Posted on February 6, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Victory! SeaWorld has been forced to stop treating dolphins like surfboards and will soon stop making trainers stand on their faces in demeaning circus-style shows.
SeaWorld admitted that it’s ending the cruel practices in response to PETA’s latest shareholder proposal calling for the changes.
Our months-long campaign also included a damning veterinary report exposing the suffering that dolphins endure at the parks, a shareholder question posed by Alec Baldwin, numerous local ads, e-mails from more than 133,000 of our members and supporters, and more.
While we’ve stopped trainers from treating dolphins like surfboards and launchpads, orcas and other dolphins continue to suffer in cramped concrete tanks. SeaWorld seems intent on being dragged, kicking and screaming, into ultimately releasing these animals to seaside sanctuaries.
Please join PETA in demanding that SeaWorld put a plan in place to move the animals to seaside sanctuaries now.
Take Action:
Thank you for your compassion for animals.
Sincerely,
Melanie Johnson
Assistant Manager, Animals in Entertainment
PETA
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Posted on February 6, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Thanks to the unknown savior!
Good examples have to be followed!
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on February 6, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
See all the disgusting pictures at:
Inside Europe’s biggest hunting fair where trophy hunters buy and sell grim goods
EXCLUSIVE: At Germany’s Jagd & Hund ‘Hunting and Dog’ trade fair trophy hunters and buyers travel from around the world to trade in the slaughter of wild animals in the name of sport
With a smile on her face, a middle-aged woman invites me to try a dining room chair for comfort.
She confirms matter-of-factly the £1,189 chair is made from zebra hide.
We are in a vast conference centre full of animal skins, hunting trophies – and some unpleasant people.
It is only 10.30am but the room is already packed with punters, some with kids in tow, others with furs – with the animal’s head still attached – draped around their shoulders.
NThe 45-year-old owns Take Aim Safaris, which offers trips to hunt lions, elephants, hippos, giraffes, leopards, zebras and a host of other species in South Africa and Zimbabwe. He boasts of having taken part in over 400 game hunts.
The shaven-headed hunter greeted visitors on his stall this weekend under a banner that said “your gateway to hunting”.
His brochure says: “I have personally hunted the big five and dangerous seven as a client. I know exactly what is required to make your safari a successful one. South Africa would also be ideal for family hunting holidays.”
early 180 trophy hunting firms from around the world flocked to this six-day event – called Jagd & Hund, meaning Hunting and Dog – lauding the slaughter of wild animals in the name of sport.
Among the Brits cashing in on the bloodthirsty safaris was Carl Knight, born in Epsom, Surrey, and now living in South Africa with his wife and two children.
Defending his organised shoots of wild animals in Africa, he says on his website: “Hunters are real conservationists, we are doing good work, we won’t be discouraged.”
Last night conservationists blasted the British presence at the convention.
Eduardo Goncalves, of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, said: “What an appalling ‘hobby’, and what a disgusting way to make a living.
“At this fair Carl Knight will have sold off the lives of countless defenceless animals to people who kill for kicks. He shames our country.
“People will be furious that the law still allows Brits to shoot zebras for a laugh and then have them skinned to turn into seat covers. How could anyone sit on them knowing the animal has died a cruel, callous and senseless death?”
Most stalls were lined with furs such as bears and springboks. There were stuffed animals including lions, hyenas and tigers.
There are now less than 4,000 tigers left in the wild, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Items on offer included traps, a fox cushion for £84, and a bear skin complete with head for £849.
Many stalls at the fair used zebra skins as makeshift tablecloths.
I also encountered hunters selling cut-price safaris to kill imperilled species such as giraffes for 3,000 euros (roughly £2,600).
The booth of Okambara Elephant Lodge was staffed by two women standing next to a trophy of a giraffe. One of the reps said she has been a hunting guide for three years, adding: “Hunting giraffes is rather easy because there are many roaming near the lodge.”
First Class Trophy, a taxidermy company based in Denmark, was punting a new smartphone app boasting “easy and fast” quotes for stuffing your animal of choice.
European trophy hunters have killed about 75,000 protected and threatened animals in the past decade.
It is estimated 7,000 threatened animals will be slaughtered and brought into Europe by trophy hunters in the coming months.
Manon Dene, from Humane Society International, said: “This kind of trophy hunting fair outlines how shockingly easy it is for individuals to travel almost anywhere in the world to shoot as many iconic or endangered species as their bank account allows.
“To witness an event like this taking place in the heart of Europe, that glorifies the killing of wild animals for thrills and bragging rights, was truly upsetting.”
The Mirror is campaigning for an end to the barbaric practice of trophy hunting.
We are calling on the Government to ban the import of animals that are shot for pleasure.
The Government is consulting until February 25 on whether trophy hunting imports should be outlawed.
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Mr Goncalves said: “We have to do away with this evil ‘sport’. We may never get another chance to put an end to this disgrace. Let’s kick trophy hunting into touch once and for all.”
You can help the campaign by emailing huntingtrophyconsultation@defra.gov.uk and saying you support a total ban.
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Posted on February 6, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted at Martin Balluch ( Association Against Animal Factories, VGT, Austria)
Once again hard to believe!
The Association Against Animal Factories (VGT) – Deputy Chairman David Richter, father of three children, received this threatening letter with the threat of death and the announcement of an arson attack.
Written on a typewriter.
There is a hunting society in the Leibniz district (Austria) that clearly illegally releases and kills pheasants. David Richter documented this together with other activists. That is the reaction to it!
In addition, there were several notifications against (!) David Richter from these hunters according to the General Data Protection Regulation because he had documented the hunters during the (illegal !!) hunt for illegally exposed pheasants without permission!
But now it only comes: A hunter wrote a letter to the state hunter of Styria, pointing out these abuses of illegal abandonment of pheasants and demanding that the hunting license be withdrawn.
The hunting overseer of this hunt then filed a complaint against the VGT-OBMANN deputy for defamation.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, criminal proceedings have also been opened against the deputy VGT chairman.
But this incredibly brutal death threat is totally irrelevant to the state attorney, it seems.
Really shocking how the animal rights activists are treated as second class people over and over again. They are charged with the trifle trifles, but the most massive attacks and threats against animal rights activists are not pursued.
IT IS THE SAME EVERY TIME !!!
Translation of the threat (original see below)
As an animal lover, Mr. Richter, your days are numbered.
As the spokesman for the association, your days are also numbered.
We have located your residence in Thal.
We, as hunting clubs have certainly reserved a scrap load for you on occasion, or we will set your house on fire.
So it does not continue that you destroy all hunts and question our tradition.
The XXXXXX will also happen.
The “pork” farmers from the Leibniz district also join.
Traditionally, we don’t let psychologically ill patients get us down.
It cannot be that a whole profession is drawn into discredit ???
The original text
And I mean: “Both the serial killer and the violent and cunning hunter thinks he has something important to share. Brain abnormalities are strikingly common in serial killers. Violence leaves traces in the brain after a short time ”.
Why are hunters so uninhibited and aggressive?
Because the state and the politicians are behind them.
With the support of a corrupt policy millions of animals are brutally murdered in the forest from the hunter’s hand.
And that happens in an EU country that calls itself civilized!!
Evolution of hunters:
From monkey to a bunch of shit
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on February 5, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Here is a link to the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture:
At the top left you can read in either German or English – just select.
On the site it tells us that:
Animal welfare is enshrined as a State goal in the German Basic Law and regulated in the Animal Welfare Act. Under the latter, animal keepers are obliged, in order to promote the welfare of their animals, to comply with the applicable regulations.
Animal welfare is an important issue for the BMEL. The ministry works on developing the existing regulations to support animal welfare. Other examples of ways in which the BMEL promotes animal welfare include sup-porting research projects, investments in livestock husbandry systems that conform to animal welfare principles, and the development of alternatives to animal testing. The ministry also supports and promotes better animal welfare standards – including for animal transportation – at EU and international level.
Why then we ask are they attempting to downgrade the methods for keeping intensive pigs ?
You can decide this.
If you wish to write to the Ministry about their pig keeping proposals, or anything else, then write directly to them at:
poststelle@bmel.bund.de
Regards WAV – 5/2/20.
SAMPLE LETTER
Send by E-Mail: poststelle@bmel.bund.de
You can change the letter to meet your requirements; but please ensure you do not miss the main points.
Please add your name, nationality and address (if you wish).
Here is the sample letter which you can copy and send; modified if you wish:
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Date:
Sir / Madam;
On your official site you inform us that:
Animal welfare is an important issue for the BMEL. The ministry works on developing the existing regulations to support animal welfare. Other examples of ways in which the BMEL promotes animal welfare include sup-porting research projects, investments in livestock husbandry systems that conform to animal welfare principles, and the development of alternatives to animal testing. The ministry also supports and promotes better animal welfare standards – including for animal transportation – at EU and international level.
Better animal welfare to stop the cages; is what over 1.5 million EU citizens want, which (so far) are despised by the EU, because they don’t even get any information about the development of this debate about what they voted for.
Ex-EU parliamentarian Stefan.B.Eck, independent, initiated the abolition of the painful rabbit breeding and petitioned against it, EU Commissioner Andriukaitis (then responsible) told him: “Stefan, I`m sorry, I can’t do anything for it “.
Then Stefan Eck said in his speech to the Commission: “The EU Commission must never put the word “morality” in its mouth; never!!”
So, can you please then explain to me – why them are you attempting to change the regulations relating to intensive pig welfare on 14/2/20 ? – where is your morality, or are you just a legislator for the farming industry and nothing else ? – your proposals will mean to even deprive pigs of space to stretch their legs ! – there is nothing ‘moral’ from you.
Your proposed approach which will be decided on 14/2 will neither develop existing regulations to IMPROVE animal welfare – in fact it will do quite the opposite; and by attempting to undertake changes to the regulations you are NOT promoting better animal welfare standards !
I would be very keen to hear your reasoning as to why you are attempting to downgrade animal welfare for intensive pig systems; when in fact you should be working to make intensive cage systems a thing of the past.
I request that for anything near to decent welfare standards, you work urgently to move away from intensive cage systems and instead promote free range. Clearly from your proposals, animal welfare improvements are NOT one of your priorities.
Please do not pretend to me and others that you are working to improve animal welfare when we know that your proposed changes for intensive pig keeping will result in the opposite of that.
Do not lie to us – break the cages and set the pigs and others free into a world of free range.
Yours;
Name
Nationality:
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Posted on February 5, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The following is a repeat of an article in the latest OIPA newsletter relating to the Coronavirus. For pictures, please click on the link given at the end.
THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK AND ANIMAL WELFARE IN CHINA
With the escalation of the coronavirus, China banned the transport and sale of wild animals, prohibiting trading to markets, supermarkets, restaurants and online platforms. It is believed that the source of the infection is the wild animal section of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, which is known for selling live animals and slaughtering them on the spot. Here hygiene levels are extremely poor: wild and domesticated animals, along with their urine, feces, and bodily fluids, come in contact with sales clerks and customers, with the animals being butchered on the floor, blood splashing everywhere and flies feasting on the carcasses. To date, there are very few laws in China that protect animals from abuse and mistreatment but, hopefully, with the growing number of activists, especially among young people, along with increasing knowledge about health hazards, there will be more consideration regarding animal welfare in the near future.
The coronavirus infection has already spread across half a dozen nations, including Thailand, Japan, Australia, France, Canada and the United States, causing over 420 deaths and the lockdown of at least 13 Chinese cities.
Scientist have confirmed that the disease, as 70% of human pathogens, has been transmitted from an animal. It is believed that the source of the infection is the wild animal section of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, in China, which is well known for selling unusual live animals and slaughtering them on the spot. Among these, wolf pups, scorpions, squirrels, porcupines, turtles, crocodiles, monkeys, dogs, cats and other live animals are sold for human consumption. These type of markets are common across China, Vietnam and other areas of south-eastern Asia, and are called “wet-markets” because of the large quantities of water that are used to slop the floors. Here, sanitations standards hardly exist and hygiene levels are extremely poor: wild and domesticated animals, along with their urine, faeces, and bodily fluids, come in contact with sales clerks and customers, with the animals being butchered on the floor, blood splashing everywhere and flies feasting on the carcasses. This is the ideal place for contamination to occur and for virus and bacteria to spread. It seems that the outbreak of both the avian flu and SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) originated in these wet markets as a consequence of keeping live animals.
The consumption of wild animal meat is common and considered a luxury in China, especially among the older generations. Moreover, wild and exotic animals and their parts are still used in traditional medicine to cure ailments or as aphrodisiacs. It is part of the Chinese culture, although consumers do not seem to be aware of the public health treat, especially when it is impossible to know the provenience of the animals and, therefore, to be sure if they are free of disease.
After the SARS outbreak in 2003, which killed over 750 people, there was a temporary ban on the wild animal markets. Experts feel like the Chinese government should then have learned that diseases can easily spread from animals to humans in markets where wild, farmed and domestic animals are clumped together in unhygienic conditions, but the ban was withdrawn. With the escalation of the coronavirus, China again banned the transport and sale of wild animals, prohibiting trading to markets, supermarkets, restaurants and online platforms. Unfortunately, the ban will only be in force until the epidemic will be eliminated across the country, leading to think that wildlife trade will be allowed again, as it did after the SARS crisis.
This is a vicious circle: the permanent ban on the sale of wildlife, in China and in other countries, is necessary to reduce the risk of new viruses to emerge, potentially even more dangerous than the past ones.
To date, there are very few laws in China that protect animals from abuse and mistreatment, although there is growing awareness regarding the concepts of animal welfare in some contexts, such as in research and in zoos. Livestock farming has incredibly increased in recent years and China is now one of the world’s main producer of animal-sourced food, but there is no requirement for humane slaughter. Half of the global pig population and over 60% of farmed fish comes from this country. About 10,000 Asiatic black bears are kept it tiny cages for bile production and other animals, including endangered species, are exploited so their parts can be used for traditional medicine. China is also the biggest producer of fur, which has shocking farming and skinning practices.
Animal cruelty is not a punishable offence in China and it also threatens people’s health and the ecosystem. The political environment does not seem interested in protecting animals, but, hopefully, with the growing number of activists, especially among young people, along with increasing knowledge about health hazards, there will be more consideration regarding animal welfare in the near future.
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Posted on February 5, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Good news, friends!
Enjoying hiking in the beautiful areas Sauerland, Siegerland und Bergisches Land in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany.
Unfortunately tons of hunting towers destroy the nice view.
Therefore but only for the liberation of all forest animals, these have to disappear.
It’s always good to carry your bushcraft tools with you.
And…you all!! watch out for the traps for the forest animals too.
They still exist, they are illegal and medieval, they also have to disappear!
Thanks, ALF!!
My best regards to all, Venus
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