Posted on December 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Yet another failure by the EU regarding non compliances with EU Regulation 1/2005.
Mr Van Goethem – I am an EU official, but I can do nothing !!
USELESS !!
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Stoppt das Massaker
von Millionen von rumänischen Tieren im Nahen Osten –
Kampagne/PETITION
In einer veganen Welt müssten wir nicht gegen die grausame Behandlung von Tieren kämpfen. Aber bis wir lernen und akzeptieren, dass Tiere nicht einfach Menschen zum Gebrauch zur Verfügung stehen, müssen wir wenigstens versuchen, das Leiden, das sie während ihres kurzen Lebens und beim Sterben erfahren, etwas zu verringern.
Rumänien steht an der Spitze der europäischen Länder, die Tiere grausam behandeln, eine Situation, die von ignoranten und korrupten rumänischen Behörden aufrechterhalten und gefördert wird. Dieselben ignoranten und korrupten Behörden haben es geschafft, Rumänien noch eine “Auszeichnung” in Sachen Tierquälerei zu “schenken”: es ist das Land, das die meissten lebenden Tiere exportiert! Millionen von rumänischen Kälbern, Kühen, Lämmern, Schafen usw. füllen eine Marktlücke, die dadurch entstanden war, dass andere Länder mit höherem ethischen Niveau das grausame Schlachten ihrer Tiere nicht zuliessen!
Das Leiden und Sterben der Tiere fängt mit der Minute an, wo sie auf Lastwagen gefrachtet werden, um zum Haven transportiert zu werden. Auf unzulänglichen (aber von ANSVA — der Nationalen Behörde für Veterinärwesen und Lebensmittelsicherheit “genehmigt”) — Transportwagen von Arbeitern, die oft unmenschlich (aber “qualifiziert” und “ausgebildet”) sind, zusammengepfercht, reisen sie ein bis drei Tage lang, bis sie von dern Lastwagen runter und auf Schiffe geladen werden. Obwohl sie durstig und erschöpft sind, werden sie auf grausame Art und Weise gezwungen, den steilen Laufgang des Schiffs raufzugehen – dazu werden Elektroschocker verwendet, oder es wird ihnen an vielen Stellen tief in den Korper gestossen.
Im Dienste einer Export-Industrie von lebenden Tieren, die einige Wenige sehr reich macht, werden Millionen von Tieren auf “Toten-Schiffen” zusammengepfercht und auf eine Reise übers Meer geschickt, die ungefähr 8 Tage dauert und den Nahen Osten zum Ziel hat. Einige Tiere sterben schon auf dem Transport, sie haben kein Wasser, sind erschöpft und ersticken. Man kann sagen, die haben Glück gehabt, denn ihre Qualen sind zu Ende.
Die, die noch am leben sind – noch erschöpfter und kaum fahig, sich aufrecht zu halten – werden auf andere Lastwagen geladen und zu unautorisierten Schlachthöfen gefahren, wo sie in Metalldrehkörpern getötet werden, was enorme Qualen verursacht und in denen die Tiere einen langsamen und schmerzvollen Tod erleiden. Andere werden zu Märkten gefahren, wo sie untrainierten Leuten ausgeliefert sind und primitive Massnahmen erleiden müssen. Sie werden an einer Strassenecke festgebunden und dann einfach erstochen, bis sie nach vielen qualvollen Minuten sterben.
Hier ist die Antwort von ANSVA (der Nationalen Behörde für Veterinärwesen und Lebensmittelsicherheit) in Bezug auf eine Beschwerde über die tragische Situation der Tiere während des Transports und am Bestimmungsort: “Es ist das erklärte Ziel von ANSVA, Rumäniens Teilnahme am internationalen Markt, was den Handel mit lebenden Tieren betrifft, UNBESCHRÄNKT ZU GARANTIEREN “
Rumänische Behörden stellen weiterhin Export-Lizenzen aus, obwohl sie genau wissen, dass die Exporte von Rumänien die Europa-Rat Regelung Nr. 1/2005 verletzt, welche laut einer Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs auch dann wirksam ist, wenn der Bestimmungsort der Tiere ein nicht-europäisches Land ist.
Die Korruption von rumänischen Behorden, besonders die, die Einhaltung von Regelungen überwachen anstatt Verstösse erlauben sollten, schafft es also, auch die Straßen von anderen Landern mit dem Blut und dem Leiden von rumänischen Tieren zu tränken.
Was der Transport von lebenden Tieren bedeutet und um mehr über die schockierende Behandlung zu lesen, die rumänische Tiere in anderen Ländern erleiden müssen, siehe hier:
FNPA (Nationale Vereinigung fur den Tierschutz) beteiligt sich bei einer Kampagne, die zum Ziel hat, den EXPORT VON LEBENDEN TIEREN ZU STOPPEN. Sie wurde von “ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL” begonnen, der Organisation, die diese Untersuchung eingeleitet hatte. Bitte, macht mit!
Bitte unterschreibt die internationale PETITION zum STOPPEN DER TODES-SCHIFFE hier:
Die Tiere werden mit Gewalt auf die Schiffe getrieben, mit Elektroschockern oder Messerstichen in den Körper
The animals are forced to climb into the ship by electric prodding or by stabbing the body
Rind wird in Gaza getötet
Cow killed in Gaza
Verängstigte Kühe werden in Metalldrehkörpern getötet
Terrified cows killed in the rotation boxes
Stop the Massacre of Millions of Romanian Animals in the Middle East – Campaign/PETITION
In a vegan world we wouldn’t have to fight against cruel treatment of animals. But until we learn and accept that animals are not for human use, we must at least try to reduce the suffering they experience during their short life and at their death.
Romania ranks right at the top of European countries that commit animal cruelties, a situation that is upheld and encouraged by ignorant and corrupt Romanian authorities. Because of the same ignorant and corrupt authorities, Romania has managed yet another “accomplishment” in terms of animal cruelty: it is the country that exports MOST live animals! Millions of calves, cows, lamb, sheep, etc. from Romania fill the demands of a market that had been depleted because other countries with higher ethical standards would not allow the cruel slaughtering of their animals!
Suffering and death of the animals start the minute they’re being loaded on trucks to be transported to the port. Crammed into inadequate vehicles (but “authorized” by ANSVSA – National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority from Romania) by workers who are often inhuman (but “qualified” and “trained”), they travel one to three days until they’re unloaded from the trucks and loaded onto ships. Exhausted and thirsty they are brutally forced to climb the steep gangway of the ship with the use of electric cattle prods or by deeply stabbing the bodies in many places.
On behalf of an export industry of live animals which deeply lines the pockets of a few, millions of animals are crammed on “death ships” for a journey across the seas which lasts about 8 days, on their way to the Middle East. Some die during the transport, due to lack of water, due to exhaustion and suffocation. We would say those are the lucky ones, because their torment has ended.
Those still alive – even more exhausted and barely able to sustain themselves – are loaded onto other trucks and taken to unauthorized slaughterhouses where they are killed in rotation boxes which produce immense torture and cause the animals to die a slow and agonizing death. Others are taken by truck to markets where they are at the mercy of groups of untrained people and have to endure primitive behavior. Pulled to a street corner and tied up there, they’re being stabbed many times until they die after tens of minutes of agony.
The answer of ANSVSA (National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority from Romania) in response to the complaint about the tragic situation of the animals during transport and at their destination: “The stated purpose of ANSVSA is to ensure WITHOUT LIMITATION Romania’s participation in the international market, to trade with live animals”
Romanian officials continue to issue export licenses for live animals, despite being very well aware that exports from Romania are violating the European Council Regulation No.1/2005, which, according to the Decision of the European Court of Justice, is also applicable when the animals’ destination is a non-EU country.
The corruption of Romanian officials, namely those who should monitor compliance with regulations and not facilitate breaking them, “manages” to fill also the streets from other countries with the blood and suffering of Romanian animals.
What the transport of live animals means and to read about the shocking practices that Romanian animals in other countries are subjected to, see below:
FNPA -National Federation for Animal Protection- participates in a campaign that aims to STOP THE EXPORTS OF LIVE ANIMALS. It was started by “ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL”, the organization which carried out the investigation. Please get involved!
Please sign the international PETITION to STOP THE DEATH SHIPS from:
We at SAV have looked into German hunting issues quite a lot in the past. Many of the photographs in this particular post are from our own files; as undertaken by ‘D’ in Germany. Please read the excellent info from Venus in this post which is a current, personal feel.
At the end are several links to some of our main articles from the past.Sorry but many of the pictures are very bad – but that is the actual reality of hunting; and we make no apologies for showing animal abuse in such detail.Almost all of the following contain distressing photos, many of which are from ‘D’ – our German investigator – SAV:
Many photos from SAV archives (via D).
The psychopaths who call themselves “hunters” in Germany are about 361,000. 0.4% of the population kill 5 million wild animals each year, creating a bloody reality in the forest, from which most people have no idea. 5 million animals every year – that is 13,700 every day, 570 per hour, almost ten animals per minute. Every six seconds, an animal is killed in Germany by the hands of a hunter.
The fox is the most hunted in Germany. In fact, there is no more a protection time for the fox.
600,000 foxes are shot in Germany every year! The three” hunters” reasons for this: rabies, fox-worm, exterminating important breeders (birds, etc ..) The rabies is eradicated and the probability of infecting by fox-worm t is far less than a 6 in the lottery. Foxes are not just carnivores, foxes eat everything. To this extent, foxes cannot eradicate any animal species.
But no one talks about animals that are endangered by extermination (lynx, wolf, badger …) for which the hunters alone are responsible.
So what are the real reasons for the fox hunt? From the various journals, we read: “Lust for reenactment and heritage,” “Waidmann’s joy to roll a fox in a shot-shot,” the “charm of the winter fox hunt” Hunting-Fever “and” Kick “, is what the hunter-psychopath experienced during the fatal shot. Our European neighbors Luxembourg is much more rational with the fox hunting. And forbade them. In Germany the huntsmen are composed of quite high strata. Lawyers, doctors, judges, city administration Officials are hunters.
It is no wonder that trials against hunters always fall into the hands of the hunters In Germany there is a saying: “who is rich or hunters is always in the right”! Our opponents in the fight against hunting are, therefore, rich, influential persons who are protected by politics. But the majority of the population is in Germany against hunting.
Posted on November 28, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Paypal: free.fly.dogs@gmail.com
Our 14 dogs who don’t have any help for years have debt for their accommodation for October in amount of €550.
Please help us!
Free Fly isn’t organization. We are only 4 women who try to help innocent and abandoned animals. We have over 25 animals as Free Fly and over 20 dogs or cats under care of each of us.
But these 14 dogs don’t have any help. We didn’t pay for October and November and our kennels and private accomodation ask from us to pay, but we don’t have how.
We desperately need your help.
Some of these dogs are waiting for homes over 3 years.
List of dogs and their costs only for accommodation.
Uske – €50
Kuci – €40
Kiki – €40
Alisa – €40
Dona – €40
Lela – €20
Paja – €40
Bak – €40
Oliver – €40
Vlatka – €40
Beban – €40
Bole – €40
Malisa – €40
Ljubica – €40
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TOTAL: 550
Posted on November 27, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We at SAV have looked into German hunting quite a lot in the past. Please read the excellent info from Venus at the end of this post. Here are a few links to some of our main articles from the past.Sorry but many of the pictures are very bad – but that is the reality of hunting; and we make no apologies for showing animal abuse in such detail.Almost all of the following contain distressing photos, many of which are from ‘D’ – our German investigator – SAV:
Two things happened this week that will change the future of fox hunting in Scotland and, in turn, the rest of the UK. I wanted to share them with you because as a OneKind member, you’re helping make this happen.
On Sunday we released the horrific details as to how a fox had been killed by a Scottish hunt. On the 5th of November, a fox carcass was handed into Hessilhead Wildlife Hospital in Ayreshire. The fox had extensive injuries and Hessilhead were keen to establish the cause of death, so they contacted OneKind and we arranged for a post-mortem to be carried out by SAC Consulting Veterinary Services. As far as we know, this is the first time the carcass of a fox killed in this way has had a post mortem. This is what the pathologist concluded:
“The shotgun pellets appear to have missed the vital organs so in my opinion the shot was not instantly fatal and death will have been due to a combination of respiratory failure, blood loss and shock. This will have caused significant unnecessary suffering to the fox.”
For years the proponents of fox hunting have tried to claim that the death of a hunted fox is instantaneous. The fate of this poor animal shows what really happens, which is why we were delighted to see the story widely reported by the media, including the front page of the Times. You can read more about this horrific incident here.
The following day, the Scottish Government published a landmark review of the fox hunting ‘ban’. OneKind has long considered the ban unfit for purpose, and we are delighted that the review confirms this.
The review was carried out by Lord Bonomy and it is a comprehensive analysis that lays bare the failures of the law. Scottish hunts have continued their activities after the ban by claiming that they offer a pest control service, which is permitted by the Act. Lord Bonomy notes there is evidence that this is a “decoy” for the continuation of traditional hunting. He also suggests the fox we had post-mortemed was by no means unique. Approximately 160 foxes are killed by hounds in Scotland each year.
Lord Bonomy made many recommendations to improve the law. It’s now over to the Scottish Government to close the loopholes in the Act and end fox hunting, as the Scottish Parliament intended. This will mean implementing all of Lord Bonomy’s recommendations, and more.
For more on the Bonomy report, including a summary of the recommendations and our response to them, check out this blog.
Last Summer, when the SNP bravely announced that they would vote against weakening the Hunting Act in Westminster, Angus Robertson, the SNP leader in Westminster, and now deputy party leader said “We totally oppose foxhunting”. We will be working hard over the next year to make sure they deliver on this.
Thanks as ever for your support. Just let me know if you have any questions or comments on our work, or if you want to get more involved.
Harry
All photos from SAV archives (many via D).
The psychopaths who call themselves “hunters” in Germany are about 361,000. 0.4% of the population kill 5 million wild animals each year, creating a bloody reality in the forest, from which most people have no idea. 5 million animals every year – that is 13,700 every day, 570 per hour, almost ten animals per minute. Every six seconds, an animal is killed in Germany by the hands of a hunter.
The fox is the most hunted in Germany. In fact, there is no more a protection time for the fox.
600,000 foxes are shot in Germany every year! The three” hunters” reasons for this: rabies, fox-worm, exterminating important breeders (birds, etc ..) The rabies is eradicated and the probability of infecting by fox-worm t is far less than a 6 in the lottery. Foxes are not just carnivores, foxes eat everything. To this extent, foxes cannot eradicate any animal species.
But no one talks about animals that are endangered by extermination (lynx, wolf, badger …) for which the hunters alone are responsible.
So what are the real reasons for the fox hunt? From the various journals, we read: “Lust for reenactment and heritage,” “Waidmann’s joy to roll a fox in a shot-shot,” the “charm of the winter fox hunt” Hunting-Fever “and” Kick “, is what the hunter-psychopath experienced during the fatal shot. Our European neighbors Luxembourg is much more rational with the fox hunting. And forbade them. In Germany the huntsmen are composed of quite high strata. Lawyers, doctors, judges, city administration Officials are hunters.
It is no wonder that trials against hunters always fall into the hands of the hunters In Germany there is a saying: “who is rich or hunters is always in the right”! Our opponents in the fight against hunting are, therefore, rich, influential persons who are protected by politics. But the majority of the population is in Germany against hunting.
We are Respect for Animals and we campaign every day against the cruel and unnecessary fur industry – an international trade that kills 100 million animals every year.
Our original award-winning ‘Dumb Animals’ poster and cinema advertising led to the exposure of the cruelty of the fur trade and prompted society’s rejection of fur wearing in the UK.
We now plan to launch a new global ‘fur for animals’ campaign using effective social media messaging to raise awareness that fur is cruel and buying fur perpetuates animal suffering.
We will work with the world’s TOP design and creative colleges and sponsor a global competition to produce a new ‘Dumb Animals’ campaign fit for the 21st Century. The world has changed since the first wave of anti-fur campaigns and so has the way and where fur is sold.
We need to evolve and step up our campaign. With your help, we can.
We have just launched a Crowdfunding campaign to fund our new exciting campaign, ‘Fur for Animals’.
We’re going to be taking on the fur trade with a 21st Century campaign to rival our original award winning ‘Dumb Animals’ adverts in the 1990s, which led to a change in attitudes to fur in the UK.
But now, several years later,, due to new demand for fur in Russia and China, more animals are being killed for their fur than ever before.
We know you are one of our most committed supporters and we need your help.
We urgently need the funding to fulfill our aim of working with some of the world’s top young designers that will take social media by storm and raise awareness about the cruelty of fur around the world.
Posted on November 24, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A Christmas Story
Every year, when Christmas comes, I wonder what gifts I should give. Most people think – give to people?
No!, not me; I mean to give to the animals!
On previous Christmas’ I had planned a one-woman anti-fur action, as a kind of personal gift / action for the suffering fur animals. I had inspected all the big shops in the city near to where I live. All of them sold fur articles. In one shop, which was very noble and expensive, there was a fox jacket priced at 1.199.- Euros. “It is red fox”, the seller informed me, allegedly “something that was very special”! – yes special to the fox; it is its coat to keep it warm ! When I put on the jacket, as part of my plan; I already knew what I would give the animals this Christmas.
I bought lots of small, white, self-adhesive stickers.
I typed on the computer:
“Pelz ist Mord
Kein Pelz kaufen” which means – Fur is murder, don`t buy fur.
I printed out 60 labels; each which carried this wording.
I decided to stick each of my labels over the price label of the fur items being sold. There are 2 reasons why I decided to do this:
Spontaneously, if we want to buy something, we always first look at the price, and
The price label is not part of the article, it is cut off at the checkout. This meant that even if I had been caught, no action could be taken against me for causing damage to the property.
Theoretically! – But it would be best not to be caught in the first place !!
That’s why I had tested all the cameras in the store. There were cameras everywhere. At the department where there was the red fox jacket, there was even a discreet camera mounted on the wall.
My plan had to be as follows:
take the fur jacket in hand, look for the position of the price label, try as if I was thinking of buying, and then… zack, zack!! quickly stick my anti fur label over the price tag !
Then, job done, move on to the price tag of the next fur item !
I had already stuck about 40 labels to different garments, but still none on the red fox fur. And I really wanted that!
“What does this jacket cost?” I asked the saleswoman. “1.199” she said; “but it is worth the money, something you will not find anywhere” !
I tried the jacket on and the saleswoman stood next to me. I made a small turn around in front of the mirror to view it from different angles, I had to be convincing that I was interested ! “I have to think it over,” I said, “it is too expensive for me”.
The saleswoman went away, disappointed by what I had said.
I put the jacket back on, quickly put my sticker onto this prize fur and left the store as quickly as I could. It was the sticker number 41!
When I think at this action today, I must admit, it was not a big or a direct gift for the animals, I know that. I have only provoked a little bit of attention into a very bloody business called the fur trade, nothing more.
Maybe I could have done more, if I had other helpers and activists with me. Yes! maybe … but with “if and but” you cannot change society and the suffering of the animals. We cannot wait for great deeds, everyone does what he or she can personally, now and again. Small gifts and actions for the animals are better than nothing.
And it should not be only at Christmas time.
Best regards for you, dear Mark, and for all campaigners fighting for animals everywhere !
As well as working with German friends and campaigners regarding live exports and the need for an 8 hour maximum one off journey time; we are now also going direct to the EU.
With our German campaigners and using heir helpful advice and letter writing, we have already got things under way to target Chancellor Merkel in Germany; asking her to make representations on the subject at EU level.
We have also, now produced a petition to Bernard Van Goethem at the EU asking for an 8 hour maximum one off journey time for animals. You may well remember other posts on this site where Mr Van Goethem has held his hands up and said “we can do nothing” – even when presented with the most disgusting videos of animals suffering at the Turkish border when exported from the EU.
The wording of our letter to Mr Van Goethem – a Director at – European Commission, DG SANCO – Directorate G – Veterinary and International Affairs is as follows:
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Dear Sir (Mr. Van Goethem),
In the context of the 8hours campaign in 2012, more than 1,200,000 (1 million 200 thousand) citizens asked the EU Commission to limit all livestock transportation to a one off 8 hours maximum. Every year due to the existing and non enforced ‘EU legislation’, millions of farm animals suffer during long-distance transport across Europe and to other Third countries such as Turkey.
They are transported for very long period and exposed to extreme variations in temperatures, both of which are non compliant with the regulations set by EU regulation. In addition, only some animals (say those near to water dispensers) making up any particular consignment are lucky enough to receive very limited rations of food and water; often many get nothing. – In addition, the legally required rest breaks detailed in the regulation are also very often ignored by EU international livestock hauliers. Again, the EU Directorate; of which you are a Director, takes no action to make things any better for these animals.
It is inconceivable that the EU Commission has completely ignored the requests of over 1,2 million EU citizens asking to limit animal transports to a maximum one off journey time of 8 hours. You are failing us, the citizens of the EU, and you are failing the animals of the EU.
According to EU Regulation No. 1/2005, which is supposed to ‘protect’ animals during transport, but does anything but protect; the following freedoms should apply to all animals during transport:
• Animals must be free from hunger and thirst,
• Animals must be free from pain, injuries and diseases,
• Animals must be free from anxiety and stress.
All of these freedoms are regularly being breached during long-lasting international transport, especially to locations such as Turkey from EU states.
Regulation 1/2005 exists only on paper to show the EU public there are so- called legislative rules. But the EU, of which you are a Veterinary Director, is not enforcing the existing regulation in any way; and so the legislation really means nothing – it is utterly useless paper ‘nothing’; and the livestock haulage industry know this as well as your failures to enforce the legislation. The demands defined in 1/2005 are not respected by several existing EU member states, and you do nothing legally to even try to enforce them. Examples of the failures we are talking about can be seen in the videos referenced below for example; especially in this case regarding animals exported from the EU to Turkey.
All the video evidence above as well as meetings between you and animal welfare organisations have ended with the disappointing but simple response from you: “We cannot do anything”. On behalf of EU citizens, we thus question the EU enforcement of Regulation 1/2005, and say that if legislation is not rigidly enforced, then why does it exist in the first place ? – as we said, just a paper, mean nothing lump of regulation.
EU officials / Commissioners, who could start to amend animal transport legislation immediately, have remained inactive and very quiet for a very long time. Regulation 1/2005 for animals in transport ‘protection’, which originally became law in December 2004, is utterly ineffective as EU officials including yourself take no action whatsoever to enforce it.
According to the Lisbon Treaty, one million people who have to come from several EU Member States, can use the ‘citizens’ initiative’ to ask the European Commission to submit new political proposals. These 1,2 million people calling for 8 hour transport legislation have not yet been able to stop the misery of the transport of animals for time periods over 8 hours. Times need to change and you need to be held responsible.
Therefore, we are now asking you, a ‘Veterinary Director’ at the EU, to make sure that these animal transports within EU member states, and also all exports to Third nations such as EU – Turkey transportation; are timed to a one off maximum journey time of no more than eight (8) hours.
Please use your influence as a ‘vet’ – someone who allegedly should care about the welfare of animals, so that the existing laws on the implementation on animal transports are finally adapted for once and all to reflect a one off maximum journey time of no more than 8 hours as the citizens of Europe request. This ruling must apply for transport across the whole of the EU and for export to Third countries such as Turkey. Only for specific situations such as Scottish animals being shipped from islands to the mainland should their be additional but limited hours.
Thank you for your time and consideration of our very important ‘citizens’ initiative’ request. We are watching your future actions to see if the ‘EU Veterinary Director’ actually does anything for the improvement of ‘animal welfare’ – and animals currently suffering during transport.
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You can sign our petition calling for 8 hours maximum (one off) journey time by visiting:
Please pass the link on to anyone and everyone you know.
We need to make this big for the animals that you have seen in the videos above.
Mr Van Goethem is a Director at European Commission, DG SANCO – Directorate G – Veterinary and International Affairs – so we must let him know how we feel about the current legislation (EU Regulation 1/2005 of December 2004) and now demand that a maximum 8 hour, one off journey time is introduced for all animals transported within the EU and for animals transported from the EU to Third nations such as Turkey.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 