Posted on July 22, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
“Being vegan must be so difficult.”…
In reality, taking a few seconds to read ingredients, to look for a brand that doesn’t test on animals, or to find clothing that isn’t derived from an animal is hardly an inconvenience compared to what the animals are forced to endure.
What IS difficult is seeing the dairy industry through the eyes of a female cow: being forcibly impregnated, having your baby taken away and then aching for them, being hooked to a milking machine, and having the cycle repeat until your body physically cannot take it anymore.
What IS difficult is seeing through the eyes of a male calf: being ripped away from your mom, being forced to live chained to a tiny crate and rarely getting exercise, receiving milk replacer instead of your mom’s milk, and being killed at as young as three weeks old for veal.
What IS difficult is seeing the egg industry through the eyes of a hen: having your body manipulated to lay an unnatural amount of eggs, dying from having eggs backed up in your oviduct, having the highest rate of ovarian cancer out of any animal species because your body is overproducing, and being crammed inside a tiny cage with several others while covered in faeces.
What IS difficult is seeing through the eyes of a male chick: being gassed or ground up alive simply because your body isn’t perceived as resourceful to the human species.
What IS difficult is seeing the meat industry through the eyes of pigs, cows, chickens, and other land animals: knowing you are about to die because you can smell the blood and hear the screams of others, being stunned (which usually takes multiple tries), and having your throat slit or being gassed alive, all just so you can wind up on someone’s plate.
What IS difficult is seeing the seafood industry through the eyes of fish, crabs, and other sea animals: having your gills collapse and your eyes pop out from painful decompression, being suffocated, being crammed in floating sea cages or ponds with hundreds of thousands of others, facing infections and diseases, being starved for days before slaughter, and then being slaughtered, all just so you can wind up on someone’s plate.
What IS difficult is what all non-human animals face under speciesism.
As vegans, all we do is align our morals to include them.
📷 Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals
….and when we recall the last journey to the agonizing death of the 70,000 living creatures of “Midia,” not only we find it difficult to accept it, but we find it as a crime against any morality, decency and progress of a civilized society.
What IS difficult is to accept that 7 billion human carnivores are allowed to decide about the life and death of the “other animals”.
Posted on July 21, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Update: 21/7/19 2300hrs GMT.
The Al Shuwaikh has now docked in Jeddah port tonight (2330hrs local).
Why ? – A ‘Route Plan’ has to be submitted under EU Regulations BEFORE the shipment can take place. So did the Romanian approved Route Plan always declare Jeddah as the final destination ?, and the ship was simply to return to home base of Kuwait EMPTY from there ?
Now we need to check out the formal Romanian Route Plan to see what the sheep’s final destination actually was – Saudi Arabia or Kuwait ?
The AK could set sail from Jeddah in the next few days, but it does not mean the sheep are on board – it could be returning home empty to Kuwait.
Only the Route Plan approved by the Romanian authorities will declare exactly what the final destination of the sheep was to be. It could have been Jeddah.
So does this from the EU Commissioner make any sense:
On the subject of this weekend’s decision by Romania to go ahead with the transport of 70,000 sheep from Romania to the Persian Gulf, Commissioner Andriukaitis said that the Commission is investigating the issue and that “infringement proceedings against Romania cannot be excluded at this time”.
He said ‘Persian Gulf’ but the plan could have said Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), not Kuwait. The East of Saudi is in the Persian Gulf; so ‘Persian Gulf’ could have actually meant ‘Saudi Arabia’.
But also, the question is – how many sheep have perished under the shipment conditions ?
The Romanians SHOULD have taken the temperatures for the sheep on the journey into account when they were looking at the submitted (but not approved at the time – Route Plan) in ADVANCE of the shipment. Did they ?
We will get the Route Plan in some way now and check out what is says.
Posted on July 21, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
On July 15, 2019 we received two horror reports from the small port of Romania, Midia.
One was that 70,000 live sheep were to be transported to Kuwait by ship.
The other horror message was the impudent refusal of the meaningless Romanian Minister of Agriculture to ban the transport.
EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety’s Andriukaitishad emailed Petre Daea to ban this brutal drive of 70,000 sheep to the Persian Gulf.
“I urge you to stop the import of sheep to the Persian Gulf”, said Vytenis Andriukaitis in his letter.
The EU representative Anja Hazekamp was on site and had also demonstrated against the transport unmistakable.
The cruise should take 6 days. Until now (21.07.19, 19:34) the ship is still on its way, and the still alive animals suffer from dehydration, hunger, ammonia stench and heat stroke.
Finally, Agra Minister Daea writes Commissioner Andriukaitis on his assand gives the green light to a transport that will soon become the mobile Auschwitz for a few thousand animals.
Petre Daea was just finished with his six-month EU- Council presidency when he admitted this illegal animal transport.
In this short time, Daea has been well aware of the inability of certain EU commissioners to benefit.
He understood that he had nothing to fearbecause his EU colleagues had neither the authority nor the courage to force a meaningless minister to obedience.
And at once he acted with an outrageous authority over his colleague Andriukaitis,which disgusted every civilized and democratic man.
Due to the fundamental inability and ignorance of the EU Commission to take elementary measures against unnecessary suffering in animal transport (such as the ban on transport through Europe and to third countries in the summer), every corrupt minister becomes the head and hangman of the Animal Protection Act, and even in a continent that wants to assert itself as progressive and superior to China or Africa.
The EU Commission, including its 28 idle and useless commissioners, has failed.
All over!
This fact is not new, but it is getting more dramatic.
The case of Midia, including ministers and commissioners, is a scandal, it is cruel, it is inhuman and extremely irresponsible.
The deeper the disappointment for all animal rights activists grows, the more we hope that the new President of the EU Commission, the German Ursula von der Leyen, will bring an appropriate share of responsibility and authority to the lame men of the Commission.
Posted on July 21, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Romanian Sheep shipping news – 21/7/19.
Date – 21/7/19 – 10-50hrs GMT
Things seem a little odd with this. From what we can find out, the Al Shuwaikh is still sailing for Kuwait; with its new arrival date now set at an ETA of 2/8/19.
But as of 10-50hrs GMT today, 21/7/19; she is still way up in the Red Sea; just to the East of the port of Jeddah / (near Mecca) in Saudi Arabia. The speed of the vessel over recent times has been between 0.2 and 1.5 knots.
Above – the planned route to Kuwait.
So, we ask, what is happening ? – are there mechanical issues ? – has ‘Kuwait’ as a destination suddenly changed to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia ? – yet the vessel is still scheduled to arrive in Kuwait on 2/8.
0.2 -1.5 knots is not exactly racing along; so why the speed ?
With a cargo of 70,000 live sheep travelling under such extreme conditions; and with temperatures at around 40 degrees, would the vessel not be trying to get to Kuwait as fast as it could ?
Sheep will be dying in their dozens even before they arrive to be ritually slaughtered – as you can see in the 60 minutes video below, the sheep trade from Australia to the middle east often loses 700-800 sheep PER DAY.
We think there may be problems with this sailing / shipment, as there have been with many of these old livestock carrying vessels in the past. Unfortunately we cannot prove this at present, but this ship has been in the Red Sea for a few days now; and that is not really a great distance to travel.
More news to come if we can track with further updates;
Posted on July 20, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Each year, millions of live farmed non-human animals are transported thousands of miles for slaughter—or to places where they will be fattened for slaughter. Live export, defined as “the commercial transport of livestock across national borders,” is still a widespread global occurrence, with around 3 million non-human animals shipped each year from Australia alone.
Every year 416 million animals are transported within Europe or across borders to third countries.
The individuals that are shipped, usually cows, sheep, and pigs, face cramped and overcrowded spaces, extreme temperatures, and exhaustion and dehydration due to lack of food and water.
Secretly taken pictures also show lambs born on board. They lie on the feces-covered floor of the ship. Such births at sea are actually prohibited by law.
But animals are considered as things.
Furthermore, with no room to move, they often become drenched in their own and other individuals’ excrement. It’s estimated that more than 100,000 litres of urine and faeces accumulate on a typical live-export ship every day.
Anonymous for the Voiceless
Many of those who face this fate do not reach their final destination and instead die in transport. High levels of ammonia, due to the build-up of urine, cause the air to become toxic, choking and burning those on board.
In low temperatures, the container becomes like a freezer, and in higher temperatures, like an oven.
Live exports exist because we consider animals not as individuals but as things.
We must stop evaluating animals as our slaves.
We do not practice mass animal husbandry. We operate a mass animal hell.
“Wherever we humans take the right, to sacrifice an animal for our purposes, We commit not only a wrong, but a crime”. Karlheinz Deschner (German religion critics)
According to all the information over the past week, the Al Shuwaikh which has been sailing from Romania to Kuwait with 70,000 live sheep, should have arrived at its destination in the early hours of this morning.
Instead, from information we have obtained, the vessel is still only just half way down the Red Sea; and now the expected arrival date (ETA) has changed to 2/8/19; which is nearly another 2 weeks away !
We are trying to find out if this vessel has had any issues which have delayed it (it is well known for past problems at sea); and we will publish these if we find out.#
God knows what the conditions are like on board for the animals; now that the journey appears to be destined to take more than twice its scheduled sailing time.
Obviously the Romanian government does not care about the suffering of animals; as it ignored the requests from the EU and other authorities to stop the sailing before it even commenced. This is Romania, an EU member state which does not comply with EU legislation, and which certainly does not give a toss about the suffering of animals; as we have seen for years regarding their approach to stray dog control.
This sailing is just one of many that are carrying livestock all over the world by sea. We wanted to follow this, giving you reports each day so that you can get a feel for the suffering the animals on board will be suffering. Now it appears that these poor Romanian sheep have over another week at sea before they reach their destination in Kuwait; only then to be greeted by ritual slaughter under the name of Eid.
Red Sea temperatures on 20/7 are between 38 and 43 degrees.
In Kuwait port today the temperature is 40 degrees.
EU Regulations (1/2005) for animals in transport, say that animals must not be transported in temperatures above 30 degrees.
Posted on July 20, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Who is the “most dangerous animal”?
While the child lay unconscious on the ground, Jambo sat near him to protect him from other curious gorillas, this happened in 1986! The gorilla died in 1992 at the age of 32 years of a burst artery.
Binti-Jua, the gorilla lady, was on hand in 1996 when a three-year-old climbed over the barrier and fell more than five meters. She took the unconscious boy in her arms and lovingly cared for the child, while the passers-by watched in disbelief.
Binti-Juaprotected the little boy until finally the paramedics arrived. Then she carried him cautiously to the front door of the enclosure and laid it tenderly.
And in May 2016, another kid in the zoo the US city Cincinnati fell into a gorilla enclosure. This time, the gorilla Harabe was not so lucky, he was shot in the rescue attempt.
Therefore, one wants to take their livelihood from the last remaining gorillas in the Congo?
Who is really the “most dangerous animal” now?
https://netzfrauen.org/2018/03/16/kongo/
And I mean…Three identical events, but two different reactions from the side of the human animal.
The third time in May 2016 (I remember the case) Silverback male Harambe reached for the child and was shot ten minutes later by the most dangerous and cruel animal in the world, the human.
With the right of the stronger. The fundamental fascist right of man to other animals.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 