Posted on November 19, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Received anonymously: Trick or treat !
During the night of October 31st to November 1st, 2019, poltergeists went to work. In reaction to the hunters who tortured and wounded the inhabitants of the forest, we bit back with the teeth of a saber saw. 8 hunting towers were targeted by the spell ACTIVISTA ANTISPECISTUM.
They were cut up, dismantled and then collapsed on the ground.
Saturday’s hunting party will be severely compromised …
The revengeful spirits have also left a trace on their way (‘Their life, your profits, die’)on a neighboring farm ‘respectful of animal welfare’ to remind that respect does not stand for a haystack on the ground of a prison and as a promise of an imminent return.
Happy Halloween to the forest people!!
French: Des bonbons ou un sort !
Dans la nuit du 31 octobre au 1er novembre 2019, des esprits frappeurs facétieux se sont mis au travail. Les chasseur.esse.s ayant torturé et meurtri les habitant.e.s de la forêt se sont pris.e.s un retour de baton, ou plutôt de scie sabre. 8 miradors ont subi le sort ACTIVISTA ANTISPECISTUM.
Ils ont été découpés, démantelés puis se sont effondrés au sol. La partie de chasse de samedi va être sévèrement compromise…
Les esprits vengeurs ont également laissé une trace de leur passage (“Leur vie, vos profits, crevez”) sur un élevage voisin “respectueux du bien-être animal” pour rappeler que le respect ne tient pas à une botte de paille sur le sol d’une prison. Promesse d’un retour imminent.
Posted on November 18, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
China records third case of plague this month
Three people from the rural village of Xilingol League have been diagnosed with different forms of the disease in November.
A 55-year-old man has become the third person to be diagnosed with a form of plague in China this month.
The unnamed man, from the rural village of Xilingol League, became infected with bubonic plague after killing and eating a wild rabbit on 5 November.
He is being treated at a hospital in the city of Huade in Inner Mongolia, a statement from the health authority in the region said.
The statement added that 28 people who had close contact with the man were quarantined, but none have a fever or are showing other plague symptoms.
Two patients, also from Xilingol League, were diagnosed with pneumonic plague in Beijing on 12 November.
Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague and is caused by the bite of an infected flea.
The bacteria travels to a lymph node which becomes inflamed and painful, causing a “bubo”.
Pneumonic plague, the most severe form of the infection, can develop from bubonic plague and results in a lung infection, causing shortness of breath, headaches and coughing.
Both types of plague are caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, and the infections can be fatal in up to 90% of sufferers who are not treated.
The pneumonic variant – where the bacterium is breathed into the lungs – is more dangerous because it is spread through coughing.
Septicaemic plague is a rare third variant which infects the bloodstream.
China has largely eradicated plague, but occasional cases are still reported, especially among hunters who come into contact with fleas that carry the bacterium.
The last major known outbreak was in 2009, when several people died in the town of Ziketan in Qinghai province on the Tibetan Plateau.
Plague has killed tens of millions of people around the world in three major pandemics, with about a third of Europe’s population wiped out in the 1300s by bubonic plague, known as the Black Death.
The bacterium is believed to have originated in Yunnan in southwest China, where it remains endemic.
Rodent populations have risen in Inner Mongolia after persistent droughts, worsened by climate change. An area the size of the Netherlands was hit by a “rat plague” last summer, causing damages of 600 million yuan ($86 million), Xinhua said. Rodent populations have risen in Inner Mongolia after persistent droughts, worsened by climate change. An area the size of the Netherlands was hit by a “rat plague” last summer, causing damages of 600 million yuan ($86 million), Xinhua said.
Posted on November 18, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Already in 2015, the “association against animal factories” (VGT) received shocking material from this southern Styrian slaughterhouse. In recent weeks, the slaughterhouse was mainly in the media because of a “rotten-meat” scandal.
Now new shots show how cruel it still going on in 2019 in this slaughterhouse.
Blows, kicks and injured animals, slaughterhouse veterinarians are just watching!
Brand-new images of a Styrian slaughterhouse show employees torturing pigs with electric tricycles in different situations. In several cases, the official slaughterhouse veterinarians watch for a few minutes and do not step in! The “association against animal factories”(VGT) refunds comprehensive advertisements.
A few weeks ago, the scandal began around a Styrian slaughterhouse, which, according to media reports, had processed meat from animals that were to be classified as carcass waste.
Now comes the shocking footage of August and October this year, which show gross violations of the Animal Welfare Act and the Battle Ordinance.
Even if the operation has been closed for a short time: the allegations to the authorities remain!
Electric torture: pigs roar in pain
According to the European regulation for the protection of animals, the use of electric drivers at the time of killing is strictly regulated and limited.
Only on clearly movement-denying animals, which can actually move on, electric drivers may be used to a small extent.
The videos from the slaughterhouse show another, cruel reality: “Pigs that are already running or even trapped with other pigs are systematically shocked and the screams of the pigs can be heard all the way to the cemetery opposite,” explains VGT vice-chairman David Richter.
Slaughterhouse veterinarians are just watching!
In the imagination of many people animal welfare violations in slaughterhouses would actually have to be prevented by the presence of official veterinarians.
But the current detection shows a different picture: the pigs are driven by the electric shock device directly to the veterinarians – without intervention of the veterinarians, systematically over several hours.
The VGT filed a complaint against the two veterinarians for abuse of office.
Beating, kicking and injured animals
Particularly hard to bear are the scenes of a pig with significant walking problems and a severely injured foreleg.
Nevertheless, the animal is forced to walk with the stun gun.
A cattle is delivered with a swollen leg, hobbling. Other shots show the faces of pigs and cattle and a kick towards the pig’s head.
Such punches and kicks are in turn prohibited by the battle ordinance. A comprehensive complaint against the employees of the slaughterhouse has been submitted to the district main team in Leibnitz.
Consequences demanded
Already in 2015, the slaughterhouse caused a negative sensation in the wake of the slaughterhouse scandal. The allegations at the time of the violence in the activities of the animals are partly reflected in the current material. Changes since 2015 did not appear to be effective, at least in this area.
“The fact that there are still veterinarians who are not immediately involved in such activities is seen as a failure of official control measures,”concludes David Richter.
A recent petition (https://vgt.at/actionalert/skandalschlachthof2019/index.php) to the Styrian Parliament demands consequences: exact investigations and possibly penalties for those involved; Improvements and transparency in official slaughterhouse controls (for example in the form of annual reports);
and a final closure (without “reopening”) of the scandal operation.
And this one week before the Styrian state election – how will the state policy react?
An indifferent and disinterested society has strengthened the backs of corrupt lobbyists for years and these will return to power over and over again, with or without rotten meat.
Suffering animals and a bit of rotten meat can not change the rotten conscience of voters.
Posted on November 17, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Suddenly they were there! The green crosses of wood, covered with white signs. But what is behind it?
On 4 September 2019, the State Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner and Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze have decided, inter alia, that the cancer weed killer glyphosate from 2024 completely, and particularly harmful pesticides in most nature reserves will be already banned.
The insect killing is to be contained with it.
The farmers should also create retreat areas for insects, the federal government wants to identify more biotopes. With 100 million euros, research on insect repellent is to be supported.
Even the controversial animal welfare label will come.
In addition, more agricultural subsidies, which have so far been paid mainly for the simple possession of land, should finance environmental projects by farmers, for example.
The farmers have organized a rebellion under the “Farmer Willi”.
Currently, the “farmer Willi” calls all farmers to protest with green wooden crosses in their fields against the “agricultural package” of the Federal Government.
But in his statements he often advocates the interests of agrochemical companies such as Bayer AG.
“Bayer / Monsanto, Syngenta, Gene-Lobby & Co. see their profit interests by the “agricultural package” massively endangered, but psychologically clever as they are, do not act on their own, but send targeted “farmer Willi, the small farmers & rural women “before.
Behind the ridiculous crosses is actually a nationwide campaign.. “Protect the farmers by a yes to the poison and factory farming”.
Similar PR actions and the enormous power of the agricultural lobby in the past have led to massive groundwater problems with nitrate in Germany.
The farmers say,“The package is” so closely tied up “that it takes away the air of many companies to breathe.
In agriculture, this would result in a significant land loss of many areas, and the use of many resources should be massively reduced. This is an encroachment on our property values, as areas would be worthless and could no longer be used for food production.
Furthermore, there is a high risk of “falling yields” and threatens a decline in regional products.
At last, a high price for an animal welfare indicator, in view of the many already existing labels on the market, no one needs more “!!
And we say: In reality, it’s the other way around:
If the soil continues to be poisoned,
the insects continue to die,
the groundwater continues to be contaminated
and our food continues to deteriorate,
then our diet will destroy our lives.
So we see the crosses in the fields as a symbol of death, exploitation, and destruction of the animal and nature world. And we consider this abuse of Christian symbols for poison, glyphosate and factory farming not only ridiculous, but a sign of farmer primitiveness.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 