Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

After the corona outbreak at the meat company Tönnies, 1,029 employees already tested positive for corona, which means that the number of infected people almost doubled within a few days.

The district administrator has closed the company, schools, and daycare centers.

Clemens Tönnies, with a small piece of his wealth in his hand

We recently reported: https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/18/germany-alarm-mood-at-the-meat-baron-tonnies/

And so … the Tönnies meat empire in Rheda-Wiedenbrück is closed for 14 days (!!!) The district decided it, as the head of the crisis team said.

However, some employees can work in the so-called quarantine. This means that they can only switch between their place of work and where they live. This also applies to Clemens Tönnies.

The district of Gütersloh and occupational safety were given access to Tönnies personnel files on Saturday evening.

“The company was unable to provide us with all the addresses. The company has always reacted slowly,” said the head of the crisis team.

By Friday, Tönnies had delivered employee lists in which 30 percent of the addresses were missing (!!)

“The trust that we put in Tönnies is zero. I have to say it so clearly,” said the head of the crisis team.

Vigorous demonstrations are now taking place in front of the Tönnies meat factory.

https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/unternehmen/toennies-falschaussagen-zum-kantinen-video-robert-toennies-schreibt-brandbrief-an-onkel_id_12111523.html

And I mean…The German Minister of Economics tried to calm us down: “The supply of food is a valuable commodity and I want the trust in food and meat ” made in Germany ” to be maintained”!

I assume that the Tönies family has paid enough donations for the government lobbyists. This means that there will be no difficulties for the further existence of the Tönnies Empire when the first excitement is over.

Incidentally, Clemens Tönnies has used this tactic of withdrawing (home office) very often in the past, and thus saved himself from bad consequences due to other scandals.

As soon as the situation calms down, the home office is over, and everything continues as before.

Our corporations can afford anything. Here, Eastern European citizens are exploited, farm animals tortured immeasurably, other companies have long relocated their production to Eastern Europe and sell it as German brand quality. Protected by the German government.

Incidentally, the slaughter industry association has already threatened to relocate production to Eastern Europe.
Old friends will meet there again.

My best regards to all, Venus

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Yulin, live export, and bear on the menu in Europe.

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/19/china-19-6-20-yulin-2020-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question/

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/20/federal-court-in-australia-permits-live-export-of-56000-sheep-to-the-middle-east-despite-a-ban-already-in-place/

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/19/albanian-restaurant-serves-bear-meat-in-illegal-wildlife-trade-thats-out-of-control/

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A longtime animal rights activist was fatally struck by a truck on Friday while she was protesting outside a slaughterhouse west of Toronto, her friends said.

Regan Russell, a member of Toronto Pig Save, died after being hit by a transport truck full of pigs on its way to Fearman’s Pork, a processing plant in Burlington, Ont., said Anita Krajnc, the group’s co-founder.

She was in front of the truck when it ran over her,” said Krajnc, who did not witness the incident but had heard from other activists who were there at the time.

The death of the 65-year-old activist comes just two days after the province passed controversial legislation that hiked fines for trespassing on farms and food-processing facilities and made it illegal to obstruct trucks carrying farm animals.

Dozens of activists gathered at the plant Friday to mourn their friend.

“She was a sophisticated, well-educated woman who was very strong and always determined to do the right thing,” Krajnc said

“She was the most peaceful, logical, kind, compassionate person that I’ve ever met. She just stuck up for the vulnerable … we need more people like that, it’s terrible,” said Stephanie Schwartz, a fellow Toronto Pig Save activist.

right, Reagan Russel

“We have had many close calls here,” Krajnc said. “We have asked for trucks to stop for two minutes so we can bear witness, say goodbye to the pigs and give them water.”

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/20/the-longtime-activist-reagan-russel-was-killed-while-protesting/

And I mean…In other countries, this action in front of the slaughterhouse is called “ The Save Movement” and has the same goal: to accompany the animals to their last station.

I was often there at the same actions in my city (vigils), and I have often experienced how the truck drivers drive into the slaughterhouse.

Even if an activist is at the front and peacefully shows that the only thing the activists want is to be with the animals a little bit in their last hours before slaughter, they don’t stop.
Most even step on the gas, and if you don’t jump on the side, you run the risk of being run over like Reagan Russel.

The police are always present, discreet, and at a distance, but they are not there to protect the activists, but the slaughterhouse.

What can you expect from people who torture animals, beat animals, kill animals?
That they respect human life?
Those who are in constant contact with violence are dulled.
They have no inhibitions to do the same with human life as with animals..

RiP Regan Russel!

thank you so much for everything you did for the animal’s, sadly your life was tragically taken by one of those death trucks outside farms slaughterhouse.

In our eyes, you are a hero and will not be forgotten.

Venus

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This lion was badly mistreated! The poor animal was released from a circus in France! 🦁

Usually, a lion between the ages of ten and 15 weighs around 200 to 230 kilograms, but circus lion Jon weighs just 116 kilograms.

The animal was apparently mistreated for years: he has no longer claws – which is prohibited by law- his teeth are damaged and some of them no longer available, his fur has bald spots, and his body, especially the tail, is covered with scars and fresh, sometimes very deep wounds.

This is Jon, a famous lion, who arrived in St. Martin la Ebene on Friday, June 5th.

His coat is very damaged in many zones.

He is an injured lion, he wears many injuries on the body with old and newer brands, especially on his tail, which has several living wounds, some of which are very deep.

Despite a physical condition that we have never noticed in an animal, Jon has a very gentle character, shows no signs of aggressiveness, and even seeks contact. The main goal for us right now is to give him strength again.

Our goal at the moment is to offer him correct living conditions, to provide him with appropriate and adequate food, and to treat the wounds that cause him suffering.

https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/panorama/Zirkus-misshandelt-Loewen-an-Rand-des-Wahnsinns-article21842474.html (Video in French)

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/19/the-liberation-of-lion-jon/

My comment: Although the animal rights activists have long had their sights on this circus, the French authorities are not taking action! Finally, Jon and three other lions were confiscated because the license to keep the four animals was lacking.

And nevertheless! The circus was allowed to keep four more lions!!

When will we finally stop torturing animals as if they were objects?
When will we finally consider animal exploitation as a form of slavery?
One day we will look back on all the crimes we have done to the animals and we will be ashamed.

We are fighting for this day to come as soon as possible.

My best regards to all, Venus

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From RSPCA Australia  19/6/20:

Dear Mark,

For those of us who care about the welfare of Australian farm animals, it has been a tough couple of weeks

The live animal export issue has reared its ugly head once again. Is there any industry that’s as disaster-plagued as this one?

Once again, the Government has decided in favour of supporting this volatile industry, over our own laws and against the will of the majority of Australians.

Once again, animals will suffer in the hands of this industry, and pay the price for their reckless approach to animal welfare.

Time and again, we are disappointed, and frustrated, and gobsmacked by what this industry is allowed to get away with. Unfortunately, the Government (and the very elected politicians who fought for those basic safeguards) backflip whenever the carrot of live exporter profits follows the stick of animal cruelty.

But there are some silver linings to this dark cloud.

Every incident that happens, and every action you take, is another chip away at this industry, adding to its horror public track record, of decades of repeated evidence of suffering and cruelty.

We had a measure of success in the northern summer ban, a measure we could not possibly have foreseen before the notorious Awassi Express journeys of 2017 blasted a long-overdue spotlight on the routine heat stress, suffering and death this industry was willing to inflict upon Australian sheep.

There were no plans or intentions to include an independent observer on this ship, but thanks to your efforts, there is one on board now. With your support, we wrote to politicians to urge attention to this issue, we kept phoning and emailing the department, and we saw multiple people speaking out in favour of our call (including the WA Premier himself).

While we sadly weren’t able to stop the ship from leaving, at least there’s someone on board now who can record the consequences of this absurd decision. We’ll be keenly awaiting their reports, images and video evidence.

And now we can also let you know that we’ve submitted a formal animal welfare complaint to the West Australian Government. The evidence of the suffering these sheep are likely to endure is overwhelming, and we believe it may be in breach of WA’s animal protection legislation.

This ship should never have been allowed to leave.

This has been an extraordinary chain of actions and decisions by the regulator, and we will continue to work over the coming weeks and months to find out how it has unfolded and to ensure it can never happen again.

Finally, regardless of the outcome for this shipment, we believe that – much like those five disastrous journeys of the Awassi Express in 2017 – this latest debacle may be a turning point for this disaster-plagued industry.

The failure of the federal government to uphold even its own regulations, despite its knowledge of the dangers;

The failure of live exporters to adhere to their own promised moratorium, introduced as a last-ditch measure to avoid a total ban;

And the strange chain of events that led to this surprise exemption decision, may prove to be the final blow to any remaining public trust or confidence in the industry or the regulators.

Industries cannot survive without community support, and the RSPCA believes this latest live export fiasco is likely to have significant long-term consequences for the industry, and may in fact expedite the inevitable end to live sheep exports.

As always, thank you for your efforts.

The RSPCA Australia team.

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In 2014, 346 million kilograms of meat ended up in the trash.

13 million pigs don’t even reach the slaughterhouse

Up to 80% of the workforce are contract workers who live in collective accommodation and often earn less than the minimum wage.

The meat industry has no Corona – Problem.

The meat industry is THE problem.

My best regards to all, Venus

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The number of employees at the Tönnies slaughterhouse who were infected with the coronavirus has continued to increase.
Now that 983 tests have been evaluated, 657 were positive and 326 were negative, according to a spokesman for the Gütersloh district.

In the district of Gütersloh, the situation at the slaughterhouse Tönnies in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, where the company’s headquarters are located, is dramatically deteriorating: Various media report 400 new infections with the coronavirus.

To this end, the operation of the Tönnies slaughterhouse should be shut down as far as possible.

In the meantime, everyone who worked on the factory premises would be in quarantine.

7,000 people are affected.
The district administrator also announced that all schools and daycare centers in the district will be closed.

There are no official reports as to whether the slaughterhouse has to close completely.  Tagesschau.de says that the district administration has threatened the company with closure if Tönnies does not get the corona infections under control.

“We have to assume that the working conditions and the accommodation of the people have contributed to the fact that the coronavirus was able to spread among the employees of the slaughterhouse in Tönnies,” said the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/18/germany-alarm-mood-at-the-meat-baron-tonnies/

And I mean.. Tönnies is the largest meat producer in Germany, and the tenth worldwide.

30,000 pigs are slaughtered on his farm every day.
He has earned very well with his business model for decades. And the exploitation of agency workers is part of it.

Therefore, it is unlikely that he will change the model “work contracts with workers from the Eastern Bloc”.
If Clemens Tönnies had a problem with that, he would have changed these conditions a long time ago.

There is actually no scandal in which Clemens Tönnies is not involved. But he has good friends in the federal government so that he can continue to exploit people and animals and collect fat millions!

Therefore it is for the meat baron probably unimaginable that his meat empire has to remain empty for a while.

You can call it what you want, but that’s how Germany works, that’s how the EU works – a pure business club to which only selected business oligarchs to have access …..

Up to 500 demonstrators demonstrated in Rheda-Wiedenbrück last Friday. They all protested loudly against the Tönnies company.

The activists accuse the group, which is one of the ten largest slaughterhouses in the world, of exploiting people and animals.

My proposition: Instead of closing daycare centers and schools, we have to close all slaughterhouses in Germany immediately as they are the real corona hotspots.

Citizens can safely survive a few months without meat and maybe they will get used to a new eating model without animal suffering.

My best regards to all, Venus

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