Posted on March 29, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dana Ellyn
“Man is evil and irrational
The malignancy is – besides the stupidity – the more fundamental property: the irrationality often serves to cover up the malevolence”
(Helmut F. Kaplan, animal ethicist)
good night, Venus
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Posted on March 29, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Investigation – Live Horse Exports from Canada and France to Japan for Human Consumption.
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EU: You Have Sidelined Live Export for Decades – Ignore It Now At Your Peril
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UK: The Foie Gras Ban Should Now Be a Few Months Away
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Posted on March 29, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Mexico proceeds with plan to replace 16mn tonnes of GM corn with homegrown variety
Deputy minister describes GM corn and glyphosate, which is also being banned, as ‘undesirable and unnecessary’
The federal government will go ahead with its plan to stop importing genetically modified (GM) corn and replace it with homegrown maize, according to Deputy Agriculture Minister Víctor Suárez.
Suárez: Sustainable “agro-ecological” practices must take priority.
The official also told the news agency Reuters that the government is sticking to its plan to ban glyphosate, a controversial herbicide.
The government announced by executive order on the final day of 2020 that it aims to replace approximately 16 million tonnes of yellow corn imports – most of which comes from the United States and almost all of which is GM corn – with new, local production by 2024, the final year of the current administration’s six-year term.
The imports account for more than a third of Mexican demand for corn and are mostly used as livestock fodder.
Replacing the imports by 2024 with homegrown corn would require an almost 60% increase over current domestic production levels.
ARCHIV – Protesters from 14.09.2016) +++(c) dpa – Bildfunk+++
Suárez, an agronomist, a long-term ally of President López Obrador, and a key architect of the executive order, told Reuters that GM corn and glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto herbicide Roundup, are too dangerous to be permitted long term in Mexico.
He said that Mexican agricultural production and sustainable “agro-ecological” practices must take priority.
“We are moving in this direction, and this must be clear: no one should think that they can bet that this decree will not be implemented,” Suárez said.
The deputy minister cited studies that have linked glyphosate to cancer and found that it is harmful to bees and other pollinators.
He also claimed that GM corn contaminates native strains of the grain that have long been cultivated in Mexico.
But Suárez described GM corn, and glyphosate, as “undesirable and unnecessary,” saying that they are not needed to attain the government’s goal of self-sufficiency in food production.
“We have to put the right to life, the right to health, the right to a healthy environment ahead of economic and business interests,” he said.
An I mean…The reality in North America and Asia shows that Monsanto’s promises are nothing but promises:
– Increase in yields: No result!
– Reduced use of pesticides: no result!
– Successful fight against poverty: No result!
– Successful fight against hunger: No result!
In many cases the opposite was even the case: the yields were devastatingly low (sometimes half of the normal yield and, of course, hunger and poverty as a result.
The poverty of farmers in the third or emerging countries was even increased as a result of the expensive seeds (yes must be bought expensive new every year with all the specialty products from Monsanto).
In many cases even more pesticides (of course, Monsanto’s own expensive special products) were necessary, which further increases the costs, and increases poverty and hunger …
In fact, en masse people in South America who live in the vicinity of fields that are sprayed with insecticides or herbicides (often from airplanes) become sick.
The main culprit here is solely the industry that releases these toxins, including unscrupulous politicians who do not want to go out of business because of trivialities like human suffering
Thank you señor Sánchez for your courageous and right decision.
If we allow the world market leaders in pesticide production, namely Monsanto, Dow, and DuPont from the USA, Syngenta from Switzerland or Bayer and BASF from Germany, to spray their poisonous liquor on the fields as before, then it is “murder on installments”.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on March 28, 2021 by venus2407
even if I see them every day, every day I find them beautiful
and their singing too
regards and good night, Venus
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Posted on March 28, 2021 by venus2407
Hunting dogs are trained and tested on live foxes for construction hunts in training facilities.
For the foxes who are abused for this, this means a sad life in the oppressive confines of a barren enclosure on the edge of the minimum legal requirements.
And it means a life in constant fear of the next use as an exercise object.
Because the fox cannot know that physical contact between him and the aggressive hunting dog is forbidden in training facilities and should be prevented by sliders in the artificial tunnel system. He suffers from stress and fear of death again and again.
The dogs should learn to be able to chase after the foxes through the corridors of the fox den.
For this purpose, an artificial structure with several corridors made of concrete tubes or slabs is built, which meet and converge again and again in different places.
The hunter decides how far the fox can flee and whether the dog should reach him or not using the slider, lid, and grille.
A fox is driven into the tube.
Follow the dog.
In contrast to the real own foxhole, the fox does not know its way around these corridors.
If the dog has caught the fox safely, the hunter watches with amusement as the dog tears the fox to pieces.
If the fox succeeds in repelling the dog or if there is even a risk of injury to the dog, the hunter will of course help his dog to kill the fox.
This is the training facility with living objects, with foxes
This cruel type of exploitation is being practiced particularly frequently again these days.
According to our information, there are currently over 100 such pieces of training systems in Germany.
And I mean…Training facilities with foxes can also be called torture chambers for foxes.
The conditions for keeping foxes are terrible.
As usual, it is denied, but the foxes – like the hunting dogs in Spain – vegetate under poor conditions. It’s just about them living long enough to be hunted down in training and ultimately killed.
The German animal protection law states:
§3. Section 7: It is forbidden to train or test an animal for sharpness on another living animal.
Paragraph 8: It is forbidden to set an animal on another animal unless this is required by the principles of grazing-friendly hunting.
Yes! In Germany, murder, rape, speeding, and tax evasion are also prohibited. But that doesn’t seem to be a reason that it doesn’t happen.
The most perverse kind, and a pictorial document of how far one goes in training dogs, is shown in this photo from England.
As can be seen, wires are driven through the joints of foxes so that they cannot escape and defend themselves properly.
Then the dogs are chased on them.
So we don’t have to go to China or Spain for cruelty to animals of the most perfidious kind.
This happens right on our doorstep…
My best regards to all, Venus
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Dana Ellyn
Suárez: Sustainable “agro-ecological” practices must take priority.
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