Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Regards and a good night from Venus

Filed under: GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional | 1 Comment »

Filed under: GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional | Leave a comment »

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/03/16/the-karmic-interconnections-of-humans-and-animals-by-gene-baur/

WAV Comment – with thanks to Stacy at ‘Our Compass’ for sending over.

We fully support what Gene says in the article; for far too long the animals have suffered in silence. Now humankind is affected in its financial pocket; the stock exchanges of the world, its travel restrictions; let alone the massive costs by governments to attempt to enforce, maybe just for once, governments will listen and more importantly; realise where they are going wrong, and if they continue with current practices; will continue to go wrong for the future.

Governments and their advisors think they know best; but usually it is the folk in ‘the trench’ who know reality. Seems like Gene has been in the trench for a while. Well done Gene.

https://our-compass.org/2020/03/16/coronavirus-and-the-karmic-interconnectedness-of-humans-animals/

Source The Hill
By Gene Baur

The COVID-19 coronavirus has killed thousands of people around the world, including 14 in the U.S., and its origin in animals and global spread should remind us how inextricably linked we are with other life on Earth. We share the same planet and breathe the same air, and we also exchange microbes including germs. Now, with our burgeoning human population and global economy, we face new threats from a wider distribution of diseases like this new strain of coronavirus.

For some background, the World Health Organization (WHO) explains: “Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV)… Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.” COVID-19 was thought to have come from a live animal market where animals are often sold as food in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and so far it has been confirmed in nearly 80 countries and declared a “public health emergency of international concern” by the World Health Organization.

No one yet knows how many people will be infected or die from COVID-19, but it has characteristics similar to the bird flu, known as the “Spanish Flu,” which killed millions during World War One.

SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 are contagious diseases that jump from animals to humans, and more needs to be done to curtail these, including banning live animal markets. But, other potentially fatal zoonoses also warrant attention.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns: “…3 out of every 4 new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals.” These include viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, and they infect millions of U.S. citizens every year.

In the U.S., almost ten billion animals are exploited and slaughtered every year. Most live short miserable lives in overcrowded factory farms, which are a breeding ground for disease, including emerging pathogens and virulent strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

In addition to foodborne illness and environmental pollution, animal agriculture can also incite global pandemics like H1N1, which was initially called “swine flu” because it was linked to a similar disease in pigs, but its connection to animal agriculture has since been largely obscured.

The H1N1 pandemic killed hundreds of thousands of people around the globe, including over ten thousand in the U.S., according to CDC: “From April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus… Additionally, CDC estimated that 151,700-575,400 people worldwide died from (H1N1)pdm09 virus infection during the first year the virus circulated.”

While animal-borne illnesses continue to threaten human health, agribusiness has a vested interest in preventing consumers from thinking about it — under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Since the 1980s, Farm Sanctuary has investigated farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses and worked to prevent irresponsible agricultural practices, such as the transport and slaughter of downed animals, animals too sick even to stand. T

he USDA defended the practice for decades, dismissing our concerns about diseased animals entering the food supply. Finally, after confirming mad cow disease in the U.S., the agency agreed that downed cows should not be slaughtered for human consumption. Unfortunately, however, other diseased and debilitated animals are still entering the U.S. food supply, including half a million downed pigs every year.

We continue challenging this inhumane and risky practice, and we are also challenging a new USDA policy to remove limits on slaughterhouse line speeds, and give the industry more authority to police itself. The USDA and other government officials need to protect the public, instead of serving the short-sighted financial interests of agribusiness.

Government programs should encourage diverse organic farms that build soil and create ecological sustainability and resilience, instead of chemically dependent mono-crops and factory farm confinement, which denude and despoil the earth.

We should invest in plant-based agriculture and grow crops to feed people instead of farm animals, which would feed more people with less land and fewer resources, allowing rainforests and other vital ecosystems to be preserved, along with biodiversity and the earth’s natural capacity for regulating greenhouse gasses and other environmental threats. We all benefit when our common home, the earth, is healthier.

Transitioning agriculture and government policies will take time, but each of us can make daily choices to help the planet and ourselves. Eating nutritious, plant-based foods can help fortify our immune systems, thereby enhancing our ability to withstand various threats, including from contagious viruses like COVID-19.

Our disrespectful treatment of other animals and the earth has consequences, and when they are harmed, ultimately, so are we. All life on Earth is connected, and it’s in our interest to act accordingly.

Gene Baur is the president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal rescue and advocacy organization.

———————————————–

Click HERE to go Dairy-Free

Order a FREE vegan kit: http://www.peta.org/living/food/free-vegan-starter-kit/

Take PETA’s Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide along with you next time you head to the store! The handy guide will help you find humane products at a glance. Order a FREE copy HERE

Searching for Cruelty-Free Cosmetics, Personal-Care Products, Vegan Products, or more?
Click HERE to search.

Click HERE to find out How to Wear Vegan!

Want to do more than go vegan? Help others to do so! Click below for nominal, or no, fees to vegan literature that you can use to convince others that veganism is the only compassionate route to being an animal friend:

PETA: https://www.petaliterature.com/

Vegan Outreach: https://veganoutreach.org/order-form/

Get your FREE Activist Kit from PETA, including stickers, leaflets, and guide HERE

Have questions? Click HERE

Filed under: GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional | 1 Comment »

Read full articles and comments here:

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/03/16/china-what-with-yulin-enforcement-of-legislation-or-ignorance-as-hey-usually-do/

You only have to look at the chap on the right to see how virus is spread.

Don’t recall witnessing anything like this in London restaurants !

Coronavirus – Karma from the dogs, with no love, for the abuse they have suffered.

Filed under: GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional | Leave a comment »

and the lovers become an inseparable couple…

Regards and a good night from Venus

Filed under: GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional | Leave a comment »

When we talk about global warming, we are in the habit of only considering the damage that could affect the most developed countries, without considering that there are regions on the planet that are even more concerned with these issues:

In recent years, African countries have been suffering from increasing desertification, which is destroying their environmental resources.

Fortunately, a new project is trying to save these countries: they call it “the great green wall“.

The Great Green Wall is over 8000 km long

The Great Green Wall is an African-led movement with the humble goal of building an 8,000 km long natural wonder across the entire width of Africa.

Already a decade later and around 15% in progress, the initiative is bringing unprecedented life back to the degraded landscapes of Africa, offering food security, jobs and a reason to stay for the millions of people who live on their way.

The wall promises a convincing solution to the many urgent threats to which not only the African continent but the entire world community are exposed – in particular climate change, drought, hunger, conflicts and migration.

Millions of people are working to create the green wonder of the world.

When completed, the Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure in the world, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.

The Great Green Wall takes root in the African Sahel region on the southern edge of the Sahara – one of the poorest places on earth.

The Sahel is at the forefront of climate change more than anywhere else on earth, and millions of locals are already facing the devastating effects.

Persistent droughts, food shortages, conflicts over dwindling natural resources and mass migration to Europe are just a few of the many consequences.

Communities from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east are resisting.
Since the initiative was founded in 2007, life has returned to the country and improved food security, jobs and the stability of people’s lives.

The project was an idea as early as 1952 when Richard St. Barbe Baker, an English environmental activist, suggested planting a significant number of trees in Sub-Saharan Africa to curb desertification in Africa.

The idea was reconsidered at the N’Djamena Summit in Chad in 2002 on the occasion of World Day Against Desertification and Drought and was presented and adopted in 2005 by the Saharawi and Sahara Heads of State and Government in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

The program involves the development of an extensive green space (approximately 15 km wide and 8,000 km long) by planting millions of acacias, trees that are drought-resistant because their roots attract water.

The Green Wall has been approved, supported and co-financed by the African, Caribbean and Pacific Republic (ACP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Union.

This is a project of enormous importance, not only because it is a concrete fight against climate change, but also because it shows that humanity can still be united and fight for a common cause.

By 2030, the wall wants to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded soil, bind 250 million tons of carbon and create 10 million jobs in rural areas.

Since its launch in 2007, major progress has been made in restoring the fertility of Sahelian lands. Key examples include:

• Ethiopia: 15 million hectares of degraded land restored, land tenure security improved

• Senegal: 11.4 million trees planted, 25 000 hectares of degraded land restored

• Nigeria: 5 million hectares of degraded land restored and 20 000 jobs created

• Sudan: 2,000 hectares of land restored

• Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger: about 120 communities involved, a green belt created over more than 2,500 hectares of degraded and drylands, more than two million seeds and seedlings planted from fifty native species of trees.

https://www.unccd.int/actions/great-green-wall-initiative

https://unserplanet.net/in-afrika-entsteht-ein-gigantisches-grunes-weltwunder

My comment: I see the GREAT GREEN WALL project as an initiative of optimism, solidarity and determination that captures the zeitgeist of a unique moment and reveals the soul of a new African generation trying to take control of its own destiny.

Future music is not a utopia here, but rather the engine of hopeful people who mercilessly declare war on the destruction of climate change with a green thumb.

My best regards to all, Venus

Filed under: GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional | Leave a comment »

…and a good night from Venus

Filed under: GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional | Leave a comment »