Posted on September 7, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Meatpacking companies dismissed years of warnings but now say nobody could have prepared for Covid-19
In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true.
At the end of June, with hundreds of his workers already infected with COVID-19 and several dead, Kenneth Sullivan, the CEO of Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, sent a pointed letter to two U.S. senators who had launched an investigation into outbreaks in meatpacking plants and industry warnings of an impending food shortage.
In blunt, unapologetic terms, Sullivan chastised critics for suggesting Smithfield had acted too slowly to prevent the disease from spreading among its workers and surrounding communities. These “revisionist historians,” he wrote, refused to be “bound to reality” by saying meatpackers could have spaced workers out, slowed processing lines or stockpiled face masks.
Posted on September 7, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
COLOMBIA WILL BAN ALL COSMETIC ANIMAL TESTING BY 2024
Colombia just banedn the use of animal testing for cosmetics. The new law takes effect in 2024.
Colombia has banned the use of animal testing for cosmetics. The new law takes effect in 2024.
The ban prohibits the use of animals for testing cosmetics products and ingredients. It applies to imported or manufactured products.
The bill was introduced to the nation’s Congress in 2018 by House Representative Juan Carlos Losada. Colombia is the first nation in South America to enact such a ban.
“This humane and historic new law will spare the suffering of countless animals in needless cosmetics tests,” Jan Creamer said in a statement. Creamer is the president of the nonprofit animal welfare organization, Animal Defenders International (ADI).
Creamer continued: “Thank you, Colombia, for leading the way in Latin America. We hope to see other nations take similar action.”
Losada believes that Colombia’s move away from animal testing could also improve its business standing in the international market. “The main purpose of the bill is to stop animal suffering in the cosmetics industry. [But it can also] enable Colombian companies to enter the European market, a region that has for years rejected such tests,” he said.
Is Animal Testing Necessary?
Across the globe, the public perception of cosmetic animal testing is changing.
In September 2018, the California Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act (SB1249) passed in California. This made California the first state to ban the sale of most animal-tested cosmetics. The law took effect in January 2020. Similar laws took effect this year in Nevada and Illinois, too.
Conscious consumers are largely driving the wave of change. Shoppers are increasingly opting for cruelty-free products. One survey found that almost half of women support a cosmetics animal testing ban. Additionally, UK-based beauty and cosmetics company The Body Shop gathered eight million signatures for their campaign to “end animal testing in cosmetics forever.” The campaign is said to be the largest in history for the cause.
Besides concerns surrounding animal health, evidence suggests that testing products on animals is not an effective method of risk assessment. An article by Forbes pointed out that animal testing—which is also notoriously expensive—accurately predicts human reactions to cosmetics only 40 to 60 percent of the time.
Outside of the beauty industry, animal testing for disease research can also be inaccurate. The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals noted that 90 percent of National Institutes of Health animal experiments fail. Ninety-five percent of pharmaceutical drugs test safely on animals, but then show different results in human trials.
We received these pics showing the newly decorated Syntech office in Guildfordand the owner of the companies house.
Simon Orbellis the man who has a million-pound contract for the tracking devices used by badger killers in the senseless Badger cull which is being paid from taxpayers’ money.
Apparently, neighbors and surrounding businesses were educated into what this guy is involved in and people are not happy.
Simon and Lucy– We sticker bombed your neighborhood. Every Lampost, for sale sign, and the road sign has stickers of badgers on.
Your neighbors will be reminded that they have killers in their community every road they turn down. Unless you take them down promptly as we noticed you did the paint job on your driveway.
Ashamed of the truth?
Not content with a simple stickering we hopped into your garden and gave a nice wake-up blast at 2 am for you. We’ve been having a nice snoop around your home and getting to know you both very well.
See you tomorrow!
whether your neighbor is a good father, goes to church, donates to your city’s football club, but still does dirty business with the suffering and death of defenseless animals.
Today reliable information is more expensive than money, therefore we will continue to inform
Posted on September 6, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
An action by the radical environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) causes trouble in Great Britain. Now the government wants to take action against the group.
Activists ( more than 100 XR demonstrators) blocked two printing plants belonging to the Rupert Murdoch group (“The Sun”, “The Times”) on Saturday, which is why many British people did not get a daily newspaper.
“It is totally unacceptable to restrict public access to news in this way,”Johnson tweeted on Saturday.
The newspaper “The Telegraph”, which was itself affected by the blockade, now reports, citing government circles, that one of the considerations is to classify Extinction Rebellion as a criminal organization(!!)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel have asked their officials to take a “fresh look” at how this group should be classified by law.
Responding to criticism from Ms. Patel that their actions were an “attack on our free press” (!!!), XR said: “Our free press, society, and democracy is under attack – from a failing government that lies to us consistently, is becoming increasingly authoritarian, and is leading us towards four degrees of warming.”
Extinction Rebellion activist Gully Bujak, 27, said: “You cannot have a functioning democracy with a mainstream media that is ruled by a small, unrepresentative sect of society, who are in bed with politicians and the fossil fuel industry.
“The climate emergency is an existential threat to humanity. Instead of publishing this on the front page every day as it deserves, much of our media ignores the issue and some actively sow seeds of climate denial.
“They thrive off of polarization and division. They sow hatred in order to distract us, actively profiting from this division.
“To these papers, we say this: you will not come between us anymore. For a night we’re going to filter out the lies and take the power back. For a night we’re going to show the world that you are vulnerable, just like us.”
The demonstrations prevented the distribution of millions of papers. Pic: XR
Statement from the organization XR UK about its action
5 Billionaires control over 70% of the British Media. Last night Extinction Rebellion groups blockaded the printing presses of The Sun, The Times, The Sun on Sunday, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, as well as The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and The London Evening Standard.
These people and their corporations have purposefully failed to accurately report on the climate & ecological emergency. Their consistent manipulatIon of the truth to suit their own personal and political agendas must be stopped.
We’re not moving forward at the speed we need to turn the climate and ecological emergency around. We’re trapped somewhere between acceptance and the reality of just how bad the situation is.
The right-wing media is a barrier to the truth, failing to reflect the scale and urgency of the crisis and hold governments to account. Coverage in many of the newspapers printed here is polluting national debate on climate change, immigration policy, the rights and treatment of minority groups, and on dozens of other issues.
They distract us with hate to maintain their own power and wealth, profiting from our division. We can’t move forward until this barrier falls.
The truth is being held hostage and so are we. We need to Free the Truth.
On my part … bravo #Extinction Rebellion! excellent work!
And Prime Minister Boris Johnson, actually a faithful copy of Trump, must release Julian Assange if he wants to prove to us that he is a supporter of the free press.
Because Assange, as a fair journalist, did nothing else than bring the truth to light.
Posted on September 6, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Despite the global plunge in oil prices, a major pipeline that would carry oil 900 miles across East Africa is moving ahead. International experts warn that the $20 billion projects will displace thousands of small farmers and put key wildlife habitat and coastal waters at risk.
Imagine a tropical version of the Alaskan oil pipeline. Only longer.
And passing through critical elephant, lion, and chimpanzee habitats and 12 forest reserves, skirting Africa’s largest lake, and crossing more than 200 rivers and thousands of farms before reaching the Indian Ocean — where its version of the Exxon Valdez disaster would pour crude oil into some of Africa’s most biodiverse mangroves and coral reefs.
Such a project is ready for construction, to bring to the world oil from new oil fields in the heart of Africa.
It is the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
The middle of a global pandemic, during which oil demand is in freefall and prices at rock bottom, might seem an odd moment to boost the world’s oil production.
But the petrochemicals industry is always looking for new reserves to replace those being exhausted.
And two oil fields discovered on the shores of Lake Albert, which straddles the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are currently among the biggest and cheapest new reserves available.
They contain an estimated 6 billion barrels, roughly half the size of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay field.
Construction work has begun at the Kingfisher and Tilenga oil fields, where the China National Offshore Oil Corporation and French giant Total intend to sink 500 wells.
They have already spent an estimated $4 billion on infrastructure and made enemies among local communities by grabbing land and providing paltry compensation.
WWF Uganda, in a 2017 report, warned that the pipeline “is likely to lead to significant disturbance, fragmentation and increased poaching within important biodiversity and natural habitats” populated by elephants, lions, and chimpanzees that are on the international Red List of threatened species.
It “has a greater environmental and social risk” than other pipelines planned in the region, said Paolo Tibaldeschi of WWF Norway, and author of the 2017 report.
It is “longer, and crosses a hilly and seismic region near Lake Victoria, and several biodiversity habitats down to the coast,” he noted.
Friends of the Earth France,along with Survie and four Ugandan partners,have spent months investigating the situation on the ground, seeking to shed light on the violations committed by this criminal, multinational corporation. The evidence is piling up against Total. Under the new French law on the corporate duty of vigilance, Friends of the Earth France and Survie are taking Total to court, and they need our support.
And I mean…An environmental crime!!
France has a shameful colonial past when it comes to Africa, one that President Emmanuel Macron described as a ‘crime against humanity’.
And yet here we are in 2020 with a French oil firm desperately pushing through a major fossil fuel project so it can profit even more from the climate suffering of Africans.
Ultimately if the world breaches the 1.5°C goal, it will not be Africa’s fault.
Africa makes up 17% of the world’s population and has generated only 4% of global emissions.
The fault will lie with the criminal politicians and companies of the global North.
Instead of helping Africa develop along clean energy pathways, they are greedily shackling the continent to a dirty fossil fuel future with dire climate consequences for us all.
Posted on September 5, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
…then people will end up believing them
Propaganda for meat consumption must be made popular
It is successful when it has reached the lowest level of intelligence for which is actually planned for
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