Posted on March 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Are you ready to try iAnimal?
For the first time, you will have the possibility of joining our investigators into the world of farmed animals.
You will stand next to a mother pig while she gives birth for the sixth time to piglets who will soon be taken away from her. You will experience the extreme confinement of the gestation crates. You will witness the daily suffering that takes place inside a pig farm. You will be right there when they take their last breath.
I understand that witnessing their suffering is not easy, but it is necessary to know the truth behind our food industry. Sometimes it seems easier to look away, to turn a blind eye to their suffering, but today I am asking you to bear witness.
iAnimal is composed of 360° footage inside farms and slaughterhouses in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain and Mexico. The project was designed specifically for virtual reality headsets. Through the lenses of the virtual reality headset, the viewer feels present in the lives of farmed pigs and gets the opportunity to witness the day-to-day realities of the animal agriculture industry. iAnimal is being made available to everyone through a virtual tour on our website and a 360° video on youtube.
iAnimal has gained support from actors such as Peter Egan from Downton Abbey and musicians such as Tony Kanal, and we hope to gain yours as well!
“To watch a poor sow, locked in a cage, unable to move or turn around, in a facility housing many others… a breeding facility. Lying in her own waste, unable to enjoy contact with her piglets other than by suckling them is both harrowing and heartbreaking. The experience places you in the facility, it is unforgettable.”
– Peter Egan. Downton Abbey actor
To experience the journey yourself, visit ianimal.uk
We are initiating a tour to bring iAnimal to top universities in the UK, including Oxford, Cambridge, Exeter, Manchester, Birmingham Bristol and many more . We are also bringing it to parliaments, tech conferences, and other events around the world.
By educating the public on animal abuse, we hope more people will move toward a cruelty-free lifestyle and help create a more compassionate world.
This would not have been done without people like you! Please continue to support our efforts by sharing iAnimal to help bring this project even further.
Thank you!
Toni Shephard
Exec Director – Animal Equality UK
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Posted on March 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Collapsed dog rescued with life-threatening wounds makes amazing recovery
Published on Feb 21, 2016
A street dog was near-death from an extensive maggot infested wound on his neck and a wire wrapped around his leg. Watch his amazing recovery!
Please support their excellent work with a donation if you can – Thanks SAV.
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Please do not forget out petition and video on live transport from the EU to Turkey.
Please click on the following for petition and video links:
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Posted on March 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We need masses of petition signatures – please go and get them !
Petition Link –
Video link –
People from nations that have signed the petition include those below (not listed in any preferred order – completely random as per petition listing).
Please note that to date (the 3rd day only), we have representations from citizens of 27 of the 28 existing EU member states – Cyprus added 1600hrs.
EU Member States which HAVE signed
Germany (EU)
Croatia (EU)
Malta (EU)
Slovenia (EU)
Poland (EU)
Austria (EU)
United Kingdom (EU)
Belgium (EU)
Czech Republic (EU)
Slovenia (EU)
Netherlands (EU)
France (EU)
Ireland (EU)
Hungary (EU)
Italy (EU)
Greece (EU)
Sweden (EU)
Slovakia (EU)
Spain (EU)
Luxembourg (EU)
Denmark (EU)
Malta (EU)
Bulgaria (EU)
Finland (EU)
Romania (EU)
Portugal (EU)
Cyprus (EU) – New entry 1600hrs
Serbia (EU Candidate country)
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (EU Candidate country)
Above – the EU Commission attitude to live animal
exports abuse evidence.
Non EU states which have supported include:
Canada
South Africa
Switzerland
Indonesia
Philippines
United States of America – many states
Argentina
Hong Kong
Morocco
Brazil
New Zealand
Mexico
India
Turkey
Israel
Japan
Georgia
Ecuador
Viet Nam
Singapore
Albania
Norway
New Caledonia
Trinidad and Tobago
Mexico
Uruguay
Ukraine
Costa Rica
Russian Federation
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Posted on March 2, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
UPDATE – 2/3/16 2210hrs GMT London.
You have done it folks – 1,000 signatures of our petition in less than 2 days – BRILLIANT !!
And signatures from a whole range of nations. We cannot list them tonight as it is now getting late in the UK, but we will publish a list of supportive nations here tomorrow 3/3/16.
We have reached 1,000 but we can continue to sign up and add many more – 1,000 was an initial target milestone only.
Over 550 visitors to the site today alone – this petition is hotting up now !
Thanks to all; for the animals in transport;
Mark.
Yes, despite our objections, the EU thinks this is in full compliance with EU Reg 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport.
Ask the animals being carried centre top what they think !
All Photos below – Eyes on Animals (NL)
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Posted on March 2, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Photos above – Eyes on Animals (NL)
It is from August 2015, but I know it is still relevant.
You bet this whole EU thing bums me off !
A driver tells welfare campaigners what he thinks of them – can you trust this with animals to ensure their welfare ?
A Dutch transporter enters the UK at Dover harbour – Photo Mark.
Please continue to make sure you promote our (SAV) new petition for EU animals that are suffering terribly whilst en route to Turkey. Sign the petition and see a video on the terrible conditions and suffering at:
When ? – Probably around 1995 – Its raining so it must be England ! – Dover harbour, Kent – Mark (SAV) and Barb put the then UK PM (John Major) into a veal crate to give him a taste of what ‘life’ is like for British calves once they have been exported to the crates of the Netherlands.
Above – Barb (see photo above) protests at Dover with Mark’s dog ‘Golda’
Above – Legal ? – the EU thinks so, despite our objections.
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Posted on March 1, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
All Photos – EoA / AWF.
We have campaigned against live exports from (South East) English ports for the last 25+ years – see some of our ‘past history events’ via the following link.
UK live exports have virtually stopped completely as a result of many years dedicated campaigning. It is now only the Dutch who come to the UK and export live UK animals to Europe. The Brits have had a long hatred for live animal exports – see here what we mean:
Regards SAV.
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More than 5 years of evidence gathering, and presentation to the EU.
What have they done ? – Nothing, that’s what. Animals in transport continue to suffer the worst nightmare –
watch the video below to see what we mean.
Following on from all of our recent work and posts relating to the terrible conditions which EU animals are having to endure en route to Turkey, as filmed by Lesley and the crew at Eyes on Animals in the Netherlands – http://www.eyesonanimals.com/ we have now started a petition to get it stopped. The petition link is given directly below.
Please sign and also pass on to all your contacts – we want to make an impact with this petition and make the EU Commissioners who are responsible for allowing this animal abuse to happen accountable to the citizens of Europe and the rest of the world.
Petition link –
Look at the video below and see what exactly we are petitioning about:
Video link –
Petition wording –
To: Vytenis Andriukaitis EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety and Phil Hogan EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
Firstly, please watch the video showing how EU animals continue to suffer at the Turkish border; and have done in this way for at least the last 5 years.
Live EU animals are very regularly exported from EU member states to Turkey, a non EU state. EU citizens are continually alarmed by the clear and obvious breaches of regulations by some EU member states to protect the welfare of animals during long distance transport.
The so called EU Regulation 1/2005 on the alleged ‘protection of animals during transport’ is a complete and utter joke for which we hold you responsible. It is never enforced as the attached video taken at the Turkish border clearly shows.
You are failing animals of the EU. The EU should commit itself to immediately ending live animal exports from the EU; especially as (EU) animal welfare organisations continue to provide clear evidence of welfare breaches which you personally constantly ignore.
If animals are to be slaughtered for meat, then it should be undertaken within the EU to standards enforced by the EU rather than by third world nations such as Turkey who do not care about animal welfare or suffering at slaughter.
As global citizens concerned for the welfare of animals, we ask that the EU introduces an immediate ban on all live animal exports to third countries, including Turkey.
Your inaction and continual excuses for non action are yet more reasons why the UK has a referendum to leave the EU in June 2016. Other nations such as the Netherlands will follow in a similar manner very soon. If you continue to disregard all the evidence that is presented to you of the suffering of animals in transport; the EU will eventually disintegrate; and the only people to blame are Commissioners such as yourselves who have been provided with the continual evidence of cruelty and suffering for years, and yet still constantly ignore it.
You are not Commissioners, you are simply people that formally approve animal abuse and suffering and to support this, invent phrases about legislation to circumnavigate the reality of animal suffering!
The EU wants no animal suffering; not Commissioners such as yourselves who turn the other way when it happens !
Photo – Eyes on Animals / AWF.
Contact
Email
cab-andriukaitis-webpage@ec.europa.eu
Address:
European Commission
Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200
1049 1049 Brussels
Belgium
Link to the europa website of : Phil Hogan –
Contact
Email
phil.hogan@ec.europa.eu
Address:
European Commission
Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200
1049 1049 Brussels
Belgium
Article 13 of the Treaty of Lisbon
With the support and close co-operation of the Member States, the European Commission has been promoting animal welfare for over 40 years. A step in 1998 was Council Directive 98/58/EC on the protection of animals kept for farming purposes which gave general rules for the protection of animals of all species kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur or for other farming purposes, including fish, reptiles or amphibians.
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Freedom from hunger and thirst
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Freedom from discomfort
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Freedom from pain, injury and disease
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Freedom to express normal behaviour
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Freedom from fear and distress
When the Lisbon Treaty came into force in 2009 it amended the ‘Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union’ (TFEU) and introduced the recognition that animals are sentient beings.
Article 13 of Title II states that:
“In formulating and implementing the Union’s agriculture, fisheries, transport, internal market, research and technological development and space policies, the Union and the Member States shall, since animals are sentient beings, pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals, while respecting the legislative or administrative provisions and customs of the Member States relating in particular to religious rites, cultural traditions and regional heritage.”
National governments may adopt more stringent rules provided they are compatible with the provisions of the Treaty but Community legislation concerning the welfare conditions of farm animals lays down minimum standards.
Doomed Europe ? – maybe citizens are fed up with self righteous Commissioners who do not actually do anything the man in the street wants, except for feathering their own political nest ! – see below.
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Posted on February 29, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Have you heard the joke going round that:
Well ask yourself what exactly the EU is doing about EU animals exported to Turkey; and which spend days waiting at the border !
Well here is the latest to show the EU what exactly the people of Europe feel about this club; where un-elected Commissioners make all the rules and do not do what the people want – like action for animals at the Turkish border !!
How The People of Europe feel about the EU circus:
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