Posted on June 23, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
IMPORTANT –
*** SEE UPDATE AT THE END OF THIS POST ***
Norway has Balls; will others follow ?
SAV comment – we have just had to witness, rage, grimace and express untold anger at the untold suffering inflicted on thousands of dogs and cats at the Yulin ‘festival’; and now we are insultingly informed that China has won the gutless FCI right to hold the World Dog Show in 2019. Is this an utter insult to Canines or what ?
How pathetic can this be ? – these Chinese government barbarians should be punished for what they have done and what they allowed to happen at Yulin. At the very least, these pathetics should have this event stripped from them. Let them learn the hard way; try to teach them to be civilised; a difficult task but you have to agree; but you have to try.
The following petition asks for the event to be taken away from China who will currently be hosting in 2019. Please support it and spread the word far and wide – thank you.
Petition wording:
Please say NO to China holding the World Dog Show 2019!
As many of you might know China has won a bid with the FCI to hold the World Dog Show 2019. China’s cruel and inhumane practices towards dogs are unacceptable! Dogs are being tortured by being burned, thrown in vats of boiling water and skinned alive just to end up as a main course on a plate. Despite knowing this fact, the FCI has granted permission for this barbaric country to hold one of the biggest events in the dog owners world. We respectfully ask the FCI to revoke this decision and allow a more compassionate country to hold this event. China does not deserve this extraordinary revenue that will be brought to the country if the event goes ahead!
The FCI should not allow any country that does not respect animal cruelty laws to host such an event. We have the power to change history and protect more innocent creatures from getting hurt! Please help support us to revoke the FCI decision and make the world a better place for our canine friends.
UPDATE 24/6/15
After the events of Yulin; which all the dog world knew about, apart from the FCI it would appear – or did they want to keep zipped about it all ? – they have, through their ‘President’, issued the following statement. What’s the point now we say, you FCI should have taken action over this issue weeks in advance, not several days after. Typical – no use for anything really !!
FCI official statement
A message from the FCI President Mr. Rafael de Santiago
Always attentive to the opinion of the breeders worldwide, we took note of the uproar concerning the attribution of the 2019 World Dog Show to China and to the decision regarding the country of origin of the following breeds : DO-KHYI (230), TIBETAN TERRIER (209), TIBETAN SPANIEL (231), LHASA APSO (227) and SHIH TZU (208).
Whilst we understand the concern expressed by the breeders worldwide about both situations, the FCI wishes to inform that the decision to grant the organization of the WDS 2019 to China was taken by a decision of our General Assembly where 68 countries were present or represented and by a large majority of votes, in total transparency and according to the principles of democracy internationally recognised and accepted.
That decision was made on basis of a very open and complete presentation made by our Chinese member, CKU, during which our Chinese member delegation has clearly mentioned the cultural differences between China and most of the other countries in the world. The FCI sees it as an excellent opportunity to raise awareness among the Chinese population that the dog, our beloved friend, is a member of our families, a living entity and most of all Man’s best Friend. May we add that China won the right to organise this WDS over several other countries, namely Spain, Germany and Croatia, in a clear victory.
In addition, we find it important to clarify that our Chinese member, CKU, is an FCI full member. As such, CKU has the right to ask to be the country of origin of the breeds indicated above. It is important to know that any change in a breed standard can be implemented worldwide if and only if the FCI General Committee, following recommendations of the FCI Standards and Scientific Commissions, approves it.
Nowadays, the FCI is more than ever committed to the betterment and safeguard of the Dog and to promoting its welfare, love and respect in the four corners of the world.
For the FCI and for dogs worldwide.
Rafael de Santiago
FCI President
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But following on from this paste over by the FCI, things have started to move on. The Norwegian Kennel Club (NKC) have been brave enough to come out and declare that they want the World Dog Show 2019 removed from China, and publicly encourage all exhibitors not to attend the WDS2019 in China unless the festival is stopped.
We say Well done Norway and the Norwegian Kennel Club (NKC) ! – lets hope that in the coming days we see a lot more ‘national’ canine organisations come forward and demand that the 2019 show be removed completely from China.
If they do not; you have to ask yourself exactly where their canine standards lie – can they, as ‘national canine organisations’, happily sit by and let thousands of dogs be slaughtered for human consumption in China, or do they follow on from Norway and have the balls to get up and demand that the 2019 show be relocated to a decent nation ? – cos China sure is not decent !!
We watch with baited breath to see if any other ‘national canine organisations’ actually do put themselves or dogs first !.
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The Norwegian Kennel Club urges FCI to move the World Dog Show 2019
The recent Yulin Dog Meat Eating Festival has been met by strong reactions and protests all over the world, and is symbolic of the lacking animal welfare in China. The Norwegian Kennel Club (NKC) therefore wants the World Dog Show 2019 removed from China, and publicly encourages all exhibitors not to attend the WDS2019 in China unless the festival is stopped.
In conflict with ethical values
The Norwegian Kennel Club board decided, during a meeting June 23rd, to publicly advice all dog owners in Norway not to participate in World Dog Show 2019.
The NKC will also advise all judges in Norway not to accept any invitation to judge in China until the festival is stopped. Any judge accepting invitations to judge in China will be made aware that this is against the wish of the NKC board, and in direct conflict with our ethical guidelines and values.
Urges the FCI to move WDS
The Norwegian Kennel Club also encourages all national kennel clubs to both advise dog owners in their countries against participating in WDS2019 in China, and to express their wishes to have the World Dog Show 2019 removed from China.
The World Dog Show is to be a celebration of dogs.
The Norwegian Kennel Club therefore cannot accept that the WDS is given to a country where animal abuse takes place, and now urge the FCI to immediately take action regarding the matter.
Well done Norway – we at SAV are behind you 110% !
End of Update 24/6.
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Posted on June 23, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Our past post on helping the Monarch’s:
Check out our other recent post which could be associated with this:
Dear Mark,
Monsanto’s herbicides are pushing monarch butterflies to extinction — and we need your help to make sure they don’t finish the job.
Monarch populations have crashed by more than 80 percent, and it’s clear that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is a leading culprit. These beautiful butterflies — renowned for their epic journeys from Canada to Mexico each year — used to thrive on farms across the Midwest, but Roundup has obliterated the host milkweed plants they need to survive. Without milkweed, America’s growing fields have become a vast desert for these migrating pollinators.
The Center for Biological Diversity is leading the fight to save monarchs from the products of Monsanto and other chemical companies.
The Center has a plan to save monarch butterflies. We’ve petitioned to have them safeguarded under the Endangered Species Act, which will require protection of their most important habitat and the creation of a long-term action plan to ensure their survival. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service promises an important ruling by December.
In the meantime, we’re going after a whole range of industry poisons. In the largest lawsuit of its kind, we’ve sued the EPA to force it to review more than 50 different chemicals for their effects on plants and animals, including monarchs. We’ve got to stop Monsanto and other corporate giants from dumping toxic chemicals onto our fields and streams without accounting for what they do to wildlife.
You can support the Center’s litigation with a donation today to the Pollinator Protection Fund.
Without pollinators like butterflies, bees and bats, crucial food crops will fail to reproduce and complex ecosystems will unravel. We must protect these little species who carry out the big job of pollination. If we don’t the world will be a much more sterile place.
For the wild,
Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity
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Posted on June 22, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Further to our post of today (22/6) relating to the Yulin dog meat slaughter
We do not make excuses for the approach of these barbarians – others may but we do not. Knowing how the Chinese clamp down on the placid people of Tibet as an example – if the Chinese authorities really wanted to gain any credibility from this planet, then they would have stopped the slaughter. They did not. All we can say is that possibly post event, the Rabies outbreaks in Yulin may be even larger than they are now – and they are in the big league for this anyway !
Look at the pictures (one above) of the slaughter – street vendors with little attire on, smoking fags and waving blowtorches around to remove dog hair – a facility like this in London would be shut down before it even opened.
Yulin, enjoy your new rabies outbreaks – lets hope you break all records – you deserve it !
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Rabies risk
The dog meat trade is a serious threat to human health, and Chinese authorities have every reason to stand by the animal advocates.
China has the world’s second highest incidence of rabies in humans. And according to China’s ministry for public health, Guangxi province, where Yulin is located, has the largest number of cases in China, while Yulin is one of China’s “top ten cities” for cases of human rabies.
Eating dog meat of itself does not cause rabies, but the handling and slaughter of vast numbers of unvaccinated dogs exposes the traders to a high risk of rabies infection.
Transporting the dogs to the festival is an intrinsically brutal operation. Dogs for Yulin come from as far as central and north China’s Henan and Shandong, more than 1,000 miles away.
They are crammed into wire cages unable to extend their limbs, denied food and water for days during the exhausting trip. The dogs arrive at their destination malnourished and underweight, dehydrated, often dying from injuries or from being poisoned during capture. Others are already dead.
Food safety disaster
This isn’t solely an animal welfare issue; it’s also a food safety disaster.
China’s food safety regulations ban the processing, selling and serving of products from diseased or dead animals of unknown causes.
And yet the Yulin authorities seemingly ignore these rules, allowing dog meat from unknown sources to be sold to consumers, and in so doing prioritizing the profits of dog meat traders over consumer health.
When contacted by CNN, a spokesperson for the local food and drug administration declined to answer any questions.
The average Chinese citizen finds public dog slaughter inexcusably offensive.
Dogs are openly killed in crowded marketplaces, on the streets, and most shockingly next to elementary schools, imposing bloody and cruel practices on vulnerable members of the public.
Such public slaughter risks creating an indifferent and morally defunct society.
Beating and killing these struggling, crying dogs in full view of other terrified dogs showcases an industry that is devoid of humanity.
Additionally, the criminal activity of dog theft sustains much of the dog meat industry, with often violent confrontations between angry dog owners and the thieves.
Above
– we are proudly flying the Tibetan flag in full support for the people of Tibet; as the Chinese have banned the Tibetan flag from being flown in ….. yes, Tibet !!
They (China) do not want the Tibetan flag to be flown anywhere in the World, eradicate it effectively – so we are very proud in supporting the wonderful people of Tibet from the human (and animal) abusers that carry the name of shame – that is ‘China’
– FREE TIBET !!
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Posted on June 22, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
OLD LHASA, BARKHOR, JOKHANG SQUARE © PEDRO SARAIVA
Above – how China deals with the peaceful people of Tibet WITHIN Tibet ! – do they learn this abuse from the way they treat animals in China ?
Well, here we have it – the nation of camera clickers that keep 80 million pigs in intensive farming systems abusing thousands of innocent (owned) pet dogs and cats at today’s mass frenzy of fag smoking street scum cooking up something for brain dead’s to eat.
We wish them only one thing – Rabies !
Ricky is absolutely correct –
China – animal abusers; abusers of the Tibetan people; trying to take over the world with their pathetic views of what is ‘right’.
And our governments scrape up to them like someone on a night out in a brothel !
Latest 22/6/15 – The Chinese have ignored the world and as usual doing only what they want. The Yulin festival is currently taking place – thousands of dogs are being slaughtered by these Barbarian back street Chinese dealers.
What the Chinese scumbags do to animals
If our Cameron government does not have the balls to raise the issue, then we will – FREE TIBET !!
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Posted on June 21, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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DUSTY WAS RESCUED FROM A RUBBISH TIP IN GREECE BY DIANE, A TRUSTEE OF GREEK ANIMAL RESCUE (GAR)
THIS POOR DOG NEEDS OUR HELP SO PLEASE MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR HER TO COME TO THE UK (SEE THE FILM)
Watch the very moving video here on Youtube –
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY AND PUT ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER ETC. AND SHARE – THANK YOU
If you want to give a donation to help pay for Dusty to move to a forever home in the UK, then please click on the following:
Daniel Turner was not asked to set up a fundraising page – what a star he his – one of GAR’s youngest fundraisers must be about 13 now and has been doing sponsored silence and walks for years
Dusty is currently with GARs best foster carer in Athens and is doing really well!
Message from GAR:
Following the video that Gar uploaded to Facebook regarding a recent trip where a lovely dog named dusty was saved!!! I think we should all club together and help pay towards her flight over to the uk when she is fit and ready! So please if you can donate and help dusty.
P.S. When you make a donation, don’t forget to check the Gift Aid box if you’re a UK taxpayer as then your charity can claim an extra 25% from the government!
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Posted on June 20, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
NORTHER IRELAND – BIGGEST INDUSTRIAL PIG FARM EVER TO BE ESTABLISHED
– PLEASE OBJECT NOW !!!!!!!
THOSE WHO HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO – PLEASE DO NOW AND SHARE THE MESSAGE WIDELY – Thank you
Please object NOW!
We have been informed that the public consultation has been extended, but no closing date has yet been given.
We have just been made aware of plans to build a gigantic pig farm in Northern Ireland that will hold 30,000 animals at a time. These plans dwarf even those of the Foston proposal, which – as you will remember – we defeated together.
Although the proposal is in Northern Ireland it is vitally important that people from across the UK send in an objection.
If the plans go ahead it could lead to a precedent being set for more of these mega farms being built elsewhere.
Say no to the NI mega pig farm!
We have just been made aware of plans to build a gigantic pig farm in Northern Ireland that will hold 30,000 animals at a time. These plans dwarf even those of the Foston proposal, which – as you will remember – we defeated together.
Although the proposal is in Northern Ireland it is vitally important that people from across the UK send in an objection. If the plans go ahead it could lead to a precedent being set for more of these mega farms being built elsewhere.
Local activists were only made aware on these plans in the past few days. Please object NOW!
We have been informed that the public consultation has been extended, but no closing date has yet been given.
Please send the objection below. Or even better personalise it.
Please note: we have had a few technical issues with the form. We are trying to fix it, but in the meantime please copy and paste the message below into an email (with you name and address) and send to planning@antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk
If you have problems with that email send to info@antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk instead and put in the email header: “FAO Planning Department”.
Sample Letter (or modify to your own version;
but keep it polite please)
“Dear Antrim and Newtownabbey Planning Department
I am writing to you to lodge a formal objection to the planned pig farm off Reahill Road, Newtownabbey, County Antrim (Ref: LA03/2015/0051/F).
Animal welfare: I know this isn’t taken into account when deciding the outcome of planning meetings, but I strongly believe it should be. Pigs are highly intelligent animals. On a development this size it will be difficult to spot diseased or suffering pigs – which poses potential dangers to other animals on site and workers and local residents. I do not believe that it is possible to provide high welfare for 30,000 pigs on an indoor farm this size.
Risk to human health: keeping large numbers of animals near residential dwellings is a well-known potential disease risk to humans (one resident lives a mere 300 metres from the proposed site). In light of recent swine flu outbreaks a recent study that showed that potentially deadly superbugs can be spread by flies from pig farms to people living miles away this should be of particular concern.
Environmental impact: this farm will not be ‘green’. In fact, the methane from the pigs themselves will produce huge amounts of carbon equivalent gases. Local residents have said that the area is near a hill and floods regularly. It does not seem feasible that the local waterways/watertable will not be affected – especially as there will be two lagoons (one for water, and one for pig waste). In June 2012, Derek Hall of Hall’s Pig Farms (the site developer) was fined after an officer of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency traced a ‘milky liquid’ discharge found in Three Mile Water River to Mr Hall’s farm. The Rivers Agency have objected to the plans as a Drainage Assessment has not been submitted and believe that potential flooding issues have not been addressed
Earlier this year the Environment Agency rejected plans for a similar pig mega-farm in England. They said the scheme at Foston, Derbyshire would “offend human senses” and cause “significant pollution due to odour”. What is the Environment Agency’s position to this proposal?
Anaerobic digester: I understand that there will be an anaerobic digester on site. However, it is also my understanding that anaerobic digesters can actually be responsible for producing smells and toxic gases, and in the worst case scenario can be a fire or explosion risk. Good practice dictates that these should not be built near to residential areas (especially one of this size) and to do so would potentially put lives at risk. It will also use huge amounts of water – as will the farm itself – and would potentially pollute surrounding land.
Noise: the developers say that the noise will be minimal. This is hard to take seriously, as noise will be generated by machinery and from the animals themselves as they are taken to slaughter (over a thousand a week).
Increased traffic: industrial farms of this size generate large amounts of HGV traffic, from moving animal feed and waste products. This is likely to impact negatively on local roadways and the lives of local people.
Jobs for local people: factory farms are not big employers, so any benefit to the economy will be minimal at best.
This proposal is a significant development for the whole of the UK. Allowing it to proceed would set a dangerous precedent for the future intensification and factory farming in the UK. I strongly urge you to reject the proposed plans.
Yours faithfully”
[Very important – remember to add your name and address!]
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Posted on June 20, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With the summer heat in full swing, life at the shelter seems quite uneventful as most of the kitties are spending their days passed out all over the place, rightfully feeling it’s too hot to even move around. However, it’s not only that their needs remain the same, but now is also the time to start and finish all of the minor repairs at the shelter.
Almost all of the platforms, ladders and wooden wire spools the cats are having so much fun with while playing in the yard need to be replaced now, after being exposed to all kinds of weather over the last few years.
Autumn rains and the winter cold have taken their toll and no matter how well these wooden items were protected by paint or stain, they can’t last forever. And our kitties just love them all big time!
The old outdoor fence which became wobbly three years ago is miraculously still holding up, but the posts keep crumbling and deteriorating with every passing day and it’s been ages since we could close the gates properly. It would be fabulous if this summer we could manage to raise the funds to rebuild the brick-made pillars and the small wall between them, clean and polish the old iron fence above and replace the sheet metal part of the gates. It’s got to be done this summer before the rotten posts completely fall apart and the whole fence goes down, that is…
And last but not the least, not by a long shot – the kitties must eat every day and now the time is rapidly coming for the mandatory yearly vaccinations against rabies.
The problem is that donations regularly slow down as summer approaches and while we totally understand everyone’s busy planning their vacations, our situation is always unenviable at this time of year. The same thing has been happening forever; when the weather is nice, we’re barely keeping afloat, and when we have enough funds to do something, it’s impossible to work outside due to the weather conditions.
We should’ve gotten used to it by now, I guess…
Anyways, if you have a little extra you could spare to help us out please do so!
Even the smallest donation means a lot, as they all add up and get us closer to our goal. A three-digit number of lazy, relaxed kitties and a couple of their tired humans will be immeasurably grateful for your vital help!
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