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This is mainly for UK supporters; but we guess international e mails are also accepted – which strengthens the case.

As our many UK supporters will know; Tesco, a major food store and supplier, have a saying that ‘Every Little Helps’.

How about that is changed to ‘Every E mail Helps’.  Click on the link below and send a clear message about Amazon rain forest destruction to the new Tesco CEO Ken Murphy.

Tell him; we don’t want the beautiful Amazon forests destroyed for the production of cheap meat that is sold in your stores – simple as that !

Regards Mark

(sent to us by Liza in London – animal campaigner buddy)

Last month Tesco announced that they’re going to increase their sales of plant-based meat alternatives by 300%. [1]

But unless they also reduce the amount of industrial meat on their shelves, forests like the Amazon will continue to burn. For the first time in six years Tesco now has a new CEO, and we have a real opportunity to make sure he does the right thing.

Will you email Tesco’s new CEO, Ken Murphy and ask him to stop supporting deforestation?

https://act.greenpeace.org/page/70744/action/1?source=EM&subsource=FOAMMDOAEM05IG&utm_campaign=FOAMMDOAEM05IG&utm_medium=EM&utm_source=gpeace

Opportunities like this don’t come around very often and a new CEO could mean a fresh start. Ken Murphy has the chance to do something positive with his time in charge, but he needs to act fast.

As you’re reading this email South American forests like the Amazon continue to be destroyed to produce industrial meat, and the situation is getting worse. [2] As the UK’s biggest supermarket, Tesco is directly involved in this destruction by selling unsustainable amounts of meat, and by doing business with forest-destroying companies.

Earlier this year over 60,000 of you emailed Tesco’s former CEO, which helped lead to their announcement on plant-based meat alternatives. Now there’s a new CEO in charge, we need to keep up the pressure to make sure Tesco doesn’t stop there.

Please email Ken Murphy now and tell him personally about why we need to protect our forests.

https://act.greenpeace.org/page/70744/action/1?source=EM&subsource=FOAMMDOAEM05IG&utm_campaign=FOAMMDOAEM05IG&utm_medium=EM&utm_source=gpeace

With a new CEO in charge, this is a unique opportunity to make our voices heard. And the more of us who get in touch, the louder the message will be – Tesco should lead by example and stand up to deforestation.

I’ve drafted an email to new CEO Ken Murphy that you can send or edit. It asks him to cut ties with forest-destroying meat companies and halve the amount of meat that Tesco sells.

Adding a line at the start of the email to express why you care about deforestation will have an even bigger impact on Ken Murphy. You can also edit the subject line.

Thanks again for all you do,

Jack

Greenpeace

Notes

[1] Tesco sets 300% sales target for plant-based alternatives to meat

[2] Exclusive: Brazil Amazon fires likely worst in 10 years

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Today we have heard that we have made history for mother pigs.
 

In June this year, SAFE partnered with our friends at the New Zealand Animal Law Association to challenge the use of cruel farrowing crates in the High Court. This was the first time in New Zealand history that such a challenge had taken place.
 
The High Court has ruled this morning that the minimum standards and regulations for the use of farrowing crates are unlawful.

Simply put – the High Court agrees that using farrowing crates to house mother pigs is a violation of the Animal Welfare Act.

As I write this, our hardworking legal team from the New Zealand Animal Law Association are working together with the team here at SAFE to go through the judgment in detail and plan the next steps. I will be in touch next week when we have more information to share.

The High Court has ruled that the use of farrowing crates is unlawful.
This is a historic judgment for mother pigs.

From every generous donation, every petition signature, every contact with an MP, every letter to the editor and every share on social media – your support of mother pigs and your belief in justice has had a real, life-changing impact on the way we treat animals in New Zealand.

Debra Ashton
Chief Executive Officer

SAFE for animals – New Zealand.

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💙 A great campaign to protect sea birds!

The New Zealand town of Punakaiki has decided to turn off the lights in the next few weeks. The aim is to help save an endangered seabird whose only known breeding site is in the immediate vicinity of the small community. 🐦

Specifically, the street lights on a 3.4-kilometer stretch on the South Island will remain switched off at night until the New Year, the authorities said on Wednesday.

The reason: juveniles of the Westland petrel, classified as endangered, could lose their orientation due to the lights.

Especially bright lights could cause the animals to crash land, said Bruce Stuart-Menteath, spokesman for the Westland Petrel Conservation Trust, which is committed to protecting birds.
Some of them were seriously injured or were run over by cars.

Spotting the lanterns is a “fantastic” initiative for the birds, who normally can’t get off the level ground, said Stuart-Menteath.

The breeding season lasts from April to December.

The birds are only active on land at night.

 

https://twnews.at/at-news/neuseeland-dreht-zum-vogelschutz-die-lichter-ab

And I mean…The good news gave us a warm light!
We should all learn from such examples.
And a lot of energy is saved too.

A great action, THANK YOU New Zealand! 🐦💙

My best regards to all

Venus

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A French fashion house has teamed up with Northern Territorian (NT) Mick Burns to buy a former garden farm near Darwin that will be building Australia’s largest crocodile farm.

The Northern Territory’s crocodile farming industry (NT) will be given a major boost with the finalization of a land deal outside Darwin where a $40 million development is planned.

Important points:

-The proposed farm will house up to 50,000 saltwater crocodiles and was purchased for $ 7.25 million
-During full production, 30 people will be employed on the farm
-Hermès and Louis Vuitton control most of the NT crocodile farms and prefer Australian saltwater crocodiles

PRI Farming – ultimately controlled by French high fashion label Hermès – has bought The Sweet Life, a former melon and banana farm in Lambells Lagoon, for $ 7.25 million.

The Lambells Lagoon fruit and vegetable farm.

 

A veteran of the NT crocodile farming industry, Mick Burns, is the director of PRI Farming along with three French nationals who are also directors of Hermès.

The company plans to build a facility for 50,000 saltwater crocodiles to be raised for skin and meat products.
The stated development costs amount to around 40 million US dollars.
The proposed crocodile farm is said to be Australia’s largest crocodile farm.

If Burns’ plan is carried out, it will increase the number of crocodiles bred in the NT by 50 percent.

Both Hermès and Louis Vuitton tend not to put their crocodile farm holdings in the spotlight – none of their websites mention they are in the industry.

 

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/11/12/australia-the-crocodile-mafia-expands/

 

And I mean…That the human species completely disrupts the natural order is undeniable – the depth and scope of our crimes are unpredictable and incalculable.

We would therefore like to thank the pandemics for intervening and perhaps achieving what we are currently unable to do – namely, weakening or even stopping the crimes of the most dangerous and vicious predators.

My best regards to all, Venus

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Please click on the following link for all the details and a copy of the letter:

England: WAV Writes to the Danish Ambassador In London re Denmark’s Mass Mink Murders.

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Seriously now: isn’t it everybody’s dream?

 

Good night to all, Venus

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There is hardly any other animal in agriculture that the general public knows as little as about geese. The clever and watchful birds can easily live to be 20 years old.

They spend hours swimming and can travel thousands of kilometers as migratory birds.

Every year 32,000 tons of goose meat is consumed in Germany, 95% of it in the period from October to Christmas.
Only 4000 tons are produced in Germany.

28,000 tons come from abroad, mostly from Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria.

There the geese are fattened cheaply in intensive industrial farming, under cruel circumstances without any animal welfare conditions in just 12 weeks, and they are also often – despite an EU-wide ban – cross-subsidized by the down industry through painful live-plucking.

There is hardly a delicacy that is more controversial than foie gras. It can be found on the menus of many gourmet restaurants for the “well-off upper-class citizen”.

It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to describe the horror of foie gras farming and the ethical assessment of this production method is accordingly: At the age of eight to ten weeks, the animals are given a 50-centimeter long tube in their necks two to four times a day Stomach pushed through which about a kilo of corn or cereal porridge is pumped.

The animals are kept in tight cages to prevent them from squirming or escaping.

After two to three weeks of systematic plugging, the torture of the geese is over and they are slaughtered. When it is ready for slaughter, the liver is abnormally swollen up to ten times its normal size. The fat content is then 40 to 50 percent of the mass.

This high percentage of fat in the liver makes foie gras a delicacy.

To date, France is by far the largest producer of foie gras and, together with Hungary and Bulgaria, produces more than 24,000 tons of foie gras every year.

Not surprisingly, France is also the main consumer, foie gras has become “part of the cultural and gastronomic heritage”, and every butcher and delicatessen who thinks he is something special has goose or duck liver on offer.

In truth, it is about industrial export production, a lot of suffering, a lot of money, and 100,000 jobs: 40 million ducks are fattened in France every year, making around 19,000 tons of foie gras. France accounts for around 70 percent of global production.

Actually, the production of foie gras should not be an issue in the “civilized” EU.

The EU Directive 98 / 58CE (in particular Annex 24 to Article 4) has banned the production of foie gras since 1999. According to this, the type of feeding of animals must not cause “unnecessary suffering or harm” §.
However, the import of foie gras is still permitted within all EU countries.

To further protect itself, France even declared foie gras a “national and gastronomic heritage” in 2005.

In California and India, the import of such products is prohibited.

In Germany, according to all the rules of hypocrisy, the production of foie gras is prohibited, but importation is permitted.

The only way for an import ban in the EU seems to be via Brussels and Strasbourg. The latter city is known to be in France.

So that everyone understands how far it is until a Europe-wide production ban, we only need to look at the Christmas menu from MEPs from 2014.

The multi-course menu also included the popular foie gras on the menu.

You don’t have to be a vegan to refuse animal products from torture factories, like Foie Gras.
It is enough if you are a civilized person.

Let the barbarians take care of their national and gastronomic heritage.
Don’t become a barbarian either and leave the goose off your Christmas menu.

The tradition of the Christmas goose or foie gras is the tradition of the primitive millions and far removed from education and morality.

My best regards to all, Venus

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