Important news! We are getting new animal welfare laws at EU level for the first time in over a decade.
Through it’s ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy, the European Commission has committed to a revision of the laws on live animal transport (Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005) and slaughter (Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009. And, the Commission will review all of the existing law relating to animal welfare at EU level and broaden its scope, so we may see other new legislation too.
Fitness check
Before starting on such new legislation, the Commission evaluates whether current EU laws are delivering on their objectives in the best way possible. This means conducting a ‘fitness check’ on the current law in the area of animal welfare.
This fitness check is taking place now! Until 31 July 2020, the Commission is asking for the views of organisations and citizens as to the roadmap of the fitness check. This means that they will design what the fitness check looks at in terms of animal welfare law at EU level. It is important to provide evidence on all laws that are not working properly -or the absence thereof- so as to make sure animals will be better protected in the future.
We need your help!
Please use the brief to enter your input into the consultations. Draw on all of your (organisation’s) experience from real world examples of where EU legislation on animal welfare is simply not up to scratch!
This is the start of a long process, but finally we are getting new law at EU level again, and this will have a massive impact on billions of lives of animals.
Posted on July 12, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With so many bad people out there, today I came across this scene.
At the hospital where I work, at 3 am, while a homeless person was being treated, his companions waited at the door. A simple person, without luxury, who depends on helping to overcome hunger, cold, pain, the world’s evils, has the best companions at his side, and the exchange is mutual.
Exchange of love, affection, warmth, understanding. A person who confessed to us that he sometimes stops eating to feed them.
I don’t know what his life is like, why he is on the street, and I don’t even want to know and judge him, but I admire the respect and love he has for his pets. Seeing them like this, waiting at the door, just shows how well cared for and loved they are.
Oh if everyone were like this … If there was no malice, mistreatment …. 😍😍🐶🐕💕
(original text) Com tanta gente mal por aí, hoje me deparei com essa cena. No hospital em que trabalho, as 3h da madrugada, enquanto seu dono (morador de rua) estava sendo atendido, seus companheiros esperavam na porta.
Uma pessoa simples, sem luxo, que depende da ajuda para vencer a fome, o frio, as dores, as maldades do mundo, tem ao seu lado os melhores companheiros , e a troca é recíproca. Troca de amor, carinho, calor, compreensão,. Uma pessoa que nos confessou que deixa de comer para alimentá-los.
Não sei como é a vida dele, o porque está na rua, e nem quero saber e julga-lo, mas admiro o respeito e amor que ele tem pelos seus bichinhos. Ver eles assim, esperando na porta, só mostra o quanto eles são bem cuidados e amados. Ai se todos fossem assim…. Se não tivesse maldade, maus tratos…. 😍😍🐶🐕💕
Posted on July 12, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
AnimalEquality
People watch our investigative footage of industrial farms and are appalled at the cruelty they’ve witnessed. The images shown are something straight out of a nightmare, so surely the farmworkers shown in these videos will be arrested, right?
We’re here to clear some things up—unfortunately, much of what is documented in undercover investigations is not only completely legal but also standard practice.
Here are just a few examples:
1. DEPOPULATION:“Depopulation” or “culling” is the mass killing of animals on a farm.
Methods considered acceptable by the American Veterinary Association include exceptionally painful or prolonged methods such as suffocating the animals with foam or gas, manually slamming baby animals against the ground, and turning off the ventilation system in the barns and allowing the animals packed inside to slowly die of overheating.
This has typically happened when animals are suspected of having a disease, like the bird flu, for example.
However, recently hundreds of thousands of animals have been killed en masse due to breakdowns in the supply chain because of COVID-19.
2. THUMPING: As mentioned above, slamming animals to the ground has been used to kill them for depopulation, but this is actually standard practice in the commercial meat industry.
Workers sometimes kill piglets who are weak, sick, or not expected to reach market weight by slamming them into the ground, which is sometimes called “thumping.”
Some states have passed measures making this practice illegal, but in many areas, it’s not only legal but considered an acceptable form of “euthanasia.”
And I mean.. According to the Federal Government, around 70 million poultry, six million pigs, 350,000 cattle and 100,000 sheep are slaughtered incorrectly in Germany every year.
This means that in nine percent of all cases the animals suffer great pain: Pigs are thrown into boiling water with full consciousness, cows are shot at the forehead bones a second and third time with the nail gun, or poultry are too slowly anesthetized with gas, with the result that they are afraid of suffocation before death.
It is obvious that such an animal welfare law does not protect animals and does not deserve its name.
Anyone who may think that such an operation, which was recorded in this Italian video, is only an exception, is unfortunately wrong.
In today’s world, profit is paramount. No consideration is given to animals. If a slaughterhouse worker can no longer perform his or her job in the slaughterhouse, a new worker is replaced.
Anyone who buys animal products orders such treatment of the animals – EVERYONE!
Posted on July 11, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Gold fever, Covid 19 and the genocide of the Yanomami indigenous people of the Amazon.
I found this article on Barbara’s site tragic; and at the same time very informative about what is happening right now; today, in the Amazon. At the end I copy a quote which sadly, is vso very true, but so very ignored by those in power who haver the possibility to change things, but fail to do so.
Please read the full article – link given below; and learn more about the suffering of the indigenous people of the Amazon.
Rage and repent, but above all – read it !
Regards Mark (WAV)
Yanomami leaders say that wildcat gold miners are responsible for bringing coronavirus into their communities. They are very concerned because over 25,000 gold miners are now operating in their preserve, destroying the forest to clear spaces for mining pits, polluting the rivers with mercury and contaminating fish.
Deafening noise from their machines and high powered hoses scare off game animals, leaving nothing for the Yanomami to hunt.
As the virus spreads throughout Brazil, the gold rush in the Amazon continues unabated, accelerating the devastation among the 850,000 indigenous people in the country.
Read the full and disturbing article at Barbara’s site –
“When you cut down the trees you assault the spirits of our ancestors. When you dig for minerals you impale the heart of the Earth. And when you pour poisons on the land and into the rivers – chemicals from agriculture and mercury from gold mines – you weaken the spirits, the plants, the animals and the land itself. When you weaken the land like that, it starts to die. If the land dies, if our Earth dies, then none of us will be able to live, and we too will all die.” – cacique Raoni Metuktire
WAV Comment – The ‘Daily Mirror’ is a UK national newspaper; and they have an exclusive here on US dentist, and the killer of Cecil the lion; Walter Palmer; returning this time to Mongolia to kill sheep with a bow and arrow. The HIS, who we very much respect, have made a statement about this below. They have to be politically correct because of their position; we don’t; so we call this utter tosser nothing but a soiled asshole; just like his President and the members of his family who do the same ‘he man’ activities !
Dentist who killed Cecil the lion back hunting as new photo shows sick slaughter
EXCLUSIVE: Walter Palmer, 60, sparked global backlash after killing much-loved lion Cecil in Zimbabwe, almost exactly five years ago – now he’s been pictured showing off a slaughtered sheep
The dentist who slayed Cecil the lion five years ago is hunting again.
Walter Palmer, 60, paid up to £80,000 to slaughter a huge ram in Mongolia.
But after the outrage over the death of Cecil, the American “driller killer’s” face is hidden on photos boasting of the hunt.
Humane Society International said: “Clearly the killing for kicks continues”.
In a new photo – with his face hidden from view – the man who killed Cecil the lion shows off a slaughtered wild sheep.
The image was taken on a sickening trip that proves dentist Palmer has returned to trophy hunting.
It comes despite the global backlash the American sparked after slaying much-loved lion Cecil in Zimbabwe, almost exactly five years ago.
Palmer paid up to £80,000 for the trip to hunt Altai argali – the world’s biggest type of sheep – in Mongolia.
Dr Teresa Telecky, wildlife vice-president at Humane Society International, said: “For trophy hunters to travel to Mongolia to kill a beautiful and endangered ram is an absolute outrage.
“The argali ram is a species in danger of extinction, so the idea that these animals can be killed for pleasure is abhorrent.
“The killing of Cecil the lion five years ago caused international shock. But clearly the killing for kicks continues.
“It’s time for the law to stop wildlife killers in their tracks by banning trophy hunting.”
The Mirror is campaigning for an end to trophy hunting and calling on the UK Government to ban the import of animals killed for pleasure.
Palmer’s trip to Mongolia last August is thought to have lasted up to a week, after travelling 5,800 miles from his home state of Minnesota.
Palmer and his friend Brent Sinclair met local guides before heading into the mountains to track their prey.
The two men have travelled the world together to kill animals for fun.
It is understood the ram, said to be a “much older male”, was killed with an arrow from around 30 yards.
A source claims Palmer has several more trips planned.
The insider said: “At the time of Cecil’s death, Walter took a back seat. But he’s been hunting ever since he was a boy. It’s a way of life to him. Walter has undertaken several hunts since Cecil’s death.
“The trip to Mongolia was his idea. The ram was on his list of hunts he wanted to complete.”
The sheep is still in Mongolia for now. US officials have yet to grant the permit for it to be exported to America.
Of their hunt to kill the Altai argali, Sinclair was careful not to name Palmer on social media posts, instead calling him “amigo”.
Writing on his public Facebook page, Sinclair said of the driller killer: “I have booked more hunting trips with this guy over the past 20 years than I can count.
“Together, we have travelled to many far reaches of the world.”
He talked about them once killing an elephant, but said the trip to slaughter the sheep may be “at the top of the pinnacle and hard to beat”.
He added: “Thanks, Amigo for the adventure… look forward to our next one.”
The Mirror spoke to Palmer as he emerged from a bar in Bloomington, Minnesota, after he had taken an early lunch.
He smiled at first, but his face turned to anger when shown the pictures of his hunt in Mongolia.
He refused to talk, driving off in his £95,000 Porsche Cayenne Turbo.
Dad-of-two Palmer refuses to hunt with a gun, using a bow and arrow instead.
He is known to spend hours practising at his million-dollar five-bedroom home in Eden Prairie, near Minneapolis, and his holiday house in Marco Island, Florida.
Palmer was with Sinclair, who arranges hunts for wealthy Americans, when Cecil the lion was killed.
The magnificent creature was a huge attraction in Hwange National Park.
At the time, he was being tracked through a GPS satellite collar by a research team at Oxford University as part of a long-term study.
The 13-year-old black-maned lion was wounded with an arrow, then tracked and killed with a second dart the following morning, around 12 hours later.
Police investigated after a claim that Cecil was slaughtered illegally. There were accusations bait was used to lure him out of his protected habitat.
However, Zimbabwe’s High Court threw out charges against Palmer’s guide Theo Bronkhorst.
The court agreed with the defence that it could not have been a crime because the American had a legal permit to hunt.
It is thought the trip cost Palmer around £40,000. Afterwards, the dentist said: “If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study, obviously I wouldn’t have taken it.
“Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion.”
Two weeks after Palmer’s trip to Mongolia last year, the US President’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr also travelled there to hunt the sheep.
It cost American taxpayers £60,000 for the cost of secret service agents.
Critics argue that Trump Jr’s love of killing big game is the reason why his dad has rolled back restrictions on imports of hunting trophies.
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