Posted on April 24, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Hi Mark,
Unable to hold a real protest because of restrictions on social gatherings, PETA is staging a march by an army of adorable animal figurines against a backdrop of the Houses of Parliament today to mark World Day for Animals in Laboratories.
Our tiny protesters are calling on the government to commit to ending all animal experiments and redirecting resources towards superior, non-animal methods – such as sophisticated tests using human cells and tissues and advanced computer-modelling techniques – which would benefit humans and animals alike.
Will you join us by adding your name to PETA’s petition?
European Union Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes is clear – the EU’s ultimate objective is to replace all experiments on animals. Shamefully, Britain has yet to commit to this important goal in its own national legislation – and as the end of the Brexit transition period fast approaches, the UK government is running out of time.
Over 90 per cent of drug trials in humans fail, even though the drugs have already passed experiments on animals. The problem is that the differences between species are so vast that results in animals are, at best, a very poor approximation of what will happen in humans or, at worst, dangerously misleading. A paradigm shift away from all studies using animals is needed. The government must create a clear strategy and timeline for replacing animals used in experiments. With greater investment in animal-free science and bold policy initiatives, far more promising cures and treatments for humans as well as more effective and reliable methods for toxicity assessment can be developed.
Finally – and crucially – committing to this goal would also help put an end to the almost unimaginable suffering of millions of animals. It’s time for the UK to commit to completely replacing all experiments on animals.
Please sign our petition to the Home Office; Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; and Department of Health and Social Care.
Urge the Government to Commit to Ending All Experiments on Animals
To: Home Office; Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; and Department of Health and Social Care
Please commit to the EU’s final goal of fully replacing the use of animals in scientific procedures to ensure that the UK is not left behind – in either animal-welfare standards or scientific innovation – in the wake of Brexit. Although EU Directive 2010/63/EU (the Directive) has been transposed into the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, the UK has not formally adopted the EU’s ultimate goal of replacing the use of animals in scientific procedures, as reflected in Recital 10 of the Directive. We, the undersigned, respectfully request that the government take this official step immediately, establishing a clear policy within a legislative framework, mandating an end to experimentation on animals, and providing a clear strategy and timeline for achieving this goal. Redirecting funding away from unreliable and unethical tests on animals and instead investing in superior, non-animal methods will benefit humans, animals, and the future of science in the UK.
Yours sincerely,
Thank you for helping animals in laboratories.
Julia B
PETA UK
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Posted on April 24, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Cannoli, a sweet and healthy golden retriever, should be enjoying comfort and safety with a loving family right now.
Instead, he’s languishing in a laboratory cage—even though Texas A&M University (TAMU) has temporarily closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and sent students home to their families.
After a determined PETA campaign led TAMU to announce last year that it had stopped breeding dogs to be tormented in painful, pointless canine muscular dystrophy (MD) experiments, Cannoli was made available for adoption. But now he’s been taken off the list and transferred to another laboratory, where his suffering will continue.
Experimenters have been confining dogs with debilitating canine MD to barren cages and tormenting them in painful tests for more than three decades—which hasn’t yielded a single treatment that reverses symptoms of MD in humans.
Crude, cruel tests on animals waste lives and resources when researchers should be focusing on actually helping humans, and now, even the most stubborn companies, institutions, and government agencies are finally changing their tune. For example, the National Institutes of Health has taken a potential COVID-19 vaccine straight to human trials—without waiting for a lengthy animal-testing phase, paving the way for cruelty-free research in the future.
PETA is leading the charge to spare dogs horrible lives in laboratories and breeding mills, end crude “fright” experiments on monkeys, stop the terrifying forced swim test on mice, and promote the development and use of animal-friendly, human-relevant testing methods and technology.
When we started our campaign against canine MD experiments, TAMU experimenters had nearly 100 dogs in their clutches and were intentionally breeding them to develop symptoms of the disease. Today, after our determined online activism, our demonstrations, our lawsuits, the help of MD patients and 500 physicians, and more, the school has ended its breeding program, and fewer than 30 dogs are still suffering there. We’re making huge progress—but we must keep pushing to cross the finish line, because TAMU is still treating Cannoli and dozens of others like disposable lab equipment rather than the sensitive individuals they are. Animals deserve better.
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Posted on April 23, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
on the day of the laboratory animals, April 24, 2020
We will not be silenced.
We will not stop fighting for the animals 💚
His mother was poisoned with chemicals while she was pregnant.
Then he was cut out of the mother to investigate how these chemicals affect the unborn baby.
With what right does man take such cruelty towards his fellow creatures.
STOP ANIMAL TESTING IMMEDIATELY AND FOREVER!
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on April 23, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Worldwide, 1,500 billion fish are caught each year, which is more than all other animals combined. In Germany alone there are 978,000 tons per year, including mainly herring, mackerel, shrimp and cod.
Although fish are the most often killed “farm animal” worldwide, there is an exception for them in the animal protection slaughter regulation, as a result of which they must suffer unnecessarily.
In practice, this means that many animals suffocate slowly and painfully. In some cases, they are still cut open and gutted.
The suffering of the fish receives little attention.
We encounter images of abused dogs, anxious mice in test laboratories or the fear-filled eyes of a mink on a fur farm almost every day on video platforms, websites or on social networks.
But the hundred million fish cause less outrage. In his new book “What A Fish Knows”, the ethologist Jonathan Balcome addresses this controversy: “Fish live below our surface of perception and so we do not perceive the suffering of the animals. They practically swim under our radar.“
How we deal with fish is not just irresponsible for the author.
They often die through a loophole in the law without protective measures for stunning and slaughter.
The problem: The fish is a largely unexplored living being and there is no consensus about the pain sensation of the animals.
A large number of studies have shown that the animal is able to feel pain like any other living being. These state that fish carry out complex thinking processes and their blood pressure and pulse would increase immensely under stress.
In addition, the animals are social and trust their peers and prefer individual members of their flock.
Other studies judge that this is not the case and that the animals do not share our feeling of pain. Because there is no clear state of science, the paragraph in the Animal Welfare Slaughter Ordinance plays such a big role in animal welfare for fish.
So it says in paragraph 1, paragraph 3, number 4:
” The provisions of this ordinance do not apply to large-scale catches of fish, provided that, according to the state of the art, stunning is either not possible or would only be possible with a disproportionate amount of effort “. (see »gesetze-im-internet.de/bundesrecht/tierschlv_2013/otal. pdf).
In commercial fishing, this paragraph is always interpreted to the detriment of fish.
The last agonizing minutes in a fish’s life!
Overall, more than a billion fish and crustaceans are caught in commercial fishing worldwide every year, according to Fish Count, a UK organization. The German fleet alone is lined up with 219,001 tonnes from the seas every year – herring, small pelagic species, mackerel, shrimp and cod are the main victims in this country.
The bodies of the animals are ruthlessly crushed in the nets. Fish that are higher up in the nets suffocate in the air as no anesthetic is required. Some of those who survived the transport of water on board are still processed alive. Other fish are stored and prepared in a state between chilled and still alive.
My comment: 80 percent of the fish on the German market is imported. A third of this comes from illegal fishing.
They are caught in huge nets on the open sea. If they are pulled out of the water, they suffer a painful reduction in pressure. The swim bladder burst and the eyes gush out of the caves due to the enormous internal pressure. Many fish are still alive when cut and gutted.
But the fish also suffer beyond the mass catch. During the fishing process, fish inevitably experience pain, stress and fear of death if they get caught in the hook, are pulled out of the water and are suffocated or gutted while alive.
There are about five million recreational anglers in Germany.
In principle, they are not allowed to kill the animals just for fun without the so-called intention to sell them, but practices that are contrary to animal welfare, such as fishing or “catch and release”, are practiced in disguise.
Prohibitions of particularly cruel fishing methods in the fisheries laws and regulations of the countries do not help if surveillance on lonely shores and on commercial fishing ponds is not possible.
Since 2018 it has been possible to catch fish in EU waters with electricity: electric fishing uses nets with small electrodes attached to them.
Fishing is an insane cruelty to animals. Thanks to overfishing, there will probably be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050.
In the meantime, the oceans have become so polluted and poisoned that fish are considered to be harmful to health.
The only positive thing about overfishing: once all fish have been murdered, none can be barbarously tortured.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on April 22, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on April 22, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Thailand: Rare turtle babies hatch in record numbers thanks to corona measures.
There haven’t been that many in over 20 years.
According to media, in Thailand the curfew should continue for a while.
Perhaps we should consider not only extending the ban on human animals, but also protecting the animal-friendly virus.
Regards and a good night from Venus
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Posted on April 22, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We are guests on this planet, not its masters.
My best regards to all, Venus
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