Posted on May 5, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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Dear Mark,
Chickens have spectacularly brightened our world here. We can all remember a few years ago (BC–Before Chickens) and I don’t think we could have imagined then how much joy, humor and atmosphere of busy activity they bring. When you enter their area, you’re surrounded by calves and sheep and goats vying to stand in your lap, or even on your back. But meanwhile, in the background, there is a flurry of various plots: big white rooster Tony is bothering big white rooster Merin; bright-feathered Spin is prancing with pride over the grub she nabbed in the shade; proud mother Spice is herding her fast-growing speckled brood. Our 15 rescued chickens celebrate their lives by enjoying their lives. You can see it and you can feel it. May 4th is Respect for Chickens Day and we love seeing the dust baths, the roosting on branches, the quarrels and love affairs, and the comfort they bring to each other’s lives. For loving them with us and helping provide the safe haven where they can flourish in their joy, thank you.
Olivia’s story is a simple rescue of a piglet with a wound in her neck. Her treatment and recovery are made sweeter by loving care from people, which she desperately needed because she is very young and we couldn’t find her mother. But there’s another story here–about her intelligence, humor, playfulness, and sensitivity. Qualities most pigs had at birth, but were never allowed to explore or develop. By the time you have finished watching this happy little 4-minute video, thousands of pigs will have been killed in the meat industry. Each of these individuals have qualities like Olivia’s. Each one wanted to think, to create, to play, to feel this magical earth beneath her little toes, just like Olivia is doing now. #EveryPigIsOlivia
Angelo is a bull who we found in excruciating pain with multiple ropes digging through the flesh of his front leg clear to the bone. Someone had tied his leg to his horns–a devastating technique to keep cows from running away. Usually a single rope is tied, and you often see cows crouched and hobbling down the roads with their heads bent low. You can almost feel the horrendous neck strain. In Angelo’s case, the abuse was compounded with time and with the extra shortness of the rope. But although his only experience with human hands had been to suffer human cruelty, Angelo radiated sweetness. Even during daily wound dressings that must have sometimes been painful, he seemed to understand that we were trying our best to help him.
Let’s turn cruelty to kindness. Donate today.
When Nandini applied to work here, she was so keen on helping animals that she said “I’ll do virtually anything.” With degrees in philosophy and natural resource governance, her interest in literature and her unusual grace with people, Nandini was a natural to serve as a community relations officer. Meeting with government officials on cruelty cases and other matters, families thinking about adopting a pet, volunteers and guests, she always inspires in people a deepened commitment to helping vulnerable animals. We feel so lucky to have Nandini on the team.
Zeus was hiding in a sewer because he may have instinctively thought cold water would bring down his terrible pain from a head wound. Many dogs will do this when their pain is overwhelming. We reached in and carried him to safety, where we could begin the thorough cleaning and bandaging that would save this sweetheart’s life. Thank you for transforming Zeus from hurt to healed. You also turned deep sadness to sweet happiness.
Tomorrow’s another day of rescue — please donate
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Posted on May 5, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
After hearing from PETA, Brooks Brothers—the oldest retailer in the country—confirmed that it has stopped ordering products made of exotic-animal skins!
To show our gratitude for making a compassionate change, PETA sent the company a box of delicious vegan chocolates.
The decision means a huge victory for animals used for their skins. In the exotic-animal trade, sensitive alligators and crocodiles are kept in dank pools and barren, concrete pits while snakes and others are kept in dirty, crowded cages that are stacked on top of one another—creating a breeding ground for many pathogens, including zoonotic ones (those that can be passed on to humans) such as salmonella, E. coli, and West Nile virus. Filthy, cramped conditions such as these are similar to the ones in the “wet market” where scientists believe the virus that caused the COVID-19 outbreak originated.
crocodile farm Zimbabwe – PETA
Just like humans, these animals experience fear and pain and want to be free. Crocodiles communicate with each other using a complex series of vocalizations, and alligators spend years raising their babies.
These fascinating animals want to enjoy life, not be confined to cages and killed for their skin.
Brooks Brothers—which stopped purchasing mohair in 2018 in response to PETA Asia’s investigation of angora goat farms in South Africa—joins Chanel, Diane von Furstenberg, HUGO BOSS, Victoria Beckham, Vivienne Westwood, and many others in banning exotic skins.
And I mean…It is a nice feeling when you turn on the computer in the morning and don`t read horror reports about animals, but appears a little success.
We are happy about this decision by the fashion company Brooks Brothers, we say thank you, and hope that soon any fashion company will no longer cooperate with the bloody animal farms of this world.
Small steps often have big effects.
We will continue to fight for the abolition of animal cruelty, we have promised it the animals.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on May 4, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Chickens are the animals that are most commonly bred and killed for their meat in Germany and worldwide.
They live a short life of 42 days in slavery, they suffer from illnesses and brute force.
Every year, 48 million male chicks on their first day of life are sorted out and cruelly killed. They don’t make a profit.
All animals that are kept as pure farm animals have no value in the eyes of meat producers.
They equate these living beings with garbage.
In the so-called intensive animal husbandry, the modern meat mafia strives to produce a maximum amount of meat, milk and eggs as quickly and inexpensively as possible – and with a minimum space requirement.
Like all farm animals, chickens are kept in small cages or barren halls – extremely narrow, extremely full of ammonia and urine.
This is factory farming.
Eating these animals and their products is cooperation in an everyday crime.
We have to make the right decisions and stop eating sentient beings.
Best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on May 4, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Animal bodies don’t belong to us. Recognise this, and stop eating them.
Regards and good night from Venus
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Posted on May 4, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With thanks to Stacey at ‘Our Compass’ for sending this info over to us.
Regards Mark
Wet markets breed contagions like the coronavirus. The U.S. has thousands of them.
May 4, 2020
By Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix
The public health threat isn’t a foreign enemy. It’s here, too.
On April 3, Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, joined the chorus of voices calling for the immediate closure of China’s “wet markets,” where the coronavirus is widely believed to have originated. Butchers, trappers and consumers mingle openly, slaughtering and trading live animals; it is the perfect environment for zoonotic diseases to leap from an infected creature to a human.
But China is hardly the only country where live animal markets and other squalid operations are common. Some 80 of them operate within the five boroughs of New York City alone, according to Slaughter Free NYC, a nonprofit group that opposes them. They are near residences, schools and public parks.
Less notorious but much more commonplace threats to public health are the “concentrated animal feeding operations” (CAFOs) scattered throughout the South and Midwest. These factory farms warehouse thousands of animals that wallow in their own waste with limited or no airspace, routinely creating conditions for the proliferation of super bugs and zoonotic pathogens. Nearly the entire supply of animal products consumed in the United States originate from these industrial factory farms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) have warned us against the risks of factory farms for years. The unsanitary living conditions inside CAFOs weaken animals’ immune systems and increase their susceptibility to infection and disease. The factory farms’ response has been to pump the animals full of antibiotics that make their way into our food supply and onto our dinner plates, systematically fostering in humans a lethal resistance to the medicines that once quelled everyday infections. Such practices have brought humanity to the point that the WHO now estimates that more than half of all human diseases emanate from animals.
Many of us are privileged enough to stay at home in safety with our loved ones to avoid the coronavirus. But how much thought are we giving to the individuals and communities that are directly affected by our choices and lifestyles? Tens of thousands of Americans face threats to their daily health and well-being from neighboring CAFOs and the animal waste that mists or flows over their properties. They are unable to be “safer at home.” Will we apply the same energy we have put into overcoming this virus into preventing future outbreaks and helping dismantle the industries inflicting so much damage to communities across the country?
As this disaster continues to ravage society, we must examine our role in the emergence of the coronavirus and our vulnerability to a growing number of diseases as a result of our impositions on the animal kingdom and the environment. This probe cannot end with bats, monkeys, pangolins and other exotic wildlife supposedly to blame for recent contagions. It should encompass all of the supporting industries that contribute to the debilitation of communities, our susceptibility to illnesses and our complete defenselessness in their wake. A real public-health reckoning would have us reshape our patterns of consumption, curbing our dependence on animal products. A bacteria-infested (and inhumane) food supply makes people sick.
Covid-19 is a devastating indicator of what’s to come if we don’t make rapid and sweeping changes, the least inconvenient of which is closing down all live-animal markets and CAFOs in the midst of this global pandemic.
Rooney Mara is an actor and activist.
Joaquin Phoenix is an actor and activist.
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Posted on May 4, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The Spaniards actually want to start bullfights without an audience again from June. How crazy is that?
The Bullfighters Union, together with the Movistar Plus Canal Toros, has planned a hypothetical bullfighting season in which the first 10 bullfights will take place next June.
A total of almost thirty fights are said to be televised. According to ABC from Seville, José Pedro Prados ‘El Fundi’, as President of the Union, has already contacted the first thirty bullfighters on the 2019 bullfighter list to host bullfights and horse fights.
Movistar Plus is definitely trying not to associate its brand with the abuse and death of the bulls. For this reason, the name Movistar Plus does not appear in the news published by ABC de Sevilla.
But AnimaNaturalis clearly points out that Movistar Plus is responsible for all of this.
With this initiative, ‘El Fundi’, President of the Union of Bullfighters, is hoping for the support of all institutions involved and is currently investigating possible scenarios for the development of new bullfighting strategies.
Fundi himself emphasizes that “the intention of this project is to create a campaign plan to save the bullfighting sector”. After these first ten battles, another significant number of broadcasts could continue.
This scenario is only intended to give bullfighting a voice and to ensure that “the thematic space is not lost. ” (!!!)
Movistar Plus itself assumes that no subscribers will be lost in its payment channel with this measure.
This shows how important it is to fight bullfighting right now.
Do not get tired and sign and share our petition.
We need every voice.
And I mean…All viewers who watch the live executions via Movistar Plus and are enthusiastic about it, even in Corona times, must be mentally weak primitives who want to forget their current misery and their catastrophic economic future through bloody spectacles on television.
The ruling left-wing coalition in Spain actually wants to cut all subsidies for the Corridas, and would like to ban them completely.
A referendum on this is already in preparation.
But the conservative and corrupt former Rahoy government, with its then parliamentary majority, declared bullfighting as a national intangible cultural asset in November 2013.
An eyesore in the deepest dark Spain.
And this shameful law still applies.
It is a serious impudence to think of the bullfighting program on TV during the coronary crisis, when many people are financially ruined and the country is most affected by the pandemic of all European countries.
But this is more than understandable.
Anyone who does bloody business with the bull massacre usually loses sympathy and humanity towards people.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on May 4, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear all,
given the occasion, we, Mark and Venus want to say one thing: we are open to any opinion and criticism sent to us regarding our posts and our own opinions.
We are not writing here to distinguish ourselves, we run this blog as a defender of animal rights.
We would like to remind you that we are an independent, private blog that is neither behind an organization, religious group or political party nor financed by it.
That is why we see every justified criticism and comment as a support for this function.
We don’t always expect approval or applause, but when criticism comes, we expect arguments and substantiated evidence to show that the criticism is not against us, but rather to improve our work for animal rights. If we make mistakes, we are ready to correct them.
In this sense, we behave democratically towards all of our readers without betraying them to whom we have promised fidelity and loyalty: the animals.
It is clear to us that many of our articles and opinions, the Labor Meat and Hunter Mafia and several other animal haters do not like it.
That is not our problem and we can still live with it well.
Venus and Mark (WAV)
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