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The Spanish Ministry of Culture enables the bullfighting sector to benefit from the CREA Fund for “Fine Arts Professionals” (!!!)

Once again, the government, administrations, and political parties have sided with those who enjoy torturing and killing animals.

PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) and Podemos (Left Party Spain`s) have given in to the pressure from the bullfighting sector and are offering financial support (especially with public funds) to save bullfighting, which the vast majority of society rejects.

With the crisis caused by COVID-19, there is a risk that bullfighting will be condemned to inevitable disappearance.

However, the PSOE and Podemos have decided to save this sector and prolong the agony of thousands of bulls, oxen, heifers, and other animals tortured and killed in bull rings and streets.

The Minister for Culture and Sport, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, published and announced financial support for the cultural sector last Friday.

For example, the bullfighting sector can make use of the CREA fund, for which a credit line of EUR 40 million is planned for the ‘professionals of the fine arts’ (!!!)

PACMA has given a voice to the society in Spain, which is calling for a ban on bullfighting, and encouraged the Minister of Culture to immediately listen to the outcry from the citizens.

However, the government has decided to betray the absolute majority of society and to continue torturing the animals.

… and we help and support PACMA … sign and share our petition.

https://www.change.org/p/die-grausame-tradition-der-stierk%C3%A4mpfe-in-spanien-und-mallorca-m%C3%BCssen-beendet-werden-es-gibt-keine-rechtfertigungen-f%C3%BCr-die-grausamen-schauspiele/u/26845161?cs_tk=Anotbf774kpEIVpY3l4AAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvL-wBviTZn3gZeEwMfcOr5E%3D&utm_campaign=bf74a1de86eb44aa8fb641b1ac71e311&utm_content=initial_v0_4_0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_update&utm_term=cs

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/10/spain-the-betrayal-of-the-podemos-to-the-animals/

And I mean...It is a corrupt political decision, a betrayal of the animals.
It only shows the decay of the left.

The Podemos’ promise for the abolition of bullfighting proves to be a propaganda staging before the November 2019 elections in order to capture new voices.

“We don’t have to worry about the anti-capitalist alternatives because capitalism has no alternatives, no enemies other than itself,” the left said in the 1980s.

In the case of Spain, we are actually not worried about capitalism, but about the Podemos.
They are our enemies now.
Traitor and loyal to the powerful! those were formerly our enemies and now these are the Podemos.!

And not only the Podemos, but that is also the left today. At least in Europe.

My best regards to all, Venus

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A 44-year-old was injured by a cow in the Innsbruck-Land district (Austria) a week ago.

The man was unloading the animal from the trailer on the way to the butcher when the cow became aggressive (!!!)

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He could no longer hold the animal and the cow ran away. The man was injured by a kick on the thigh.

The police reported that the animal was shot “because of the unpredictability of the animal and the risk that it would run onto the busy road,” because the animal ran into an open space next to a federal highway.

A hunter or, more precisely, a butcher was notified.
The federal road was completely closed during the period of use.

https://www.salzburg24.at/news/oesterreich/tirol-mann-durch-kuh-verletzt-tier-erschossen-88495723

And I mean…Every slave uprising was always severely punished.

Now he is dead, shot by the solidarity partners of the slave owners, who are always on the perpetrator side, and declare the murder in the protocol, “for road safety”.

You have to be an asshole to demonstrate all your power on the weak and defenseless.

My best regards to all, Venus

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SPANA is a wonderful animal organisation as you can see from the links below. I am pleased to be a SPANA supporter knowing that my monthly donation goes towards assisting animals in so much need around the world. Take a trip here and see how working animals are being supported without cost to the owners; all from donations and funds provided by supporters.

Regards Mark.

SPANA; or the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad; is based in London, England. It also has an office n Australia:

https://spana.org/contact-us/

https://spana.org/about-us/   – Established in 1923, SPANA’s goal is simple: to improve the welfare of working animals in the world’s poorest communities. Through three key areas – treating, training and teaching – we’re inspiring others to act in the best interests of working animals while also providing practical, professional and sustainable solutions today. We recognise that the fortunes of working animals and people go hand in hand: in the developing world, just one working animal can support an extended family of up to 30 people. SPANA’s work improves the lives of working animals while supporting the communities that depend on them. We rely entirely on our loyal supporters to help us in our huge but vital task.

Our History

In 1923, Kate Hosali and her daughter Nina set off for North Africa as tourists; it was a journey that would last a lifetime. As they travelled through the countryside, passing bustling souks, remote communities and rural farms, they were inspired by much of what they saw. But they were also struck by the awful sight of donkeys, mules and camels – malnourished, weak, buckling under the weight of huge loads; suffering with wounds inflicted by poorly fitting harnesses.

Nations in which they currently work include:

Tanzania – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/tanzania/

Somaliland – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/somaliland/

South Africa – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/south-africa/

Sierra Leone – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/sierra-leone/

Peru – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/peru/

Namibia – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/namibia/

Mongolia – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/mongolia/

Liberia – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/liberia/

Kenya – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/kenya/

India – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/india/

Ghana – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/ghana/

Cameroon – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/cameroon/

Jordan – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/jordan/

Morocco – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/morocco/

Myanmar – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/myanmar/

Botswana – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/botswana/

Zimbabwe – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/zimbabwe/

Mali – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/mali/

Tunisia – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/tunisia/

Mauritania – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/mauritania/

Etheopia – https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/ethiopia/

Click on the following link to see all the areas of the world where SPANA is helping to make the lives of working animals so much better:

https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/

Via this link you can make donations and also sign up to the SPANA Newsletter.

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Debra Ashton
Chief Executive Officer

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Agony journey of a hundred thousand lambs sent from Spain to Saudi Arabia

100,000 Spanish lambs are being shipped by boat to Saudi Arabia without guarantees of animal welfare and to be slaughtered without stunning.

The animals that are being loaded in the ports of Cartagena and Tarragona have to endure 10 days onboard until arriving in Saudi Arabia. In the Arab country they will be slaughtered following the halal rite; Beheaded and bled to death being fully conscious.

The report carried out by Animal Equality shows the entire transport process from the feedlots until they get on the ships in the port of Cartagena.

The animal-based NGO launches a campaign directed at the European Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food demanding the end of long-distance transport to countries that do not guarantee basic animal welfare standards in the EU.

And I mean…In order to understand that we are dealing here with system-inherent criminals and that the NOT documented suffering is much, much worse, one would only have to add up one and one.

Thousands of such videos can still appear, the lackeys and EU officials rationalize this further as a “blatant exception” and “individual misconduct of a transport company”.

The main thing is that the animal transports must continue to run, continue to sell meat, no matter how … slaughter … slaughter … slaughter …

Therefore, the EU Commission has no right to exist.

My best regards to all, Venus

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Spain: 5,000 cattle found in awful conditions in a vessel bound for Egypt

5 June 2020

5,000 cattle were found in appalling conditions on the F. M. Spiridon docked in Spain at the end of last month, despite its authorising country, Colombia, having signed up to the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE)’s Terrestrial Code. Given the frequency of serious welfare issues in live export by sea, Eurogroup for Animals calls on the Commission to use the opportunity of the revision of the Transport Regulation to ban this trade for good.

According to Spanish media, the F. M. Spiridon, which is blacklisted under the Paris Memorandum, was inspected by Spanish authorities because of suspected narcotic substances after arriving in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, Spain on 27th May. However, the  authorities were unable to carry out their inspection due to the deplorable conditions of the animals on board. 5,000 cattle were being transported in overcrowded conditions, standing  on a thick layer of excrement and showing clinical signs of starvation.

Evidently several cattle had died during the journey from Colombia (South America) towards Egypt, as bodies were piled in another part of the vessel. Due to the ammonia and the smell of the animals’ bodies decomposing, the Spanish authorities wore breathing equipment before entering.

The F. M. Spiridon was approved by French authorities in September 2015 and inspected by the Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) in March 2016 at the port of Rasa in Croatia. Even then the investigation revealed, among other things, a risk of injury due to the design and construction of the pens, insufficient deck height for adequate ventilation, inadequate handling of the animals and overcrowding.

Since the beginning of 2020, the F. M. Spiridon has been exporting animals from Spain and Croatia to non-EU countries. Confronted with this latest evidence, AWF immediately contacted the EU National Contact Points asking for in-depth inspections every time this vessel enters a EU port. In addition, to prevent animal suffering, it urged the French government to immediately withdraw the vessel’s certificate of approval.

Despite Colombia, the departure country, and France both being members of the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE), the conditions on the F. M. Spiridon are out of line with the requirements laid down in the OIE terrestrial code for sea transport (Chapter 7.2).

Although Eurogroup for Animals ultimately wants to put an end to this horrendous trade, in the meantime it is calling on the EU Commission to urgently develop harmonised and binding standards for the authorisation of livestock vessels, as well as to centralise the issuing of certificates of approval.

https://www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/spain-5000-cattle-found-awful-conditions-vessel-bound-egypt

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Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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