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…and gives it the name … “The Perfect Moment”

With this amazing photo of an ice diver, photographer Mario Cea won the “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” competition (2016)

We also think the photo is fantastic! really he deserves the award!

regards and good night, Venus

 

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The economic interests of the poultry mafia have so far been one of these “reasonable reasons” for the brutal massacre of 45 million male chicks in hatcheries in Germany every year.

Germany produced 20 billion eggs in 2020.
A horror crowd!

To do this, over 45 million hens in Germany have to live a miserable existence in cramped, dark stables.
The ban on shredding from 2022 is an overdue step and does not change anything in the basic exploitation and suffering of chickens.

In 2019, 45.3 million male chicks were massacred in Germany.
They do not lay eggs and put on little meat.
Under this logic, it is legal male chicks brutally gas or shredded a few hours after they saw the light of day.

Producing living beings in order to kill them is the worst form of fascism.

My best regards to all, Venus

 

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The Traffic Police, as part of the usual checks prepared by the Department of Public Safety on the occasion of the Easter holidays, ordered a halt to an articulated vehicle used for transporting animals that were carrying a large load of lambs bound for Apulia (Italy).

In the truck, lambs piled up and without water!

Italy

It happened along with the A13 Bologna – Padua motorway, on the morning of 23 March around 11.00, when the agents pulled the heavy vehicle to the side outside the Altedo (Bologna) toll booth and found that the animals transported inside the semi-trailer were piled up and without water.

When asked for clarification by the Agents, the two transporters showed signs of nervousness and impatience, so much so as to induce the Polstrada to investigate further with the help of the veterinarians of the Health Authority of Bologna USL.

After a thorough inspection, they ascertained that the animals were dehydrated because the watering system had not been previously supplied before departure.

It was also ascertained that the lambs were too crowded together so as not to have enough space to move due to the high density, as well as due to the too low height of the roof between one loading floor and the other of the semi-trailer.

After supplying the lambs with water, connecting the water system of the barracks in the Altedo Subsection to that of the vehicle complex, policemen and veterinarians put pen to paper a long series of administrative penalties for the two drivers for a total of 15,000 euros.

In the coming weeks, the Traffic Police will further intensify checks on the transport of live animals.

https://www.bolognatoday.it/cronaca/altedo-polstrada-agnelli-multa.html

https://youtu.be/Tc2M810r9GU

This video is from Animals’ Angels and it accompanies the campaign of German Animal Welfare Office: “Animal transports don’t taste good”

Translated text: “According to the law, transports up to 12 hours do not need a ventilation and drinking system (!!!)
Not a drop of water at 35 degrees in the shade
Sheep are transported on three levels.
Lambs even on four.
Lambs are entitled to less than 0.2 m² of space for transport.
Sheep need 10 times the transport time to recover – should they survive the transport.
The animals suffer from hunger and are often cured before dying of thirst
You can stop animal transport
Choose plant-based alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs”.

And I mean…The reason why animals are still transported alive is simple: a refrigerated truck for meat costs more.

Significantly more sheep and lambs are transported at Easter than usual, especially in southern Europe. The conditions for the animals on the relevant routes are mostly miserable.

Most trucks load up to 800 animals, which is not uncommon.

The more “goods” the more money.
In this way, the transporters increase their profit – at the expense and suffering of the animals.

Because they are usually loaded on four floors, the lambs hit the ceiling with their heads.
That is not allowed, but who controls it?

In addition, they cannot lie and rest at the same time, run the risk of being trampled on by the other animals or have difficulty or no access to the water troughs.
If there is.
If this is not the case, as, in our present one, there are penalties.

A big THANK YOU to the Italian police.
They did nothing but their duty, namely to control the transport of animals and if there are sinners, punish them.

Sheep rescued from the capsized “Queen Hind”

This world would really have been a bit more bearable for the animals if everyone had done their job right and conscientious.

My best regards to all, Venus

 

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NGO investigations and EU audits carried out since 2010 have shown non-compliance with relevant EU requirements relating to animal welfare and traceability of horses in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and Uruguay.

Horses are systematically neglected and mistreated along the production chain of horsemeat.

They are beaten, kicked, and receive electric shocks. They are malnourished and exposed to extreme weather conditions in slaughterhouse pens and at assembly centers.

Injured, sick, and weak horses receive no veterinary care and are left to die unassisted.

Currently, EU animal welfare requirements only apply to slaughterhouses.

The assembly centers and transport are not covered by EU rules. Horses are transported over long distances without water, crammed together in unsuitable cattle trailers, and many do not survive the journey to the slaughterhouse.

For several years, NGOs have been providing evidence that the audits of the EU Commission and European importers are manipulated by horse dealers and slaughterhouse operators.

Australia, Meramist Slaughterhouse

For example, pregnant, injured, sick, and emaciated horses are replaced or removed.

The reports of the latest EU audits in Uruguay and Argentina state that the assembly centers were either empty or the horses had been exchanged shortly before the visit.

In the above-mentioned countries, horses are not considered to be food-producing animals and are commonly given drugs that are prohibited in the EU for use in horses destined for human consumption.

The traceability systems in place are unreliable, as they rely on the honesty of horse owners and dealers, who give sworn declarations on the medical treatments in the six months prior to slaughter.

Argentina, a slaughterhouse in Land L: Injured horses are pulled from the transporters with chains and left to die.

 

In the EU, horses are microchipped and have a passport showing their medical history.

In the export countries, they are tagged shortly before being sent to slaughter. Due to the lack of traceability, horses of unknown origin and with unclear drug history as well as stolen horses enter the food chain, which poses a high food safety risk for European consumers.

We call upon the European Commissioners Stella Kyriakides (DG SANTE) and Valdis Dombrovskis (DG Trade):

https://www.change.org/p/european-commissioner-stella-kyriakides-dg-sante-demand-an-import-ban-for-cruelly-produced-horsemeat-from-overseas

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2021/03/26/what-is-behind-importing-horse-meat/#more-40506

 

And I mean…In Australia, they are called “wastage”, literally translated as “waste”. This refers to racehorses that are no longer profitable when they become unusable if they are disposed of as cheap goods in the slaughterhouse.

They have done their “service” on gallop tracks, trotting tracks, or in breeding farms.

As a thank you, they are disposed of at the Meramist slaughterhouse.
Around 10,000 racehorses a year !!

They are cruelly killed in the EU-approved Meramist slaughterhouse, exclusively for export.

Their meat ends up mainly on European plates.
In Belgium and Switzerland, there are companies and associations that have for decades benefited massively from the import of horse meat from cheap, tortured production.

The Belgian company Multimeat is the owner of the Meramist slaughterhouse, and in Switzerland, it is the Association of Swiss Horse Meat Importers (VPI).

Multimeat is a participant in the online marketing platform with the cynical name “Respectful Life” for imported horses

From the report of the “Tierschutz Bund Zürich” and Animal Welfare Foundation:

“Covertly filmed recordings of the slaughtering process in the slaughterhouse in Meramist show how horses are tormented for minutes through incorrect stunning and repeated shooting (up to five times).

Like horses that have failed to stun with a nail gun, rearing up, falling on their backs, and trying to get back on their feet. How badly anesthetized horses are hung up to bleed, defend themselves, pant for breath in panic, open their eyes in pain, clamp themselves with legs, which then break. How their nostrils are cut off when they are conscious.

Nobody can explain to us why this additional torture is. We see workers kicking the horses lying on the ground in the face or pressing their heads down with their feet in order to start the bolt shot again”.

For years we have been demanding that the import of horse meat from torture production be banned.

But how much hope is there if the EU is involved in the business itself?

The problem is the system, and the meat production system has fascist policies that are responsible for the animal holocaust

My best regards to all, Venus

 

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While diplomats and the media focus primarily on Japan’s whaling, Norway’s whaling has been on the upswing for years-long neglected.
In the Scandinavian country, requirements for whaling were systematically removed and an unauthorized catch quota was released.

In addition, the demand for whale meat in their own country has been pushed by the state – and exports to Japan have increased dramatically since 2016.

The whalers always like to refer to their roots back to the Vikings (!!!) – even though Norway is one of the most modern and prosperous countries in the world.

The world is silent – Norway continues to kill whales

Although Norway is gradually expanding whaling – the arbitrary quotas have been repeatedly increased by the government (see Fig. 1), in the medium term even 2,000 whales are targeted – the world public has remained astonishingly silent on this so far!

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Shark alarm in Mallorca: two meters long animal washed up on the beach!!

March 22, 2021 –
Shock for locals and holidaymakers: a dead shark washed up on a beach in western Mallorca (!!!)

The animal was about two meters long and had a large wound on the head, as reported by the “Diario de Mallorca” portal.

Hai must have been dead for a few days

Presumably, it is a blue shark or gray shark, it says in the report.
He was found on the beach of the former fishing village of Sant Elm (municipality of Andratx) and has probably been dead for several days.

Strong waves could have washed the animal ashore.
Now we want to investigate what the shark died of.

Blue sharks are not uncommon in the Mediterranean

Adult blue sharks can grow to be around three and a half meters long. They are not uncommon in the Mediterranean and live at a depth of around 350 meters. However, they usually do not swim close to the shore – only when they are sick or disoriented.

The animals are also dangerous to humans but are not considered aggressive.

According to the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) conservation organization, blue sharks are critically endangered in the Mediterranean.
They died en masse on bait lines for swordfish and tuna or in trawls.

Great white shark caused a stir in Mallorca in 2018 (!!!)

Almost three years ago, a great white shark caused a stir in the Balearic Islands. A five-meter-long animal was sighted near the island of Cabrera (south of Mallorca) – for the first time in decades in this Mediterranean region.

https://www.rtl.de/cms/haialarm-auf-mallorca-zwei-meter-hai-tot-an-mallorca-strand-gefunden-4727266.html

And I mean…The desired attention is already generated in the first few lines: Shark Alarm in Mallorca (!)
Dead the shark is certainly very dangerous.

An alarm would be if 50 living sharks around the beach were disoriented and not if you were on land and photographed the carcass with others (by the way – what a bleak motif!)

If the alarm bells have not rung for some … the great white shark comes from 2018 and then … even the most animal-friendly holidaymaker should change his mind about the “Beast shark” and classify these otherwise harmless mammals as an ultra-risk for swimmers.

And above all, because he was in his living space!

This is how the press works: with falsehoods, psychological tricks, and opinion control, today’s citizen comes to a conviction that fits the system of the respective country.

So that we stay informed of the real facts

My best regards to all, Venus

 

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EU: 5 Freedoms Was Not Enough; Now We Have 7 Demands ! – World Animals Voice

WAV Comment:  I really wish I had an ounce of faith that all these Euro Yukspeak words actually meant something; but I completely lost faith in the Eurojargon about better animal welfare many years ago.  Over 30 years of live animal transportation investigations and experiences may have had something to do with the loss of faith in ‘the system’ that protects animals, in this case, during transport – EU Reg 1/2005 for the ‘protection of animals during transport’:  https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2018/621853/EPRS_STU(2018)621853_EN.pdf

So the countdown is officially on ?

Now they talk about 7 key demands – and for so long over the years we have heard from the very same people about we the ‘five freedoms’ which should apply to animals:

The Five Freedoms include:

• Freedom from Hunger and Thirst. By ready access to fresh water and diet to maintain health and vigour.
• Freedom from Discomfort. …
• Freedom from Pain, Injury or Disease. …
• Freedom to Express Normal Behaviour. …
• Freedom from Fear and Distress.

These Five Freedoms are globally recognized as the gold standard in animal welfare, encompassing both the mental and physical well-being of animals; and the five freedoms have existed within EU strategy for quite a long time.

With so much undercover footage being presented to the EU over the years from farms, slaughterhouses, animals in transport, etc, showing failures across all the freedoms, I guess we can say that the EU does not practice what it preaches.  Yet here we are being told that there will be 7 key demands that will ‘shed light on the failures and poor enforcement of the current animal welfare legislation and call on the European Commission to commit to revising the entire legislation, leaving no animal behind’.

I really hope that no animal is ‘left behind’; but as I say, with a few years experience, and running animal welfare websites since 2005, cynical me thinks this is simply another stalling tactic by the EU simply because certain member states are not enforcing the regulations.  Romania and the sheep transporting ship which overturned leaving Midia – Romania: Secret Decks of Sheep On The ‘Queen Hind’ Which Sank at Midia ??. We Still Wait For EU Action and the Report Promised by the Romanian Government. – World Animals Voice  – February 2021, and still we have no answers !  So much for 5 freedoms, let alone 7 key demands !

The EU lost the plot on all this many, many years ago; and I think the very recent incidents relating to the ‘Karim Allah’ and the ‘Elbeik’; where live animals were shipped around the Med for over 3 months, just shows what a complete and utter farce the whole EU ‘animal welfare’ thing is.   And I mean; 2 of our past posts:

Spain: 10/3/21 – All Animals On The ‘Karim Allah’ Have Now Been Murdered By The Spanish Authorities After 3 Months at Sea. The Reality of Live Exports. – World Animals Voice

Togo: Live Animal Transport: Elbeik Still At Sea with 1700 Animals and Over 100 Feared Dead – Expected to Dock In Cartagena, Spain Tonight. ‘Karim Allah’ Killing Team Still In Cartegena. What Happens Later ? – World Animals Voice

Do not have any trust in the EU and its yukspeak, because that is exactly what it is – Yukspeak; or to put it another way; a means to investigate, delay action and produce yet more reports of the bloody obvious which everyone in the animal welfare lobby has known about and has been shouting about, and providing substantial evidence for decades.

The EU is an over inflated no good – if it had any intentions of promoting animal welfare, then it would have acted a damn site more on animal transport alone when we saw the 1/2005 of that year come into force.  They failed then, they fail now, and they will continue to fail in the future.  Sadly, as always; it is the innocent animals that are the pawns, and who suffer as a result.

Regards Mark.

Reference:

https://www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/no-animal-left-behind-how-2021-could-be-year-we-change-future-farmed-animals

No Animal Left Behind: How 2021 could be the year we change the future for farmed animals

15 March 2021

The countdown is officially on: With the European Commission currently reviewing the animal welfare legislation, Eurogroup for Animals, together with its 70 members across Europe, is today launching its campaign for farmed animals. With 7 key demands, the campaign will shed light on the failures and poor enforcement of the current animal welfare legislation and call on the European Commission to commit to revising the entire legislation, leaving no animal behind.

2021 offers a very important window of opportunity for animal welfare in the EU: In the context of the Farm to Fork Strategy, a policy initiative by the European Commission with the overarching aim of making European food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly, the European Commission is currently assessing the animal welfare legislation to evaluate whether it is fit for purpose. A review like this is not only rare and long-overdue, but is in fact also the first of its kind for animal welfare legislation.

Europe’s animal welfare laws were introduced over the last 40 years, but as countless investigations by Eurogroup for Animals’ members have shown over and over again, they are not protecting billions of animals. Hungry, malnourished or thirsty animals, physically restricted and confined, without natural light or fresh air, too hot or too cold, living in preventable pain every day. The list of legal violations of animal welfare seems endless and cruel. 

There are also serious gaps which leave millions of terrestrial farmed animals and billions of farmed fish unprotected as there is no specific animal welfare legislation for a long list of them: dairy and beef cattle beyond six months old, farmed and wild-caught fish, sheep and goats, the parent birds of broiler chickens and laying hens, pullets, turkeys, ducks and geese, quails, and farmed rabbits. 

Further to that, each year, millions of chickens, sheep, goats, horses, pigs and bovines are transported alive within the EU and to third countries. Journeys can last several days or even weeks, exposing animals to exhaustion, dehydration, injury, disease and even death. Investigations carried out by Eurogroup for Animals’ members have repeatedly uncovered serious breaches of the EU Transport Regulation. Most recently, two vessels left Spain back in December 2020 and after three months most of the animals are still onboard or slowly being unloaded to be killed, as no longer considered fit for transport.

Together with our 70 members, Eurogroup for Animals joins forces with citizens across Europe to call on the European Commission to make sure that an ambitious full-scale review takes place, that the campaign’s demands for the best possible welfare standards are heard, and that no animal is left behind in this process. 

In this citizens driven campaign, we will release 7 key demands to showcase the serious failures and poor enforcement of the legislation and to underline that farmed animal welfare laws must do more than protect every animal from neglect and cruelty, and minimise their suffering. They should also actively promote a positive state of health and wellbeing. 

“Our current animal welfare laws massively fail to protect animals, as a result billions of farmed animals across Europe suffer every day. It is due time for the European Commission to act and commit to an ambitious review of its animal welfare legislation, making sure that no animal is left behind.”

commented Reineke Hameleers, CEO, Eurogroup for Animals.

This campaign comes at a crucial time, citizens’ calls to act on animal welfare, climate and health crisis have become louder and louder. Most recently, as part of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) “End The Cage Age”, 1.4 million citizens across Europe have called on the EU to put an end on the use of cages in animal farming.

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