Don’t forget that we also have a ‘Serbian Animals Voice’ Facebook site, which has over 1,250 members and which is a real talk shop for Serbian animal welfare campaigners; many of whom run small shelters and who have rescued animals who are looking for forever homes.
Note that each post has a ‘translation’ option where you can translate into English if you are not proficient at other languages.
There are many animals needing help – see if there is anything you can do for them.
Posted on July 4, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
“Over 150 million animals are killed for food around the world every day—just on land. That comes out to 56 billion land animals killed per year. Including wild-caught and farmed fish, we get a total closer to 3 billion animals killed.” (Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals)
There is no other cause or struggle that comes even close in numbers.
Most victims of the Animal Holocaust do not even have legal means to be defended in courts around the globe. Their voices are not acknowledged. This is the only cause in which the victims are not even recognized as victims by the majority of the human population.
How can we trivialize the magnitude of the massacre and abuse that thousands of millions of non-human animalsare subjected to every week by somehow equating any other tragedy with theirs?
Just trying to include any other cause in the spaces dedicated to animal rights is an anthropocentric gesture—one which only shows selfishness and a false sense of human supremacy.
Attempts to overshadow the animal rights struggle, to not let it exist on its own, and to hide the scale of non-human annihilation at a single species’ hands are just reflections of the internalized speciesism in our society.
The need to create a movement with a unique and specific cause focused on defending the rights of voiceless victims—victims who cannot make use of the human language or legally defend their own lives—originated from that void among justice movements. The goal was to have a movement specifically dedicated to shedding light on the most ignored victims, the most oppressed on the planet, and the most numerous above all: non-human animals.
“I want to make it clear: All around us there is a system of degradation, cruelty and killing that can compete with anything the Third Reich was capable of; indeed it can overshadow it, because our system knows no end, it regenerats itself, incessantly giving birth to rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock, just to kill them.”
Posted on July 3, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
It’s a brutal business: On horse farms in South America, mares are held for one purpose only: to take blood from them. For in the blood of pregnant mares is the hormone PMSG – a popular drug in this country for pig breeding. For years, the grievances are denounced. But almost nothing has changed.
What is the hormone PMSG used for?
In Europe, PMSG ( Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin) is used to synchronize piglet production. This is mainly used in industrial mass production. One wants to prove the mother sows at the same time.
The so-called insemination engineers of the agricultural industry then only need to come once.
Then all are inseminated at the same time and all get their piglets at the same time within a few hours.
That is, you can calculate the exact day and hours.
Of course this makes the handling of the production very easy. The piglets can be exhibited at the same time, be fattened and thus slaughtered at the same time.
The perfect way to clock the whole production!!
The current video footage has made York Ditfurth turn at high risk. After the release of the first images in 2015, the South American “blood farms” had made various promises to improve conditions. So workers should be exchanged and a more animal-friendly handling of the horses be prescribed.
The current recordings show even more catastrophic abuses. They prove that the misery of the mares in South America has not improved. Animal rights activist York Ditfurtis shocked by the scale.
The animal cruelty had never been so detailed in detail.
For 100 grams PMSG be paid around the 850,000 euros. That is a lot of money. If one calculates the cheap acquisition costs and maintenance costs for a mare, money is printed with the blood.
From two and a half liters of blood, two milligrams of PMSG are recovered. At least ten liters are tapped from the mares a week. Eleven weeks long. That’s more than 110 liters of blood in one season.
PMSG is eventually sold to Europe.
Since the mares only produce the coveted hormone until the 130th day of gestation, the foals are aborted manually as waste because they are not needed.Abortion is also extremely painful for the animals: For example, workers simply scratch the uterus of the horses with their hands. The animals are left to themselves and brought back to the pastures. Veterinary care does not exist.
My comment: Guidelines of the OIE and the EU Commission exist only for the meat production, but not for the production of an animal by-product, among which the blood serum falls.
The customers of PMSG, including European pharmaceutical companies, have so far shown no interest in introducing binding legislation.
Because they also benefit from this loophole, and from the dirty business with the life and suffering of the animals, as always.
And so continues the dirty business of suffering and dying mares and foals in the blood farms.
I think that would as well work with the blood of tortured pharmaceutical entrepreneurs who have something to answer, right?
The Gupo dog meat market in Busan, South Korea, has officially been shut down.
Humane Society International announced on Monday that Gupo — known to animal rights organizations as a “notorious” market, infamous for selling chilled dog meat as well as “live dogs killed to order” — had been shut down by South Korean authorities.
As a result of the closure, over 80 dogs have been saved and are currently being cared for by numerous animal charities, including Humane Society International/Korea, Korean Animal Welfare Association, Korea Animal Rights Advocates and Busan Korean Alliance for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The news comes less than one month after HSI first announced the market would be shut down as the result of an agreement reached by the local Busan authorities and the 19 dog meat sellers operating out of the market.
Once the dog meat market is closed, the government plans to turn the area into a public park as part of an urban planning project, which led to the negotiations for the market’s shutdown.
South Korea’s Seongnam city demolished the country’s largest dog slaughterhouse in November 2018, and also “closed down most of the related dog meat vendors,” according to HSI.
The organization went on to note that the latest closure is the first-ever “where complete agreement has been reached between the vendors and local authorities.”
“I cannot express enough my joy at helping to close down the dog meat shops and slaughterhouse at Gupo market,” Nara Kim, a dog meat campaigner for HSI and Humane Society Korea, said in a statement.
“The closure of Gupo’s dog meat market means the end of a gruesome era in South Korea’s dog meat history, and a sign of the times that law enforcement and local authorities are cracking down on this increasingly unpopular industry that most Koreans want nothing to do with,” Kim continued. “I know we have a long way to go to end the dog meat trade here, but even two years ago I would never have believed we would see such progress. It has been a pleasure to work with the Busan authorities, and especially in being able to save the last remaining dogs we found alive.”
Last Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to start releasing orcas and beluga whales currently being held in the country’s Far East in crowded pens, nicknamed the “whale jail.”
For the past several months, around 100 whales have been confined in the cramped enclosures off Russia’s Pacific Coast. Disturbing images and videos of the animals were first made public in November of last year, prompting international outrage from animal rights activists and an investigation by Russian authorities.
Those who imprisoned the whales are suspected of planning to sell them to China’s growing amusement park industry, which pays millions of dollars per whale. Following the investigation, four companies were charged for violating a worldwide ban on commercial whale hunting that went into effect in 1982.
In March, Russian authorities announced their intentions to eventually free the whales, citing a need to first figure out how to safely return them to their natural environment. The news was hopeful, but not promising — despite being native to the Arctic, without the ability to keep warm by swimming long distances, the whales’ lives were at risk.
Thanks to global activists’ continued outcry, including the more than 20,000 people who signed LFT’s petition to free the whales, these captive animals are finally getting a chance to live a normal life.
Posted on July 3, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Naked women on milking machines, conveyor belts that transport newly born babies to a shredder: Such difficult to bear motifs can be seen in the exhibition!
The Miniature Museum “Miniatur Wunderland” in Hamburg makes various exhibitions on almost 1,500 square meters model area. The rooms are home to the largest model railway system in the world but it also keeps attracting attention with political messages.
This happened last week with animal welfare scenes that were built into the mini-landscape and deliberately provoke. The model makers had posted photos of the individual scenes on Thursday on their Facebook page..
This poster campaign against mass animal husbandry raises criticism. In the model railway exhibition mini-posters hang on which, for example, women are connected to milking machines,babies are driven directly after birth in the shredderor people sitting in mast stands.
“Good idea, very creative,” comments one user.
Another praises: “Great! It’s great that you show so much backbone, even if you certainly snub some of your customers / visitors.”
But the Farmers Association Schleswig-Holstein called the action on Facebook “abnormal” (!!!)
A dispute between farmers and the Miniatur Wunderlandhad set in, which has been going on for days!
My comment: Hate, anger, shitstorm, war … we all know that from the farmer.
The farmers’ association in Germany is one of the most powerful authorities. Now that the peasants have the boundless support of the incompetent and unscrupulous Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner becomes even more outrageous and impudence.
But the peasants have to mobilize. It does not look good with them und theri Minister. Undercover investigations, lawsuits for violation of the animal protection law, bad image in the media …It’s getting serious.
And now this “abnormal”exhibition in Hamburg …Oh God!
That’s why they write long posts in Facebook against the exhibition day and night.
Let them work a bit..
Except torment animals, beat animals, tie animals in chains, slaughter animals, the farmers are doing nothing else and that is not job.
This is live out of criminal energy, which is subsidized by our tax money.
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