“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”

 

No animal should suffer like this. Please watch this to the end.

 

 

There are many things we can not imagine: that about 90% of people consider the life of a dog more valuable than that of a sheep.

Paul McCartney said, “If the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass, no one would eat meat.”

The walls have been made of glass for a long time. With the undercover investigations, with the reports that even come in public television channels or newspapers. With the demos against slaughterhouses, with the mobilization of the mass resulting from successful petitions, such as “end the cage age”

And yet: the consumption of meat increases, the animals are transported for days or weeks to death, meat remains cheap, the meat mafia goes richer.
Many say that’s capitalism.
But in the countries of the so-called real socialism, there has also been mass animal husbandry under dire conditions.

Exploitation and cruelty seem to be the basic moral of any system.

If we take into account that the production moral of capitalism is: For what purpose can I use animals? How and to what extent can animals help increase my profit? then we come to the conclusion that the change in meat consumption will not (or not primarily) come from the masses, but from above, that is from the system.

 

 

We have recently experienced the sensational entry of the “Beyond Meat”. Everyone talks about it, and many well-known and recognized animal rights organizations warmly recommend it.

Many have tried it, out of curiosity or conviction, many only want Beyond Meat, others will follow, at least for the moment it is seen as a sensation in restaurants; but it does not really matter. The result counts.

And the result is…“the stock’s explosive 136% move higher since the May 2 2019 initial public offering”.

As the vegan products evolve, so too does the conscious wine and consumption of the mass.
Of course, this is also a capitalist product that subjecst to the usual capitalist rules, but with one important difference: the company that prizes it does not participate in the daily millionfold murder, which overshadows in cruelty, rudeness and cowardice all the terrors even of the world wars.

People will never stop seeing a value in their use of animals.
That was 500 years ago, today is the same, only extremely worse.

The original moral strength of capitalism was the usefulness of people’s attitude. Through battles, sacrifices and laws, human animals have achieved a (relatively) decent standard of living, and especially formal rights.

Animals are still subject to usability in today’s capitalist system. The pig, the cow, the sheep is not an animal. The system treats them just like a machine in a factory.
So if we want to abolish (or at least reduce) slavery and animal exploitation within this system, we have to play with its rules, we need giving capitalism the opportunity to earn money on vegan meat.

“LYNX”: “Beyond Meat without question has wracked up several big partnership deals this year in the fast-food space. From one with Dunkin’ Brands (DNKN) for a sausage breakfast sandwich to faux chicken at Yum! Brands-owned Kentucky Fried Chicken (YUM) , Beyond Meat has shown it’s moving aggressively to expand distribution”.

 

Yes! Of course, it is paradoxical and even unorthodox for people with a pronounced anti-capitalist ideology, if we support this system on an equal footing. On the other hand, it is even more paradoxical that the left has not been providing support or education for vegan ideology for decades, which we actually would have expected from the left, because it corresponds to their ideals that say, “The struggle for social justice is also a fight against the destruction of our environment and the brutalization of man against the animals”.

As much as these videos reflect our forces and hopes for a better world for animals, so honestly we have to say that there is a change in sight, we notice it on many levels of life.

Under our fight, which goes on and harder, has already brought many good results.
Hope, courage, fight is our ideology.
And our practice.

 

 

Best regards to all, Venus

 

EU: Finally We Get A Response Regarding Our Concerns About Live Romanian Sheep Exports.

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/09/20/eu-finally-after-a-second-try-we-get-one-response-out-of-10regarding-our-concerns-for-romanian-sheep-exports-now-we-wait-to-see-what-happens-if-anything/

Hi all

Regarding the issue of the 70,000 live sheep exported from Romania to the Middle East recently, which we covered on a daily basis; we then raised the issue with EU MEP’s as to what injunctions were going to be taken by the EU against Romania.

You can read our letter here:

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/09/06/england-wav-now-write-to-europe-regarding-romanian-sheep-and-animal-carrying-box-trailers/

well, a few weeks on and we had NO replies from anyone – no real surprise to us, but a reflection of the system in the EU. So we wrote again:

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/09/15/15-9-wav-letter-to-meps-re-romanian-sheep-and-box-trailers-nothing-from-anyone-so-we-write-again/

Yesterday, 19/9, we finally had one e mail back to us regarding the issue. It was from the office of Judith Bunting MEP (for SE England). The letter was worded:

Dear Mr Johnson,

I apologise that you have not received a response from our office regarding this issue.

This is a notice to say that we have received your email and Ms Bunting will be in touch with answers to your questions in due course.

For now, we are waiting on responses from other MEP’s offices regarding:

– The Commission’s infringement proceedings against Romania

The Motion for Resolution submitted by Dominique Bilde MEP

With regards to the other questions in your letter, we have contacted both the European Parliament’s Research Service as well as the Health and Food Commissioner’s office. They should be able to provide more clarity on the issues you discuss.

Kind regards,

Finally; someone is addressing our concerns ! – it is worth looking at the ‘motion for resolution’ submitted by Dominique Bilde MEP via the link given above.

So now we wait to see what we get back from the EU.

 

In the meantime; the same vessel which carried all the suffering Romanian sheep to the Middle East is now trying desperately to get a consignment of sheep from South Africa – you can read more here:

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/09/18/remember-the-al-shuwaikh-and-the-romania-sheep-now-it-is-trying-to-take-sa-sheep-read-the-latest-from-animals-australia-and-the-rspca/

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/09/19/south-african-sheep-face-nightmare-journey/

We have yet to hear if the SA government are going to allow the shipments both now and in the future.

Here is a video showing the conditions in which the sheep are transported; and how they suffer during the voyage.

https://youtu.be/vh5nZV-CdH8 

This is the reason why we fight the live export trade so vigorously; be it by road, sea or air. We will never give up with our exposure of the terrible suffering animals endure during live transport.

Regards Mark

 

Australia: I Am Invisible.

 

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/09/20/australia-i-am-invisible/

 

And the high walls of factory farms are designed to ensure she stays that way.

With rare reviews of legal standards for hens and pigs taking place, these animals desperately need to be seen.

Watch our powerful new TV ad (no graphic imagery) — and please help us keep it on air:

https://secure.animalsaustralia.org/see-me/?r=5d849d909e5161568972176&ua_s=e-mail

Have you noticed that when a truck of pigs or chickens pulls up at traffic lights, all eyes turn away from them? Why? Because when we look into their eyes we see individuals looking back at us. When we look into their eyes we connect with them — we feel our affinity with them. When we look into their eyes we recognise their vulnerability. We feel for them… The human heart instantly responds.

One of the defining reasons why pigs and chickens in this country have been denied the protection of animal cruelty laws is because they are unseen: hidden away in mammoth factory farms. The legislators who have the ability to change their lives for the better — cannot see them. The people who would make kinder choices — cannot see them. These animals are ‘invisible’.

But they don’t have to be. With decision-makers revisiting laws that allow hens to live their entire lives crammed in barren cages and sensitive mother pigs to be kept caged in crates — the most important thing we can do is ensure these animals are seen.

Can you help by supporting our new TV ad so we can spread their message far and wide?

This time last year, an end to caging hens wasn’t even being considered. But unprecedented public feedback to the ‘poultry code review’ has put a ban on the battery cage squarely on the table.

Yet despite the public consultation ending over 18 months ago, we’ve just learned that a final decision on the future for hens in this country has again been delayed.

It seems various government processes are currently more focused on silencing and stopping those exposing animal cruelty than protecting animals from cruelty in the first place. And all the while, the animals wait. The very fact that they are hidden allows these outrageous delays.

For only the second time in the past 20 years, Australian laws that allow severe confinement of mother pigs and, inconceivably, body parts to be cut off their babies without pain relief are also due to be reviewed.

These animals desperately need us to create a window into their world. To reveal that these fragile hens are not production units, they are individual living beings who deserve so much better from us. As do the gentle and playful pigs whose lives in factory farms are so miserable they are known to suffer depression.

That’s why, now more than ever, we need to remind decision-makers who these animals are. That they live and breathe and dream and feel… That while they may be hidden from their view — they equally need protection from cruel treatment.

You’ve given animals your voice. Now help them find their own by clicking here to help us keep this powerful TV ad on air.

GIVE ANIMALS A VOICE »

Like most people, most politicians have never stepped foot inside a factory farm. They’re not places keen to open their doors. And there’s a reason for that. It’s because ‘life’ for the animals confined within them is so at odds with how things were meant to be.

Hens naturally want to flap their wings, peck in the soil and lay their eggs in privacy. Pigs naturally want to explore and dig, and build nests for their babies. Given the opportunity both hens and pigs will respond to kindness with affection. But in factory farms, the daily lives of these animals have been systematically stripped of everything that makes life worth living — because of ‘production systems’ that kept them hidden and unseen.

We have a vision to change that by shining a light on their existence and taking their plea for compassion and kindness directly to the very people who have the power to change their world.

If you too can envision a peaceful, kind world for animals then please help us create it.

For the animals,

Lyn White AM
Director of Strategy

 

South African Sheep Face “Nightmare” Journey.

South African Sheep Face “Nightmare” Journey

By The Maritime Executive 2019-09-17 01:44:45

 

As the livestock carrier, the Al Shuwaikh, heads for South Africa, local TV show Carte Blanche has investigated the nation’s emerging live export trade with Kuwait and the potential for what the presenter calls a “nightmare journey” for the 65,000 sheep being readied to sail.

The Carte Blanche TV show says: “Facing prolonged loading processes, poor ventilation, stifling heat and overcrowded quarters, some 65,000 sheep will soon be packed onto a mammoth livestock vessel due in the East London harbor later this month. The livestock will be transported for weeks on the high seas, standing in their own filth, with no space to even lie down. Amid methane gas and ammonia accumulating in the cargo hold, this controversial trade deal between South Africa and the Middle East will eventually see millions of our sheep sent abroad.”

The TV show notes the whistleblower footage released by in Australia in 2017 that focused on the Awassi Express but also included footage from the Al Shuwaikh. The Carte Blanche presenter said the footage was so disturbing that it was decided not to show it on the program. He interviews Australian Dr. Lynn Simpson, a former live export veterinarian who has sailed on the Al Shuwaikh and who has been raising the issue of poor welfare on live export ships since 2001. Simpson says when she saw the footage, she was just seeing her experience from 57 voyages repeated.

The controversy surrounding the whistleblower footage continues in Australia – and an Australian Department of Agriculture observer report from a May 2018 voyage of the Al Shuwaikh revealed suffering and death as a result of the vessel’s design and management of livestock on board. The report indicated that for eight days sheep were open mouth breathing, indicating severe heat stress, as they “attempted to gain position around the ventilation vents on all open and closed decks.” Multiple instances of “death by smothering” occurred as a result of this. Heat stress was worsened by “oil fuel heaters being left on during the equator crossing” and poor ship design with “dark colored steel roof surface absorbing radiated heat from above.”

Additionally, the observer noted that water troughs were fouled with manure, particularly towards the end of the voyage when a skeleton crew were available to attend the livestock due to discharge preparations. There were significant welfare concerns during discharge, with the livestock, vocalizing loudly, left without fresh feed for over 30 hours. Moldy food was observed in the bottom of troughs for both sheep and cattle on numerous occasions. Dusty pellets were also observed, and on some decks this was largely attributed to the workings of the automated feeding system. The observer also noted that during rough weather a ballast tank overflowed into one of the sheep pens.

A Kuwaiti export company is apparently planning to export two consignments of around 70,000 sheep from South Africa to the Middle East this year, followed by 600,000 sheep, goats and cattle annually for the next three to five years.

Shatha Hamade from Animals Australia, says on the Carte Blanche program: “Every animal welfare organization on the planet opposes the live export trade by sea, and for good reason. The inherent suffering and risks in this trade are actually unavoidable.”

Regarding the export voyage planned for departure from South Africa later this month, she says: “I challenge the farmer that might be contracting with the Kuwaiti company, I challenge him to sit down and watch this [whistleblower] footage and talk to me and tell me that he thinks that it’s okay.”

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/south-african-sheep-face-nightmare-journey

 

Japan: Taiji – Olympics 2020 – Should Surfers Boycott the Games – Surfing in the Blood Stained Killing Waters ?

 

Japan: Taiji – Should Surfers Boycott the 2020 Olympics in Japan over Taiji and Whaling?

Watch the video via the above link.

 

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Boycott Japan 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

France: civil courage of animal rights activists

 

 

“The well-known pain in my chest is back, I can just walk, they can not.”
(Jo-Anne McArthur, photographer and animal welfare investigator)

Activists who exposed animal cruelty to the largest pig farm in France were TROUBLED.

What activists experience when they discover animal agony, you can see in the video!

 

 

This is how an activist describes the action in this slaughterhouse:

“The last days I hadn’t found any words for everything that happened, I tried several times to write this post and then deleted the lines again.

Five days ago I participated in the mass action of civil disobedience #OccupyCarrefour and we peacefully occupied one of the largest pig farms in France.

Together with other activists i had my neck chained to the bars of the cages where the pigs are trapped, while other activists documented the terrible conditions to make it available to the public.

We were subjected to the same violence as the animals are every day, we were pushed and beaten by the farmers and I was even hit in the face with an iron bar.

People who use violence against animals on a daily basis do not shy away from violence against humans. While i was chained at the same height as the pigs, I had to look into their eyes the whole time and could hear their screams. But I also had to look into the eyes of my friends – full of fear and grief.

 

We had to experience what it’s like to be trapped there and were helplessly at the mercy of this violence just like the animals. The other activists tried to protect us with their bodies, but nobody protects the animals.

A young farmer even threatened to shoot us, there was so much hatred in the eyes of these people. We were lucky to be able to leave this cruel place alive again, but the animals are in captivity all their lives and are killed in the end.

 

Imagine what it is like to be locked up in a small cage for the rest of your life, where you can’t even turn around. Imagine what it’s like when your babies are taken away shortly after birth and you never see them again.

Imagine what it’s like when you can’t run away from violence, when you can’t even try to save your own life.

The animals are born in this hell, they don’t see daylight or sunlight all their lives, they don’t get fresh air and they just vegetate until their day of execution. Humane agriculture or humane killing does not exist in reality.

Let us make conscious choices and end systematic exploitation.

 

Such cruel conditions are even permitted by law and the police monopolize the use of force that is applied against the people who oppose this system. Police violence and repression thus affects the wrong people, who are free to denounce the bearer of a message instead of responding to the message itself and changing something.

The consumption of dead animals and animal products is not only morally reprehensible, but also ecologically unacceptable as it contributes significantly to the climate – consuming huge amounts of water and energy.

 

Next time you buy meat or animal products, think of her face. Think of their fate and the suffering they have experienced. Think of the life they could never live just because of your taste. In today’s society, eating meat is no longer a necessity, but a decision. A decision for violence, indifference, suffering and death.

And a decision against compassion, love, respect and freedom. Is this really what we as human beings want to stand for?

 

 

The only thing this industry fears so much is the truth and the truth is what we will reveal. Just because something is legal, does not mean it is also right. If there is a law to legitimize and legalize cruelty to animals, exploitation, oppression, discrimination and environmental destruction, then it is our moral duty to disregard these unjust laws.

When injustice becomes accepted, resistance becomes an obligation!

Please reconsider your decisions in the future, you have at least three choices a day. Do not apologize, do something! Become active and speak for the animals, they cannot speak for themselves”.

Direct Action Everywhere – DxE

There’s nothing to comment on, just a lot to think about, and it’s best to make your decision here and today to stop cooperating with this fascist system of exploitation.
This is the meat and milk industry.
It’s time to finish it.
We thank the brave activists very much for their civil courage.

My best regards to all, Venus

Cultures and cruelty

 

 

Because we humans have raised ourselves to the pyramid of creation, we take every right in relation to animals to enslave, slaughter and eat them.
This also includes dogs and cats for China and some other Asian countries.

Recently, there have been heated discussions and even struggles in the circles of animal rights activists.

Some, those with the pet protection mentality, say: “Yes, it is terrible to eat pets, they are more sensitive than others, they are the best friend of man living with people …”

The others say: “Why should we rescue the dogs and eat the pigs? The slain pigs are smarter than dogs and at least as friendly, playful and trusting as dogs are when we let them.” Both arguments are wrong, because it means: If death, then for all! that is justice”.

Although people might have a right to their opinions, it does not follow that their opinions are correct. Especially when it comes to ethical issues.

Regarding the debate of dog food in general, it seems that not the killing is criticized but only the torture.

However, there are a few things to note when it comes to the difference between slaughter and slaughter:
First, there is a crucial difference between the slaughter of animals in slaughterhouses and the private, amateurish slaughter of dogs on the street. While slaughtering animals in abbatoirs is wrong, dissecting a live dog is even worse and deserves special criticism.

Secondly, the rationalization of dog food can not be confirmed by legitimizing the eating of meat in all countries, because it is an argument based on the wrong ethical basics.

And that, for one simple reason: if something wrong is legitimized, it must not be broadened and tolerated at all levels.

For us, the animal rights activists the fight against the atrocities in the slaughterhouses does not stop in pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, but extends to ALL slaughterhouses and slaughter practices of the world.
And even small successes in this direction are in danger of relapsing, when cruel folkloric idiosyncrasies, primitive traditions, and miserable cultural heritage are permitted by corrupt and demagogic politicians.

A cultural practice can be immoral, although it seems immensely logical to its practitioners. This applies to both the Chinese and the non-Chinese.

There is no human meat food culture, all the food cultures on the basis of meat in the world do not represent moral practices.

 

If U.K actually annulled the prohibition of dog meat internally, that would only prove a pseudo cultural tolerance, a cheap demagogy for “cultural” dog eating, motivated in the reality by their absolute indifference to the suffering of animals; of slaughter animals and domestic animals.

My best regards to all, Venus