Posted on August 14, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
It’s time for this abusive zoo to be shut down and the animals to be freed to a sanctuary!
Hamerton Zoo’s animals look miserable and neglected. Numerous visitors have reported seeing animals visibly distressed, some are seen just sat staring, some are pacing back and forth – a sign of zoochosis;
-A camel with a deflated hump – a sign of malnourishment, other camels in a small barn covered in feces and no access to the paddock;
-Some animals had no food, water or enrichment; small enclosures that are rotting in some cases, made from crowd control fencing and back garden fencing;
-A donkey visibly depressed with no food, water, enrichment, or company, lying in the same position staring into the grass;
-Birds plucking all their feathers out; the middle of the park looking like a construction site; no keepers insight.
Information: The zoo is a 25-acre wildlife park that has about 500 animals including monkeys, cheetahs, raccoons, sloth, and a collection of Malaysian tigers and white tigers.
This is a very Joe Exotic- place where the owner has obviously bought exotic animals as a private collection and uses it to profit.
We need to get these animals to a safe haven where they will be looked after properly.
Text of the petition: Hamerton Zoo has no animal welfare.
Many animals were visibly distressed, had no water, food, or enrichment. Enclosures are tiny and rotting and in some cases, made using crowd control fencing and back garden fencing.
The middle of the park contains storage containers and what looks like a construction site. There were no keepers around. The only staff we saw worked in the coffee shop/gift shop.
Management is either no available or rude and condescending, calling us ignorant and telling others they are blackmailing when saying they will go to press.
We are calling for this zoo to be closed and the animals to be moved to a sanctuary.
And I mean…We used to think that such zoos only existed in third world countries.
It is the same with the “civilized” ones, and not just with the zoos.
It’s about the principle; no living being may be held captive and used, neither for eating nor for carrying, nor for entertainment! this applies to ALL human but also non-human animals.
We live in a century where we ALL, the animal rights activists, or animal owners should be morally sensitized enough to condemn and oppose any use of animals for human purposes.
Animals are not there to be of any use to humans, they have value in themselves.
And principles about animal rights should by now have reached a universal standard value in a civilized society.
Posted on August 14, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
You may think a plastic container looks pretty harmless on a supermarket shelf but if discarded into the ocean and swept-up onto a beach, it is a different story.
This container, found by Sea Shepherd crew as they worked alongside the Dhimurru Rangerscleaning the 14km beach, had trapped and killed a turtle hatchling and crab.
As the plastic crisis sweeps across Australia’s top-end beaches, we are seeing the same story in other places too.
The hermit crab study found that piles of plastic pollution on beaches create both a physical barrier and a series of potentially deadly traps for crabs and other marine creatures.
Whether on the coast, in the city or in the country, you can find garbage everywhere.
Cans, balloon cords, bottles and and and … – if it’s lying around, take it with you, you could possibly save a life with it.
And I mean…Of course, we will also clean up the garbage that threatens the lives of our flatmates, the animals.
It will be us again, who else?
We are the ones who save animals wherever they can be found.
We are the ones who are always on duty to correct fatal mistakes made by idiots, irresponsible people, or animal haters.
Like a concrete slab, this cruel reality presses us every day and forces us to work for abandoned, injured, neglected animals. And that’s a tough job!
We correct malice, injustice, violence; we cannot do otherwise, our own morals dictate that.
But if we see and feel the advancing catastrophe of our planet every day, which is taking place due to the indifference of the meat-eaters, the molesters of nature, the exploiters of natural resources and animals, then we could say that Corona lasted far too short.
Posted on August 13, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Truckers say they’re getting death threats after animal rights protester’s death (!!!)
by “Ashley” CDL Life News
After a prominent animal rights activist was fatally struck by a truck last month, the trucking company he works for says that they’ve received death threats.
The incident occurred on June 19 in Burlington, Ontario, when 65-year-old Regan Russell was fatally struck by a truck hauling pigs while protesting with the group “Toronto Pig Save” outside of a meat processing plant.
On July 20, the Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) announced that the 28-year-old truck driver had been charged with Careless Driving Causing Death. The trucking company that the unnamed truck driver worked for, Brussels Transport, now says that they have been targeted with threats from animal rights groups.
Tyler Jutzi, whose family owns Brussels Transport, told CTV News, “They threatened to blow up trucks. They threatened to sabotage trucks. They threatened to burn the slaughterhouse down.”
Jutzi also said that activist groups “put a bounty out on the driver, offering rewards for information about his name and whereabouts. This is terrifying, that someone might try to come to his home, to harm him or his family, over an accident.” (!!!)
In a GoFundMe set up to help defend the truck driver as he faces both charges and threats from the activists, Brussels Transport writes:
“The driver’s name is being kept anonymous in order to protect him and his family. He has already been the focus of threats by animal activist groups on social media should they determine his identity.
Brussels Transport is raising the money on his behalf to continue to protect that anonymity. He needs our help to cover the big costs of fighting this.
All money raised will go towards covering his legal fees in fighting this unacceptable charge, as well as tending to his mental health needs. This charge is not acceptable to the driver, other drivers in the industry, or the agricultural community as a whole.
The driver was just doing his job to help feed people around the world, delivering pigs to slaughter.
My Comment: With this article, it becomes clear by what dirty means the animal transport mafia tries to defile the negligent murder of activist Regan Russel.
Human specimens that torture and slash animals en masse every day would also show no consideration for their peers, i.e. humans.
They have lost all sensitivity and compassion if they ever had one.
What they have developed is their professionalism in lies.
Animal rights activists would never make threats.
Animal rights activists have no interest in death or harm to human animals as a matter of principle.
These claims are empty, outrageous, and will not be able to justify the negligent murder of an innocent and peaceful animal rights activist
Here is a very nice depiction of the “Regan Russell” case by Anonymous
“What we fight against goes beyond non-human animal rights; to no surprise, the oppressors of animals (humans) promote violent and bloody human rights violations too.
Truckers and those supporting them clashed with animal rights activists outside the Burlington slaughterhouse in Canada where Regan Russell was hit and unmercifully killed by a truck driver transporting animals to their murders.
Their counter-protest clearly demonstrated a callous disregard for human life also, fuelled by their ingrained speciesism.
The hatred of animals is the first form discrimination we’re all taught as children; the idea that some non-human animals matter and others are nothing more than shit we flush down a toilet.
This poisonous idea warps people’s minds to the point where they not only hate animals, their hatred gets directed towards their own species, and anyone they can think of as different to them.
In order to properly honor Regan’s life and end the injustice towards animals, we need to dismantle human supremacy”
Posted on August 12, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
New investigation revealing horrific harpoon fishing practices
6 August 2020
Every summer in the Strait of Messina, the feluccas (typical swordfish fishing boats) set sail to catch the fish whose meat is sold to fishmongers and restaurants. Although it is considered a more sustainable method than industrial fishing, as there is no unwanted bycatch of other species, harpoon fishing causes serious suffering. This year Essere Animali was on board documenting the horrific practices.
After being pierced with the harpoon, swordfish struggle in vain to free themselves. Once hoisted onto the boat, their flesh is cut in several places with a knife while they are still alive to facilitate the extraction of the spearhead. This procedure causes extreme and prolonged pain to the swordfish.
After being caught, the swordfish are frequently doused with water. The purpose of this procedure is to keep them alive as long as possible to ensure the freshness of their meat; it does not bring any relief to the animals. Death comes as a result of asphyxiation after several long minutes of agony, during which the fish remains conscious and gasps for breath, its body riddled with wounds.
The post ‘New investigation revealing horrific harpoon fishing practices’ is modified from an article published by Essere Animali in their original language.
Posted on August 12, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
‘Unprofitable’ chicks at a farm supplying Tesco, Ocado, and McDonald’s were deliberately deprived of water and left to die of dehydration, an undercover investigation has found.
Secret filming also shows how other baby birds deemed too small to be worth raising had their necks crushed or snapped by workers, causing a painful death.
Some were left to die because they were too weak to feed themselves, it was claimed.
An undercover activist for animal protection organization Animal Equality, who was employed by the company, shot footage showing that at one farmworker raised the height of the drinkers every day for about 40 days so that the smaller chicks – those considered not profitable – were unable to reach them.
One farm manager was reported to have said: “I can look at a day-old chick and say ‘that’s going to make 1.85[kg] at 32 days or it’s not’; if it isn’t, there’s no point feeding it. It’s cheaper to get rid of it and kill it.
Because at the end of the day it’s about making money.”
And I mean…Anyone who would now think that such a company is only the exception is unfortunately wrong. Nowadays these are the standard methods in meat production.
All over the world!
It is said that animal suffering is systemic.
But what kind of system is that?
The answer is: the operators of the so-called “meat industry” brutally exploit everything and everyone in a kind of “backroom” of our society.
Although our lives are made of meat, the meat mafia goes to great lengths to keep their criminals secret and invisible to society.
The situation in the German slaughterhouses is not any better. The same grievances or similar situation has existed for over 20 years and maybe it has gotten worse.
By the way, and of course, all of this applies not only to the chicken farms but also to cattle, pigs, sheep, etc. The (dismantling) personnel, called dismantling columns (!), mostly from third countries, are usually housed in a way that could well be described as ‘barracked’!
But the German government is proud to take the top places in the export world championship league with this criminal industry too.
TODAY we know more about nutrition than ever before, which is why there are no longer any arguments in developed industrial countries why animals and their hormone products MUST be part of a diet. Only the power and the law of the stronger allow us to act in this way.
Animals have a consciousness and the same feelings as we humans, such as grief, pain, fear, wanting to stay alive, wanting to live with their family.
And we can all understand that without any scientific evidence, videos and undercover investigations, right?
I cannot take seriously people who exploit others and also kill them for their own enjoyment or profit and cannot regard them as my friends.
There are many good reasons not to eat meat. But actually one is enough …!
The Hunting Act 2004 is the law which bans chasing wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales – this basically means that fox hunting, deer hunting, hare hunting, hare coursing and mink hunting are all illegal, as they all are cruel sports based on dogs chasing wild mammals.
The introduction of the Hunting Act followed an extensive and often exhausting campaign spanning 80 years, with the League Against Cruel Sports and its supporters (including us) at the forefront since 1924. In Scotland, hunting with dogs was banned earlier by a different law, the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002.
Securing the Hunting Act was a key moment in the history of animal protection legislation in the UK and public polling consistently shows it is a popular law. Yet, since its introduction, the Hunting Act has been the target of considerable attack from the pro-hunt lobby which has waged an on-going campaign to try and undermine the Act with the aim of getting it scrapped or weakened, and defied the Act by developing and promoting methods to circumvent it in the form of false alibies or illicit exploitations of its exemptions.
This sabotage of the law continues today, despite the legislation of 2004.
Prosecutions and Exemptions
Official figures demonstrate that the Hunting Act has protected animals, with people being convicted for crimes covered by the law. However, far too many allegations of illegal hunting have not been properly investigated and far too many illegal hunters have got away with it unpunished, which means that the Act has a serious enforcement problem. Because of the weak enforcement by the authorities the successful prosecution of registered hunts was spearheaded by the League when we took private prosecutions against illegal hunters.
While many people have been convicted under the Hunting Act, most of these are in fact poachers rather than hunters. Unfortunately we believe that illegal hunting with dogs by organised hunts is very common across the country, while there are very few prosecutions. The problem is that considering the defiance of the hunting fraternity and how they have created sophisticated alibies and illicitly exploited the exemptions of the Act, it is often hard to catch hunts in the act of chasing and killing a fox, and even if they are caught, it is hard to prove in court.
The Act contains ‘exemptions’ built into its Schedule, which were designed to prevent the ban affecting activities which Parliament did not intend to prohibit. Unfortunately, hunts often use these exemptions as an excuse if they are caught hunting. For example, staghunts use the ‘Research and Observation’ exemption that was designed for researchers and not hunters, and some fox hunts carry birds of prey in order to claim that they use the ‘falconry’ exemption, which was designed for falconers.
However, the most common way illegal fox hunters use to avoid prosecution is with ‘trail hunting’. Most registered fox and hare hunts now claim to be trail hunting – an activity that was not in existence or envisaged when the Hunting Act was drafted, and which should not be confused with ‘drag’ hunting.
Trail hunting is an entirely new invention which purports to mimic traditional hunting by following a scent trail (using fox urine, according to the hunters) which has been laid in areas where foxes are likely to be. Those laying the trail are not meant to tell those controlling the hounds where the scent has been laid, so if the hounds end up following a live animal scent the hunt can claim that they did not know.
Having looked over 4,000 hunt monitoring reports of over 30 hunt monitors from different organisations covering the majority of hunts in England and Wales (157), since the Hunting Act 2004 was enacted these hunt monitors have reported witnessing someone laying a possible trail only in an average of around 3% of the occasions they monitored hunts, but they believed that only an average of around 0.04% of the occasions they may have witnessed a genuine trail hunting event, rather than a fake one.
Trail hunting is not the same as drag hunting, a legitimate sport created in the 1800s which is not intended to mimic animal hunting, but instead is a sport using hounds to search for a non-animal scent without the pursuit or killing of wild animals.
In drag hunting, or in bloodhounds hunting (or hunting the ‘clean boot’ as it is also known) where the scent of a human runner is followed instead of a drag, the trail never contains animal scent, is never laid in areas likely to have foxes, and those controlling the hounds always know where the trail was laid.
This is why in drag hunting, ‘accidents’ when live animals are chased are very rare, while in trail hunting they are very common.
The League believes there is no such a thing as the ‘sport of trail hunting’ and it is simply a temporary, false alibi to cover for illegal hunting while the hunting fraternity hopes for the hunting ban to be repealed or weakened.
Hare hunting is the lesser known cousin of fox hunting and deer hunting, but in the days before hunting was banned in England and Wales, one in three hunts were actually hare hunts. Despite the ban, when hunting with dogs was made illegal, most of these hunts still exist, and are chasing and killing hares in the name of ‘sport’.
Hare coursing is a different ‘sport’, involving two fast dogs being set loose to chase a hare. Traditionally, this could take place on a small scale but also as a large-scale, organised event, such as the famous Waterloo Cup event which attracted thousands of spectators who came to watch and place bets. Hare coursing was banned, along with hare hunting, by the Hunting Act 2004, and is illegal, but coursing still takes place
According to the Hare Preservation Trust, the number of brown hares in the UK has declined by 80% since the late 1880s – that’s a devastating drop. While modern farming practices are thought to be the main cause of this decline, hare hunting and hare coursing also had an impact. A return to these cruel sports could see brown hares wiped out in many parts of Britain. The brown hare is listed as a conservation priority in the UK’s Biodiversity Action Plan, meaning we should be doing all we can to protect this vulnerable species.
There is nothing ‘natural’ about a hare being chased with a pack of dogs. Hares have evolved to sprint at high speeds for short periods to escape predators. They cannot match the stamina of hunting hounds who will continue the chase until the hare is exhausted and can run no more. When talking about hares and hunting with dogs, the Government’s Burns Report published in 2000 concluded that ‘this experience seriously compromises the welfare of the hare.’
The Prada Group – which includes Prada, Miu Miu, Church’s, and Car Shoe – has confirmed that it will no longer purchase any new kangaroo leather. The decision will spare these remarkable Australian animals immense suffering.
Prada joins the likes of Versace, Victoria Beckham, Chanel, and Paul Smith in banning leather made from kangaroos.
Some 2.3 million kangaroos are reportedly killed every year for their skin. To produce leather, the animals are first shot. Then, the injured kangaroos – as well as orphaned joeys – are decapitated or hit sharply on the head to “destroy the brain” before their skin is torn off so it can be exported and made into accessories often labelled as “k-leather”.
As you read this, state governments are approving permits to hunt kangaroos.
While wildlife carers are still working day and night rehabilitating burned, otherwise injured, and starving animals, the Victoria and New South Wales governments are allowing permits to be issued for the mass slaughter of kangaroos – often simply because they compete for food with introduced farmed animals raised for meat, leather, and wool.
It’s outrageously easy to get a permit to kill kangaroos in these states – in fact, in New South Wales, it’s called a “Licence to Harm” and applicants can even renew over the phone.
Meanwhile, Queensland’s commercial slaughter has been halted and the South Australian government has stopped plans to slaughter wallabies on Kangaroo Island after one-third of the island caught fire.
More than 1 billion animals perished in Australia’s recent fires. The death toll is high enough.
Join us in urging the New South Wales and Victoria governments to stop issuing permits to kill wildlife.
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