Posted on September 22, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Happy World Rhino Day – if only they could enjoy the day without fear of poaching and killing !
Announced by the World Wildlife Fund-South Africa in 2010 to celebrate World Rhino Day on 22 September every year, the event took off on a global scale both on online and offline platforms when Lisa Jane Campbell of Chishakwe Ranch in Zimbabwe and founder of Annamitici joined hands with creative director Rhishja Cota
Posted on September 21, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Images recorded with a camera hidden by Animal Equalia, show the wild abuse of animals in a slaughterhouse in Madrid.
Another example of what the industry considers “exceptional”, but that really happens every day everywhere. The “animal welfare” of advertising is nothing but covert abuse.
The lambs go in line. They resist death, but there is not much to do. An operator jumps on them to accelerate the chain. In another part, several sheep are thrown into the air. Metal doors are slammed shut. Blood.
These are some of the images recorded with a hidden camera in a slaughterhouse in Villarejo de Salvanés, in the Community of Madrid.
The company had the Halal certificate until the beginning of 2019. This means that, within the same slaughterhouse, lots are made when sacrificing the animals: depending on the client, they are stunned or not (when the Islamic rite is followed).
During this year, all animals without exception of Cárnicas Salvanés SL had to have been stunned to avoid unnecessary suffering.
David Herrero, spokesman for the organization Animal Equality, explains to the Public that, although it cannot be generalized, this is an example of how community regulations are breached in slaughterhouses in Spain. So, it is not the first time that Equalia manages to enter the opaque walls of the meat industry.
The diffused images show sheep that do not stand up or are sick, and are taken to the conveyor belt to enter the bleeding zone. One of them was filmed dying the night before. “It took ten hours until she was taken to the killing area,” explained Herrero.
The law contemplates that an animal that cannot walk will not be dragged or transported to the place of killing, and will be sacrificed in the same place where it is, without moving it or, of course, throwing it.
My comment: Almost all the media in Spain report about it, but even in Germany this hell has caused great rage among civilized people.
How has the human species degenerated so much and treats animals so primitive and sadistic still today, in the 21st century?
I have no answer but I found a good comment about it in RT, it is in Spanish but the translation was easy to do:
The comment: “Los españoles son unos malparidos (excluyendo a mi abuelo), leyendo a Fray Bartolomé de las Casas me enteré de la manera tan cruel que masacraron a los naturales de América, se estima que el genocidio mas grande en la historia de la humanidad lo realizaron estos degenerados. Solo en ese país podían nacer las corridas de toros, las peleas de gallos, las cruzadas y la Inquisición”.
Translation:The Spaniards are spoiled (excluding my grandfather), reading Fray Bartolomé de las Casas I learned in such a cruel way that they massacred the natives of America, it is estimated that the greatest genocide in the history of mankind was made by these degenerated. Only in that country could bullfights, cockfights, crusades and the Inquisition be born.
Posted on September 21, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
New Zealand. In New Zealand, animal rights activists have stood in front of a meat shelf and thus blocked access to the goods. They blocked the shelf so customers could not buy meat. The vegan activists protested completely in black and taped their mouths shut. In addition, they held signs saying, “Stop eating animals” or “It’s not food, it’s violence.”Only the police were able to escort the troops from the supermarket.
A member of the DirectAction Everywhere group filmed the action.
The video is now on YouTube:
In the video, a man is heard saying angrily, “Go away, you disgust me”!!!
When the police are finally called, protesters decide to leave while shouting,
“It’s not food, it’s violence.”
And we mean: We thank the active and courageous activists.
Anyone who has taken part in any such or similar action knows that there will always be aggression, insults, and often even physical violence, but over the years we’ve gotten so “thick skin” that we do not care.
Bei the way, the voice that shouted, “go away, you disgust me” is the rage against those who hold the mirror of truth in front the face of the meat consumers in the supermarket.
Because most people know the truth, but a confrontation with it would mean that they finally have to act right and stop eating animals.
In the end, and when the activists are led out by the police, the meat-eaters will buy nevertheless their meat, but any direct action against the empire of Carnismus will lead more and more people to stop eating animals.
The Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s treasures and likely the most important natural place on Earth. But it is being destroyed at a rate of four football fields per minute.
Why? According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, cattle ranching accounts for 80 percent of Brazilian Amazon deforestation.
Soy crops are another cause of deforestation in the Amazon and in other extremely important biomes, such as the Brazilian savanna. Few people know that 79 percent of soybeans are used as feed for chickens, pigs, and fish, and not for human consumption.
The good news is that you can help. The best way for everyone to help stop the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is to choose plant-based foods. It’s as easy as swapping animal products for the delicious, satisfying plant-based versions that are growing in popularity.
Sincerely,
Lindsay Oliver
Vice President of Investigations
P.S. Mercy For Animals exists to end the greatest cause of suffering on the planet: the exploitation of animals for food. Please support all our work to help farmed animals by making a special donation today.
WAV Comment – here are some of our recent past links to the fires in Amazonia:
Posted on September 20, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
No animal should suffer like this. Please watch this to the end.
There are many things we can not imagine: that about 90% of people consider the life of a dog more valuable than that of a sheep.
Paul McCartney said, “If the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass, no one would eat meat.”
The walls have been made of glass for a long time. With the undercover investigations, with the reports that even come in public television channels or newspapers. With the demos against slaughterhouses, with the mobilization of the mass resulting from successful petitions, such as “end the cage age”…
And yet: the consumption of meat increases, the animals are transported for days or weeks to death, meat remains cheap, the meat mafia goes richer.
Many say that’s capitalism.
But in the countries of the so-called real socialism, there has also been mass animal husbandry under dire conditions.
Exploitation and cruelty seem to be the basic moral of any system.
If we take into account that the production moral of capitalism is: For what purpose can I use animals? How and to what extent can animals help increase my profit? then we come to the conclusion that the change in meat consumption will not (or not primarily) come from the masses, but from above, that is from the system.
We have recently experienced the sensational entry of the “Beyond Meat”. Everyone talks about it, and many well-known and recognized animal rights organizations warmly recommend it.
Many have tried it, out of curiosity or conviction, many only want Beyond Meat, others will follow, at least for the moment it is seen as a sensation in restaurants; but it does not really matter. The result counts.
And the result is…“the stock’s explosive 136% move higher since the May 2 2019 initial public offering”.
As the vegan products evolve, so too does the conscious wine and consumption of the mass.
Of course, this is also a capitalist product that subjecst to the usual capitalist rules, but with one important difference: the company that prizes it does not participate in the daily millionfold murder, which overshadows in cruelty, rudeness and cowardice all the terrors even of the world wars.
People will never stop seeing a value in their use of animals.
That was 500 years ago, today is the same, only extremely worse.
The original moral strength of capitalism was the usefulness of people’s attitude. Through battles, sacrifices and laws, human animals have achieved a (relatively) decent standard of living, and especially formal rights.
Animals are still subject to usability in today’s capitalist system. The pig, the cow, the sheep is not an animal. The system treats them just like a machine in a factory.
So if we want to abolish (or at least reduce) slavery and animal exploitation within this system, we have to play with its rules, we need giving capitalism the opportunity to earn money on vegan meat.
“LYNX”: “Beyond Meat without question has wracked up several big partnership deals this year in the fast-food space. From one with Dunkin’ Brands (DNKN) for a sausage breakfast sandwich to faux chicken at Yum! Brands-owned Kentucky Fried Chicken (YUM) , Beyond Meat has shown it’s moving aggressively to expand distribution”.
Yes! Of course, it is paradoxical and even unorthodox for people with a pronounced anti-capitalist ideology, if we support this system on an equal footing. On the other hand, it is even more paradoxical that the left has not been providing support or education for vegan ideology for decades, which we actually would have expected from the left, because it corresponds to their ideals that say, “The struggle for social justice is also a fight against the destruction of our environment and the brutalization of man against the animals”.
As much as these videos reflect our forces and hopes for a better world for animals, so honestly we have to say that there is a change in sight, we notice it on many levels of life.
Under our fight, which goes on and harder, has already brought many good results.
Hope, courage, fight is our ideology. And our practice.
Regarding the issue of the 70,000 live sheep exported from Romania to the Middle East recently, which we covered on a daily basis; we then raised the issue with EU MEP’s as to what injunctions were going to be taken by the EU against Romania.
Yesterday, 19/9, we finally had one e mail back to us regarding the issue. It was from the office of Judith Bunting MEP (for SE England). The letter was worded:
Dear Mr Johnson,
I apologise that you have not received a response from our office regarding this issue.
This is a notice to say that we have received your email and Ms Bunting will be in touch with answers to your questions in due course.
For now, we are waiting on responses from other MEP’s offices regarding:
– The Commission’s infringement proceedings against Romania
With regards to the other questions in your letter, we have contacted both the European Parliament’s Research Service as well as the Health and Food Commissioner’s office. They should be able to provide more clarity on the issues you discuss.
Kind regards,
Finally; someone is addressing our concerns ! – it is worth looking at the ‘motion for resolution’ submitted by Dominique Bilde MEP via the link given above.
So now we wait to see what we get back from the EU.
In the meantime; the same vessel which carried all the suffering Romanian sheep to the Middle East is now trying desperately to get a consignment of sheep from South Africa – you can read more here:
This is the reason why we fight the live export trade so vigorously; be it by road, sea or air. We will never give up with our exposure of the terrible suffering animals endure during live transport.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 