Posted on April 29, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Monkeys, demented by genetic engineering, should help in the search for Alzheimer’s drugs!!
Munich
A patent on monkeys and other animals in which symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are triggered by genetic engineering causes protests among patent opponents.
It protects rodents, primates, and great apes, which are specifically made demented for research in the pharmaceutical industry and then used as laboratory animals.
The organization Testbiotech announced that opposition has now been filed against the patent.
The European Patent Office (EPO) confirmed receipt of the opposition.
“The patented process is associated with considerable suffering for the animals – the specific medical benefit, on the other hand, seems questionable”, said Christoph Then from Testbiotech.
There are ethical concerns.
Last but not least, such patents could create economic incentives for unnecessary animal testing.
“But no profit should be made from the suffering of animals,” says Then.
And I mean…The patenting of animals in Europe has been hotly contested since 1992.
At that time, a genetically modified mammal was patented for the first time in Europe, the so-called ‘cancer mouse’
They wanted to earn money with it as a pathology model and test system for drugs.
To date, the history of cancer research is the story of how to cure cancer in mice.
Mice have been cured of cancer for decades, but to this day it still doesn’t work for humans.
It is undeniable that the treatments for some types of cancer give some success.
But in view of the billions in investments and the millions upon millions of animal sacrifices, the overall balance is more than frustrating.
And yet the patent on the cancer mouse drove the number of animal experiments up
Since 1990, the EPO has granted thousands of similar patents, mostly on laboratory animals, but in some cases also on animals used for agriculture such as cattle and pigs.
This is a commercial incentive to keep doing more animal testing.
The pharmaceutical industry has tried for decades to convince us that every health problem and disease can be repaired, which is an outrageous lie.
The fact that animal experiments are still carried out today, despite the animal-free and high-quality in-vitro methods, shows which unscrupulous charlatans our health depends on.
We will fight for a total ban on animal patenting.
Because it is about a lot of suffering for animals and in view of previous failures a success here seems very doubtful.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on April 28, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
This is criminal. Nothing more. Not less.
The deliberate transformation of a living being into a bundle of suffering and silent despair is a crime – what else should be a crime?
This picture tells its own story without saying a word.
But we say: what we did not understand centuries ago, we cannot understand today either.
That animals are not our slaves, not our food, not our objects of torture.
They have their right to live as roommates in peace on this planet.
But the plague of this planet, man, allows itself the fascist right to impress, enslave them, kill them and eat them.
Never can humanity be ashamed enough of it
regards and good night, Venus
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Posted on April 28, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
18 years ago, Brazilian photographer Sebastian Salgado* and his wife Lélia decided to reforest their 600-hectare land in Aimorés, Brazil.
With their friends, they planted more than 2 million trees!
Today there are 293 species of plants, 172 species of birds, and 33 different animal species, some of which were endangered.
It was just then that his parents signed the farm over to him and his wife Lélia.
Salgado was shocked: There was nothing left of the magical forests through which he roamed as a child and first consciously perceived the magic of light and shadow.
Livestock farming and erosion had turned the farm into a lunar landscape.
“When we got this piece of earth, it was just as wounded, yes, dead as I was.
Once it was an ecological oasis. When I was a kid, half of the farm was forest and I grew up in a paradise. But now there was less than half a percent forest left. “
His wife finally had the idea, says Salgado. Lélia said: “let’s rebuild paradise, let’s replant the forest.”
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Posted on April 27, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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Posted on April 27, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Alt Tellin: For the meat industry, the Alt Tellin fire is something like the Fukushima reactor disaster is for nuclear power.
There was no effective fire protection, the rescue services could not save anything from the stables, only 1,300 pigs were loaded back into the trucks alive and driven to the next slaughterhouse.
The stables were completely burned down
30.03.2021, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Alt Tellin:
The worst prognoses of the animal rights activists, even from the time before the establishment of the fattening plant in 2012, have been confirmed.
Because of attacks against the environment and animal welfare, there was then a court case as to whether the facility could be granted a permit.
101 violations alone were registered between 2011 and 2014, according to a response from the ministry to a request from the left-wing parliamentary group. Even then, that would have been enough to revoke the approval of the fattening operation.
During the trial, animal rights activists said that in the event of a fire it would be impossible to evacuate animals. The number of animals alone would not allow it and because the fire protection system of the fattening facility never worked anyway.
There had been repeated citizen protests and demonstrations against this form of factory farming because not only animals but entire regions suffered from the mega stables.
The stall was approved by the local council many years ago, despite many concerns and even an accompanying survey of citizens with rejection.
The stable complex (with 18 stalls) belongs to one of the largest pig breeding companies in Germany – Agricultural Piglet Breeding Germany (LFD) Holding. This was taken over by the Swiss company Terra Grundwerte AG in the previous year.
And now we read that it is a decided matter: the burned down mega-stable in Alt Tellin is to be rebuilt – and the politicians are selling the new business as a “model project with a nationwide model”, which wants to rebuild modern slave breeding with our tax money.
Now it’s no longer about the pain, now it’s about the anger, and it comes up dangerously!
The question is: who approved this?
It is said that the approval process was independent of the country.
In clear words: The approval documents were drawn up by another planning office commissioned by the Straathof company (do you remember him?).
That means: a permit for the new factory in Alt Tellin is feasible even without the involvement of the state, according to the Ministry of Agriculture!!
Now the Ministry of Agriculture has other worries anyway; is trying to get up to 3000 tons of carcasses into the landfill, but the costs are high, and therefore a cheap solution has to be found for the “hazardous waste”!
Such animal factories have nothing to do with agriculture, they are just the business of unscrupulous farm owners and their lobbyists in politics.
We don’t need mega stables, we have to abolish factory farming.
It is no longer a matter of feeding one’s own population with it. Germany is the world champion exporter of pork.
It is always and only about criminal business, of criminal farm owners and their accomplices in politics at the expense of the animals
They must be banned, we will fight hard for this.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on April 26, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.
These animals are not voluntary sacrifices. The sacrifice of their life is forced from them by force.
All of these animals feel and think. They feel fear and pain, joy and hope, lead a conscious life, and want to grow old with their feelings and thoughts.
Therefore they have a natural right to their life, to protection, to freedom.
The power of the fittest, but not morality, enables their death.
Murder is murder.
There is no murder made in China
made in India
made in Italy
or in Germany
Don’t take part in this murder.
You can do a lot for the animals if you don’t eat them.
regards and good night, Venus
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Posted on April 26, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Conservationists across Europe are shocked by the Italian government’s plan to allow 7.5 million specimens of the endangered turtledove to be shot down this autumn.
The European Commission estimates that there are only between 2.9 and 5.6 million breeding pairs in the EU.
The shooting was decided at a meeting of the government with representatives of the regions, whose representatives, under pressure from the influential hunting lobby – above all the European hunting association FACE – almost without exception voted against a four-year closed season proposed by Rome.
Now each of the 500,000 Italian hunters should be allowed to kill up to 15 lovebirds in the coming hunting season!!
The Committee Against Bird Murder and its Italian partners are fighting against the hunting clearance and have received unexpected help: The anti-mafia hero Sergio De Caprio, legendary in Italy, who became famous as a police officer in 1993 after the arrest of mafia boss Totò Riina, also sits down in his Region of Calabria against the shooting plans.
EU Commission to finally enforce Europe-wide hunting bans for endangered species.
And I mean…The fauna and flora of Italy are extremely rich.
94,771 different animal species live on the boot south of the Alpine chain.
But Italy is also the country where, so say the animal welfare organizations, eagles and otters are still being shot, where a good thirteen regions abuse legal loopholes to permit the hunt for nationally protected species or to extend the hunting season.
Where the regional legislation in the matter of hunting is sometimes in stark contrast to the laws of the EU.
Where hundreds of volunteer game rangers try in vain to stop poaching, which is now threatening at least ten protected species with extinction.
Where you can shoot ducks from concrete bunkers.
Where every year thousands upon thousands of migratory birds are killed with the help of decoys and illegal electromagnetic decoys.
In hardly any other country in the EU is the overlap between licensed hunters and criminal poachers as great as in Italy. Almost three-quarters of all convicted poachers have a hunting license.
The turtle dove is classified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a globally endangered species, the population of which in Europe has declined by around 40% in the last 16 years.
In some countries and regions, the loss is more than 90%, here the species is on the verge of disappearing.
The shooting of lovebirds is a sadist passion that has nothing to do with sustainable hunting but is rapidly accelerating the extinction of this species in Europe.
Nevertheless, the Italian hunting association and its European umbrella organization have pulled out all the stops to prevent the moratorium proposed by the government in Rome.
The EU bird protection directive gives the member states the possibility to release protected bird species for catching or shooting if it is a “tradition”, only “small amounts” are concerned, if there is “no other satisfactory solution” and if there is sufficient control the requirements are ensured.
The 7.5 million turtledoves are certainly a small amount, so the EU doesn’t have to worry about them !!!
My best regards to all, Venus
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