Posted on August 15, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Two former butchers and a sociologist explain how animals are transformed from living creatures into row materials in professional, industrialized slaughtering, and what helps butchers to cope with their work emotionally.
“That was actually pretty abnormal,” says Thomas Schalz today, about his work in a slaughterhouse.
He worked there for 17 years, in all areas: driving, stunning, killing, and cutting the animals. The slaughterhouse in which he worked developed over the years into a large-scale slaughterhouse specializing in pigs.
Up to 3,500 pigs were slaughtered every day.
Above all, the anesthesia of the pigs with CO2, which happens before they are actually killed, is what Schalz still follows in his mind today.
“The pigs go down in a gondola in over 90 percent CO2 gas. It usually takes 20 to 30 seconds until the animals are unconscious. And yes, they just can’t breathe anymore. There is no longer any oxygen they can breathe. The strongest animals try to climb over the others and stretch their trunks up out of the mesh basket to breathe oxygen. But there is no oxygen, ” says Schalz, describing the stunning process.
Peter Hübneralso worked in a large slaughterhouse – as part of his apprenticeship as a butcher.
Like Schalz, he is also a dropout. He remembers: “You saw this fear in their eyes, you saw this helplessness and you deliberately drove the animals to their death.”
Looking back, he says: “That was incredibly difficult.”
How did Hübner manage to drive so many animals to their death back then?
How did Thomas Schalzmanage to drive thousands of pigs down into the CO2 pit at the push of a button over the years, knowing full well what was going on there?
How do slaughterhouse employees deal with slaughtering hundreds of animals on an assembly line every day?
How does the killing of animals become business as usual?
And I mean…In a slaughterhouse, group morale applies, that is, whoever plays the tough guy wins respect and recognition in the group.
That actually forces one to suppress emotions or inhibitions (if he has any) against the slaughter.
There are many explanations of how to become a slaughterhouse worker.
I say it very clearly! that is primarily poverty.
Capitalism is merciless towards the poor.
Anyone who no longer knows how to survive chooses the easy solution and goes to the slaughterhouse.
Despite this bitter reality: That is not why we would “understand” the slaughterhouse worker’s job, which in other words means to forgive him for doing this job.
There are also other job alternatives, garbage collectors, postmen, cleaning workers.
If you really can’t stand using electric pliers or nail guns to shot defenseless animals, slit animals’ necks to death in accord tempo, you get out and do something useful.
Posted on August 15, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
UPDATE: Lion Cub with Legs Broken for Selfies Is Off to Sanctuary!
Simba Is Headed to Sanctuary in Africa!
More than 40,000 of you signed Lady Freethinker’s petition for justice for Simba, a lion cub who had his back legs deliberately broken to keep him still during tourist selfies.
And now, we have a heartwarming update: Simba is headed to an animal sanctuary in Africa, where he can live out the rest of his life in peace!
Innovative surgery helped the innocent lion cub learn to walk again, but he will forever remain scarred by his abusers, who have yet to be identified.
They must not get away with abusing a baby lion. If you haven’t yet, Sign the petition now to urge authorities to find and charge the perpetrator(s) who brutally snapped Simba’s legs.
Please sign the petition now to bring his abusers to justice:
Simba suffered unimaginable pain at the hands of his abusers, who put profit over his life. He endured beatings so bad his spine was severely injured, and after he got sick from lack of care, his captors dumped him in an old, dirty barn to die.
Rescuers found him literally wasting away, riddled with pressure sores and intestinal obstructions. It’s a miracle he’s alive today.
Simba deserves more than just his freedom — he deserves justice. Sign the petition for justice for Simba.
Thank you for adding your voice to help stop animal cruelty.
Posted on August 14, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
It’s time for this abusive zoo to be shut down and the animals to be freed to a sanctuary!
Hamerton Zoo’s animals look miserable and neglected. Numerous visitors have reported seeing animals visibly distressed, some are seen just sat staring, some are pacing back and forth – a sign of zoochosis;
-A camel with a deflated hump – a sign of malnourishment, other camels in a small barn covered in feces and no access to the paddock;
-Some animals had no food, water or enrichment; small enclosures that are rotting in some cases, made from crowd control fencing and back garden fencing;
-A donkey visibly depressed with no food, water, enrichment, or company, lying in the same position staring into the grass;
-Birds plucking all their feathers out; the middle of the park looking like a construction site; no keepers insight.
Information: The zoo is a 25-acre wildlife park that has about 500 animals including monkeys, cheetahs, raccoons, sloth, and a collection of Malaysian tigers and white tigers.
This is a very Joe Exotic- place where the owner has obviously bought exotic animals as a private collection and uses it to profit.
We need to get these animals to a safe haven where they will be looked after properly.
Text of the petition: Hamerton Zoo has no animal welfare.
Many animals were visibly distressed, had no water, food, or enrichment. Enclosures are tiny and rotting and in some cases, made using crowd control fencing and back garden fencing.
The middle of the park contains storage containers and what looks like a construction site. There were no keepers around. The only staff we saw worked in the coffee shop/gift shop.
Management is either no available or rude and condescending, calling us ignorant and telling others they are blackmailing when saying they will go to press.
We are calling for this zoo to be closed and the animals to be moved to a sanctuary.
And I mean…We used to think that such zoos only existed in third world countries.
It is the same with the “civilized” ones, and not just with the zoos.
It’s about the principle; no living being may be held captive and used, neither for eating nor for carrying, nor for entertainment! this applies to ALL human but also non-human animals.
We live in a century where we ALL, the animal rights activists, or animal owners should be morally sensitized enough to condemn and oppose any use of animals for human purposes.
Animals are not there to be of any use to humans, they have value in themselves.
And principles about animal rights should by now have reached a universal standard value in a civilized society.
Posted on August 14, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
You may think a plastic container looks pretty harmless on a supermarket shelf but if discarded into the ocean and swept-up onto a beach, it is a different story.
This container, found by Sea Shepherd crew as they worked alongside the Dhimurru Rangerscleaning the 14km beach, had trapped and killed a turtle hatchling and crab.
As the plastic crisis sweeps across Australia’s top-end beaches, we are seeing the same story in other places too.
The hermit crab study found that piles of plastic pollution on beaches create both a physical barrier and a series of potentially deadly traps for crabs and other marine creatures.
Whether on the coast, in the city or in the country, you can find garbage everywhere.
Cans, balloon cords, bottles and and and … – if it’s lying around, take it with you, you could possibly save a life with it.
And I mean…Of course, we will also clean up the garbage that threatens the lives of our flatmates, the animals.
It will be us again, who else?
We are the ones who save animals wherever they can be found.
We are the ones who are always on duty to correct fatal mistakes made by idiots, irresponsible people, or animal haters.
Like a concrete slab, this cruel reality presses us every day and forces us to work for abandoned, injured, neglected animals. And that’s a tough job!
We correct malice, injustice, violence; we cannot do otherwise, our own morals dictate that.
But if we see and feel the advancing catastrophe of our planet every day, which is taking place due to the indifference of the meat-eaters, the molesters of nature, the exploiters of natural resources and animals, then we could say that Corona lasted far too short.
Posted on August 13, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Truckers say they’re getting death threats after animal rights protester’s death (!!!)
by “Ashley” CDL Life News
After a prominent animal rights activist was fatally struck by a truck last month, the trucking company he works for says that they’ve received death threats.
The incident occurred on June 19 in Burlington, Ontario, when 65-year-old Regan Russell was fatally struck by a truck hauling pigs while protesting with the group “Toronto Pig Save” outside of a meat processing plant.
On July 20, the Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) announced that the 28-year-old truck driver had been charged with Careless Driving Causing Death. The trucking company that the unnamed truck driver worked for, Brussels Transport, now says that they have been targeted with threats from animal rights groups.
Tyler Jutzi, whose family owns Brussels Transport, told CTV News, “They threatened to blow up trucks. They threatened to sabotage trucks. They threatened to burn the slaughterhouse down.”
Jutzi also said that activist groups “put a bounty out on the driver, offering rewards for information about his name and whereabouts. This is terrifying, that someone might try to come to his home, to harm him or his family, over an accident.” (!!!)
In a GoFundMe set up to help defend the truck driver as he faces both charges and threats from the activists, Brussels Transport writes:
“The driver’s name is being kept anonymous in order to protect him and his family. He has already been the focus of threats by animal activist groups on social media should they determine his identity.
Brussels Transport is raising the money on his behalf to continue to protect that anonymity. He needs our help to cover the big costs of fighting this.
All money raised will go towards covering his legal fees in fighting this unacceptable charge, as well as tending to his mental health needs. This charge is not acceptable to the driver, other drivers in the industry, or the agricultural community as a whole.
The driver was just doing his job to help feed people around the world, delivering pigs to slaughter.
My Comment: With this article, it becomes clear by what dirty means the animal transport mafia tries to defile the negligent murder of activist Regan Russel.
Human specimens that torture and slash animals en masse every day would also show no consideration for their peers, i.e. humans.
They have lost all sensitivity and compassion if they ever had one.
What they have developed is their professionalism in lies.
Animal rights activists would never make threats.
Animal rights activists have no interest in death or harm to human animals as a matter of principle.
These claims are empty, outrageous, and will not be able to justify the negligent murder of an innocent and peaceful animal rights activist
Here is a very nice depiction of the “Regan Russell” case by Anonymous
“What we fight against goes beyond non-human animal rights; to no surprise, the oppressors of animals (humans) promote violent and bloody human rights violations too.
Truckers and those supporting them clashed with animal rights activists outside the Burlington slaughterhouse in Canada where Regan Russell was hit and unmercifully killed by a truck driver transporting animals to their murders.
Their counter-protest clearly demonstrated a callous disregard for human life also, fuelled by their ingrained speciesism.
The hatred of animals is the first form discrimination we’re all taught as children; the idea that some non-human animals matter and others are nothing more than shit we flush down a toilet.
This poisonous idea warps people’s minds to the point where they not only hate animals, their hatred gets directed towards their own species, and anyone they can think of as different to them.
In order to properly honor Regan’s life and end the injustice towards animals, we need to dismantle human supremacy”
Posted on August 12, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
New investigation revealing horrific harpoon fishing practices
6 August 2020
Every summer in the Strait of Messina, the feluccas (typical swordfish fishing boats) set sail to catch the fish whose meat is sold to fishmongers and restaurants. Although it is considered a more sustainable method than industrial fishing, as there is no unwanted bycatch of other species, harpoon fishing causes serious suffering. This year Essere Animali was on board documenting the horrific practices.
After being pierced with the harpoon, swordfish struggle in vain to free themselves. Once hoisted onto the boat, their flesh is cut in several places with a knife while they are still alive to facilitate the extraction of the spearhead. This procedure causes extreme and prolonged pain to the swordfish.
After being caught, the swordfish are frequently doused with water. The purpose of this procedure is to keep them alive as long as possible to ensure the freshness of their meat; it does not bring any relief to the animals. Death comes as a result of asphyxiation after several long minutes of agony, during which the fish remains conscious and gasps for breath, its body riddled with wounds.
The post ‘New investigation revealing horrific harpoon fishing practices’ is modified from an article published by Essere Animali in their original language.
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