Lesley is a personal friend and we have worked together on live export issues in the past. Here is her Christmas message about the great work she has been doing (at Eyes on Animals – Netherlands) for animal welfare in Turkey; Regards Mark Dear donors and friends, I am writing from the airport in Istanbul, about to fly back home. I hope you don’t mind that I will only write in English. Five years ago we started our project in Turkey to change the way animals were being treated inside slaughterhouses. Since then we have visited many slaughterhouses and witnessed unspeakable horrors. I am often asked how we do this work, facing such animal suffering. The answer is that we care too much to be able to now look away. Focusing on achieving results keeps us driven. In 2019 we achieved a major breakthrough in Turkey. Who could have thought that two cattle slaughterhouses would now be stunning animals before slaughter? Who could have thought that we could now import captive bolt stunning pistols into Turkey? Putting stunning into practice in Turkey was a major step, and the most challenging one. It took dozens of meetings with religious authorities, giving numerous talks at Turkish universities and to officials of the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture, editing hours of film material, visiting and inspecting Turkish slaughterhouses and educating their employees as well as organizing conferences for Turkish veterinarians and butchers. Now that the first major step has been taken, we just have to keep the ball rolling. In 2020, this will be one of our top priorities.

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The Queen of England Goes Fur Free In Future Clothing Lines.

One will not wear fur

–Queen’s new outfits will now be fur free Respect for Animals has welcomed the news that the Queen will no longer be wearing fur in her new outfits. Her personal adviser and senior dresser Angela Kelly wrote in her new memoir that Her Majesty will only wear fur-free new items for engagements due to changing attitudes in the country. Any outfits designed for the Queen now will use fake fur

–Queen’s new outfits will now be fur free

Respect for Animals has welcomed the news that the Queen will no longer be wearing fur in her new outfits.

Her personal adviser and senior dresser Angela Kelly wrote in her new memoir that Her Majesty will only wear fur-free new items for engagements due to changing attitudes in the country.

Any outfits designed for the Queen now will use fake fur instead.

In her book, titled The Other Side Of The Coin: The Queen, The Dresser And The Wardrobe, Ms Kelly says a coat worn by the Queen in Slovakia in 2008 has since been altered.

The coat’s trim, which originally used mink fur, has been replaced with fake fur.

However, this is likely to be an exception, as reports now suggest that fur on current clothing will not be replaced, and the Queen will continue to re-wear existing outfits in her wardrobe.

LISTEN: Respect for Animals Campaigns Director, Mark Glover, discusses the Queen’s shift away from real fur on Talk Radio’s Breakfast Show with Julia Hartley-Brewer: https://talkradio.co.uk/radio/listen-again/1573021800# (from around 20:00 in the 09:30-10:00

For all the great news from Respect for Animals, please visit their web site by clicking on:

http://www.respectforanimals.org/category/news/

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Thanks Stacey (WAV) – https://our-compass.org/2019/12/23/i-feel-so-badly-for-those-turkeys-hauled-on-freezing-nights/

… has so many churches and so many Christmas decorations and so many people that claim to be Christians, and yet so much unnecessary horrific animal cruelty and no complaint of it, or effort to do anything to stop it …

Source United Poultry Concerns (UPC)

The Letter to the Editor that follows this Introduction was written by Shane Zoglman and published Nov. 20, 2019 by The Dubois County Herald in Indiana, a mid-Western state with a large poultry and egg industry. In granting permission to UPC to share his letter with our readers, Shane added some information about his own evolution:

Howdy, sure, post away. For some history, back when I was a teenager, and didn’t have any good examples or guidance in the form of grownups, I worked for about 4 years on a chicken farm, that is, an egg farm, gathering eggs from the mega-sized houses, taking out the dead and crippled chickens and also taking out the old ones, loading them on semis and putting the new young birds in the cages.

Photo courtesy of Animals Angels.

I also did a few part-time jobs of working for a farm where I helped load turkeys into the semis. I have to say I didn’t think about the animals’ suffering, it just didn’t enter my mind. So I am someone who has seen both sides and has changed a lot over the years. The thing I do not understand is people that never wake up. I think a big help in my waking up to animal cruelty was stumbling onto the Shark Online YouTube channel years ago. I had been to a couple rodeos as a kid, but again, never was aware of the cruelty as I see it now after seeing their videos of rodeo cruelty.

These days I do not buy guns and ammo to kill animals with. I buy binoculars to enjoy watching them with, and instead of putting effort into killing, I put effort and money into taking in animals (who) need a home as well as trying to spread some of the message in my own way that things need to change.
– Shane Zoglman

The following is Shane’s letter in The Dubois County Herald, Nov. 20, 2019:

Protect turkeys in trucks from frigid temps

Dubois County Herald

November 20, 2019

To the editor:

Well, it is wintertime in Dubois County again, and once again the turkey manufacturing industry has done nothing to alleviate the suffering of turkeys being trucked down the highways at night in open cages, going 60-mph with no protection from the horrific freezing cold.

The profiteers of the turkey manufacturing industry cannot be bothered to spend a few bucks to lessen the cruelty they inflict on their product. After all, a healthy profit margin is what life is all about, right?

After their freezing cold, 18-wheeled torture trip, many of the turkeys are thrown still alive into boiling hot water. Then they are sold and shipped to China, where most turkeys “manufactured” in America end up. It’s so great that China gets the food and people in Dubois County get the pollution, the stink and the humanity-degrading, low-paying jobs of inflicting cruelty on animals while a few rich people at the top get the money.

What does it say that Dubois County has so many churches and so many Christmas decorations and so many people that claim to be Christians and yet so much unnecessary horrific animal cruelty and no complaint of it, or effort to do anything to stop it?

You cannot look at humans in middle America and convince me that monsters do not exist. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Shane Zoglman, Jasper

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Dear readers of our blog,

Christmas is just around the corner, for most it means an orgy of eating meat.

The number of victims in the name of love and religion is increasing dramatically these days.

This prevents us from celebrating these days – which have a decorative charm for non-believers anyway – in the same way as the majority of society, and exchanging hypocritical congratulations for“happy holidays” with everyone from the schnitzel fraction.

Don`t speak of the “festival of love” when there is a dead animal on your plate

We will therefore do it differently.

Our message is a memory of all beings that are being transported and slaughtered all over the world these days.

We think of the, more than other days.

These animals call the others “Martin’s goose” or “Andalusian piglet” and see them on their plates for the first time.

We call them Christmas Victim and we call it Murder.

We speak of corpses instead of roasts, of murder instead of consumption.

This also distinguishes us from ”the others” and over the years we have tried to use the language as a grenade thrown in the right place at the right time.

You have been loyal to us in our daily endeavors to expose state and private crimes against animals, to provide objective information about animal exploitation and animal suffering around the world.

We have always tried to be politically correct and to remain unaffected by media propaganda.

We have you on our side, we want to believe it, and only together can we continue this fight and keep the necessary motivation for it.

In this sense … we wish all animal rights activists, vegans and co-campaigners of our blog peaceful and healthy days.

Venus and Mark

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German Animal Protection Office (Deutsches Tierschutzbüro e.V) .

Fantastic !!!. December 19 at 11:42

👉We are celebrating a great SUCCESS at the end of the year: 🎉BOGNER is FUR FREE!

After a long campaign and many intensive discussions, we were finally able to convince Bogner to get out of the fur business✊🦊

The exit from the fur business will be gradual. Fur will no longer be sold in its own Bogner stores and in Germany by the winter of 2021/2022.
The fashion company worldwide will completely exit by the winter of 2022/2023.

PS: We are aware that it will take a while until 2022/23, but this decision is a success because it will also put pressure on other fashion companies to finally become fur-free and pave the way for a fur-free future.
For example, last year we managed to get the Breuninger fashion chain to exit the fur business.

You can find more about this and the campaign at:
➡️ http://www.tierschutzbuero.de/wir-feiern-einen-grossen-eriumph-bog…/

Sorry! that’s still part of coat!

My comment: Yes! I still remember the campaign against Breuninger fashion chain, I participated in this campaign.

Only those who have the experience with such street actions know how annoying it is to discuss with the people who wear fur and still come to provoke.

They don`t want to learn anything new, they are not even curious about the photos of the bloodied carcass animals from the fur farms ..They justify their crimes with every stupid and cheeky argument that can be imagined.

But we won at that time! Breuninger became fur-free! that’s what always counts, the result!

The photo is from the anti-fur campaign in front of the shop Breuninger 21.11.2017

My best regards to all, Venus

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SPANA (London) – providing FREE veterinary care and treatment to working animals and their owners across Africa. 

Watch the videos and links in the following to see their brilliant work.

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/12/22/england-everything-weve-achieved-in-2019-spana-free-medical-treatment-to-help-working-animals-and-their-owners-paid-for-by-members-and-supporters/

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Harvard Law School has introduced a program which will teach law students how to fight for animal rights.

The course named Animal Law & Policy Clinic follows a national trend of schools offering animal rights legal training.

The course provides students with direct hands-on experience in litigation, legislation, administrative practice, and policymaking.

The clinic will work on a broad range of issues affecting farmed animals, wildlife, animals in captivity, and the overarching threat to all forms of life from climate change.

Harvard hopes the course will see ‘a new generation of leaders for the animal protection movement’.

Harvard University Motto

The clinic will be part of the Animal Law & Policy Program, led by Faculty Director Professor Kristen Stilt.

Announcing the clinic, Stilt said: “The Animal Law & Policy Clinic at HLS will train and prepare our graduates to embark on careers in the animal protection field, produce impactful litigation and policy analysis to benefit the animal protection movement, and provide an internationally renowned platform for educating the broader public about the many pressing issues involving animal law and policy.”

Growing field

Harvard said in a statement that animal protection is one of the fastest developing areas of public interest law.

The number of institutions in the US offering Animal Law courses has dramatically risen from just nine in 2000 to 167 in 2019.

“Animal law is a vitally important and rapidly growing field,” said Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’85.

“Our new Animal Law & Policy Clinic will give students real-world experience in this burgeoning field, build on Harvard Law School’s long tradition of innovative pedagogy, and prepare future graduates to address significant societal challenges.

“I am delighted to welcome Katherine Meyer to the Harvard Law School community and congratulate her, Kristen Stilt, and Nicole Negowetti on the launch of this terrific initiative.”

The Animal Law & Policy Clinic was supported by major gifts from the Brooks McCormick Jr. Trust, the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, the Animal Welfare Trust and other generous supporters.

https://www.totallyveganbuzz.com/news/harvard-introduces-course-to-train-students-to-battle-for-animal-rights

My comment: I have never heard of such an offer anywhere.

What I knew was the offer of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, which provides students with the theoretical and practical tools needed to become familiar with legal protection for animals, so that at the end of the course students have a total comprehension of how the law works in this new subject area; It’s called Master’s Degree in Animal Law and Society and it is done as a distance learning course.

The fact that now the highly valued Harvard University offers a special course in training “Animal Rights” gives us hope that in the future there will be better legal expertise on this subject, which will consequently lead to more active and effective actions in the animal rights movement.

I believe that the historical moment has come to overcome the barrier of “speciesism” after nationalism, racism and sexism, which justifies discrimination against living beings only on the basis of their species.

Evolutionary biologists do not distinguish between humans and animals, but between humans and other animals.
Nevertheless! until now we have animals without rights.

And even if these “other animals” do not need the same rights as we humans (right to vote, freedom of religion, etc.) this does not deny their rights for freedom, life and autonomy.

We welcome very much the decision of the Harvard Law School !

Best regards to all, Venus

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