Posted on April 10, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
China signals end to dog meat consumption by humans
Draft policy released by agriculture ministry cites concern over animal welfare and prevention of disease transmission as factors behind move
The Chinese government has signalled an end to the human consumption of dogs, with the agriculture ministry today releasing a draft policy that would forbid canine meat.
Citing the “progress of human civilisation” as well as growing public concern over animal welfare and prevention of disease transmission from animals to humans, China’s Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs singled out canines as forbidden in a draft “white list” of animals allowed to be raised for meat.
The ministry called dogs a “special companion animal” and one not internationally recognised as livestock.
The city of Shenzhen recently approved the first ever mainland China ban on consumption of dog and cat meat, a move that has given hope to animal welfare groups worldwide that other parts of the country could soon follow suit. The new draft policy has provided even more.
“The signal is the first ever from a ministry that dogs are not food animals,” Paul Littlefair, international head of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals told the Guardian. “[This] leaves the door open for local governments to follow Shenzhen’s lead.”
While not officially a ban on the consumption of dog meat, the draft policy from the agriculture ministry could be a “game changer moment for animal welfare in China”, Wendy Higgins of Humane Society International (HSI) told the Guardian.
“That signals a major shift, recognising that most people in China don’t eat dogs and cats and want an end to the theft of their companion animals for a meat trade that only a small percentage of the population indulge in,” Higgins said.
HSI estimates that between 10 and 20 million dogs are killed in China for their meat annually, while Animals Asia puts the figure for cats at around 4 million per year.
Most of these are stolen animals and not raised in captive breeding facilities, Higgins said.
“Not only does it cause enormous animal suffering, but it is also almost entirely fuelled by crime and, perhaps most significantly right now, poses an undeniable
The temporary wildlife trade ban was imposed from late January in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, largely thought to have originated in the formal or illicit wildlife supply chain.
But campaigners hope the government will go still further. Peter Li, China Policy Specialist with HSI, told the Guardian: “Listing wild animals, including foxes and raccoon dogs, as ‘special livestock’ is concerning. Rebranding wildlife as livestock doesn’t alter the fact that there are insurmountable challenges to keeping these species in farm environments, their welfare needs simply can’t be met. In addition, there’s clear evidence that some of these species can act as intermediate hosts of viruses, such as Covid-19, which is why we’re urging China and all governments to stop trading in wildlife.”
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Posted on April 10, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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Mother Earth is having a bit of a Detox – and we think this is really fantastic. The Coronavirus / COVID has kept cars, planes and people, and their massive pollution off the streets and out of the towns and cities, and as a result, allowed the Earth to take some much needed ‘environmental medicine’ to help get itself and little better with regard the environment and cleaner air.
The pity is, that if and when it is all over; if it will ever be; huge numbers of humans will get back into their cars; board their planes, go back to their polluting jobs as if things never really changed much. If you can say one thing about the human race, it is that it never learns from its past mistakes.
Please click on the following link and read what some of the people have said.
People living in some parts of India are seeing the Himalaya mountains crystal clear for the first time in decades. This happened after the coronavirus quarantine reduced the amount of pollution in the country and helped the air clear up a bit.
Locals in the Jalandhar district in Punjab in Northern India, around 125 miles (just over 200 kilometers) from the mountains, are enjoying the majestic view. One of the people celebrating the unspoiled view is Indian cricket player Harbhajan Singh, with other Twitter users chiming in how pollution is a serious problem in India.
One person even said that this was the first time they could clearly see the Himalayas in nearly 30 years.
Researchers in New York told the BBC their early results showed carbon monoxide mainly from cars had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year.
Emissions of the planet-heating gas CO2 have also fallen sharply.
But there are warnings levels could rise rapidly after the pandemic.
With global economic activity ramping down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it is hardly surprising that emissions of a variety of gases related to energy and transport would be reduced.
Scientists say that by May, when CO2 emissions are at their peak thanks to the decomposition of leaves, the levels recorded might be the lowest since the financial crisis over a decade ago.
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Posted on April 10, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Downer cow fate again /Authorities helpless.
At a dairy farm in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, an injured Downer cow was reported to us last night.
The poor animal lay next to a road without protection. Not connected because the owner knew that she would not get up. A deceased cattle was sighted in the same place yesterday morning. Then the next victim came.
The condition of the animal was quickly checked. It had no access to water or food when checked. The cow was injured on the horn and one leg. A break is suspected.
It rolled her eyes in pain. How did she get there? Not without violence.
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Then it got difficult. We informed the police that night. The first conversation with a policewoman was daunting. Because she said what would it bring if she goes out there and takes pictures?
In addition, they do not know about cows, she says (!!!)
At the veterinary office you would now reach no one at night and on Good Friday.
We then contacted the veterinary emergency call of the district of Plön.
Again, helplessness, because the veterinarian said he could not even go to the property and the best thing to do was to call the perpetrator to take care of him (!!!)
In a third phone call, we appealed to the police to go there with the vet team, secure evidence, and end the animal’s suffering in one way or another.
We particularly pointed out the danger that the animal would still be removed by force by criminal butchers and that this would cause even more suffering.
+++Update: The police informed us that they had spoken to the animal owner, who had assured that everything was fine and that the animal was only recovering after slipping.
When we asked whether it would be strange that an animal that could get up and walk again was stored right next to a busy road, there was no skepticism.
So everything is fine, again.
The animal is delivered to the keeper and his “vet-doctor” and no one is available today at Veterinary office!
Concentrated helplessness of the authorities. In what other act do the authorities want to call the perpetrator first before they go out? they march immediately because of a smashed window, but not of a smashed animal!
We have filed a complaint and a complaint and are staying tuned.
And I mean…the german animal protection law says: Paragraph 2: “Whoever keeps, looks after or has to look after an animal, 1. must feed, care for and care for the animal appropriately according to its type and needs”…
Paragraph 3: “It is forbidden to enter the house to suspend or leave the company or other animal in the care of humans in order to get rid of it or to evade the obligation to keep or look after it ”!
Authorities in Germany are unwilling, unable, overwhelmed or corrupted.
Therefore animals – and especially the “useful” animals – only have the right to suffer and to die, that’s it.
Who is still involved in this shitty animal production?
The milk consumer!
Who else falls into the lie trap that the meat and milk mafia generates for its billions?
The meat and milk consumers!
They are the second-hand culprits and torturers of this fascist system.
Nobody can say “I didn’t know it” as in the time of National Socialism.
Today we know how the modern Dachau work.
Today WE have the decision to take part in the animal holocaust, or not!
“Suddenly you realize that you are part of an indescribable crime and understand that almost everyone around you wants to hold onto his complicity” (ethice.de)
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on April 9, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
-most people love animals.
-most would never slaughter an animal themselves or torture them to death.
-most do not directly associate their food choices with animal suffering or injustice.
-because they don’t see or don’t want to see this suffering.
-because the meat mafia, like every fascist system, keeps this suffering hidden and secret.
-whoever recognizes suffering as such has the responsibility to abolish it.
-that is why most people deliberately ignore the tragic facts in animal factories with a desire to get rid of them.
Regards and good night from Venus
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Posted on April 9, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Success story: Fox hunting ban Luxembourg in the sixth year!!
With the enactment of the Hunting Season Ordinance of March 15, 2019, the Luxembourg Ministry of the Environment has extended the ban on fox hunting since 2015 not only for the 2019/20 hunting year, which will soon end.
For the coming hunting year 2020/21, foxes in Luxembourg were also protected: They are not listed as a huntable species in the current hunting regulations and therefore no hunting seasons have been set for them.
No fox hunt? No problem!
The horror scenarios of sprawling fox populations or the spread of wild diseases, which the hunting association FSHCL had predicted, have of course not occurred.
Since the introduction of the fox hunt ban, the supporters of hunting have spoken out against the protection of the useful predators with flimsy arguments and massive lobbying and press work – fortunately without success, because the fox hunt ban is a true success story: nature and forest management have found no problems due to the fox hunt ban; there is no evidence of an increase in the fox population and the fox tapeworm infestation rate has decreased rather than increased since the ban on hunting.
While it only rose to 39.7% in 2014 with continued hunting, in 2017 it was only 24.6%.
Even before the administrative court, the Luxembourg hunting federation FSHCL failed miserably with its request to legally overturn the hunting ban.
Obviously there are no valid arguments in favor of the fox hunt and therefore there is no end in sight for the fox hunt ban.
The fox hunting ban in Luxembourg is in its sixth year!
The hunt for foxes has been banned in Luxembourg since 2015.
Since then, the small country has stood as unmistakable, practical evidence of how unnecessary the massive and cruel killing of these prey, which is as useful as it is beautiful, is actually – even in the modern cultural landscape.
The Luxembourg government has kept its promise to consistently continue the success story of the fox hunting ban, because: The available scientific knowledge as well as previous experiences in Luxembourg speak clearly for the preservation of the fox hunting ban.
This fact was clearly confirmed by the 2019 decree, which granted foxes protection for two years in advance.
Luxembourg remains firmly on its trend-setting course, which Germany and other countries should finally join!
And I mean…Luxembourg has shown the peaceful, zivilized way of dealing with foxes, none of what the local hunting association FSHCL predicted has occurred.
The cantons of Geneva and Thurgau in Switzerland have shown the way and abolished fox hunting and construction hunting – because they are unnecessary and sadistic cruelty to animals.
§22 paragraph 4 of the German hunting law prohibits killing parents as long as they are necessary for the rearing of the offspring. This is to prevent young animals, which would not be able to survive on their own, to die from hypothermia, starvation or thirst.
And yet in Germany the closed season for foxes has been abolished.
Animals can be shot or trapped all year round.
The first fox pups are born from mid-January, so that during the “fox weeks” (which take place in February) there is already a risk of actually killing parent animals and condemning their pups to a terrible starvation or frostbite. Fox weeks are legal!
As a leisure activity, psychopaths kill up to half a million foxes in Germany in the most cruel way every year.
Hunting is hypocritically described in the relevant circles as “fine regulation”, “two-stage system”, “dynamic management”, “development aid”, “population control” or such inhuman propaganda.
Brainwashing as we know it from National Socialism.
Hobby hunting is a huge cancer that has spread over Germany.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on April 8, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Compared to animals, we are emotionally illiterate
Regards and good night from Venus
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Posted on April 8, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
In Lower Saxony, the shooting down of three wolves is currently approved. These are two animals from the Uelzen district and one animal from the Emsland district.
After repeated livestock tears in the Uelzen region, the state, together with the local district there, examined an exceptional permit from the strict protection of the wolf in accordance with the Federal Nature Conservation Act, the Lower Saxony Environment Ministry said.
The “experts” from the Ministry of the Environment have assessed the situation in detail, taking into account the national development of the population, and have come to the conclusion that an exception is required for one wolf from three herds, according to the press release.
The Lower Saxony Environment Minister said: “In recent years, the shepherds have made great efforts to protect their herds from wolf attacks. The state supports them as much as possible. However, if wolves overcome these protective measures, we must not leave the livestock farmers helpless. (!!!)”
According to the ministry, the shooting permit is valid until June 30, 2020. In the case of the she-wolf from the Escheder herd, enforcement is to be suspended from April 15 to May 15, 2020 for animal welfare reasons in order to ensure the care of possible puppies born this spring.
+++Update: After a shot, the hunter should remain as anonymous as possible – so that he is not threatened, said the Ministry of Environment.
And I mean…The federal government, the strongest lobby for farmers and hunters, had made it easier for wolves to be shot a year ago in order to prevent tearing of grazing animals such as sheep or calves.
According to this shameful bill, wolves can be killed even if it is unclear which animal attacked a flock of sheep, for example. It should be possible to shoot wolves until there is no more damage, even if it kills an entire herd of wolves.
In 2018 alone there were eight illegal killing of wolves in Germany, since 2000 there have been a total of 43. There is massive poaching against the wolf, with the support of the state.
So far, never a single murder of Wolf has been punished!
The natural hunters, i.e. the wolves, do belong here.
They were at home here before the farmers discovered factory farming.
They are carnivorous animals, which means they have to eat meat and have always done it.
Humans can survive without meat. After the last events, it would make sense to avoid meat.
Farmers, on the other hand, are primarily concerned with maximizing profit and not with the well-being of their herds.
Protection fences and herds protection dogs mean additional costs and the animals killed by the wolf are a loss for them; because with these animals – who keep them in farms under miserable conditions and die a violent death in the slaughterhouse anyway – no profit can be made.
That is why the corrupt German politicians are now approving an order to destroy the wolf.
But they allow to continue animal factories as usual.
“I had to act, he lost fear of the wolf”
My best regards to all, Venus
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