Posted on October 26, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Mark,
I just received some breaking news: the European Commission had to postpone a decision on glyphosate — again! This is huge and was only possible thanks to your tireless work raising the alarm about Monsanto’s toxic weedkiller.
What does that mean for us? Well, it’s good news to start with. The European Commission has been trying to get glyphosate renewed for another ten years. But thanks to you, they failed to get a majority of EU countries to back the renewal of glyphosate.
Monsanto is fuming!
Glyphosate is the main ingredient for Monsanto’s best-selling weedkiller RoundUp. If we can get glyphosate banned, it’s going to be a major blow to Monsanto’s operations.
We just bought ourselves another two weeks to campaign the hell out of this. We know that Monsanto will do everything in its power to lobby politicians all over Europe.
Your work has been crucial in making sure we could even get this far. A few months ago, no one thought it was possible to ban glyphosate but you’ve given Monsanto a run for their money.
Thanks to the support from SumOfUs members like you, we paid for an opinion poll that showed Europeans want an immediate ban on glyphosate. Your donations meant the polling results were published in key European newspapers such as Le Monde and Le Figaro — just days before EU decision makers met to vote on the glyphosate renewal.
And just two days ago, we delivered our petition against glyphosate to the German Green Party, asking it to keep its campaign promise to ban glyphosate when elected into government.
Now, it’s time to brace ourselves for the final showdown and we don’t have much time. The vote is like to take place in as little as 11 days.
We have shown that we can win this. After Italy and Austria, members like you also recently pushed France to commit to voting “No” on a licence renewal for glyphosate.
It’s up to us now, to double-down and make sure EU governments don’t agree to anything less than a ban on glyphosate. But we can only do it with your help.
Glyphosate is one of the most widely used herbicides, and it’s found in stuff that we use and eat every single day: clothing, personal hygiene products, beer, even breast milk and honey.
The World Health Organization’s cancer research institute classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic. Research shows that pregnant women exposed to glyphosate had infants with low birth weights and birth defects. And glyphosate has been linked to die-off of honeybee colonies that are essential for our food production. According to a recent study, glyphosate has even been shown to harm bees’ ability to navigate back to their hives.
It’s time to stop Monsanto for good. Can we count on your support to stop Monsanto’s poisonous weedkiller chemical?
Thanks for all that you do,
Anne and the team at SumOfUs
Posted on October 26, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
After decades of pressure from PETA, including countless e-mails and phone calls from our supporters, Gucci will finally go completely fur-free very soon.
Its CEO, Marco Bizzarri, announced during London Fashion Week that the brand’s new fur-free policy will begin with the 2018 spring collection—preventing minks, coyotes, foxes, rabbits, and other sensitive animals from being slaughtered for their fur.
Gucci now joins an impressive line-up of major fur-free fashion brands, including Armani, HUGO BOSS, Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney, and Tommy Hilfiger.
Our recent post relating to this -including a video about Chinese Fur Farming.
Posted on October 25, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
More positive action in the House of Commons to ban live animal exports from the UK once it leaves the EU.
Teresa Villiers (Conservative Member of Parliament) introduced a ten minute bill into the House of Commons asking to ban Live Animal Exports for slaughter or further fattening as soon as we leave the European Union.
She confirmed that all attempts to do this over the years since the 1970’s had failed due to EU free trade rules.
She covered people’s concerns over the World Trade Organisation which controls trade even once we leave the EU. This organisation has written into its rules that trade can be stopped if it effects the general publics morals and already things like seal skins, dog fur, cat fur, ivory etc where coming under these rules and countries were banning the import of such items.
We thank Teresa and other supporters of this Bill, which passed and is now heading forward to its second reading – The bill went through unopposed and the second reading is to be on the 2nd February 2018.
Hopefully, the UK taking positive moves for action when the EU does not give a toss. Yet another reason why the people of the UK voted to leave the EU.
Posted on October 25, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
As we have exposed many times in the past on this site; for example; the EU is utterly incapable of enforcing its very own legislation that is supposed to protect live animals in transport – Regulation EU 1/2005 of 22/12/2004.
So again as we have said before, why pay money into a club that cannot even enforce the rules set up by the club ?
And all those alleged super intellegents at the EU are just starting to realise that without the financial contribution UK, the EU is going to have big financial problems. If they had enforced their rules like they are supposed to do, then maybe the people of the UK would have voted to remain in the EU, rather than do a Brexit.
Mr Junker – Head Of EU Commissions – all talk and no enforcement of the regulations.
Here are just a few of our past links showing why we have NO faith in the EU. Video links are included which we suggest you view – the proof that the EU is all talk and no real enforcement action.
Please watch the videos as they show / list all the infringements of Reg 1/2005 which the EU does not undertake.
REVEALED: The 70 BILLION reasons why the EU doesn’t want Britain to LEAVE Brussels
SAV Comment – also as we have shown on this site for 10+ years, the EU does NOTHING to get Serbia to enforce the ‘rule of law’ (supposedly as required by the EU for all nations wishing the join the EU) with regard the treatment and care of stray animals within Serbia. Serbia does not enforce its own rules (national legislation), yet it wants to join the EU. What does the EU do ? – it hands out Billions of Euros to Serbia as a ‘sweetner’ for when it becomes an EU member state, yet neither the EU or Serbia put any pressure on the Serbian government to make sure Serbian strays are treated in accordance with Serbian national legislation.
So why do we in the UK want to support these ‘weasel worders who do nothing’ ? – NO- we get out of the EU and leave them all to pick up the financial tab whilst they continue to enforce nothing ! – a sort of ‘they get what they deserve’ approach many Brits would say.
EUROPEAN Union leaders are desperate for Britain to remain part of the bloc as its huge budget contributions will be sorely missed.
Politicians from across Europe have begun to panic as they have realised they will be €70billion short once the UK leaves the EU.
Regional leaders met in Helsinki for the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPRM), where they questioned the impact of Brexit on the EU budget.
Come March 2019, when Brexit is finalised, the EU’s €1trillion budget will be severely depleted, which could be bad news for some of the smaller regions of the member countries.
The 160 regional presidents gathered in Finland have expressed concerns about what the budget reduction could mean for them.
You can click on any of the subject headings to read more – and scroll through the numerous and very informative pages via the page index at the bottom.
Also a really excellent source of information for all those of you who are Vegan.
Check it out – you can also contact Vegan Punk via a link on the site – if you do then do not forget to say where you are writing from.
Posted on October 24, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment – Glad to hear the rabbit is ok.
Hello friends, hallo Mark,
today I have good news!!
I read this report on a German web site for animal rights and translated it.
Rabbit missed, hunter hit.
ST.PETER AM HART, AUSTRIA: At around 11:05 am on Saturday, 21 October, at the end of a so-called ‘drive-hunting’, the participants of a hunt were in the Mooswiesen area.
An 80-year-old hunter from St. Peter am Hart and a 25-year-old from Altheim were on the same level in the last rifle line.
As a field rabbit ran between the two and fled towards St. Peter, the 25-year-old gave a shot but did not hit.
The 80-year-old, who was to the right of the 25-year-old, shot twice on the rabbit, but missed it as well, and shot by mistake at his colleague!!
The 25-year-old was hit by bullets in his head and legs.
He had to be transferred by the red cross to the hospital in Salzburg, seriously injured.
I have written a comment on an Austrian side:
”As soon as I get 80 years old, I will make a hunting license. I have great chances to eliminate the right ones in the forest”.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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