away with the pest!
Regards and good night, Venus
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Mink massacre in Denmark: for the benefit of the perpetrators
Posted on November 8, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Many claims that the Danes, and after the new virus attack from the mink factories, will finally learn something.
Do we expect the Danes to learn something?
They are the champion of fur production worldwide.
That means professional animal abusers, professional animal killers, business people who view the massacre as a work process.
Danes are gonna learn a shit!
And now we come to the point:
Why is the media only now interested in the fact that Denmark should execute 17 million innocent animals?
The Danes would do that anyway, they do that every year to 19 million mink that are locked in tiny, dirty cages on over 1,500 fur farms, where they have to lead a miserable life under unbearable conditions and are ultimately gassed.
The only difference is that it has now also caught the so-called breeding animals, which are usually killed and replaced every few years.
The fur industry means torment, misery, and slavery! And it carries a high risk of infection and other diseases!
We, the animal rights activists, have presented factory farming as an acute threat to viruses, as a virus factory, right from the start of Corona.
The fur industry is also factory farming.
Now the press is suddenly interested in the massacre to make headlines.
The reports justify the massacre in the name of the safety of those who caused the problem.
In the past the subject of fur factories was unsavory, nobody cared about how many fur animals were to leave their lives in Dachau around the world.
Now everything is different just because WE are in danger.
It’s about us, not the animals.
No fundamental debate, why are there still fur farms at all?
Why are we still doing industrial factory farming and massive animal exploitation despite Corona?
The Minister of Agriculture of Denmark Mette Frederiksen emphasized that there is now no ban on mink breeding.
Although actually now and immediately, Cina, Denmark, and Poland should ban mink breeding and production.
The Danes will learn nothing from it.
The farm owners are well compensated, and in two years the same concentration camps as mushrooms will arise overnight.
We have ALL learned nothing of the life-threatening dangers that our fascist behavior causes the “other” animals for the most part.
Instead of learning from our mistakes, we compensate for this inability with executions.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Ireland: Good News for Hares !
Posted on November 8, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We have some good news for hares!
With a six-week lockdown in force in Ireland, the Irish Coursing Club has been ordered to halt the hare-coursing season and release wild-caught hares back into the countryside
While it’s great news that no coursing meetings will take place while lockdown restrictions are in place, the Irish government must take action to protect hares exploited for coursing in the long run. If coursing is allowed to resume, many more terrified hares will be taken from their homes and forced to race for their lives.
Hares deserve to live in peace in the countryside – they’re not ours to abuse and kill in the name of entertainment. We’re demanding that Taoiseach Micheál Martin (the Irish prime minister) ban hare coursing altogether.
Every aspect of this ordeal is terrifying for the hares, who are gentle, solitary animals. They often die or are injured as a result of the netting process and during transport.
Those who survive are held in captivity and put through training sessions to get them used to the field where coursing meetings take place and to teach them to run up the centre of it. During training, they’re kept crammed together in an enclosure. This is completely unnatural and extremely stressful for them.
At course meetings, dogs are made to compete against each other in pursuit of each hare. The petrified hares run for their lives, desperate to evade the dogs. The dogs are muzzled, but this does little to reduce injuries and fatalities, as they can still forcibly strike the hares, pin them to the ground, and toss them in the air – breaking brittle bones, dislocating hips, fracturing spines, rupturing organs, and causing internal bleeding. Hares are extremely sensitive animals, and the fear and stress of the chase can also cause heart failure. If they can’t find the escape holes or routes at the end of the field, they may be chased for so long that they die from stress or exhaustion if they’re not caught and mauled to death first.
The dogs involved are also victims of the “sport”. Often subjected to intense training, they’re treated not as cherished members of the family but as money-making machines. They’re usually kept in concrete outdoor kennels, repeatedly used for breeding, and abandoned when they get injured or are deemed too slow for coursing and therefore are no longer profitable.
Hare coursing is cruel, outdated, and deadly. Take action to end this blood sport!
The government granted hare-coursing licences for the 2020/21 season despite the cruelty involved and the potential environmental impact. A private members’ bill, the Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Hare Coursing) Bill, has been introduced by Paul Murphy TD and will be debated in the Irish Parliament in due course. This bill would make hare coursing a crime punishable by a €1,000 fine and up to six months in prison.
The situation is urgent – hare coursing must be stopped. Tell Taoiseach Micheál Martin (the Irish prime minister) to support this bill banning hare coursing altogether.
Demand that the Irish government end hare coursing by sending the taoiseach a message
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England: If more of us were vegan, there would be less chance of a pandemic in the future.
Posted on November 8, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
WAV Comment – I stumbled across this today; it is from UK press back in April 2020, and is by Juliet – founder of Viva!
Regards Mark
If more of us were vegan, there would be less chance of a pandemic in the future
As our excessive demand for meat and animal products grows, we destroy ever more wildernesses for animal fodder and grazing, bringing wildlife into closer contact with people. And we put ourselves at greater risk
Thursday 30 April 2020 13:40
Animals transmit infections. Who knew? We did, a long time ago.
In the mid-19th century German pathologist Rudolf Virchow was the first to discover that infectious diseases can be transmitted between animals and humans – coining the term “zoonoses” in 1855.
A century later, in August 1958, the World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Zoonoses met at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The outcome of the meeting was a stark warning: the prevention, control and eradication of these diseases were “responsibilities of considerable magnitude in every country”.
Fast forward to today and the world is in the grips of the worst global pandemic for generations. Covid-19 – like SARS, bird flu, swine flu and Ebola – originated in animals.
Three in four of the world’s new or emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic. These diseases are responsible for some 2.7 million deaths per year and are largely transmitted through the wildlife trade and factory farming. Despite knowing the dangers for over 150 years, we continue to put ourselves at risk of devastating outbreaks.
Cramming animals together in markets and subjecting them to intensive farming practices creates a breeding ground for disease. Today some two thirds of all farm animals are kept in factory farms where infections can spread with ease between animals, mutate and become infectious to humans.
As our excessive demand for meat and animal products grows, we destroy ever more wildernesses for animal fodder and grazing, bringing wildlife into closer contact with people. And we put ourselves at greater risk. This is no longer just a matter of animal welfare, it’s a global public health crisis too.
The coronavirus pandemic has inspired thousands to speak up against the unregulated movement of wild animals, ignited calls for stricter controls at airports and brought global attention to the barbaric cruelty of wet markets, all in a bid to prevent future outbreaks. But the most impactful solution is to stop the spread of these diseases at their source by putting an end to our consumption of meat and dairy.
Cramming animals together in markets and subjecting them to intensive farming practices creates a breeding ground for disease. Today some two thirds of all farm animals are kept in factory farms where infections can spread with ease between animals, mutate and become infectious to humans.
As our excessive demand for meat and animal products grows, we destroy ever more wildernesses for animal fodder and grazing, bringing wildlife into closer contact with people. And we put ourselves at greater risk. This is no longer just a matter of animal welfare, it’s a global public health crisis too.
The coronavirus pandemic has inspired thousands to speak up against the unregulated movement of wild animals, ignited calls for stricter controls at airports and brought global attention to the barbaric cruelty of wet markets, all in a bid to prevent future outbreaks. But the most impactful solution is to stop the spread of these diseases at their source by putting an end to our consumption of meat and dairy.
But the most important lesson doesn’t stem from this outbreak alone. It’s the culmination of our history, which has been blighted by preventable outbreaks of lethal diseases spread from animals to humans, and our collective decision not to act.
We’ve known the risks for almost two centuries. Too many lives have been lost. The solution is at our fingertips: it’s time to go vegan now.
Juliet Gellatley is director of Viva! a charity campaigning for a vegan world
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Some others can it …
Posted on November 7, 2020 by venus2407
..when will we humans finally have the ability to live in symbiosis like other animals?
Regards and good night to all, Venus
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The worldwide trade in monkeys for research: a million-dollar business!
Posted on November 7, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Many animal experimental establishments, such as pharmaceutical companies and universities, breed their animals themselves. Others order animal breeding from commercial “experimental” animals.
Just as one selects books or clothing from a catalog at a mail-order company, live animals are offered for sale at breeding companies.
On the Internet or in the catalog, experimenters can choose from a large selection of different species and breeds. Animals that have been operated on are even offered, e.g. Rats and mice with tied blood vessels or nerves, with the spleen or kidney removed, etc.
Or genetically modified animals in a wide variety of ways, e.g.“Humanized mice” that have been “implanted” with a specific human gene.
There is no longer even talk of animals, but of “products” and “research models”.
The American Jackson Laboratory offers thousands of different strains of mice whose genome has been manipulated in such a way that the animals develop certain diseases such as cancer, diabetes, or obesity.
The world’s largest “experimental” animal breeder, the American company Charles River Laboratories, has a rodent and rabbit breeding facility in Sulzfeld in the Karlsruhe (Germany) district.
In Cologne, there is a branch of the American company Taconic, which breeds genetically modified mice.
Monkeys are partly bred for research in the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen (Germany).
Around 95% of the monkeys come from outside the EU.
The largest exporter is China, followed by Mauritius.
There wild monkeys are caught and reproduced in breeding facilities under unspeakable conditions.
The boys are sent to Europe and America to die in the laboratory.
AirFrance is the main carrier of monkeys.
Animal experiments are carried out in the following areas:
For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/11/07/the-worldwide-trade-in-monkeys-for-research-a-million-dollar-business/
For information: One of the most important tasks of the German Primate Center is to supply all institutions in Germany that conduct research on primates with supplies, i.e. to breed animals for experiments.
Because it is forbidden in Europe to remove monkeys from the wild for scientific purposes. Like many other things, only on paper!
Can it be said unequivocally that no wild-caught animals are vegetating in German test laboratories?
No! Because the majority of the monkeys come from non-European countries.
The German Primate Center cannot meet the demand on its own and therefore also purchases from China.
Long-tailed macaques are one of the most common species of monkeys in research. They have a sad record: no other protected mammal in the world is traded so heavily.
The experimenters use them to test substances for their toxicity, artificially infect them with human diseases, and drill the top of their skulls to insert electrodes into their brains.
During the experiments, the animals are often fixed in so-called primate chairs and thus immobilized for hours.
Illegal smuggling and forged documents obscure the true origin of the animals.
From Cambodia via Laos, Vietnam, and China, the monkeys then finally get to Europe or the USA.
They get their “legal” papers somewhere on their journey through Southeast Asia.
Where the animals really come from and whether they were caught in the wild is difficult to find out!
But this fact is ignored because, with long-tailed macaques, the pharmaceutical mafia makes millions every year!
In order to meet the high demand, the animals are caught in countries such as Indonesia, Laos, and Cambodia and declared as breeding animals.
Long-tailed macaques in a breeding station in Laos © Jo-Anne McArthur
Chinese traders expressly request animals from Indonesia that are neither chipped nor tattooed. What is that good for, unless you want to disguise the origin of the animals?
From 2022, the European Union will prohibit the use of wild-caught animals in experiments or breeding.
But as long as CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) does not fundamentally prohibit the trade in long-tailed macaques and the authorities in the exporting country continue to create false documents, namely that the animals come from legal sources, wild-caught long-tailed macaques will continue to suffer and die in test laboratories.
And Europe continues to show ridiculous pride in an animal protection law that fundamentally protects criminal animal abusers.
My best regards to all, Venus
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NEW DOC SHINES A LIGHT ON THE KILLING OF ANIMAL ACTIVIST REGAN RUSSELL.
Posted on November 7, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Old WAV posts:
NEW DOC SHINES A LIGHT ON THE KILLING OF ANIMAL ACTIVIST REGAN RUSSELL
Award-winning vegan filmmaker Shaun Monson’s new film, There Was A Killing, tells the story of Canadian animal rights activist Regan Russell, who was struck and killed by a pig transport truck while attending a Toronto Pig Save vigil in June. But the documentary is about more than just this tragedy; it’s about starting a conversation.
Russell, a decades-long fighter for animal rights, spent her last moments giving compassion to baby pigs on their way to slaughter. Footage from that day shows her—full head of white hair, black shirt, and blue jeans—carrying a spray bottle, which she used to give water to the pigs.
More than a month after Russell’s death, the police cited the truck driver with a non-criminal charge of Careless Driving Causing Death. The charge drew outrage among the animal rights community. “I just felt there was this cover-up. Or they were brushing it aside or dismissing it. And that began to nag at me,” Monson tells LIVEKINDLY about his initial desire to make the film.
After watching the cell phone footage, taken by activists attending the vigil, Monson says he was left feeling even more confused. “I’m thinking, how do we only have four minutes from this event? There was very little footage from the day,” he explains. “And it just felt like this haunting mystery. There’s something off. And I felt a little bit like a detective and I had to explore.”
Making Impact-Driven Films
Monson’s no stranger to making these kinds of documentaries. He wrote, produced, and directed 2005’s Earthlings and 2015’s Unity, among others. The former goes in-depth into the day-to-day practices of industrial factory farms around the world. The latter analyzes the destructive relationships humans have with each other, animals, and the planet.
But, according to Monson, making an impact-driven film that resonates with the audience isn’t easy. And a chance meeting with Academy Award-winning director James Cameron fueled Monson to tell harrowing stories like Russell’s in a way that makes people want to see them.
“I met him a couple of years ago here in L.A. at Crossroads—a vegan restaurant. I had on a t-shirt that said “Eat What Elephants Eat,” Monson explains. The shirt caught the attention of Cameron, who’s been plant-based for nearly a decade. “He says, ‘Hey, I like your shirt.’ And so we start talking,” Monson says.
He was blown away when Cameron told him he had seen Earthlings. Monson jokingly asked: “You saw it all the way through?” (The footage shown in the film of how factory farmed animals are treated is gruesome, to say the least.)
“He kind of puts his arm around me. And for a moment I thought: ‘Wow, I’m about to get the secrets of Hollywood filmmaking.’ He says: ‘Let me tell you something. Whenever I make a movie, I do two things. One: I make a movie that people want to see. Two: I put a message in it,” Monson recalls. “And then he pays me this really high praise. He says ‘The message in your film is probably one of the best messages I’ve ever seen.’ And then he leans in close and he goes: ‘But nobody wants to see it.’”
Monson continues: “And he’s right because it’s not like people are running out to get a bucket of popcorn to watch this kind of stuff. They just aren’t, you know?”
After spending more than 20 years making documentaries, Monson says he started to consider how to reach a larger audience. “I just had one of the biggest filmmakers in the world lean over and spend 20 minutes talking about how to reach more people.”
Gaining An Audience
So, how do you make a film about a tough topic that people actually want to see? According to the filmmaker, you’ve got to make it in a way that will get viewers emotionally invested.
“A film is such a powerful medium. Why can’t a film change something?” Monson continues: “It’s a classic statement of a picture’s worth 1,000 words. If you look at what happened with George Floyd, unlike other unjust, corrupt deaths, they weren’t being documented. But when someone films for 8.5 minutes straight—just films the whole thing, it creates this visceral emotional reality. It’s almost like it’s not secondhand information.”
And There Was A Killing certainly provides a wealth of information: It interweaves video evidence along with eyewitness testimony. It provides interviews with attorneys Robert Monson, Lisa Bloom, and David Simon. And it features a former animal truck driver’s perspective on the day’s tragic events. For all intents and purposes, the film appears to accomplish its goal: It makes people think.
Monson hopes his new film will help bring Russell’s case to the court of public opinion. | Provided by Shaun Monson
Raising Awareness For Animals
Monson explains that he believes people are, overall, basically decent—even though there are exceptions to this rule. “They’re just not informed,” he says. “And so it’s almost like you have people that are asleep. And then you have people whose eyes are sort of fluttering open a little. And then you have people that are sort of sleepwalking. And then you have awake people. And the idea is for all of us to be awake—not to be sleepwalking, not to be eyes fluttering, and certainly not to be asleep.”
Through his films, Monson wants to awaken people to the impact they have on animals and the planet.
And Monson hopes There Was A Killing will help bring Russell’s case to the court of public opinion. He also wants the film to raise awareness for ag-gag laws—which seek to silence whistleblowers from exposing the horrors of the animal agriculture industry.
On the day of her death, Russell had been protesting Canadian ag-gag Bill 156—which the government enacted into law just one day before she was killed. Monson says he thinks her case will be a case of first impression—one that has never been decided by a governing jurisdiction.
“It’ll be the first time that law is now being put to trial to see if it’s eventually constitutional. And so attorneys later study case laws. That’s why in the States we have Roe v. Wade,” he explains. “Roe v. Wade is a case study. It isn’t a statute. It’s a case study. Both are very important. So that’s the power of a documentary is that it might challenge a law statute. And then a case can come out of that. And then a case law may change the law.”
Monson also hopes the film will inspire others to be more compassionate.
“And that’s my hope: That more people will maybe see these kinds of messages. And they can have a positive effect. Because I don’t know how to write books. I don’t start organizations. I don’t have a sanctuary. I don’t know what else I have to offer except films,” Monson continues. “Ultimately, all you can do is provide the information to people, hope that they watch it, hope that they actually press play and look at it. And then it’s really up to them.”
“I always say we’re like gardeners, and we’re just casting seeds,” Monson says. “And sometimes those seeds fall in rich soil. And sometimes it’s stony ground. But we keep casting seeds out just to have a positive effect in this world.”
There Was A Killing is now available to stream here. To learn more about Regan Russell visit www.JusticeForReganRussell.org.
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