Posted on December 21, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The Valletta government is coming under increasing pressure for its hunting-friendly policies.
On December 3rd, the European Commission initiated three proceedings against the island nation for violations of the European Birds Directive.
Specifically, it is about the opening of the spring hunt for quail, which is banned in all other EU countries, as well as the catching of golden plovers, thrushes, and finches with large folding nets.
The photo shows a shot quail-Malta
According to the Commission, Malta has failed to ensure adequate police controls, which has led to a massive increase in poaching.
The committee had documented hundreds of cases of abuse in recent years and informed the European Commission about the situation in Malta.
If convicted by the European Court of Justice, Malta faces fines running into the millions.
a linnet as a decoy-Malta
This news is invaluable – it is not only a signal to the Maltese government but also to other EU countries that may also be planning such hunting permits.
And I mean...Amazing!
The violation that is now being brought to court has only taken place since the end of October 2020.
In this case, the EU brought a lawsuit in barely more than a month – that’s really great!
The process will of course take a while, but the start was sensationally quick.
If Malta is forced to withdraw these three permits, thousands of hunters will reluctantly comply with the new laws.
Of course, there will always be some criminals idiots who do not adhere to any regulations and will try to trick.
The committees’ fight against bird murder continues, however, and these poachers will hopefully be brought to justice too!
Posted on December 20, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A calf that jumped onto the road from an animal transporter caused a stir on the german autobahn on December 9th.
The highway had to be closed for around two hours, the police reported in a press release.
Several road users reported the unusual pedestrian to the police at around 5:30 p.m. The animal was seen shortly after the Magdeburg-Center junction on the road towards Hanover.
According to the first findings of the police, the lower part of the loading flap of an animal transporter opened during the journey and the calf jumped onto the road.
According to the officials, the following vehicles were able to evade in time so that there was no traffic accident.
It is still unclear whether there was a technical defect on the loading flap.
And I mean…” If it was on the way to the slaughterhouse, then shooting was the more humane option”, we read in the comments.
Of course, the calf was on its way to the slaughterhouse, but that’s not what this is about!
We humans will also die at some point, but nobody has the right to shoot us because of it if they want to.
The calf has been denied the right to a chance in life just because we, human animals, take the right to act with one and the same fascist principle, namely: to decide about the life of other animals when and how it suits us.
It is the popular form of bullfighting celebration consisting of the release in a locality of a bovine cattle with one or more ropes tied to its head to control its movements and attacks.
The rope bull is probably the most atavistic spectacle and also the most distressing for the animal, as it is the one that limits its movements the most and for the longest time.
Suffering is accentuated in this type of celebration due to the great physical fatigue that they accumulate, as they are taken to the limits of their aerobic capacity.
In all the celebrations you can see how, shortly after starting, the horns resort to abdominal breathing with their mouths open, their tongues sticking out and profuse salivation.
And I mean…How primitive and anti-social can people in the middle of Europe be?
It is a shame for the country that some dull, mentally weak proletarians still uphold this primitive tradition and get excited about something that ordinary people only disgust.
If torture, mistreatment and exploitation of innocent, defenseless beings is a culture for Spaniards, why don’t they burn witches anymore?
Wasn’t that a sad culture in Spain? That would be good business.
Posted on December 20, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
They’re designed to be anonymous.
Tucked away in unassuming facilities in quiet communities such as Chatfield, Minnesota; Ewing, Illinois; New Sharon, Iowa; and Oxford, Michigan, not even their names—Moulton Chinchilla Ranch, Oak Hill Genetics,Ruby Fur Farm, and Oakwood Research Facility—betray the nature of their operations.
But Moulton Chinchilla,Oak Hill,Ruby Fur, Oakwood, and numerous others around the country form a vast, largely unknown network of businesses that breed and supply dogs, chinchillas, foxes, ferrets, pigs, rabbits, and other animals for experimentation laboratories.
They peddle in misery.
Suffering is their currency.
The large, open wound on this chinchilla’s head went untreated.
PETA has obtained video footage and photographs taken by federal inspectors that for the first time show the unsanitary, often putrid, and abhorrent conditions of these decrepit facilities that breed, warehouse, and sell sentient beings for profit.
The footage—along with federal inspection reports—shows definitively that suffering for animals destined for experimentation begins well before they arrive at the laboratories.
“Moulton Chinchilla Ranch”, a foul-smelling misery factory, willfully violates animal protection laws yet continues to operate.
Moulton Chinchilla Ranch is located in Chatfield, Minnesota, a quiet town with a population of fewer than 3,000, located outside Rochester.
Moulton is a hellhole so wretched that in November 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) took the rare step of filing a formal complaint against the company for its serious and chronic violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
Federal inspectors found chinchillas with open, untreated wounds as well as collars that were embedded into their necks. When they were removed, inspectors said that “the skin was eroded, there were matted hair and open lesions” and “a putrid odor was noticeable” [emphasis added].
One baby chinchilla found outside his enclosure was placed with a foster mother. It was later noticed that the animal had “a deep fresh wound on [his] back left leg … [and] some toes just hanging on” [emphasis added].
Following the collar’s removal, the inspector observed “an open sore around most of the neck where the collar had been,” seeping discharge with “a strong putrid odor.” The USDA has repeatedly cited Moulton Chinchilla ranch (MCR) for open sores and abscesses that have developed under the collars. It did so again this year.
One baby chinchilla found outside his enclosure was placed with a foster mother. It was later noticed that the animal had “a deep fresh wound on [his] back left leg … [and] some toes just hanging on”
Also, multiple inspections spanning several years showed that enclosures had holes and chinchillas could escape, fall through, or become injured. Several feeders were rusted. Inspectors also observed accumulations of feces and foul odors.
And I mean… MCR, with a 9-year history of Animal Welfare Act violations, is the only chinchilla facility listed in the Buyers Guide that U.S. universities rely on to find suppliers.
Moulton markets and sells his chinchillas in various ways.
He sells them as pets and breeding stock to individuals, pet shops, and other associations. His chinchillas have also been used for hearing research in the Navy, Army, at Johns Hopkins, the National Institute of Health, University of Minnesota, Mayo Clinic, and other facilities.
He used to sell them for pelts as well but hasn’t done that for about 15 years.
The disturbing pictures included with this article of PETA, taken by a US Department of Agriculture inspector in 2017, are worth far more than a thousand words.
And Moulton Chinchilla Ranch (MCR)—a licensed dealer supplying chinchillas for experimentation —knows it.
Despite these abysmal records, MCR has supplied chinchillas to some of the most prestigious research institutions in the world.
Boston University, for one, still lists MCR (and Ryerson) as its only approved chinchilla vendors, months after the publication of Science’s devastating exposé.
The fact that such criminals still exist and work undisturbed despite clear and officially documented violations of the law, is thanks to the likewise criminal politicians
And these chinchillas and all other breed animals continue to suffer so terribly because the laboratory mafia and the USDA make this wanton animal cruelty possible.
Posted on December 19, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
In addition to world-famous fur giants such as Denmark and Poland, Greece also operates around 90 active mink farms.
Given the significant health risks associated with COVID-19 outbreaks on mink farms, fur farming is receiving a lot of attention right now.
On November 16, 2020, the Greek Ministry for Rural Development and Food announced that minks had tested positive for the coronavirus on a fur farm in the Kozani area- in the north of the country.
As in November 2020 in Denmark, as a precautionary measure, all 2,500 minks were tortured and their bodies burned on the Greek farm.
The Greek fur industry has been in decline for years
The fur industry in Greece is clearly feeling the decline in global demand for fur products.
2018 data from the Greek statistical agency shows a visible decline in Greek fur exports.
Nevertheless, thousands of mink are still locked in tiny lattice cages and gassed at the young age of six months.
The fur is not a cultural heritage
To prevent the downfall of the cruel industry, the Association of the Greek Fur Industrysubmitted an application for recognition of fur production in the national inventory of intangible cultural heritage in 2016.
The aim of such an inclusion in the state inventory is the possibility of being able to describe the peeled animal skins as a kind of art form.
And I mean…” Closed due to the pandemic”. The sign on the door of the fur shops in Greece in three languages – Greek, Russian and English – posted a few weeks ago, for the second time this year, is probably unnecessary, as there are no potential buyers due to lockdown.
Why should it be any different in Greek fur farms than in Denmark or the Netherlands?
Corona has also attacked 2,500 animals there and, as in other countries, genocide will be the “solution”, and the Greek fur farm owners have already wiped out 2,500 creatures!
Another 5,000 animals in one of the four farms are likely to be killed, as several of the mink have already died there,
More than 1 million fur animals live and suffer on Greek farms.
The annual turnover was 250 million euros until 2019, this year it has dropped to 5 million. Many companies in northern Greece that used to benefit from fur animals are now closed.
But not only due to Corona.
The fur industry is taking its last breath, internationally.
Fur has no future, nor does fur production in Greece
More than 90% of fur-exports from Greece go to Russia.
But since 2014 -15 this is no longer the case.
Because on the one hand, Russia is strengthening the internal production of fur, which however is not enough.
On the other hand, China is now Russia`s main supplier of fur.
But the Greek government does not want to see the truth. While the collapse of the fur-sector, a sector that is coming to an end at a very fast pace, is a global reality including Greece, the Minister of Agriculture Development announces support of 3 million for the fur breeders sector.
Those who are involved in the fur-breeding industry often cite a number of “arguments” to justify the abuse of live and sentient animals.
“breeding furs is exactly the same as raising chickens, sheep, or cows.”
Correct!
But that’s the same absurd logic if we were to acquit a murderer because so many other people commit crimes too.
Posted on December 19, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Well as it is fast approaching Christmas; it was decided to search around a bit and try to present you with a few choices for your animal friendly, no kill Christmas. Here below you will find a selection of links for both Vegetarian and Vegan meals and recipes for your Christmas nosh.
Being based in both England and Germany, we see some great news reaching us – for example; ‘Waitrose’ is a top UK supermarket, selling top range food. They are probably the No1 supermarket in the UK when it comes to their attention to animal welfare and cruelty free food. They pride themselves on their high welfare standards, and quite rightly so; having won countless awards for their approach. https://www.waitrose.com/home/inspiration/about_waitrose/the_waitrose_way/waitrose_animal_welfarecommitments.html
Waitrose says: Waitrose & Partners wins best retailer for animal welfare standards
Our animal welfare standards are some of the most stringent in the world. We know this because Waitrose & Partners has retained the award for best retailer in Europe for our farm animal welfare standards. We rear all of our livestock to certified higher welfare standards.
Animal welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming (CiWF) judged our standards better than those of 27 other retailers in Europe, including 10 in the United Kingdom.
CiWF uses its Supermarket Survey to judge the winner based on a company’s animal welfare standards for laying hens, broiler chickens, dairy cows and calves, sows and meat pigs and farmed fish.
We at WAV hope we have played a very small part in this. Through the site we have bombarded you with news and videos featuring countless exposes of facilities causing untold animal suffering around the world. The figures above undoubtedly tell us that today, 2020, the world is changing and people are not going to continue to accept cruel animal practices that have gone on behind closed doors in the past. We have an old saying here in the UK and that is: “If slaughterhouse walls were made of glass, then everyone would be a vegetarian / vegan”.
People are now voting with their mouths and with their wallets; and the message they are clearly sending is more than clear that they do not wish to be associated with animal cruelty and suffering. Plant based is the way forward now; and food retailers and food services the world over are now waking up to this – if you want business, then go for plant based food; and cut out the animal cruelty and suffering.
Wishing you a cruelty free Christmas; but please spare a though also for all those who are still suffering within the cages, bars and confines of the factory farm systems. The fight to free them all goes on and gets stronger every single day.
The photo shows a shot quail-Malta
a linnet as a decoy-Malta
The large, open wound on this chinchilla’s head went untreated.
Minks in Kastoria-Greece
Mink-Kastoria
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