Posted on November 9, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Animal Equality Italy has released a new investigation which documents the horrors of buffalo mozzarella production in Northern Italy.
THE DETAILS: In addition to the exclusive images shot by our investigators, Animal Equality has collected testimonials of people who can, first-hand, report on the conditions of these farms, farms where almost half a million buffaloes are bred every year.
Interviewing Italian personalities, such as journalist Giulia Innocenzi and former parliamentarian Paolo Bernini, help paint the picture of neglect on these farms, where numerous parliamentary inspections documented the illegal sewage spills in the Caserta area.
The images collected by Animal Equality are coupled with videos from” Four PawsInternational”, a German organization for the protection of animals that has conducted several investigations in farms for the production of buffalo mozzarella in Campania.
SHOCKING IMAGES: The up-until-now unpublished footage and pictures collected by Animal Equality investigators leave no room for doubt.
The videos clearly show: Animals covered in mud and feces up to their knees Buffaloes covered with flies and forced to live alongside bodies of dead animals.
A corpse of buffalo clumsily hidden under straw and feces Ill-treatment of buffaloes and degraded sanitary living conditions. Baby male buffalos abandoned to die of hunger and thirst after being torn from their mothers.
Nobody should hear the roar of the “garbage calves”
“Cimitieri dei bufali” – buffalo cemeteries – are the name of these gruesome sites, they are testimonies of almost everyday animal suffering in this part of Europe.
Most are only a few days old, male buffalo calves.
Because they do not give milk and their slightly wild-tasting meat so far hardly anyone would like to eat, the farmers have no interest in the rearing.
Then simply not feeding the superfluous male animals is a “widespread practice”.
Growing the calves with breast milk or liquefied milk powder every day is not profitable from a purely business perspective.
My comment:47 million kilograms“Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP” – buffalo mozzarella in short – were produced in Italy in 2017.
The Italian investigative journalist Giulia Innocenzihas made inquiries and reported such catastrophic conditions in public service broadcasting in Italy.
She has discovered that some breeders simply let their animals die after giving birth – thus saving their food for the first few days of life and about 20 euros for slaughtering in the slaughterhouse. Other breeders kill the baby buffalo with a hammer themselves or throw them with legs tied together and alive into rivers or lakes, so that the animals drown.
Even the life-saving female calves have no nice life ahead of them.
Often the boxes are so small that the buffaloes can not even turn around. They are tied to the ground where urine and excrement accumulate and they are raised with milk substitutes.
In addition, the animals are injected with the hormone oxytocin, which is supposed to help overcome the pain of separation.
All this is known and these terrifying facts have been exposed to the public several times. But as we have often said, the consumers (and polluters of this suffering) do not want to know about this reality, because that is the most effective way of taking no responsibility.
Most people intentionally ignore the suffering of farm animals; the meat and milk mafia with the help of the media and their lobbyists has generated this indifference so that it can continue to exist.
As soon as we empathize with animal suffering and stop eating animals, this fascist system with its life-disdaining ideology also ceases to exist.
Posted on November 8, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With Peta along with Chanel, Westwood, von Furstenberg, Beckham
Following a meeting with Peta USA, the luxury brand Jil Sander undertook to stop selling bags, wallets, purses, and other items in exotic animal skins like alligators, crocodiles, ostriches, lizards and snakes.
The Maison has adopted the policy against the sale of angora wool since 2015. To note is a statement of the same association of animal rights.
“There is a violent death behind each bag or shoe of crocodile, alligator, snake, ostrich or lizard” recalls the director of Peta Elisa Allen in the note.
Jil Sander’s decision to ban exotic skins will save immense suffering to countless extraordinary animals. Peta asks other luxury brands to follow the compassionate example of this fashion house.”
In the decision to ban the use of exotic skins, Jil Sander joins Vivienne Westwood, Diane von Furstenberg, Victoria Beckham and Chanel.
“Peta, whose motto reads, in part, that ‘animals are not ours to wear’, has published numerous complaints about the exotic skin industry.
The group revealed that alligators are kept in fetid waters in huts wet and dark, after which their neck is cut and a metal bar is inserted in the head, in an attempt to destroy his brain, often while they are still completely conscious.
One-year-old ostriches are transported by truck to the slaughterhouse, where the workers put them upside down in a stunner, cut their throats and tear their feathers, and snakes are normally nailed to trees, then their bodies are opened from side to side as they are skinned alive.
My comment: Experts have proven that crocodiles stay alive for a long time, even if their spine is damaged and they feel pain when their skin is peeled off. The skinning lasts 15-20 minutes and the animals are still conscious over this period.
The more we are pleased about this new, small success and we wish that other fashion designers not only leather but also fur finally pull out of their range.
If there is no more leather and no fur to buy, then both are soon history, as simple as that.
It is motivating to experience such successes.
This strengthens our courage to continue fighting for our clients.
Posted on November 8, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Classroom dissection is an outdated practice still taught in many schools worldwide and is used to teach students about anatomy and physiology. Approximately 10 million animals are used for classroom dissection exercises annually in the US alone.
Rats, mice, frogs, worms, pigs, and sheep are often used, and many of the animals used are either bred specifically for this purpose or are captured from their natural environment and killed. Some are even taken from animal shelters.
(Pictured: A dissected pregnant female rat, who was carrying 11 babies.)
Simply put, this practice is obsolete and unnecessary.
If one does wish to teach or learn from dissection, there are online virtual dissection tools available to educate about various anatomical and physiological processes. It is entirely possible for students of all education levels to learn anatomy and physiology from these tools—in addition to textbooks, human simulators, and clinical experience.
In fact, students often feel uncomfortable with these types of lessons and could face possible mental trauma.
It is well within a student’s rights to speak up against dissection in their classroom, with many schools having dissection-choice policies, meaning that students can refuse to take part without being penalized. Furthermore, studies have shown that there is no difference in achievement between students who dissect and those who do not.
Nedim C. Buyukmihci, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California, Davis’ School of Veterinary Medicine, says the following:
“As one who did not dissect in high school—and who now is a veterinarian and trains doctors-to-be—I can unequivocally state that the experience of dissection is totally unnecessary for the biologically minded pre-college student.”
We should not be forcing others to suffer in the name of education, especially when the “education” is completely unnecessary.
My comment: If we take into account that today we do everything we want with animals, nobody believes that even a single dissection takes place ONLY to animals who have died peaceful or naturally!
In that sense, this learning method should be prohibited, not only because it is outdated, but because it causes suffering and death for millions of animals.
Posted on November 8, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Kuala Lumpur– Because he killed a pregnant cat in a tumble dryer, a Malaysian has been sentenced to 34 months in prison.
It was a video in a laundromat that convicted the offender. He abused a cat. Now the animal tormentors had to answer in court.
The 42-year-old must also pay a fine of the equivalent of just under 9000 euros, as the state news agency Bernama reported on Wednesday.
The verdict should be “a lesson to the perpetrator and the public, that one should not treat animals cruelly,” said the judge Rasyihah Ghazali accordingly.
The mistreatment of the cat in September 2018 had caused an outcry among animal rights activists.
A video from a surveillance camera showed the cat being put into a clothes dryer late at night in a Kuala Lumpur laundromat.
Two men then threw chips into the machine, turned it on and ran away. A customer of the laundromat later found the carcass of the cat.
The prison sentence against the 42-year-old was suspended for the time being, because he wants to appeal. The Tuesday ruling was already the second court ruling in the case.
In January, a taxi driver in Malaysia was sentenced to two years in prison for killing a cat.
My comment: We get a lesson from Malaysia!
We, the “civilized” Germans have a humorous so-called “Animal Protection Law”. It says: “No one may inflict pain, suffering or harm on any animal without reasonable reason.”
How much would such a culprit get here in Germany?
The judge had raised his finger and told him …. “You, you, you bad man, that’s not what a good man does” and then he would have been sent to Mallorca for psychotherapy because he definitely had a bad childhood!
We believe that we are morally up front with our Animal Welfare Law, but in similar court cases it is not even worth the ink with which it was signed.
Posted on November 7, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With this beautiful video we let the day fade away.
Let us hope that there will be more and more people who will liberate animals from suffering, pain and injustice and give them what they deserve: love, freedom, happiness.
Posted on November 7, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The 30-year-old farmer Andreas F. from the Swiss canton of Thurgau has had sex with sheep, cows, goats and pigs for seven years. Not even his own farm bitch was safe from him.
As the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” reported, he had a calf suckle on his penis and got a ram to climb him. Finally, he tried the same with a 300-pound bull. All that the judge read in the indictment. The farmer admitted the deeds. “The shoot was stronger than me,” he said. And: “I feel guilty, sex before marriage is a bad sin, whether human or animal.”
From autumn 2011, regular sex with female animals
According to the indictment Andreas F. practiced from autumn 2011 regularly the sexual act with female animals such as sheep or cows. So that they do not run away as he passes by them, F. binds his animal victims.
Calf lets the farmer suck on his penis, he satisfies the court bitch several times with his hand. The perverse bustle of Andreas F. would probably have remained undetected for a long time had he not also developed a fetish for male animals.
The abuser’s abuse did not materialize until he landed in the hospital for an injury. During intercourse with the 300-kilogram bull, he had suffered serious internal injuries. The hospital staff had alerted the police.
Only there does he admit the years of animal abuse. “The police have assured me confidentiality. But now all of Switzerland knows about it, and I feel like a serious criminal! » complains Andreas F.
The farmer did not realize that he had violated the dignity of the animals
Although the farmer felt guilty and confessed everything, he did not realize he had hurt the dignity of the animals. The ram had “voluntarily participated” (!!!) he said.
Andreas F. condemned the court to a term of imprisonment of ten months and a fine of 4,500 francs, about 4,000 euros, as well as to a psychotherapeutic treatment for three months (!!!).
The judge praised the farmer for his honesty (!!!). Therefore, she advised him to be “open” and “to be helped” so that he could “get his sexuality under control”.
The father of the offender claims to have known nothing of the practices of his son. As a pet owner, he is complicit that the son has castrated several dozen lambs without stunning with a rubber ring. Both men are astonished that this is punishable.
“Earlier, it used to be done without anesthetic,” says the father.
In Germany it is forbidden according to animal protection law, “to use an animal for own sexual acts or to arrange for sexual acts of third persons or to make available and thereby to force-behaved behavior”.
My comment: We live in a perpetrator friendly society.
Justice, fellow human beings, neighbors, medicine … protect the perpetrator almost always, from a misunderstood philanthropy known as “tolerance.”
My suggestion: One should put photos of him in his area with name and face in public places:
“Wanted! Take care of your animals and children, he raped animals for seven years”!
Psychotherapy is a costly affair, and with just three months of treatment, even dubious results are associated, meaning that no one can count on a cure for this measure.
He is a criminal psychopath and must be treated as such.
Posted on November 6, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
October, 2019
Indiana State Police officials have been asked to investigate after an undercover video shared Wednesday by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shows animal abuse and potentially unhealthy conditions the group says was taken at an Indiana pig farm.
The graphic video was shared via PETA’s YouTube page early Wednesday, and the description says the footage was captured at East Fork Farms outside of Brownstown in Jackson County.
The three-and-a-half minute clip is extremely graphic and shows pigs and piglets being thrown by farm staff members, swimming in pools of feces and hobbling in pain from visible injury.
The video also shows rotting pig carcasses and areas teeming with maggots. Viewer discretion is advised.
IndyStar’s attempts to reach East Fork Farmsrepresentatives have been unsuccessful. All numbers associated with the farm and its owners are no longer in service, and direct messages to individuals listed as the owners in state business filings have not been answered.
Dan Paden, vice president of evidence analysis for PETA, said the video was sent in by an anonymous whistleblower in September. PETA officials submitted a complaint to the Indiana State Police Versailles district Wednesday morning, Paden said.
“We’re asking (police) to visit the farm with a pig veterinarian and ensure that any sick and injured animals who may be in need of veterinary care or a painless release from that suffering are given the care that they require,” Paden said.
Fair Oaks Farms: Another infamous incident in Indiana
PETA is also asking that criminal charges be filed if investigators find anything at the farm that warrants it.
Sgt. Stephen Wheeles confirmed that the complaint was sent to the ISP via email, and police are determining how to proceed.
In the complaint, directed to ISP Commander Lt. Paul A. Adams, PETA officials detail the abuse in the video and how they believe it violates Indiana’s anti-cruelty statutes.
Paden said PETA does not know the relationship between the person who captured the footage and East Fork Farms.
“We’re focused more on exposing the cruelty that they found. Not them and how they obtained the footage,” Paden said.
Paden told a reporter with the Louisville Courier Journal that PETA had not contacted the farm’s owners. “The farm’s on-site management is well aware of the pervasive and persistent filth and suffering shown on this video,” Paden said. “They’ve permitted all this and more to occur on their watch.”
PETA is also urging the JBS USA, the food company that operates a pork processing plant in Louisville, to no longer accept and slaughter pigs provided to them by East Fork Farms. IndyStar has reached out to JBS USA for comment.
My comment: Slaughterhouses and farm operation is a system of exploitation of the weaks, of the slaves of this world, it is the legalized fascism against animals.
We all who fight against this system know that even worse than the suffering of animals is the tragic fact that eliminating this system is not easy.
And certainly not today and not tomorrow.
As far as the power of the meat industry is concerned, I am firmly convinced that this ruling totalitarian system is very resistant and even dirty.
The meat industry’s dirtiest strategy is to convince consumers by propaganda that eating meat in a democracy is everyone’s right. And so the privatization of the matter relieves the contributors in this system.
None of us knows how to make the abolition of slaughterhouses possible.
But those with many years of experience in the field know that only a strong struggle can change that suffering and misery.
One who does not stop, one who works purposefully.
A struggle that consists of massive pressure on politicians, the media, the authorities, while at the same time providing education and information for the society.
And there is nothing left to do but fight. Because we know …
“Whoever fights can lose Who does not fight has already lost”
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