Posted on February 16, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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We were rescued as tiny puppies from the streets of Serbia.
Since then, 4 years have passed. In the meantime, many have come and gone, all of our friends around us are getting their Forever Families, and we are still waiting. Why? We don’t know. We are siblings and are waiting to be adopted together, but many only want one of us.
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Posted on February 16, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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Posted on February 15, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark,
I recently got an undercover video from the well-known organization Soko, which do undercover investigators in Germany.
It’s about the OSI- slaughterhouse in Tauberbischofsheim that the McDonalds delivers with meat.
Especially those who still eat meat from this shop should watch the video.
But I think even of all meat eaters would turn their stomachs when they see the pictures!.
I have translated much of the documentation from German to English.
Maybe it makes sense to spread the video in the US
In the links that follows, you can see the undercover recording, as well as the interview with Friedrich Mülln, the head of the organisation, on television.
SAV Comment – Unlike attempts in the USA, Europe does not have an ‘ag gag’ system where guys who obtain this kind of undercover footage get imprisoned rather than the animal abusers whop do the deeds in the first place !
A must see for all Happy Mc Americans
And here is the Translation
If we are already slaughtering animals for our food, then at least so that they do not suffer. Every meat eater would sign this sentence. And the laws also dictate how the animals should be treated in the slaughterhouse in order to spare them unnecessary suffering.
If cattle are hung on the hooks for insufficient numbness, this is not intended.
Also not that the animals are maltreated with electric drivers on sensitive parts of the body or exposed to special violence.
But such events have documented activists of Soko animal protection in an OSI slaughterhouse in Tauberbischofsheim.
OSI is an international meat supplier, from which McDonald’s exclusively sources the burger patties for German branches.
In order to get to the pictures, cameras were hidden and if possible Minijobber undercover in slaughterhouses introduced.
The photos of the animal rights activists show how employees of the slaughterhouse repeatedly violate the animal welfare slaughter ordinance and torture the cattle before the slaughter.
“Worse pictures can not be imagined. In my view, slaughtering should be stopped there immediately and staff should be exchanged, “states Dr. Kai Braunmiller, Chairman of the Federal Association of Meat Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Consumer Protection, the recordings.
Animal rights activist Friedrich Mülln denounces the conditions in German slaughterhouses as a whole:
“This is the fourth detection of Soko animal welfare within a year.” The conditions are catastrophic. “Slaughterhouses in Germany are a lawless area and a total failure of the entire system,” said the organisation founder from Soko Animal Protection. It is true that again and again violations of the Animal Welfare Battle Ordinance become known, most recently the animal rights activists uncovered abuses in a slaughterhouse in Düren, from which McDonald’s also took meat.
The operator of OSI, Erik Schöttl, did not want to say anything concrete about the recordings.
According to the veterinary office, the immediate closure of the abattoir Tauberbischofsheim has been ordered. Apart from animals already delivered at the slaughterhouse, no animals may be accepted and slaughtered there anymore, wrote the district office Main-Tauber-Kreis. This rule applies until the operator submits an appropriate catalog of measures and the implementation is checked by the veterinary office.
McDonald’s then announced to clarify the grievances actively and adjust the meat reference through the relevant slaughterhouse. “From our point of view, the slaughterhouse shots we have received contain serious miscarriages in the slaughterhouse, which is unacceptable to us, and we have had the meat from that slaughterhouse temporarily closed until further notice,” the company explained Company written.
To what extent this will bring about an improvement in the future, is questionable – the recordings with the serious violations of the animal welfare battle ordinance were also created under the supervision of officially appointed veterinarians. This is also shown by the pictures of the animal rights activists.
Anyway and until further notice the State Administration of Baden-Wuerttemberg and after the inspection of the Veterinary Office has closed the slaughterhouse.
The head of the organization SOKO and activist Friedrich Mülln gave an interview on February 14, on television: He said: “The McDonalds should not be really surprised!
After my many years of experience in undercover investigations in German slaughterhouses, I have to say one thing: “in Germany there is a total failure in the matter of ‘slaughterhouse’!!
Within five years, it’s the fourth scandal. No! that’s no exception, it’s the rule. If any people from Eastern Bloc are hauled here to work in the slaughterhouses and live below subsistence level, then one becomes dull from the first day. Those people are not to blame, the system and the consumers who power this system are to blame.
The tape is running, the tape never stops, you are controlled, and only counts what is cheap.
Basically, consumers make power this system to these crimes.
We can not wait for the agency or higher authorities to make any changes”, so Freidrich Mülln from Soko Organisation.
Best regards to you and all
Venus
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Posted on February 15, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on February 14, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment: The ‘Animal Welfare’ Battle Is Now On !
Finally, both the major political parties in the UK – Conservative and Labour; are finally starting to recognise that animal welfare is a big vote winner with the British public.
In fairness, Labour have always been the better welfare party – and the Tories very pro hunt and as we are witnessing at the moment, supportive of a badger cull. The new leader of the Labour Party – Mr Corbyn, has been a vegetarian for many years; and from what we see and know, has always been a very supportive man when it comes to animal welfare.
Now we have the two biggest political parties in the UK fighting it out for support at the next general election. And finally both of them are realising that with the British public, good animal welfare policies are a big vote winner.
As we have always said on this site, once the UK breaks free from the shackles of the EU – called ‘Brexit’; the UK will once again be able to make and enforce its own laws; free from the useless EU which has lots of rules, but as we have shown with live exports to Turkey for example, it never enforces or prosecutes when failings happen. Ok, so now the Uk gets bout of the EU and takes back control; which for animals and their welfare can mean only one thing = an all round ‘win – win’ situation which can then be used by the UK when setting up new trade deals with other nations. High UK animal welfare standards can be expected from other nations who wish to do trade deals, and so from this we hope that there will be an international ‘up’ in the standards of animal welfare.
At long last, politics is realising that there are a lot of votes in good animal welfare. Something which many UK campaigners have been saying for oh so many years.
United campaigners get better animal welfare !
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Labour government would label meat from animals which haven’t been stunned
Plan to let shoppers know if animals have been stunned is part of wide-ranging plan to improve animal welfare
Shoppers would gain the right to know whether meat has come from animals killed using Halal or Kosher methods under a Labour government, as part of a major package of measures to promote animal welfare.
All meat would be labelled to reveal whether the animal was stunned or not, as well as which country it came from and how it was produced.
Kosher meat produced in line with Jewish traditions, and some Halal meat produced according to Islamic traditions, comes from animals which are not stunned before they are slaughtered.
But some vets and animal welfare groups say this causes unnecessary suffering. Current UK law requires all other meat to be stunned before slaughter.
The labelling plan is just part of major package of laws to protect animal welfare, to be announced by Labour today.
Other proposed policies include:
· Enshrining the principle of animal sentience in law, to ensure it prevents practices that expose animals to cruel and degrading treatment.Conservative MPs were widely criticised on social media last year when they voted against a proposal to add a statement that animals are sentient to Brexit legislation.
· Strengthening the Hunting Act to close loopholes that allow illegal hunting
· Consulting landlords on giving tenants the default right to keep pets unless there is evidence the animal is causing a nuisance
· Establishing an independent zoo inspectorate to draw up revised standards of animal welfare
· A total ban on imports of Foie Gras, which is produced by force-feeding geese or ducks
· Ending the badger cull. This involves killing badgers in an attempt to reduce the spread of TB to cattle, but there is disagreement about how effective it is
· Requiring motorists to report accidents where an animal has been injured
· Banning live exports of animals for slaughter or fattening and introducing mandatory CCTV in all slaughterhouses
· Designing post-Brexit farm subsidies to move away from intensive factory farming and bad environmental practices
· Prohibiting the third party sale of puppies and tackling puppy smuggling by reintroducing rabies testing before entry into the UK
· Working with organisations like the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals to help pet-owners on low income get veterinary treatment
· A comprehensive review of animal testing with a view to improving practice, limiting animal suffering and increasing transparency
· Introducing a ‘blue belt’ to protect and enhance the marine environment around the UK and our overseas territories
Ian Lavery, Labour MP for Wansbeck and Labour Party Chair, said: “There is an awful lot there
“For many years, political parties left the issue of animal welfare behind.
But it’s a top priority for the public.
“It’s good to see that the Labour Party understands how critical the issue of animal welfare is in today’s society.
“This plan proves once again that the Labour Party are on the front foot. We are listening to what people say and are planning to do something radical to improve animal welfare.”
Sue Hayman MP, Labour’s Shadow Environment Secretary, said: “Our vision is one where no animal is made to suffer unnecessary pain and we continue to drive up standards and practice in line with the most recent advances and understanding.”
Conservatives aid Labour were “playing catch-up” because the Government was already improving animal welfare, including by introducing tougher sentences for people who abuse animals, introducing mandatory CCTV into slaughterhouses, proposing a ban on ivory sales and banning microbeads to protect marine life.
“From introducing mandatory CCTV into slaughter houses to increasing the maximum sentence for animal cruelty ten-fold, the Conservatives will continue taking the action needed to ensure animals receive the proper protection they deserve.”
And from International (UK based) Compassion In World Farming (CIWF):
Dear Mark,
Today could mark the start of a seismic shift in the outlook for farm animals in the UK.
The Labour Party has just set out plans that would transform how animals are treated. If implemented, these proposals would signal the end of a host of factory farming practices. We have already heard encouraging comments from the Conservatives, and hope they will soon set out their own far-reaching policies in detail too.
Labour’s draft Animal Welfare Plan contains ground-breaking positions that reflect many of Compassion’s campaigns. The party is proposing:
■Ending the use of cages on British farms
■Banning live exports for slaughter or fattening
■Mandatory labelling of meat, including country of origin, method of production and method of slaughter (stun or non-stun)
■Ending the routine preventative use of antibiotics on farms
■Phasing out farrowing crates for sows
■Banning imports of foie gras
■Subsidising farmers to move away from factory farming post-Brexit
This announcement follows immense pressure from Compassion in World Farming supporters, our lobbying team, and other campaigners. We called for a step-change in the future of our food system. Now, one of Britain’s biggest political parties has listened – and we hope to soon see similar moves by other parties too.
This isn’t the end of the story. Today’s announcement is the start of a consultation process, and we need your help to show the plans have massive public support. In addition to signing the letter to Labour, please complete their online consultation form to make sure your thoughts are heard. You can also read the full Animal Welfare Plan via the consultation page.When compassionate people stand together to fight factory farming… when we are relentless in challenging those in power to do the right thing… change is possible.
Thank you for all you do for farm animals,
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Posted on February 12, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark,
I’m sorry that I cannot send you and everyone here any good news.
But in any case, I want to make known this planned mass murder of German authorities against wild boars to all those, who still don`t know that.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Brandenburg has given the order for the execution of 100,000 wild boars !!
Yes! Everyone read it right!
There are 100,000 living beings who will fall victims to the forest psychopaths (= hunters).
“I would be satisfied with that quota”, said the Minister of Agriculture of Baden-Württemberg Peter Hauk.
The execution of foxes, raccoons, game we have already set in the hunt law.
Now it’s about the wild boars.
Because they should (allegedly, perhaps, eventually) transmit the causative agent of African pig pest on mast pigs.
Although the fattening pigs have no contact with wild boar.
Because they live and die in boxes, in an area of 0.55-0.7 m wide and 1.6-1.9 m long, they never see the meadows, they never see the sun, they are kept miserable, miserable transported, and brutally slaughtered.
Nevertheless, the authorities create fear and panic, although they have not yet recorded any cases of the plague.
From the Czech Republic and Poland only single cases of the plague are reported, in Germany there have not been any.
Several countries now have premiums competing for the murder of a wild boar.
In Bavaria, the authorities give for killed boar 20 euros.
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, there are 25 euros per hunted pig.
In Brandenburg even 50 euros!
And to make the competition even more attractive, it applies: money will only be available if the murder rate exceeds the hunting range of the 2014/15 season.
For this purpose, almost all federal states have shortened or canceled the gentle season for wild boar.
Money-Headhunters are already on the way.
In order to help the competition, the Ministry of Agriculture in Brandenburg advertises live traps.
As a “complementary and effective tool”!!!
For hunters, who have interest for traps, the Ministry immediately submitted an application online.
on-line. http://www.mlul.brandenburg.de/media_fast/4055/Antrag_Sauenfang_EF_20170102.pdf
The link even works! for a simple police certificate of good conduct one must appear personally at the citizens office. This request can be made online.
As always, we find a hunter`s explanation for the execution in the press:
“Nobody does it because of the money. Skip of the illness on Germany would cause great damage for the pig-keepers. This means export- and movement-prohibitions “!!
Oh! yes!!
Murders help animal abusers!
That’s what I understand under fascism.
Best regards
Venus
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Posted on February 11, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Hallo Mark,
I send you my thoughts about the “scandal” with people and monkey experiments, for which BMW, VW and Daimler must be responsible.
It is the best example of an outrageous lie.
best regards
Venus
In September 2015, the automaker Volkswagen had confessed that in eleven million diesel cars, a special software was installed to manipulate the readings of the pollutant nitric oxide.
It was the exhaust gas scandal in the US.
Car Chancellor Merkel had done nothing at that time to protect the people. This shows clearly how this country politics and car industry help each other!
Recently in January 2018, comes the scandal of monkey trials (in the US) and human trials (in Aachen, Germany).
Actually, monkeys were exposed much earlier (in the year 2014) in the USA to the toxic substance nitrogen oxide.
For four hours, the animals should stay in rooms with exhaust gases, and take part in experiments that were equipped with manipulated exhaust technology.
That was in the context of the research of the association EUGT.
This club was founded in 2007 by BMW, Daimler, and VW together with Bosch. On the board of the association were managers of BMW, Daimler, VW and a Professor Dr. Helmut Greim from the Technical University of Munich.
After these animal experiments, this club vigorously promoted “clean diesel”, claiming “the diesel engine is unproblematic from an environmental point of view and even a modern diesel cleans the air”.
Lobbying just.
Then this exhaust scandal came to light.
The results on monkeys in the US were an outrageous lie, in reality they all lied.
The nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is so damaging that even the EU Commission will now bring an action before the EU Court against Germany.
But the exhaust gas scandal (which actually had only one goal: to market the diesel engine) was already known before the experiments with people and apes today became known.
And now the carmaker Daimler says: “We dissociate and expressly from the study of the EUGT”
VW explains: “The Volkswagen Group clearly distances itself from all forms of animal cruelty. BMW also says, “the board condemns animal testing.”
Chancellor Merkel also intervenes: “These tests on monkeys or even humans are ethically in no way justifiable.” The indignation of many people is completely understandable “.
All three members of the association EUGT agree that they have nothing to do with the cause.
The auto industry is at a distance from its own research association.
How is it possible?
The auto industry gives us an explanation: “All EUGT research has been carried out by well-known universities and researchers”.
Oh, right?
Now we know it, it’s the professors to blame.
We can all breathe deeply the exhaust of the lie, as monkeys or humans, in this case it`s the same.
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