After a corona outbreak with hundreds of sick employees (most of them from Eastern countries), the Tönnies plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrück had to close for weeks. Now there is bad news again.
A cold store of Nagel Transthermo GmbH in Dissen, Germany, was cleared due to a rat infestation.
Meat from the Tönnies company was also stored there.The animals had apparently been active and able to reproduce there unhindered for more than 5 months.
Been active?
Transthermos
Yes!! the meat was cut up there, i.e. a real cutting plant.
Local newspaper journalists wanted to know more. The local newspaper asked more closely, and the spokesman for the Tönnies Group admitted that the cold store was “used sporadically (!!) to a limited extent, for example for storing goods”.
In a press release dated July 22, 2020, the Osnabrück Administrative Court announced:
“In view of the photos submitted and according to the findings made by the specialist company for pest control, there is no doubt that the products which were produced therefrom the cut-off date are unsuitable for consumption.
Fecal pills, walking paths, fur remains and signs of nest building in the rats were found to an extent that indicated a very large rat population”.
But it gets interesting when you take a closer look at the data !!
Because obviously this problem had been known since January.
And I mean … “Well, thank God I cover my purchase of meat products in a village shop”, a commentator wrote.
Naturally! Anyone who still consumes meat after all the reports from the recent past cannot be scare off by the few rats …..
The meat scandals are not getting smaller, the greed for profit and the shamelessness are becoming clearer.
Slaughterhouse workers are exploited, consumers cheated and endangered, but the real victims are the animals.
Just stop lying to yourself and don`t support this shit financially. Don’t buy it.
Not to caress your conscience or to make you feel better, but because it’s the right thing to do.
We joined journalist Hugo Clément and some of France’s most-prominent business leaders in launching the Initiative. Alongside other organisations and numerous high profile individuals, we are attempting to transform animal legislation in France.
The Shared Initiative Referendum calls for six measures to protect animals.
These measures consist of a series of bans on:
fur farming,
hound hunting and other “traditional” hunting methods such as bird traps,
live wild animal shows,
animal research where alternative research methods can be followed,
caged farming from 1 January 2025,
factory farming by 2040. This measure also includes an immediate moratorium on any new intensive animal farms; any new farm planning permissions will have to guarantee animals have outdoor access.
Léopoldine Charbonneaux, our Director of CIWF France said: “We are honoured to be a part of this referendum. Alongside our partner organisations, we could end the cage age in France and become one of the first countries to bring in a ban on the building of new intensive farms, bettering millions of farm animals lives.”
A Shared Initiative Referendum allows citizens to change the law.
It requires four million signatures to be gathered within nine months of its launch, and needs to be endorsed and submitted by at least 185 members of the French Parliament. It’s a participatory democracy tool, similar to the End the Cage Age European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) we launched in September 2018.
With more than 1.5 million signatures, the End the Cage Age ECI has been the most successful ECI for farmed animals. Such a huge wave of support proves that the welfare and protection of animals is a priority for citizens on a national and European level and, therefore, it should also be a priority for national Governments and EU Institutions.
Posted on July 24, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
How is the exotic pet trade (un) regulated across the EU? Our report has been updated
22 July 2020
News
An updated overview of the legislation on exotic pets in the Member States is now available on Eurogroup for Animals’ website.
The report, whose first version was published in 2013, analyses the national legislations regarding the keeping and sale of exotic pets in the Member States, as well as the UK, Switzerland and Norway.
The report exposes the large diversity of legislation between the countries, which leads to enforcement issues and disruptions of the European internal market. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic further highlights the importance of more control of the species present in and entering the European territory.
For these reasons, and because of the exploding trend in the keeping of non-domesticated pets, Eurogroup for Animals is calling for the adoption of an EU-wide Positive List clearly stating which animal species are allowed to be kept and sold as pets. This system has already been adopted in five Member States, four more than in 2013 when the first version of the report has been published. Its adoption at EU level would have a positive impact on animal welfare, human health, EU and global biodiversity conservation, as well as on the functioning of the internal market.
Eurogroup for Animals takes the opportunity to thank our members for their input and support with the publication of this report.
Emergency: Stop the Senseless Killing of Washington’s Wolves
As you read this, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) sharpshooters are taking to the sky to find and kill another endangered wolf – a member of the Wedge wolf pack – in response to depredation of cattle on grazing lands in Stevens County.
WDFW currently has an active kill order for the Togo wolf pack as well.
Science shows that killing a wolf can increase the risk that wolves will prey on livestock in the future. It is counterproductive and unsustainable.
Yet WDFW has resorted to killing wolves living in this same spot rugged forest land for years. In fact, they killed the original Wedge pack in 2012 for the very same reason. The original Wedge pack was accused of preying on livestock in the Colville National Forest eight years ago and, under Washington’s wolf management plan, the state opted to issue kill orders in an attempt to protect the livestock. The state killed the entire family of six state endangered wolves.
In the eight years since the original Wedge pack was destroyed, not much has changed. Livestock owners still graze their cows on rugged, forested public lands that are better suited for native ungulates, and WDFW is still killing wolves to benefit the profit margins of private businesses. In fact, 26 of the 31 state-endangered wolves that have been killed since 2012 were shot on behalf of the same livestock operator.
While it’s too late to protect the other 31 endangered wolves WDFW has gunned down since 2012, other Washington wolves still need our help.
Please take action to respectfully call on WDFW Director Kelly Susewind to immediately end the assault on Washington’s wolves.
Posted on July 23, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear friends of the rainforest,
The primatologist Bethan Morgan made a sensational discovery in 2002: she was the first scientist to spot gorillas in the Ebo forest. More than 200 kilometers away from relatives – possibly a new subspecies!
The forest literally has it all: According to current research, the approximately 700 Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees are the only ones worldwide who crack nuts with wooden stones and hammers and catch termites with sticks.
In other regions, primates master only one of the two techniques.
For centuries, the population has lived in more than 40 villages in and around the Ebo Forest without endangering it. The locals see him as the land of the ancestors, go hunting there, fish, collect plants in the forest for their nutrition and medicine, and do farming on a small scale.
But nature and people’s livelihood are in danger!
The Cameroon government has converted 150,000 hectares of the Ebo Forest into two logging concessions, an area twice the size of Hamburg.
The population was neither consulted nor informed, and their rights to their ancestral land and their say were ignored.
Logging would result in devastating ecological, social, and climatological damage, as it is often the first step in the extensive destruction of ecosystems.
It is followed by poachers, settlers, and land speculators. Villagers lose their livelihood and are more exposed to new diseases.
The population, scientists, and environmentalists are alarmed and are fighting for the protection of the Ebo forest and the livelihood of the locals.
The Ebo forest is home to a mystery population of gorillas, only discovered by scientists in 2002. Two subspecies of gorilla are found in Cameroon, the Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and a small population of Cross River gorillas (Gorilla Gorilla diehli). Between these two populations, there is a third isolated Ebo population, completely cut-off from other sub-species, with no other populations found within a 200 kilometer (125 mile) radius. Photo by Rhett A. Butler
Background information: More than 160 species of birds live in the Ebo Forest; many of them are endemic and do not occur anywhere else in the world. The same applies to at least twelve plant species known to science. Despite intensive research work, the full range of species is far from being recorded.
And I mean: The animal species are becoming fewer and the human species more and more.
We reproduce without control, with the result that the habitat, existence, and right to life of other species disappear.
We are the plague of this planet.
Actually, if we want to be honest, we have to admit that this planet has a chance of survival only if the human species disappears.
red-ear- monkey in the rainforest of Ebo in Cameroon (© Robbie Whytock, San Diego Zoo Global)
The Ebo forest is home to a mystery population of gorillas, only discovered by scientists in 2002. Two subspecies of gorilla are found in Cameroon, the Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and a small population of Cross River gorillas (Gorilla Gorilla diehli). Between these two populations, there is a third isolated Ebo population, completely cut-off from other sub-species, with no other populations found within a 200 kilometer (125 mile) radius. Photo by Rhett A. Butler
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 