Posted on April 8, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The “Association against animal factories”reveals: terrible conditions in Lower Austria pig breeding
Injured piglets, rotting children next to their mothers, cramped crates for lifelong pigs, fully slatted floors, and painful castration – criminal charges filed!
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The “Association Against Animal Factories”(VGT)- Austria), has now uncovered a particularly cruel case of animal cruelty in Lower Austria: terrible conditions prevail on a pig fattening operation in St. Pölten.
Between 150 and 200 mother sows are kept here for life in crates and on fully slatted floors.
The agony of the pigs and piglets is unbelievable.
Dead piglets lie next to their mothers for days
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The little piglets show bleeding scratches and bite wounds all over their bodies. The reason for this is easy to explain: in performance breeding, pig mothers give birth to far too many piglets at once and the fight for the lower number of teats is inevitable.
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In the so-called “farrowing pens”, where the mothers are housed, there is no going back and forth for the pigs.
They have to come to terms with the fact that their already decaying, dead children are lying next to them, who are only collected in a bucket days later.
Conditions that, according to the law, shouldn’t be:
According to the Austrian Animal Welfare Act, female sows may spend a maximum of 10 days for fertilization and only “the critical days” in the farrowing pen in the body-sized cages, the so-called crate stalls.
This law was apparently ignored in the St. Pölten company. Cobwebs show that no pig has moved freely here for a long time.
Eggs and tails off!
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The male piglets are also castrated here without anesthesia. This bestial procedure is still allowed in Austria, but pain relievers must be administered.
On the video of the VGT, you can see that the piglets are being given an injection, but they don’t even think to wait until the effect occurs. They have to be given about 30 minutes before treatment to be effective.
Snap snap!
And as if that wasn’t enough? Contrary to EU law,the tails of all pigs were also cut off in order to ensure that the desperate animals do not bite each other off when the conditions are poor.
Fully slatted floors
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The annoying issue of fully slatted floors is of course “well implemented” here.
You won’t find straw or any other litter here. The consequences are the usual suffering of the animals on fully slatted floors: sore joints and injured claws.
Even a boar has to live on a fully slatted floor without bedding on this farm – but keeping boars like this is prohibited by law.
David Richter, the VGTpig expert, said: “Stables like these show, on the one hand, the legally permitted brutality against individuals capable of suffering, and on the other hand, it was possible to demonstrate how the already weak animal protection regulations in Austria are shamelessly ignored. We demand effective measures to alleviate the unbearable suffering of the animals concerned. “
And I mean… It is time for Agriculture Minister Elisabeth Köstinger, who is responsible for the criminal abuses in the animal industry, to step down.
The best thing would be for the entire People’s Party to resign, a party of liars that has long tolerated and supported this illegal situation in animal farms.
Posted on April 7, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Report from the blog of DirectActionEverywhere
In 2017, I entered a Land O’ Lakes dairy farm in California with a team of DxE investigators and the horrors I saw sent me on an unexpected journey.
Was this farm just an anomaly, or was this routine treatment of dairy cows and their babies?
I couldn’t understand how the dairy industry gets away with such cruelty – especially a company like Land O’ Lakes that boasts about following strict animal welfare guidelines.
I have now gone into 14 Land O’ Lakes farms in California and Wisconsin, the nation’s top dairy-producing states.
With the help of more than 20 grassroots investigators, we now have footage proving that this company routinely violates its own welfare standards, as well as animal cruelty laws.
(It was only today that I realized that the video couldn’t be seen. The meat producers didn’t like it. Through this link, you can go to the group’s Facebook page and watch the video).
We have a 2-minute video proving that Land O’Lakes is going out of its way to mislead customers. Please watch and share on Facebook or Instagram.
We’re reporting this cruelty, reaching out to company representatives, and sharing our findings with journalists.
The Fresno Bee just published a story about our investigation findings which you can read and share here.
Don’t be fooled by false advertising about “happy cows” and “pure milk.” There is nothing happy nor pure about the dairy industry, and when we take direct action, we can expose that.
Many thanks to everyone who helped with this investigation on the ground, and to all of you supporting online.
Together, we are shattering the “humane” myth and making real progress for animal rights. If you can support this work financially, please chip in here.
Alexandra Paul (DxE)
And I mean…In order to understand that we are dealing with animal cruelty inherent in the system and that the NOT documented suffering is much, much worse, one would actually only have to add one and one together.
There is no animal welfare in the system of animal exploitation because the sentient being is degraded to a commodity.
But there can still be thousands of such videos, the meat-eater simply rationalizes this further as “blatant exception” and “individual misconduct” rightly.
And even if you point out crystal clear misunderstandings and errors to consumers, they’ll come back with their “free choice”the next time.
So, even after videos like this, doesn’t a meat-eater need to give reasons why not to be vegan?
So there is no need to provide an explanation of why animals are being forced to impregnate, imprisoned, deprived of their children, exploited, and killed when they are not productive?
Then we are dealing with a moral declaration of bankruptcy.
Posted on April 7, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Sea Shepherd Germany
“We probably weren’t their preferred rescuer, but sometimes you don’t get to decide who rescues you.” – Capt. Peter Hammarstedt,Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
A 110-day Sea Shepherd chase of the world’s most notorious poaching vessel has ended in dramatic and deliberate scuttling in a remote area near the equator.
On April 6, the infamous Patagonian toothfish poaching vessel, the Thunder, sank in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Sao Tome, under what can best be described as “incredibly strange” and suspicious circumstances.
The alleged stateless pirate ship had been tailed by Sea Shepherd ship the Bob Barker for nearly 4 months, while the organization’s sister ship, the Sam Simon, collected incriminating evidence as part of Sea Shepherd’s non-violent intervention mission, Operation Icefish.
The Sea Shepherd 2014-2015 Southern Ocean defense campaign Operation Icefish was launched to expose and shut down six illegal fishing vessels(the Bandit 6) exploiting vulnerable species and ecosystems in remote areas of the Antarctic.
Interpol estimates the Thunder made over $76 million in illegal catches since being blacklisted in 2006. The poaching vessel is also expected to play a significant hand in human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
Posted on April 6, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
In Flanders, eleven of the 16 fur manufacturers want to close earlier, and the only producer of foie gras in Flanders is also going out of business.
From the end of 2023, such establishments will be banned in Flanders.
Those who close earlier receive a bonus. A special commission will determine the value of the company and the premium will be calculated on this basis.
In order for the businesses to close as early as possible, the premium will decrease over time. “Fur-farming is still profitable, but animal welfare comes first,” says the Flemish Minister for Animal Welfare, Ben Weyts (N-VA).
Fur farming has been banned in Wallonia since 2015, but at that time there were no longer any farms.
And I mean… From a legal point of view, fur animals are either not protected at all or completely inadequately, and this applies worldwide.
In 1999 the Council of Europe adopted a “Recommendation” on fur animals on farms.
However, this was completely inadequate, as cage management remains permissible in a confined space.
Wire mesh floors live, the animals spend their entire lives in narrow mesh cages living on wire mesh floors, without a sheltered place to sleep, without opportunities to retreat from their own species, without opportunities to move around, and without variety.
In many EU countries, there are no further regulations for fur farms, and in order to continue to earn money with animal cruelty, the mink breeders even ignore the minimal requirements of the legal situation.
While the fur farms in Europe are gradually becoming fewer, the Chinese fur farmers benefit from the non-falling demand and therefore the low supply of European farms is lucrative for them.
Since their biggest competitor Denmark is currently “paralyzed”, prices and products on the Chinese market are rising.
The Chinese government banned the trade in wild animals at the beginning of the corona pandemic, but by reclassifying mink, fox, and raccoon from wild animals to “special farm animals” in April, these animals can still be traded and killed for the fur industry.
The list of countries that pave the way for a fur-free future continues to grow: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain, Japan, Croatia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Norway, Austria, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic …
In September 2020, France announced a mink farm ban with a five-year transition period.
Strictly speaking, the commercial breeding and killing of fur animals are not prohibited in Germany.
However, from 2022 onwards, the minimum requirements for keeping animals have been tightened to such an extent that keeping fur animals is no longer economically viable.
One can only hope that the economic losses in the fur industry caused by Corona will turn things around.
Posted on April 6, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SOKO animal welfare comment:
EU plan for the massive feeding of animals to animals!
The EU intends to radically soften the rules on feeding animal protein to livestock.
The main goal is to create a new kind of animal exploitation.
Insects are intended to replace soybeans and to be produced industrially for factory farming of pigs and chickens.
Here, of course, it is pointed out again that insects would feel less or different pain.
This derogatory argument is also known from fish and marine invertebrates.
The goal is maximum exploitation with minimal consideration for living beings that we barely understand and whose sensory perceptions we have absolutely no idea.
The factory farming groups are already looking forward to it.
Can they sell themselves as sustainable at the expense of countless living beings?
The motto remains the same: They are different, they are alien to us, so they may be killed en masse just to slaughter more animals for a senseless and cruel industry.
Values EU: One does not break this fatal and deadly cycle if one exploits and kills a further trillion animals. Here you can write your opinion to the EU.
Make it factual, otherwise, they won’t take it seriously.
Since the enforcement of a total feed ban, in 2001, the epidemiological situation regarding BSE has considerably improved in the EU with no classical BSE case since 2016 and 24 Member States having a negligible BSE-risk status.
In addition, the Farm-to-Fork strategy aims at making better use of the protein and other feed material produced in Europe. With a view to addressing this dual context, the proposal mainly allows the use of insect protein and non-ruminant protein in poultry and pig feed.
The Commission would like to hear your views.
This draft act is open for feedback for 4 weeks. Feedback will be taken into account for finalizing this initiative.
Feedback received will be published on this site and therefore must adhere to the feedback rules.
And I mean…If we have understood correctly, should another factory farming be created for factory farming?
What will “insect breeding” ultimately feed on?
And all of this to keep meat production running.
Obviously, it was not enough for the EU that almost a third of the Amazon was destroyed for animal feed, it was not enough that insects are destroyed with poisons approved by the EU … now the meat producers want to feed animals with animals
Instead of really tackling the global problem of CO2 emissions at the root, abolishing factory farming, and creating a different awareness of life, the EU Commission continues to abuse and use animals for consumption and even add another species.
Ergo: even more CO2 emissions … because such mass production systems will certainly not be environmentally friendly and CO2 neutral …
Once more we can see how much power meat producers wield over the EU.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 