My comment: Even under the best of circumstances at the best of zoos, captivity cannot begin to replicate wild animals’ habitats.
Animals are often prevented from doing most of the things that are natural and important to them, like running, roaming, flying, climbing, foraging, choosing a partner, and being with others of their own kind.
Zoos teach people that it is acceptable to interfere with animals and keep them locked up in captivity, where they are bored, cramped, lonely, deprived of all control over their lives, and far from their natural homes.
Zoos often kill the animals when there are “too many” of a particular species.
There are hundreds of cases where animals are starved to near death. Zoo animals are treated like prisoners.
Zoo use animals to make some money out of it.
It is an ugly lie to tell people zoos are educational for the kids or any age person.
We can learn everything about any animal online, we can watch videos, read articles, books and so.
Just like we all know much about dinosaurs even if we never seen them in real. There is no need to make animals suffer in the name of education or any other reason.
The best education is to teach your kids never to visit a zoo.
Posted on May 19, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The EU Commission with its 27 members (after Brexit) is a supranational body and has the executive’s tasks in the political system.
In other words: it is the “police” of the EU area.
It is called the “guardian of the treaties” and makes sure that all EU countries abide by the law.
As soon as a violation in animal transport is sufficiently proven (and there are not only sufficient videos of it, but also shocking), it can turn the EU Court of Justice against a member state.
One thing has to be said about this: the members of the EU Commission are not elected by the EU citizens, but by the EU Parliament.
The same applies to the head of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Of course, the majority of the EU Parliament is necessary for the EU Commission election (members and presidents), but if we take into account that EU is = Germany, we know who is voting for whom!
The EU tolerates constant breaches of contract, and one of them is their shameless inaction against the video-documented manure stands during animal transport.