Posted on March 17, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Eyewitness video footage shows elephants who were forced to participate in the cruel Chitwan Elephant Festival in Nepal being repeatedly struck and gouged with bullhooks—spear-like weapons with a sharp hook on one end—and their ears being violently yanked.
Mahouts (handlers) also beat frightened elephants with other weapons, such as sticks and makeshift wooden knives.
One mahout can be seen repeatedly jabbing a baby elephant behind the ear to force her to “play” soccer. Right after the match, eyewitnesses saw that she had several fresh, painful, bloody wounds.
When these elephants aren’t being forced to perform at this festival, they’re used for rides by tourists visiting Chitwan. Elephants who are forced to “play” polo or give rides are controlled through physical violence and psychological domination.
They’re chained and beaten with bullhooks or other weapons and constantly threatened with violence to keep them afraid and submissive.
Elephants used for polo games, rides, shows, and other forms of entertainment suffer tremendously. Even when not performing, they’re typically deprived of everything that’s natural and important to them.
If we take an honest look at the reality of life in captivity for elephants compared to the life that they would have in nature, we can see that the “trainers” have utterly degraded these magnificent animals.
Elephants are highly social beings who thrive in matriarchal herds, protecting each other, caring for their babies, and traveling many miles a day.
They experience joy, sadness, and fear. Their rituals of mourning the deaths of family members rival any that humans have developed.
Their complex emotional states and multifaceted relationships are left in tatters.
Using these majestic, endangered animals in silly spectacles is shameful. Nepal should be focused on protecting them in their natural habitats, not exploiting them for human amusement.
Last year, more than a dozen companies dropped their support of the King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Thailand after a PETA Asia eyewitness exposé revealed abuse similar to that documented in Nepal, and the tournament’s organizers ceased their operations in Thailand—making the Chitwan Elephant Festival the only event in the world in which elephants are shamefully abused for and forced to “play” polo.
And for good reason—others have recognized the cruelty inherent in making elephants perform and have stopped abusing animals.
The Chitwan Elephant Festival also hurts Nepal’s tourism industry.
Please fill out the form below to tell the Nepal Tourism Board that it’s in its best interest to cancel these cruel “games.”
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And I mean…Those who are too lazy or too stupid to play football themselves choose the enslaved animals as substitutes, who definitely have more intelligence than all these primitive offenders.
So that every brain-sick tourist in his country can proud the experienced hero, elephants have to spend their lives in torture, slavery and daily humiliations.
Maybe our corona brings some good side effects in this regard.
Most will not travel anytime soon, nature and animals are recovering, and fear spoils any desire for exotic fun!
Posted on March 17, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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On the 1 of March the lynx cull began in Sweden as of right now over 80 have been killed and 103 will be killed by the end of this month.
A massacre was going on in the forrest and we could not just sit idly by and watch the slaughter.
While searching for the hunt scum with the intention of sabotaging their efforts to kill the 8 lynx that were still fighting for their home and lives in our cull zone we came across many traps, hunting towers and feeding stations that all met the same fate.
Posted on March 17, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Those who are exposed to COVID-19 propaganda for several hours a day will hardly be able to grasp a clear thought out of sheer panic.
This is certainly also the goal of strictly coordinated propaganda, which we particularly appreciate and inevitably finance, especially through the public media.
Their job is to subtly deprive people of the opportunity to think independently.
They themselves call it high-level information and education.
Insofar as, contrary to expectations or due to technical breakdowns, there are moments of light within this panic sprinkling, the normally gifted person begins to ask questions internally.
Questions that it is better not to open up and therefore mostly to keep quiet and secret. This is the only way to be reasonably safe from the destructive criticism that everyone is exposed as soon as he issues questions or facts that contradict the official line.
The economic side of the pandemic
Let us turn to the economic side of this crisis, following the rampant pandemic.
An officially prescribed crisis, which becomes more significant and more serious with every compulsory and restrictive measure called.
It was not for nothing that unlimited financial resources were provided for every cough, well before panic mode was raised to today’s level.
This can be seen as a signal that the government, either way, is expecting a huge crash.
Rightly so, because the financial and economic system has been overdue in this regard for years.
Corona is just the gentle and innocuous door opener, the hand puppet or Trojan to play a real drama for people. All with the goal of reaching the next level on the way to total control of the crowds.
The latter is pretty much the hardest attack on the remaining Human liberties.
We are experiencing, so to speak, the final dispute. It is about whether people will be able to take control of their own destiny, freely and individually, in the future.
Or whether, as in the past few decades, people remain only the productive livestock of an elite class.
In this context, it can be said that it is a battle against globalization that is pursuing exactly this agenda of human livestock.
The EU is only a small size and unfortunately nothing else than “not pro person” … only “pro … fit”
Lock-down brings heavy losses
The Europe-wide failure of the entire economy will immediately lead to the death of all affected economies. We could say they die on Corona themselves. This virus is simply the ideal scapegoat.
Of course, this is not entirely true, as these economies are now dying because of the planned measures to combat a small virus, the importance of which is more than controversial.
But the propaganda already helps the little creature to the power it has now been given. Nothing will change the result. Economies will die along with COVID-19, the weakest first.
It would be better, in general, to start thinking about a new system in terms of education, economy and the state. A more stable system that does not have to be driven against the wall every three generations like now.
In this regard, at least the previously mentioned small elite would like to read later in the history books that not their greed destroyed everything, but a small, cute virus called COVID-19.
And I mean...The whole world smells of disinfectants, in the subway, in the supermarket, in sports studios, in the café..
No cinemas, no soccer, no museums, no theater, no libraries, no visitors from relatives in the hospital, no parties, even no church …
Everywhere empty shelves, noodles are gone, rice is gone, cans are gone, toilet paper is gone, even the vegan range that no one wanted before is gone.
The empty shelves in the supermarket are reminiscent of the old days in the former GDR, when people abused the “totalitarian” system of socialism at the time and only dreamed of fleeing to the West in order to finally buy everything their hearts could desire.
And now fucking capitalism is failing worse than its enemies at the time.
After the swine and bird flu failed so miserably, the right one finally seems to have been found.
There will soon be a global slaughterhouse for human animals that will cut all savings in half.
We have the explanation for this: it was the evil virus!
One thing is hopeful and makes the situation bearable: the corona is an animal-friendly virus!
WAV Comment – with thanks to Stacy at ‘Our Compass’ for sending over.
We fully support what Gene says in the article; for far too long the animals have suffered in silence. Now humankind is affected in its financial pocket; the stock exchanges of the world, its travel restrictions; let alone the massive costs by governments to attempt to enforce, maybe just for once, governments will listen and more importantly; realise where they are going wrong, and if they continue with current practices; will continue to go wrong for the future.
Governments and their advisors think they know best; but usually it is the folk in ‘the trench’ who know reality. Seems like Gene has been in the trench for a while. Well done Gene.
The COVID-19 coronavirus has killed thousands of people around the world, including 14 in the U.S., and its origin in animals and global spread should remind us how inextricably linked we are with other life on Earth. We share the same planet and breathe the same air, and we also exchange microbes including germs. Now, with our burgeoning human population and global economy, we face new threats from a wider distribution of diseases like this new strain of coronavirus.
For some background, the World Health Organization (WHO) explains: “Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV)… Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.” COVID-19 was thought to have come from a live animal market where animals are often sold as food in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and so far it has been confirmed in nearly 80 countries and declared a “public health emergency of international concern” by the World Health Organization.
SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 are contagious diseases that jump from animals to humans, and more needs to be done to curtail these, including banning live animal markets. But, other potentially fatal zoonoses also warrant attention.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns: “…3 out of every 4 new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals.” These include viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, and they infect millions of U.S. citizens every year.
In the U.S., almost ten billion animals are exploited and slaughtered every year. Most live short miserable lives in overcrowded factory farms, which are a breeding ground for disease, including emerging pathogens and virulent strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
In addition to foodborne illness and environmental pollution, animal agriculture can also incite global pandemics like H1N1, which was initially called “swine flu” because it was linked to a similar disease in pigs, but its connection to animal agriculture has since been largely obscured.
The H1N1 pandemic killed hundreds of thousands of people around the globe, including over ten thousand in the U.S., according to CDC: “From April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus… Additionally, CDC estimated that 151,700-575,400 people worldwide died from (H1N1)pdm09 virus infection during the first year the virus circulated.”
While animal-borne illnesses continue to threaten human health, agribusiness has a vested interest in preventing consumers from thinking about it — under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Since the 1980s, Farm Sanctuary has investigated farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses and worked to prevent irresponsible agricultural practices, such as the transport and slaughter of downed animals, animals too sick even to stand. T
he USDA defended the practice for decades, dismissing our concerns about diseased animals entering the food supply. Finally, after confirming mad cow disease in the U.S., the agency agreed that downed cows should not be slaughtered for human consumption. Unfortunately, however, other diseased and debilitated animals are still entering the U.S. food supply, including half a million downed pigs every year.
We continue challenging this inhumane and risky practice, and we are also challenging a new USDA policy to remove limits on slaughterhouse line speeds, and give the industry more authority to police itself. The USDA and other government officials need to protect the public, instead of serving the short-sighted financial interests of agribusiness.
Government programs should encourage diverse organic farms that build soil and create ecological sustainability and resilience, instead of chemically dependent mono-crops and factory farm confinement, which denude and despoil the earth.
We should invest in plant-based agriculture and grow crops to feed people instead of farm animals, which would feed more people with less land and fewer resources, allowing rainforests and other vital ecosystems to be preserved, along with biodiversity and the earth’s natural capacity for regulating greenhouse gasses and other environmental threats. We all benefit when our common home, the earth, is healthier.
Transitioning agriculture and government policies will take time, but each of us can make daily choices to help the planet and ourselves. Eating nutritious, plant-based foods can help fortify our immune systems, thereby enhancing our ability to withstand various threats, including from contagious viruses like COVID-19.
Our disrespectful treatment of other animals and the earth has consequences, and when they are harmed, ultimately, so are we. All life on Earth is connected, and it’s in our interest to act accordingly.
Gene Baur is the president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal rescue and advocacy organization.
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