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29/9/20  – Breaking News from the Fur Free Alliance

WAV Comment – we have just had this news in and we want to immediately share it with you.

The transition period is stated as 5 years; but we know with experience from the Netherlands and Poland; we feel eventually it will be a very much shorter time – given Covid and the rest.

Even better; it seems that a ban on wild animals in circuses is also to be included in the legislation.

BIG Congrats to all the crew at the FFA – another victory to rid the world of barbaric fur farming.

Regards Mark

VICTORY! FRANCE TO BAN FUR FARMING

FRANCE, 29 SEPTEMBER 2020 – In a historic move, this morning the French minister of Ecological Transition announced to prohibit fur production. The decision follows a recent expose from our French member One Voice of the hideous conditions on France’s last 4 remaining fur farms.

The ban on fur farming will go into force after a 5-year transitional period. Besides the prohibition of fur production, the announced measures also include a ban on wild animals in circuses.

Muriel Arnal, CEO of French animal protection organisation One Voice, says:

“What a hard fight… thanks to all our partners in the Fur Free Alliance for their help in the last moments. We finally have a ban. But it will take place in a very long time compared to the Netherlands. With only 4 remaining farms we expected a much stronger announcement. We will keep on fighting to close down these 4 farms before the deadline set by the ministry of Ecology.”

Last week Fur Free Alliance member organisations around the world urged the French government to take immediate action and shut down France’s last remaining fur farms.

Read our joint letter to French Minister Pomili here. 

Recent investigations on French fur farms, recorded in 2017, 2019 and once again in 2020, revealed shocking examples of animal suffering, including mink with physical injuries kept in appalling conditions and displaying stereotypical behaviour. Some of them had injured eyes, missing teeth, missing tails, paralysed and necrotic legs, and skin diseases.

Together with OneVoice we call on the French government to speed up the transitional period and prohibit fur farming at the earliest opportunity.

https://www.furfreealliance.com/victory-france-to-ban-fur-farming/

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In order for all people in the world to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus, half a million sharks might have to die.

Squalene is found in vaccines that manufacturers are experimenting with.

The substance that strengthens the body’s immune response and thus the effectiveness of vaccination is obtained from the oil of shark liver.

For billions of corona vaccinations, thousands of sharks would have to die!

Around 3,000 sharks have to be killed to produce around a ton of squalene.
In order to produce enough squalene to provide every person in the world with a vaccine dose, 250,000 sharks would have to die, calculates the animal protection organization “Shark Allies”.

If everyone needed two doses of vaccine to immunize against Covid-19, it would be half a million sharks.

Shark populations would not be able to cope with the mass production of vaccinations

Many shark species are already threatened, declared the animal rights activists in their petition on the Internet portal change.org.

Exploiting them for the mass production of vaccines could have catastrophic consequences for the predatory fish population.

“Harvesting something from a wild animal is never going to be sustainable, especially if it’s a top predator that doesn’t reproduce in huge numbers”, explained Stefanie Brendl, the chairwoman of the animal welfare organization.

“Shark Allies” started a petition (link below) calling for the organization to stop the use of animal squalene.

https://www.change.org/p/us-fda-food-and-drug-administration-of-the-united-states-of-america-stop-using-sharks-in-covid-19-vaccine-use-existing-sustainable-options

 

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/09/29/sharks-the-potential-victims-of-the-corona-vaccination/

 

And I mean… Is it not enough that this pandemic was made by human hands, now the animals should pay the costs?

Who is responsible for this massacre, if it actually happens?
The real plague of this planet: human beings.
It is difficult to find the right words to define this only animal on this planet that lives from the massacre of others.

We don’t need tolerance for such crimes and criminals

My best regards to all, Venus

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A male gorilla attacked and seriously injured a zookeeper at Madrid Zoo.

The 46-year-old suffered head trauma on Sunday, open fractures in both arms and various injuries to the torso said the zoo in the Spanish capital.

The experienced employee is being treated in the hospital and her health is serious.

According to the information, the woman was suddenly surprised by the 29-year-old male gorilla “Malabo” in the morning during routine work in the enclosure.

The zoo team intervened quickly, removed the approximately 200 kilograms silverback from the victim, and immobilized the animal with an anesthetic arrow.

“Malabo” is very popular with the keepers of the zoo, said a zoo spokeswoman for the TV channel “La Sexta”.

As to the cause of the incident, the zoo announced that security doors had been left open and that everything indicated a human error.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/tiere/gorilla-maennchen-verletzt-pflegerin-im-zoo-von-madrid-schwer-16974271.html

We expect Malabo’s immediate release.
It was a human error indeed, the arrest of the innocent Malabo 29 years ago and his life imprisonment.
This mistake needs to be corrected.
The only innocent man is Malabo, the prisoner of the Madrid Zoo.
We show solidarity with him

Regards and good night, Venus

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Wolf protection in Switzerland is not being relaxed. The electorate rejected the revision of the hunting law with 51.9 percent.

A new hunting law should have come in Switzerland that puts the wolf and the ibex on the list of huntable animals and enables wolves to be shot, even if the wolf has not caused any damage (i.e. tearing livestock).

There was a referendum on September 27th. And the majority of 51.9% of the Swiss have rejected this hunting law. Great!

All in all, the arguments of Left-Green and the animal and environmental associations, which had launched the referendum against the bill, were more convincing in the voting campaign.

There was always talk of a “shooting law for the wolf”, of “a failed law that harasses wild animals”.

Above all, it was the newly permitted preventive killing of individual wolves as well as the intended legitimate regulation of packs of wolves that heated the minds of the opponents.

It is a contradiction to kill a protected animal without it having caused any damage, was the tenor. The revised hunting law makes it possible to shoot “in advance”!!

The opponents did not only see the wolf endangered in the new hunting law but also other protected animal species.

In the voting campaign, it was almost forgotten that the regulatory rules should apply not only to the wolf but also to the ibex.

Environmentalists warned that the beaver or the lynx could soon be on this hit list.

Reference was made to an article of the law that states that the Federal Council can declare other protected animal species to be regulated without the consent of parliament or a referendum.

Conclusion: “What the revision actually entails is less species protection.”

The old law is now the new !!!

With the “NO” to the revised Hunting Act, the 1986 law remains in force.

Even before the vote, the opponents announced that after the rejection, work on a new bill would soon begin in order to have a law that would actually do justice to species protection.

 

https://www.srf.ch/news/abstimmung-27-september-2020/jagdgesetz/umgang-mit-dem-wolf-das-stimmvolk-schiesst-das-jagdgesetz-ab

 

And I mean…Cantonal representatives from Valais have made it clear that wolves do not belong in Valais.

We have seen how this is practiced there with the lynx. The canton tolerates poachers and even has poachers as rangers.

We had already reported about this: https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/09/19/swiss-poaching-gamekeepers-in-valais/

The pressure against these species is great, the lobbies are ready.

In addition, I feel that the farmers’ concern for the sheep is hypocritical. Thousands of sheep die every year from disease, lightning strikes, falling rocks, falls, etc.

No owner sleeps badly because of this. It doesn’t matter at all, it’s already calculated.

Every sheep that is killed is remunerated by the federal government and the canton.

Then again and again sheep are forgotten and starve to death in the snow.
All of this from the allegedly so “concerned sheep owners”.
The sheep are only there to collect subsidies.

All facts speak against the law, the Swiss got it and fought against the wolf hysteria with their voice.

 

Thank you!

My best regards to all, Venus

 

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We hear that so often:
“Why don’t you take care of the poor, starving children in the developing world before you worry about the ‘cattle’?”

In short:
Especially the people who do not do anything for others, neither for the animals nor for the people, tend to accuse others of forgetting the people in need because of all their commitment to the animals!

Around 690 MILLION people worldwide are currently suffering from hunger! Source: https://www.unicef.de/…/un-report…/221914

Every 10 seconds a child dies of hunger!
Whoever does not consume meat and other animal products such as milk, eggs … is doing something against world hunger.

Why is that?

Example: To ‘produce’ 1 kg of beef, 16 kg of grain and soy are fed to animals.
Giant amounts of grain and soy are necessary to fatten these animals.
Instead of using it to feed the hungry of this world, we take the food from them to feed tortured animals.

If this grain were directly available for human nutrition, the WORLD HUNGER PROBLEM would be solved!

Up to 7 kilograms of feed and 15,300 liters of water are required to “produce” just 1 kilogram of beef. Including drinking water for the animals and water for cleaning the stables, this results in an unbelievable sum of 15,500 liters of water for just 1 kilogram of beef!

The tragic thing is: 2.1 billion people have no access to clean and available drinking water.

So … eating meat is a crime, for humanity and for animals.
But the carnivores allow it.

Just because the eyes of the starving children cannot be seen on the packaged meat in the supermarket.

My best regards to all, Venus

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The authorities have allowed one million cubic meters per year!!!

Nestlé pumps this amount of water out of the ground in Vittel every year – and slowly but surely dries up the small community in eastern France.

The groundwater level cannot regenerate and drops dramatically by 30 centimeters every year. Once it was 10 meters higher than it is today.

The villagers are running out of drinking water.

At the public fountain they are allowed to fill “a maximum of 6 bottles per day”, and in summer the water is even brought into the village by tanker.

Now a 12-kilometer pipeline is planned – for up to 50 million euros in tax money.

Nestlé fills the groundwater in bottles and earns hundreds of millions of euros with it.

The trade-in water is far more than a local problem: A large part of the mineral water is filled in plastic bottles, the production of which devours resources, which of course also applies to returnable bottles.

The bottles are then brought to the customer over long distances.
From Vittel to Sassnitz: 1,141 kilometers, from Vittel to Berchtesgaden: 701 kilometers.
The dimensions are more extreme in Canada, for example.
It is 3,147 kilometers from Nestlé’s Aberfoyle filling station to St. John’s.
Other popular types of water are still transported further.

So water from the Fijis itself can be had in Berlin!!!

But the residents do not give up without a fight: Vittel’s residents have come together as “Collectif Eau 88” to stand up to the large corporation. And you asked the “SumOfUs” community for help in their fight against Nestlé.

For more… at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/09/27/nestle-the-water-mafia/

 

And I mean…Nestlé has bought water rights around the world, even in very arid regions. Nestlé Waters invests in Nigeria and Ethiopia.

So Nestlé robs these people of their livelihoods, not only in their daily business but also when there is far too little available anyway.
The Swiss group generates more than seven billion euros in sales annually in the water business.

The principle is very simple: They sell bottled table water. That’s tap water in plastic bottles.

This is pumped out directly from the groundwater.

To sell water, you have to own it first.
In large parts of the USA, for example, the most important sales market for Nestlé’s water division, the “right of the most powerful pump” applies: Anyone who owns or has leased land can pump as much water as he wants on his property – regardless of his neighbors.

If a country wants loans from the World Bank, one of the conditions is water privatization.

Bolivia, for example, known for the “water war”, had to experience that one of the conditions for new loans from the World Bank was the privatization of water.

They are structures that one would only expect from the mafia.

We used to think that the falling groundwater level was only a sad reality in Pakistan, today it is in Vitel and tomorrow could soon also threaten Germany if Nestlé succeeds putting its plans for the European market into practice.

In fact, Nestlé should already have been tried in the International Court of Justice in Den Haag.

My best regards to all, Venus

 

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A Mercy For Animals investigator went undercover at a U.S. egg factory and found live hens kept in tiny cages with decomposing birds, animals with open wounds, and chickens so calcium deficient they laid eggs without shells.

The investigator describes appalling conditions in dark, windowless sheds, which can be as long as a football field. Here, hundreds of thousands of chickens are forced to live for more than a year—nearly the entirety of their short lives. They are kept in cages so small that they cannot even spread their wings or move without stepping on other birds. In the United States, the vast majority of egg-laying hens are kept in tiny cages just like the ones in this video.

Hens like these have been bred to lay far more eggs than their wild ancestors ever would, laying one egg nearly every day. In fact, the average commercial egg-laying chicken in the United States lays 294 eggs a year, while their direct ancestors, the red junglefowl, lays just 10 to 15 a year.

Laying so many eggs depletes the hens’ bodies of calcium, needed to form eggshells. As a result, their bones often become brittle, and some birds have so little calcium left in their bodies they lay eggs without shells. The investigator said, “I witnessed many hens with broken bones or open wounds but saw none of them receive individual veterinary care.”

Many chickens do not survive the horrific conditions. Those who die are left to rot in the tiny cages, and live hens are forced to stand on or against the decomposing bodies.

At the end of their short lives, the birds are violently removed from their cages, carried upside down by their legs, and stuffed into cages for transport to slaughter. Chickens are sensitive, complex individuals capable of empathizing with their peers and creating strong friendships. Despite this, hens in factory farms are treated like unfeeling objects.

In addition to extreme neglect, disease prevention in the egg factory was not taken seriously. One of the most basic biosecurity measures in agriculture is to step through a tray of disinfectant before entering a building with live animals, yet the investigator “observed workers routinely bypassing the disinfectant tray.”

To make matters worse, the U.S. government recently announced it would stop requiring full-time government inspectors in plants that process egg products, meaning inspectors will visit a plant only once per shift. This decrease in oversight could pose serious risks to food safety.

We can all make a difference in the lives of chickens by eating more plant-based foods. Check out these 10 delicious egg-less egg recipes to get started, and download our FREE Vegetarian Starter Guide for more tips and tricks.

https://mercyforanimals.org/new-video-these-chickens-are-so-calcium-deficien

Regards Mark

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