Before God all creatures are equal, but According to a Letter From the VATICAN, there is NO PLACE FOR THEM in the CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With thanks to Diana for the translation.

“There is no place for animals in the catholic church”.

(Image source: http://www.stadthunde.com/uploads/pics/Maja___Welpen.JPG, http://www.bz-berlin.de/multimedia/archive/00143/tag3-11-17_143611k.jpg )

ETN Ambassador Maja Princess of Hohenzollern’s annual Christmas letter:

Before God all creatures are equal, but there is no place for them in the Catholic church.

The cruel and brutal treatment of animals is our daily bread in our work for animal welfare. Especially in Southern and Eastern Europe – the catholic-orthodox countries – we experience time and time again how abandoned cats and dogs are left to their fate, without love and care, often victims of hunger, speeding cars or brutal violence. So many of them are beaten, locked up, are kept on a chain all their lives and are abused. Many times, in Spain, I found dogs and cats with their eyes gouged out or their tails or ears cut off; and that is not even speaking of the horrors inside the “Perreras” (killing stations) where hundreds of thousands of animals each year are murdered – often by burning them alive.

Last year we terminated, together with ETN e.v. (http://www.etn-ev.de/) , a dog massacre in Romania, where approx. 300 dogs a day were killed by bashing their heads in with a spade.
Since the beginning of 2004 approx. 10 million stray dogs have been killed brutally in Romania in this and other ways. If the victims were Humans the term “genocide” would certainly be used.

In Italy we fight, in cooperation with ETN e.v., Tasso e.v. (http://www.tasso.net/)  and bmt. e.v. (http://www.bmt-tierschutz.de/) , against the abominable „Canili“, inside which approx. 550,000 dogs and cats are lingering in crammed spaces inside huge store houses where they die slow deaths from injury, sickness, starvation, lack of care and medical attention.

 (Please help these animals and sign our petition “Canili”)

http://www.tasso.net/Helfen/Aktionen-unterstutzen/Todeslager-in-Italien

Please enter your details as follows:

Anrede*: – please tick Mr. (Herr) or Mrs.  (Frau)

Vorname*:  – First name

Name*: – Name

PLZ*: – Postcode

Ort*: – Town

Land*: – Country (please replace „Deutschland“)

Email*: – E-mail

Ich protestiere gegen die Canili in Italien:  – „I protest against the canili in Italy“ (please tick)

Absenden: – please click and send

Thousands of puppies die in Hungary and Poland because they are bred non-stop for being flogged off cheaply on “rummage tables”. They are torn away from their mothers much too early to be sold on weekly markets in Germany.

Again and again we seek to understand why people treat animals so cruelly.

And indeed we find the cause for the rampant animal abuse and mistreatment in Eastern and Southern Europe within the catholic church. The catholic church explicitely denies animals a soul and any and all claims to care and welfare. The church thus degrades and animal to the rank of an unfeeling object, and that is the way he/she is subsequently treated.

This is why we repeatedly demand of “our” German Pope, who should really be having a different education of the heart when it comes to animals, to finally acknowledge that animals are part of creation and henceforth, and naturally, DO have a soul as we do. If only he’d mention this in one single sentence during his “Urbi & Orbi” speech and gave this message to his priests on their way to their flocks – he could save millions of animal lives. If he wanted to.

Sadly neither the Pope nor the 16 dioceses the ETN e.v. had individually addressed have agreed to cooperating on animal welfare issues or have indeed, given any statement at all concerning the welfare of animals.

Instead we had this reply from the Vatican:

“There is no place for animals in the catholic church”.

A sentence like a punch to the gut and a death sentence for millions of animals.

Perhaps animals would enjoy a different status if they paid church tax.

Although a set of ethics that grants animals rights of their own towards mankind can easily be found in and justified by scripture. We therefore demand of the church to finally take moral responsibility for that which they claim to stand for and defend: equal respect and care for all creatures of the earth, as it is unambiguously laid down in the bible.

When I look into the eyes of my dogs, every single one of whom I have rescued from the clutches of brutal animal abusers, I know for certain that they call a soul their own. With some Humans I am less sure.

Please include our animals in your prayers, and remember them on Christmas Eve – because they are a part of us and enrich our lives in myriad ways.

Sincerely,

your
Maja Princess of Hohenzollern
ETN Ambassador

 

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Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Involvement in Plans to Weaken Sea Shepherd.

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/wikileaks-reveals-u-s-involvement-in-plans-to-weaken-sea-shepherd/

 

On Monday, Wikileaks released documents revealing discussions between U.S. and Japanese officials over plans to weaken Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s anti-whaling efforts.

Sea Shepherd sails the seas every year in an effort to protect whales by interfering with hunts by Japan’s whaling fleets.  The documents leaked to Spanish newspaper El Pais reported Monica Medina, the U.S. representative to the International Whaling Commission (IWC), and senior officials from the Fisheries Agencies of Japan last year discussed stripping Sea Shepherd’s tax-exempt status as a political move to come to an international agreement on the number of whales killed each year.

Japan also wants harsher measures to deal with the alleged “eco-terrorists,” about which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed.

At its meeting in June, the International Whaling Commission failed to reach a compromise between the last three whaling nations and those opposed to it. Since the creation of the IWC, increased opposition to whaling led to the moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, and later the creation of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Now, only three of the 88 nations involved, Japan, Norway and Iceland, continue to hunt whales.

Japan could potentially get a legal kill quota if it cuts the numbers killed in the Southern Ocean. Until then Japan continues to use a loop hole in the moratorium, killing whales under the guise of scientific research…in a sanctuary…for whales….where they’re protected by international law.

Providing a legal kill quota to protect whales does not protect whales, it protects whaling. Sea Shepherd is reportedly against anything less than a complete stop to whaling in Antarctica. Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd, stated that the “initial agreement was a betrayal by the Obama administration against the whales.”

Katsuhiro Machida, the director general of Japan’s fisheries agency stated that taking action against Sea Shepherd would be a “major element” in international negotiations on kill quotas. This would be the same fisheries agency that was just called out for taking “gifts” of whale meat from whalers.

Medina said she believed “the US government was capable to prove that the group doesn’t deserve its tax-exempt status due to aggressive and harmful actions.”

 “Monica Medina of course had no authority to speak on the issue of tax status because she was not authorized to do so by the Internal Revenue Service or the U.S. Department of State,” said Watson.

Watson said in the past Japan has pressured foreign governments to take action against the group, such as revoking the registration of its ships. Sea Shepherd was audited two years ago, before the discussions leaked in the documents, he said.

“We have had our tax status since 1981, and we have done nothing different since then to cause the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] to change that,” he told the Associated Press.

“No harmful or aggressive actions have been proven against Sea Shepherd and no charges have been filed against Sea Shepherd by Japan or any other nation over the issue of whaling in the Southern Ocean,” said Watson.

The deputy general director of Japan’s fisheries agency was also quoted stating, “the harassment of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had kept the Japanese whaling fleet from reaching its quotas these last few years,” which really means that Sea Shepherd is, in fact, successful.

Right now Sea Shepherd boats are in the Antarctic Ocean disrupting Japan’s fleet which kills about 1,000 whales every year.

So there you have your tax-dollars at work. No wait, your donations to an NGO working!

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Serbia: Subotica City Authorities Are Asked – Where Are All the Animals ?, and Where Has All the Money Gone ?, If You Are Complying Within the Law ?

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

5th January 2011.

‘EPAR-OIPA SRBIJA’ have today sent to the authorities in Subotica city the following for their urgent attention ;

Information regarding where all the dogs and cats who have been captured by city firm JKP `Cistoca  i zelenilo` have gone;

What has happened to the millions of Dinars of public (taxpayers) money which has been supporting this;

Mrs. Usumovic and Mrs. Dulic have informed EPAR-OIPA SRBIJA in the past that the city has acted in full agreement with the law.  We know this is not true because under existing Serbian law, the killing of strays is forbidden; and yet we have proof that on 16/11/2010 there were only 201 dogs and no cats held in the city pound.

And so, what has happened to all the other dogs and cats which have been captured by city firm JKP `Cistoca  i zelenilo` ? – and what has happened to all the money if as we are informed, everything has been done in accordance with the law and animals have ot been killed ?  What has all of the money been spent on and where are all the animals ?

In addition, a letter has been sent to veterinarian Mr. Tikvicki and also to the Republic Veterinary Inspection of Subotica, again requesting that all the dogs at EPAR shelter must be provided with rabies vaccinations as required by the law, and which must be funded from the republic budget, not by the owner of the shelter, which the authorities are attempting to justify.

A request has been sent as to how many dogs and how many cats have been caught by the Subotica authorities in 2010.  This information and a copy of the requests have also been copied to all of the Serbian media.

In the following copies is a request asking the Subotica authorities how many dogs and cats have been captured in the city for the period 2004 – to the end of 2009.

The official answer from the city is that the authorities have had a meeting with the new Friend-EPAR and Mrs. Branka Bojanin; including also veterinary inspectors and workers of JKP`Cistoca and zelenilo-dogcatcher firm, but that NO official report was made and more importantly, NO official minutes of the meeting were made either.

IMPORTANT NOTE –

A new name of EPAR-OIPA SRBIJA has now had to be established by Slavica (of original Friend-EPAR) because of the attempts made by Branka Bojanin to take over control of the EPAR shelter which was run by Slavica.

Remember the attempts by Branka Bojanin to try and let all the shelter dogs out onto the streets recently sothat they could then be captured, taken back to the city pound and killed ?

See the video of the events at:

http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2010&mm=12&dd=21&nav_id=480834

Branka Bojanin is the blone woman who you can see fighting with the police in the video above.  She attempted to turn 700 dogs from EPAR shelter out onto the streets so that they could be caught and killed.  Note all the shinters and other dogcatchers waiting at the gates of EPAR shelter ready to catch the animals.

As can be seen in the video, Branka Bojanin was put into a police car and taken to the city hospital for checks on her mental state.

Slavica who owns the shelter prevented the authorites and the dogcatchers and Branka Bojanin from undertaking their wishes.  But by her underhanded means, Branka Bojanin has thrown Slavica out of the position of President of Friend-EPAR so that she, Branka Bojanin, can work directly with the Subotica authorities and try to kill as many animals as possible.

This is why Slavica has now had to form a new organisation, EPAR-OIPA SRBIJA, as she (Slavica) is being forced out of official positions at Friend-EPAR by the city authorities.

All the dogs at EPAR shelter are still safe due to Slavica’s efforts at this time to protect them.

And this is why questions have to be asked of the city authorities once again, where are all the animals if things have been undertaken within the law, and what has happened to all the money associated with this ?

Is this corruption by the Subotica city authorities and attempts to undermine animal welfare shelters to obtain access to kill alll the animals ? – this is the situation; you decide for yourself !

  

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Germany: International Animal Welfare Organisations ONLY – Please Support the Call for A Closed Season on Fox Murder. Currently Foxes can be Killed ALL Year.

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

Important message:

It should be noted that support for the organisation given below is only applicable to animal welfare organisations; it is NOT something that can be supported by individuals.

 

Organisations which do support this are required to give the URL to their website in order to justify their support.

 

Early February in Germany sees what is known as ‘Fox Week’; whilst the name would appear to support something in the way of national Fox protection, it is very much the opposite – it is a week or more where hunters and blood sport enthusiasts throughout Germany attempt to kill as many foxes as they can for the sadistic pleasure.

 

Below you will find a few photographs showing the killings which take place every year in Germany during Fox week.

 

 

 

Some German campaigners have now created a website and initiative aimed at pressurising the government to establish an annual close season for foxes; because as it is at the moment, foxes can be hunted for the entire 12 months of the year.

 

The campaigners in Germany are looking for support from other animal welfare organisations regardless of where in the world they are.

 

The original German link for this campaign on ‘Pro-Lure-Animalis’ can be viewed by accessing the following;

 

http://www.pro-iure-animalis.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=712&Itemid=86

 

The current list of supporters can be found by accessing the following link:

 

http://www.schonzeit-fuer-fuechse.de/unterstuetzer.html

 

SAV will very soon be adding its name to the supporter list and we are taking this opportunity to publicise this campaign and ask that as many animal welfare organisations who visit our site join up and give their name to this initiative.

 

So to sign up your animal welfare organisation it is very simple.

Please send an e-mail of support to the following address:

 

info@schonzeit-fuer-fuechse.de

 

providing the name of the support organisation, the country in which the support organisation is based, and finally the link to your support organisations website.

 

The February Fox week in Germany sees the decimation of beautiful wild animals throughout the country by members of the hunting fraternity. It is hoped that with a large international supporter organisation base supporting this initiative, pressure can be put on the German government to ensure that an annual closed season for foxes is enforced.

 

Please cross post this message to anyone, anywhere who you think will be able to provide support via their animal welfare organisation.

 

Thanks – SAV.

 

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Uk (London): Best Wishes and Positive Campaigning in 2011.

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

The firework display to celebrate the New Year which was held in London last night had me spellbound; it was just the most incredible display ever.

The closing of one year and the beginning of another is always a time for reflection. Today, New Year’s Day, I have to look back on what we have undertaken over the last 12 months. With my 22 years campaigning experience in live farm animal transport investigations, I know very well that the best and hardest campaigns are not won in just a matter of weeks or months.

A campaign is basically a series of concerted operations geared towards a single general objective. Our work, and I speak on behalf of all of us, has the objective of eliminating animal suffering around the world. By what it is, this means that we are undertaking one massive campaign which will continue probably for many decades in the future. But in the end, good always triumphs over evil, and I am very confident that the future will see many more people joining with us in defence of animals and exposing their suffering.

And so 2011 commences with yet another year of witnessing animal cruelty, whilst at the same time doing everything we can to expose and publicise these events to the world. I look forward to being a voice for animals within the Balkans during the next 12 months, and I trust that as before, I can rely on your friendship and support whenever it is needed to put pressure on governments and authorities who appear to feel that inflicting animal suffering should be the ‘norm’.  I aim to prove them wrong by whatever peaceful and legal means of expose are at our disposal.

I wish you all a very happy 2011 and give you my full support in whatever animal protection campaigns you undertake, wherever in the world you and they are.
I especially wish to offer my thanks and continuing support to Slavica in Subotica, Serbia. Slavica works tirelessly for better legislation, the enforcement of existing legislation, and the care and protection of many hundreds of ex-stray animals at her shelter. I wish her the very best of health in the coming year. The friendship which exists between Slavica and myself and our combined dedication to fight for improved welfare for animals will, I am certain, ensure that the coming years do witness improvements for the stray animals of Serbia. There is no quick solution and I’m the first to admit that; but we are in for a long campaign haul if necessary to do what we feel is correct and right for animals.

To finish, I would like to show you the video of the fabulous firework display held in my capital city of London, England, yesterday, New Year’s Eve. For anyone who is not familiar with London, the large circular wheel which you can see illuminated in the display is known as the ‘London Eye’ – the eye is equipped with large transparent visitor modules which rotate to provide excellent views for visitors right across London. The following link provides more information and photographs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Eye 

So please join with me in watching the spellbinding firework display from London which was held on New Year’s Eve – 31st December 2010.  Please click on the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_9bx6U8_0

 

May 2011 bring you success in each and every one of your animal welfare campaigns.

Best regards and positive, fruitful campaigning throughout 2011,

For the animals !

Mark

– Founder SAV.

London.

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I am scared and don’t want to die.

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

I am scared and don’t want to die. 

The location of this slaughterhouse is not known; possibly France ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUkHkyy4uqw

We are a new group set up to help animals. 

Here’s our first link to a film on YouTube that we think you ought to see.

Please forward this on to your friends and email us with your thoughts after watching the film, to pleasehelptheanimals@hotmail.co.uk

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SAV Additional footage links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEk3V-wcQCs&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlnNAwLJkBc&feature=related

We have always had a policy of saying the truth and showing the truth.

This is the reality, the truth about meat production.

The reality of animal abuse and suffering will continue to be exposed on SAV.

Whatever species and wherever it happens.

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International: Please Sign the Petition Calling for 100% Ban on Shark Finning.

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

100% Ban on Shark Finning & Close all loopholes that allow it.

Petition Link:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/100-ban-on-shark-finning-close-all-loopholes-that-allow-it/

Target: UK, China, USA, Japan, & other Governments. 

Sponsored by: James Howie. Animal Activist.

 First of all I want you to know that when this petition is full I will send copies to every government I can to get this banned so your signature and the signatures of your family and friends are all needed. Sharks are pulled from the water with a hook in their mouths, they are kicked and stood on then someone with no heart at all just looking for some fast cash takes a blade and cuts its fins off, the shark wriggles in great pain as this is done ( imagine having your arms & legs cut off) then is thrown into the ocean and left to drown. If sharks could scream the world would hear the pain and these cruel acts would stop. 

I am asking to get a 100% ban on shark finning and to close the loopholes that still allow it in some countries that say they have a ban but I need your help, so please sign and pass this along to others. 

I thank you, the sharks thank you, the eco-system thanks you. 

With respect, James Howie.

 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/100-ban-on-shark-finning-close-all-loopholes-that-allow-it/

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