Posted on February 22, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Further update – 25/2/16.
We have now also submitted copies of the video to all
English, Scottish and Welsh MEP’s.
We are flagging all messages sent so that we can check who is / is not reading our mail.
We really hope that other EU citizens / visitors to this site are also sending copies of the video link to their own MEP(s).
We need pressure to be put on from all areas of the EU, not just the UK and Netherlands.
All above photos – Eyes on Animals (NL).
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Mark and Lesley have been campaigners and friends in the fight against live animal exports for many years. Lesley is the founder and Director of ‘Eyes on Animals’ who are based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Mark and Lesley worked together to produce the 2010 EU report, part of which can be seen in the following:
They have campaigned against live animal exports for many years on several other occasions also.
In the above post, we (SAV) specifically mention the situation for EU animals which are crossing from the EU into Turkey. Some people may not believe us when we say that transporters are stuck on the border for several days and as a result, the animals suffer terribly or die – well now we hope that with the excellent new video from Lesley, actual visual evidence of the conditions and what we have been campaigning about are shown.
Watch the new ‘Eyes on Animals’ video by clicking on the following link – Note it shows extreme animal suffering – the fault of politicians:
Again, and as we have previously said, the EU system for the welfare of animals in transport is NOT working. Who wants to part of an international group of nations called the ‘EU’ which do not take action to prevent this suffering ?
All national political leaders are failing, MEP’s are failing; the EU Commissions are failing – in fact the whole bloody system called the ‘EU’ is failing.
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Posted on February 20, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
New footage of the London Taiji demo on 19/2/16:
Following Link – Older footage of the hunt and what goes on:
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Posted on February 18, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We start by showing you the excellent anti fur video from (UK) ‘Respect for Animals’ called ‘dumb animals’ – click on the following link:
Then we move on to the new Peta campaign:
Think about how terrible it would be if you had a broken leg and you couldn’t go to the doctor—and no one cared. That’s the reality for these rabbits who are packed into urine-incrusted cages on a fur farm. They are left to suffer.
After living on a fur farm like this, rabbits arrived at the slaughterhouse. As seen in the new expose, workers left them to struggle and thrash wildly after smacking them on the head with the back of a knife, hanging them upside down, and slitting their throats.
They weren’t checked for signs of life before being skinned, and some were still kicking and twitching as the skin was torn off their bodies.
This happens because companies sell rabbit fur. Who could be so heartless? Find out and tell the companies to STOP selling fur now.
Until every cage is empty,
All photos are from Peta.
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Posted on February 18, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Mark,
Since we started campaigning against Starbucks, the company has updated its palm oil sourcing and deforestation policies a whopping three times. But unfortunately, Starbucks has only made minor changes. While many other major fast food giants such as McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme have committed to cut deforestation from their supply chains, Starbucks has lagged behind.
That all changed when we turned up in Seattle with the support of SumOfUs members like you.
Thanks to you, the event was a smashing success even before we arrived on site. A few days before the big day, the threat of our action brought Starbucks back to the negotiating table.
The policy now covers all of Starbucks’ licensed and joint-venture stores, as well as its company-owned outlets. Licensed stores, such as the Starbucks in your local grocery store, make up a significant number of Starbucks’ total outlets. Half of the Starbucks opened in 2015 were licensed stores.
Starbucks has also responded directly to our demands by committing “to sourcing deforestation free, peat free, and exploitation free palm oil.”
In March it will “announce a time-bound commitment to extend our palm-oil policy beyond company owned stores as part of Starbucks Global Responsibility 2020 Goals.” The company also plans to report the volumes used to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
How’s that for proof that our pressure is working?! You were one of the hundreds of thousands of SumOfUs members that made it possible, so go ahead and pat yourself on the back.
Thank you for standing by us as we fight to end palm oil deforestation,
Hanna, Fatah and the team at SumOfUs.
WELL WORTH A LOOK – More information:
Starbucks, updated January 19, 2016.
The Guardian, October 30, 2015
Associated SAV Palm Oil Posts:
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Posted on February 18, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment – Sometimes folks, however we think to the negative about them and what they achieve, signing petitions and keeping up the pressure DOES work !
Mark,
Today we won a big victory for sharks and rays. Thanks to the actions of caring people like you.
Yesterday, 38 countries unanimously voted to increase protections for 22 species of sharks and rays at a meeting of the United Nations’ Convention on Migratory Species in San Jose, Costa Rica.
22 species!
And it all started with the 8,000 people like you who signed our petitions which were hand delivered to the Costa Rican President and asked him to take a lead role in protecting sharks.
“Better times are coming for sharks,” said Randall Arauz, Goldman Environmental Prize Winner and Turtle Island’s International Director. “The signatories acknowledged by consensus that these species are in urgent need of conservation actions.”
Thank you again for all you do for our blue-green planet! Sincerely,
Peter Fugazzotto
Strategic Programs Director
Turtle Island Restoration Network
What else you might want to know
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A United Nations Meeting The United Nations meeting is formally called the 2nd Meeting of Signatories of the Memorandum (MoU) of Understanding of Migratory Sharks developed under the Convention on Migratory Species.
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Required Action Listed species will gain greater conservation protections in the regions they inhabit, and countries with listed species within their borders will be required to help protect these shark and ray species.
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Overfishing In the Eastern Tropical Pacific, overfishing has been identified as the main threat for the survival of sharks and rays.
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Sharks Protected Three shark groups are of relevance to Costa Rica: two species of hammerheads, three species of threshers, and the silky shark. These species are commonly caught by Costa Rican fishers to commercialize their fins in international markets and their meat in domestic markets.
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Rays Protected Manta rays and Mobula rays were also listed.
SAV Associated Links:
Please note the petition given in the second link below is no longer applicable.
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Posted on February 17, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment – SAV very much welcome any process that will ensure lost dogs are reunited with their rightful owners. We also very much welcome this incentive as a major route to the removal of puppy farms from the (UK) country, which this legislation will cause. As a campaign group for Serbia, we would very much welcome the introduction of a national system in Serbia similar to this in the UK, but we do understand that corruption dominates everything in Serbia and that such a system is very unlikely. In Serbia, all dogs could be microchipped at the same time they are sterilised, using funding support from the government and the vast contributions made financially by the EU – This process could apply to both owned and stray animals. Owners of ‘owned’ dogs could be fined for allowing / turning their dogs out onto the street each day to reproduce with currently un sterilised strays. It is not rocket science to introduce such a scheme; but sadly Serbian politicians and authorities seem very reluctant to do so – we think they call it ‘corruption’. All the time animals are not sterilised, the process of yet more unfortunate, sad strays being born to a pitiful life on the street continues. Sadly, the current Serbian system only pays dividends to authorities for each stray killed; rather than investing the money into sterilisation programmes to reduce numbers over time.
Only when Serbian groups / shelters ALL pull together to approach the government about this specific issue will we ever witness any progress in Serbia. Groups cannot do it on their own, and people elsewhere cannot forever keep putting their money into stray animal upkeep by these same groups when at the same time there is no combined pressure being applied by these groups on the government as a united force.
Serbian groups need to work together to achieve a result for animals and to get them sterilised and microchipped. This is what has been done in the UK (the ‘microchipping alliance’) – see below. The Serbian government will only act when they are given major opposition by this front of united animal welfare groups. This needs to come from ALL aspects of Serbian animal welfare groups, not just the odd one.
Legislation in Serbia needs to come from groups and organisations right across Serbia, not from elsewhere. The groups currently on SAV Facebook need to unite and be a governmental opposition force !
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From 6 April 2016 all dogs in England, Scotland and Wales will be legally required to be microchipped and their details registered on one of the authorised databases such as Petlog. Northern Ireland has already introduced this measure.
The idea behind this move, which has been campaigned for by numerous animal pressure groups working collectively as the Microchipping Alliance, a group which includes the British Veterinary Association, the Kennel Club, the Dogs Trust and the RSPCA, is to encourage all dog owners to take responsibility for keeping their pet.
How the system will work
Under the law owners are obliged to keep (your) details up to date on the database. Police and local authority employees will be issued with microchip reader scanners so that instant enforcement of the law can be carried out. A time window will be allowed for the owner to get the chipping done if their pet is caught without a chip. After which a £500 fine for failing to comply will be issued. Full details of the change to the law will emerge over the next few months.
If you sell or otherwise pass the dog on, you as the previous keeper are required to register the new keeper (the wording used is ‘keeper’ rather than ‘owner’ with regard to microchips).
Similarly if our your dog dies, you must inform the database that holds your pet’s details.
Puppies must be chipped at their second set of vaccinations – and around the time they are weaned – at 8 plus weeks.
Why is there seen to be a need for this enforcement?
The majority of owners are naturally very caring and responsible about their dog, how they treat it and its behaviour in society. The dogs kept by such owners are often microchipped already, in order that they can be more easily reunited in the event of the dog being lost.
Unfortunately some people who keep dogs very clearly are not responsible enough to have the care of a living creature in their hands. For one reason or another, neglect, abandonment and abuse of animals is common place, as is the casual breeding of dogs as an ‘easy earner’ from breading puppies in unsuitable conditions in order to earn a few pounds selling them down the pub, to full scale puppy farming businesses.
*** One of the intentions of the legislation is that dogs coming from puppy farms and other unregulated animal breeding will also be traceable under the law. ***
Dogs are stolen quite frequently and it is hoped that microchipping will help in ownership disputes and quicken the process of reuniting those dogs with their real owners.
With microchipping, keepers and their dogs will have an official relationship, rather as they did under the old dog licence. Additionally, the modern technology of microchipping will not only help lost dogs be re-united with their families, it will also connect liable human beings to abused animals. Mistreatment of animals will still happen even if dogs are micrcochipped, but now there will be some redress against the perpetrator on behalf of society and – equally importantly – on behalf of the dog.
National legislation by a united animal welfare front – good news for UK dogs !
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Posted on February 14, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 