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EU: Please Promote and Sign (National links provided) – EUROPE WIDE Video Surveillance at Slaughterhouses.

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Dear animal friends,

this time it’s not about dogs or cats that need to be rescued.

There is still a very important issue, which is close to our hearts: It’s about the horrible end of the slaughter animals after their miserable lives. (Don’t worry, on this email as well as the petition, no terrible photos are shown)

To protect the live stock from daily horror and cruelty during slaughter, we have launched an EU-petition and urge you to support it with your signature.

We need your help to make this petition known in all European member states.
Please pass this email on to all responsible and animal loving people you know of please also on facebook and twitter.

In addition if it is feasable please set our petition LINK onto your website – this would be very helpful!
We would be delighted if we could gain you in addition to numerous animal welfare organizations and associations as well are representatives of the industry as a major supporter of our petition.
You would be in good company. Please have a look:

Europe-wide video surveillance at slaughterhouses and documentation
http://www.petitionen24.com/europaweite_videouberwachung_an_schlachthofen_und_dokumentation

https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.petitionen24.com%2Feuropaweite_videouberwachung_an_schlachthofen_und_dokumentation>

DEUTSCH – FACEBOOK – EUROPAWEITE VIDEOÜBERWACHUNG AN SCHLACHTHÖFEN
https://www.facebook.com/EuropaweiteVideouberwachungAnSchlachthofen

If the LINK doesn’t work, please mark the LINK, copy and enter it in a new search page in the header column.

????????? BULGARIAN – https://www.facebook.com/BulgariaEuropewideCCTVinSlaughterhouses <https://3c.gmx.net/mail/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBulgariaEuropewideCCTVinSlaughterhouses&selection=tfol12f1b46795bc88ad>

Please vote for the helplessly delivered slaughter animals.
Your support and forwarding determines success!
Every vote counts (would be ideal if all friends and family members would sign)!!
Together we create change!
Thank you in advance!

Kind regards
Martina Patterson, Lisa Boldizsar

and

Wasmut Reyer
League for integrative animal welfare policy

Welfare policy spokesman of the
ANIMAL ALLIANCE EU
www.animalalliance eu

For Europe:
To protect animals is a way of life and no question of the borders of a country.
It is always the right time to do te right thing.. (Martin Luther King)

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19/8/13 – Today is World Orangutan Day

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

It’s World Orangutan Day!
And today we are asking you to give just $1 to help give orangutans a future in the wild, where they belong.

We believe everyone can afford to give $1, and we believe that there are lots of people in the world who care about orangutans. Together, we can make a difference!

(You can also give £1 or €1, and of course, you can always give more!)

www.forests4orangutans.org/donations/

Other ways you can help:

Adopt an orangutan: www.forests4orangutans.org/adoptions/

Help buy rainforest: http://www.forests4orangutans.org/earth-4-orangutans/

100% of your donation goes to actual conservation activities on the ground, as Orangutan Land Trust’s core costs are covered by a donor.

Thanks so much for your continued support of Orangutan Land Trust and for helping to give orangutans a future in the wild, where they belong!

Kindest regards,

Michelle Desilets
Executive Director
Orangutan Land Trust
http://www.forests4orangutans.org

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Turkey: Turkish Dolphin Park Closed After Online Petition.

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Turkish dolphin park closed after online petition

Link: http://ofcoursevegan.com/2013/08/15/turkish-dolphin-park-closed-after-online-petition/

Petition brings down Turkish dolphin park.

In another victory for animal activists and sympathizers, a dolphin entertainment park in Turkey was shut down recently. (Hopefully, others around the world will suit.) The park was in Antalya’s Kaş, a small coastal town where tourism, fishing, diving and yachting are popular. (Considering all the water activities available it hardly seems necessary to keep dolphins captive there.)

A Change.org petition helped gather 20,000 signatures
against the dolphin park and this crowd sourcing of outcry played a role in the positive outcome for the dolphins. Increasingly, it seems people are aware the dolphins are intelligent creatures that need open space in order to be healthy. Caging them appears to strike many people on an instinctual nerve that such parks are actually dolphin abuse and no dolphins should be held captive to do tricks for crowds simply to make money for businesses.

According to the World Society for the Protection of Animals many wild dolphins die during attempts to capture them for the dolphin trade. Additionally, about half of those capture die within three months of being confined in swimming pools.Some are also used as meat for human consumption. Tragically, in other parts of the world such as Latin America the number of entertainment dolphin parks is reportedly growing.

Though it may look like dolphins at entertainment parks are having fun, they don’t normally do many of the tricks they are taught and only doing them for food rewards. Showing human audiences dolphins doing tricks is not educational. It is exploitation for profit. If those parks truly cared about dolphins they would not buy them from dolphin hunters that kill so many while trying to capture them. If they cared about them, they wouldn’t put them in such small enclosures, or any enclosures.

Paying to see dolphin shows only further motivates people to open more entertainment dolphin parks.

FREE THEM ALL – who is the more intelligent ?

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USA: National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves!

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

America’s wolves need you and so does The National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves! in Washington DC on Saturday, September 7, 2013.

Dear Mark,
By now you’ve likely heard about our Rally for Wolves in DC on Saturday, September 7, 2013. If not, you can find out about the Rally right now by clicking on the website link below.

We have reserved a beautiful and historic area adjacent to the Washington Monument, within sight of the South Lawn of the White House and the US Capitol building. The Rally currently has eighteen Rally Partners (listed at the bottom of the website), made up of small and large wolf and wildlife defender groups, and eight speakers including two native Americans from Minnesota.

A small team of grassroots wolf defenders came together to create this Rally in DC, in order to communicate to our nation’s leaders, to the media and to our fellow citizens that we the people have had enough of demonization, persecution and slaughter of vital and innocent wolves and other native wildlife. We’ve had enough of that in the United States. Enough.

We believe that it is time for decency, respect and co-existence, with wolves and all our precious native wildlife, to be the new American way. This positive message is the unifying theme of our Rally for wolves.

The best way for you to support this cause is to be there in Washington DC on September 7, 2013. Of course, not everyone can come. Please spread the word and invite those who can be there.

There are other ways for wolf friends from the US and around the world to support The National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves!

Check out the Rally website to find out how you can help make this event a positive and transformation moment for America’s wolves and hopefully for all wildlife under seige around the globe:
http://www.rallyforwolves.org

Thank you on behalf of America’s vital and beautiful wolves.
Robert Goldman
The National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves!
http://www.rallyforwolves.org

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Ukraine: Kiev’s dog hunters go on the attack to rid the city of strays.

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Subject: (Ukraine) Kiev’s dog hunters go on the attack to rid the city of strays

Article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/11/kiev-dog-hunters-rid-city-strays

Creatures slaughtered with poison or a single shot to the head on the grounds of public health

Oksana Grytsenko in Kiev
theguardian.com, Sunday 11 August 2013 23.18 BST

Kiev has up to 18,000 stray animals, mostly dogs, the authorities say. Photograph: Anna Voitenko

They adopt nicknames such as hunter, comrade and chemist-amateur. They swap tips on the whereabouts of a target and recipes for poison. And when the moment is right, they strike with doctored food or a simple shot to the head.

Kiev’s dog hunters are taking matters into their own hands, targeting the city’s thousands of strays in the name of public health. But in so doing, they are stoking a row about animal rights in a country famously blase about the welfare of its animals.

Last year, when pictures of strays lying on Ukrainian streets provoked an international storm in the runup to Euro 2012, the government invited in foreign vets, including the Austrian organisation Vier Pfoten (Four Paws), which offered free neutering and vaccination of stray animals at mobile clinics.

But soon after the football fans went home, the slaughter of stray dogs resumed in Kiev.

Now Vier Pfoten has stopped its neutering programme after death threats were posted on the web. “They said I could be killed exactly like happened to a judge in Kharkiv,” said Amir Khalil, head of the Vier Pfoten project in Ukraine, referring to a judge found decapitated in his flat together with three members of his family in December 2012. “They said: ‘We don’t need foreigners to castrate our dogs!'”

He said because the authorities and police in Kiev had not taken action after the threats, the project had been moved out of the city.

Kiev, which has a population of about 3 million people, has up to 18,000 stray animals, mostly dogs, city officials say. The authorities claim they lack money to keep them all at shelters.

Dog hunters use a website called “Vreditelyam.net?” (“no to pests”) to share information about the dogs’ locations, discuss recipes for poison and post photographs of the dogs they have killed. They call the dogs “flea carriers”, the pieces of food laced with poison “yummy” and the dog’s killing “sending to a rainbow”.

Dead dogs in plastic bags left on the ground. Photograph: Anna Voitenko

Oleksiy Sviatohor, a lawyer, is one of the few who admits to being a dog hunter. “This work is like cleaning up the trash,” he said. “Some may not like it, but we are finding the solution.”

Sviatohor claimed that the neutering by Vier Pfoten was merely mutilating the dogs and did not solve the problem. He said the poison, an anti-tuberculosis medication that is extremely toxic for dogs, causes a relatively fast and painless death.

But Tamara Tarnavska, an animal rights campaigner, finds it almost unbearable to talk about the dog hunters. “An animal takes five or six hours to die in agony,” she said.

Volunteers have seen the hunters giving poison to the dogs and reported them to the police. But they remember only one case of someone being imprisoned for slaughtering stray dogs. In June 2012 a student, Oleksiy Vedula, who tortured and killed more than 100 dogs and posted videos on the web, was sentenced to four years in jail.

Sviatohor said thousands of residents had been attacked by stray dogs and many people supported the dog hunters.

But animal rights activists say family dogs and even children playing in gardens risk eating poison left by the dog hunters.

Serhiy Morozov, a video engineer, was recently bitten on the leg by a stray dog. He said he was lucky to be wearing jeans, which protected him from the dog’s teeth and the risk of rabies.

Morozov said that while he would be more careful around stray dogs, he would never justify the killing of animals by dog hunters. “I would strangle these people with my own hands,” he said.

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England (UK): Another Demo (This Time in London) Against Live Animal Exports.

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

There has always been a massive public outcry against the live export of live farm animals from the UK. Things are really hotting up again at the moment, with Minister David Heath MP STILL FAILING to take action and change the 1847 law that was introduced very soon after the Battle of Waterloo, and which is STILL being used today as a law to justify the export of live farm animals from the UK.

There have been protests about the animal exports both at Dover (Kent) on the 3/8/2013 – the only UK port which live animals are exported from, and yesterday (10/8/2013) in London.

Saturday 10^th August 2013.

Here below are photographs from the London march against live exports organised by Compassion In World Farming (CIWF). – http://www.ciwf.org.uk/

Photographs below with thanks to our great personal friends at:

Stop Live Exports from the Port of Dover.

Check them out on their excellent Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Live-Exports-From-The-Port-of-Ramsgate/205331499512961

See the tv footage from ITV Meridian television who covered the march in London for their news programme::

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2013-08-10/live-exports-campaigners-march-in-london/

On this video you can see campaigners fighting to stop the export of animals through Kent for slaughter in Europe who marched in London on the 10th, calling for a new law giving ports the power to refuse the trade.

John Ryall (reporter) spoke to Pru Elliott from Compassion i World Farming and veteran campaigner Reg Bell.

View our post on the Dover demonstration on 3/8/2013 at:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/08/05/england-uk-dover-live-exports-demo-report-for-august-2013-with-video-link-at-end-watch-the-speakers/

What is the 1847 Act; and how can I take action to become involved ?

Click on:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/08/09/uk-live-animal-exports-see-ciwf-undercover-footage-tell-david-heath-mp-to-change-the-uk-law-he-can-do-it-without-affecting-eu-law-but-will-he-continue-to-hide-behind-the-blame-the-eu-cu/

Photos from the London march are as follows:

OH YES YOU CAN !

– Don’t give us your ‘blame the EU’ typical UK government

politician ‘yukspeak’ !!

Change the outdated 1847 Act – and NOW !!

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UK: Live Animal Exports. See CIWF Undercover Footage. Tell David Heath MP To Change the (UK) Law – He CAN Do It Without Affecting EU Law. But Will He Continue to Hide Behind the ‘Blame the EU’ Curtain ?

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

UK Minister for ‘Animal Welfare (Huh !) – David Heath – Photo: BBC.

The man who will not stop live exports – Cartoon – CIWF.

This is David Heath, the UK Minister at the UK Ministry of DEFRA, and who says he cannot stop the live exports of animals from the UK, as the EU will not allow it.

This is incorrect and he does not want to change things; he only wishes to keep blaming the EU saying why his hands are tied. He could take action to change UK legislation, but he will not.

ACTION:

Live exports: Tell David Heath to stop hiding behind EU law

A UK law that is over 160 years old, the ‘Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847’, means that public ports across Britain have no say in whether they wish to accept the trade in live animal exports.

This is pathetic, and is a law passed soon after the Battle of Waterloo !! – we say that now in 2013 it is time for change !

We know that many UK Port Authorities would rather not allow shipments of live animals. But as long as this outdated legislation remains on the books, their hands are tied.

The UK Farming Minister, David Heath MP, needs to have some guts and stand up and take a lead on this issue by amending the 1847 Act. He has the power to make a significant change for farm animal welfare.

But David Heath and his colleagues at Defra, the Government Department that oversees live exports, don’t seem to understand what we are calling for. They believe that amending the 1847 Act would be a ban on live exports – and illegal under EU law.

Yes, current EU law prevents the UK government from banning live exports altogether.

BUT if local authorities were given more power over the trade they allow through their ports (using an updated act of law) this could still end live exports

– and it would be perfectly legal under EU law.

What is the 1847 Act?

The Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act states that all ports must allow the free trade of goods: if someone pays the fee to use the Port, they must be allowed to ship their goods. Astonishingly, live farm animals are still classified as goods.

So, by law all British ports must allow lorries full of animals to pass through, even if the ports don’t agree with the trade. This law is over 160 years old. It’s high time that this law is amended.

Please visit our good friends at CIWF to take further action about this:

http://action.ciwf.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=21798&ea.tracking.id=05bb9ddb

If you want to send us (SAV) a caption to go at the end of the above cartoon of David Heath MP, then please do so. Send via the ‘Contact Us’ link.

We will publish those which are good and which are not abusive – anything that is like this will not be shown. Keep it clean but using the above information, keep it accurate.

CIWF Undercover Footage – the EU has NO ‘Ag Gag’ fortunately.

Go to http://www.ciwf.org.uk/ to see undercover footage investigation of calves being exported from the UK to mainland Europe.

Note – investigators voice and identity has been changed for this report.

This is the reason why so many UK citizens have been protesting at Ramsgate port in the recent past; and now Dover, as the live animal exports have now changed to this facility.

View the 3^rd August Dover demo at:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/08/05/england-uk-dover-live-exports-demo-report-for-august-2013-with-video-link-at-end-watch-the-speakers/

KAALE in Kent, England are a major campaign group against live exports. Mark, SAV founder, is the EU and media correspondent also for KAALE.

Visit the KAALE website at: http://www.kaale.org.uk

See some photos of Ye old Historic Kent County – the ‘Garden of England’, at:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?gs_rn=24&gs_ri=psy-ab&cp=3&gs_id=2a&xhr=t&q=utc&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50500085,d.d2k&biw=1231&bih=571&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=OFUFUsSMM6zP0AXrr4CIDQ#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=6a59fc1a3845674d&hl=en&q=kent+england+images&sa=1&tbm=isch&um=1

The following pictures are all by Val who is the official photographer for KAALE.

They show live animal exports from the UK ports of either Ramsgate or Dover, both in Kent County, England.

The most annoying thing about it all is that NO UK people are involved with the exports. It is run by a Dutchman named J. Onderwater and often involves calves travelling from Ireland to mainland Europe, simply using the UK as a ‘land bridge’. Onderwater operates the vessel ‘Joline’ which is a simple barge; a throwback from the Cold war days with the Soviets when it was used as a battle tank carrier. Now the ‘Joline’ carries live animal transporters from Dover port in the UK (England) to Calais in France. British people in general are outraged at this, and the want the UK government to step in and amend the 1847 Act so that UK ports can refuse the trade in live animals.

But David Heath will not act; and so most British people hate him as he always wants to blame Europe about legislation when in fact he could amend UK law if he wished. He does not have the guts to do it. But people vote, and they will let him know their feelings at the next general election.

Below are Dutch transporters on UK roads – the Dutch have yellow number plates on the front – UK have white.