot spread the disease.
If the hounds infected each other, they may have infected other packs when taken out to country shows. It is also possible that beagles or harrier packs, that may share the same fields, are also at risk of getting infected.
If other packs of hounds were invited as guests in the Kimblewick Hunt’s territory, those hounds could have been infected in the same way, and then taken the disease to their own territory when they returned home.
The ramifications of this are staggering not only for the British countryside, but those who live in it and those who enjoy it.
Please contact Defra and ask them to urgently suspend hunting to prevent further outbreak.
Posted on March 12, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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Korean President Park Geun-Hye Impeached!!
South Korean President’s impeachment is finalized by their Constitutional Court’s decision on March 10. The Korea Herald reported that 86% of Korean public approves of Park’s impeachment and that among the presidential candidates, “The survey showed Moon to be the unrivalled front-runner, with 36 percent in support rating.” (http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170310001053)
Now Korea has a chance to elect new president who will be more interested to addressing the dog meat cruelty issue.
Click HERE to learn more about Mr. Moon Jae-In’s campaign pledge to strengthening animal protection.
See our other recent posts on South Korea by clicking:
FIFA : Take a stand in FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea 2017 against the dog and cat meat trade!!
FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea 2017 will be held in South Korea in about a couple of months – May 20 to June 11. The world will be watching South Korea, which is why this is perfect time you take action to support our campaign to end the horrific dog and cat meat trade in South Korea for good!
You can help by signing and sharing our petition, sending out letters and emails raising awareness of this brutal and medieval practice and calling for an end to the trade and taking to social media. Click HERE to take action.
Posted on March 8, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We are aware that today is International Women’s Day, and we intended to do a post relating to that.
But well into this evening we have been doing Serbian pig farm investigation work which has taken all our time – as we feel that the EU need to see the video footage we have obtained.
We will possibly share the footage sometime in the future when we hopefully have more info on the evidence we have obtained.
Mark – SAV.
So sadly, no Women’s Day post today – but we celebrate anyway !
Pyeongchang’s project to hide the Dog Meat Restaurants from Olympic visitors! Please contact your country’s news media to write about this.
Now we have translations in Spanish, Greek, Russian, Japanese and Swedish and more to come.
The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics is less than a year away. On our “Boycott PyeongChang 2018 Action Center” we have a list of actions you can take to protest South Korea’s horrific cruelty of its dog and cat meat industry.
Below is a translation of Korea Animal Rights Advocates’ (KARA) commentary regarding PyeongChang’s plan to dodge criticism of Korea’s dog meat cruelty. Please read and share. Click HERE to read from our homepage.
Gangwon Province is currently making preparations to welcome guests to the Winter Olympics, which will be held in February 2018. To alleviate the shortage of lodging accommodations and restaurants, and to create income for agricultural households, support will be provided to the hospitality industry to strengthen the spirit of service as well as networking with the local agricultural community to introduce Korean culture to the visitors. In addition, certain restaurants that may evoke negative emotions from foreign visitors will undergo renovations, including new signage, in order to conceal the underlying cause of the controversy and avert debate.
What is the underlying cause of the expected negative emotions from the Winter Olympics guests? 18 dog meat restaurants in Gangwon Province around Pyeongchang and Gangneung. The government will subsidize up to 10,000,000 won for each restaurant to change their signs (3,000,000) and renovate their facilities (7,000,000). 50% of the cost for this project will be paid by the Province and 50% by the city.
The mayor of Long Beach, California responds with support for our campaign against the South Korean dog and cat meat industry.
We have received a response from Mr. Mark Taylor, Chief of Staff for the Mayor Robert Garcia, in Long Beach, California regarding our campaign, asking them to take action over the dog-meat trade in Pohang in South Korea. We are grateful to the Mayor and his office for responding to our concern so quickly, and especially appreciate the Mayor for supporting animal rights and opposing cruelty in the South Korea’s dog and cat meat trade.
Once again; we are informed that the Serbian Ministry – the Chief of Veterinary Inspections at the Ministry of Agriculture have informed journalists and newspapers that ‘everything is ok’ !!
We would argue that the footage shown in the video does NOT show that everything is ok; quite the opposite.But once again we have a Serbian government ministry living on a different planet to everyone else.They appear to be able to see everything through rose coloured spectacles when everyone else sees only helplessness and misery for animals involved.
We have been in similar circumstances before; and guess what; when we questioned the terrible conditions in which cattle was kept in the past; the same Ministry replied with the very same comment – that everything is ok.
Here are the links to our old posts; which show the disgusting conditions in which cattle was being kept.But as we say, all ‘ok’ in the eyes of the government Ministry Chief Veterinary Inspector.
We have provided the footage to our friends and colleagues at CIWF here in London – https://www.ciwf.org.uk/– and they in turn have put both their Polish and Czech Republic office / campaigners onto this.
We are sending the footage to the EU Enlargement Commission who are responsible for monitoring Serbia’s application to become a member state of the EU.This is not satisfactory animal welfare – the keeping of animals – especially if they are destined to end up in the human food (meat) chain.The EU needs to take action and get Serbia to clean up its act in ALL areas of animal welfare.
We have worked with CIWF on this issue and have also asked that they provide evidence to the EU regarding in this instance what is an obvious abuse of farm animals / possible animals entering the human food chain.We hope that the EU will make representations on this issue to the Serbian Veterinary Ministry, but as with most EU / animal welfare issues and the EU association with Serbia; we do not expect much !
If there is any further news regarding this issue we will naturally bring it to you – SAV.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 