Posted on June 19, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A world-leading animal testing laboratory in the UK closes the doors – Because the future is animal-free!
Great Britain is sending out an important signal for forward-looking research: The animal testing laboratory of the famous Sanger Institute is closed. Official reason:Increased focus on modern, animal-free research systems.
The nationwide association Doctors Against Animal Experiments welcomes this strategy and urges animal testing laboratories in this country to use the signs of the time also.
Following an in-depth review of the Institute’s strategy, it was decided that the Animal Research Institute, which was built in 2006 for £ 30 million (just under € 34 million), will be closed by 2022 at the latest.
As the renowned scientific journal nature reports, the reason for the decision is the rapid global establishment of human-based research modelssuch as 3-dimensional cell culture systems and organoids.
They want to increasingly rely on these research systems, as they are forward-looking. For example, the Sanger Institute participates in the international Human Cell Atlas project, in which all cell types of the human body are characterized in detail.
My comment: The well-known cancer researcher Dr. Irwin D. J. Bross, head of the Department of Life Statistics at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in New York, said something very important about animal testing:
“Not a single drug for the treatment of human cancer was originally found through an animal experiment … The results of animal models of drugs or other remedies have caused nothing but confusion, and misled those cancer researchers who tried to draw conclusions from mice to humans pull. […]. From a scientific point of view, experiments on animals can therefore be described as pure fraud. Privately they (the experimenters) will admit that the animal model does not work, but they react with a “shrug of their shoulders” when asked if it works.
“The animal experiment is simply a criminal method that must be abolished. We do not need alternatives for that. But we need a completely new system. So an animal-free research system. “
Posted on June 18, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Received anonymously, Jun 08:
In May 2019, a group of antispeciesist activists destroyed 49 hunting stands close to the city of Namur, Belgium.
The purpose of this type of actions is to cause financial dammage to hunters in order to keep them from killing.
Hunting is absolutely not a way to regulate anything. Hunters create a situation of imbalance in the nature just to have an excuse to intervene and kill the predators they introduced themselves. They also introduce preys.
They keep them locked in the forest and they only liberate them to kill them.
The truth is that hunters need an excuse to legitimate the fact that they kill sentients beings for pleasure.
So tell them to expect us. Cause as long as there will be hunters, there will be activists to track them.
My comment: At least from these 49 murder seats, no animal will be shot dead!!
In Germany, the legal status of these shooting facilities is not clear. Not all are legal, but no one can prove it. This is the reason that very often the hunters, whose high seats are destroyed, do not file a criminal complaint against the unknown offenders.
Therefore, we can be happy if a hunting seat is destroyed. And if that’s 49, the more!
That is not forbidden!
Posted on June 18, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
There are about 300 fur farms in Norway – each year more than 800,000 animals are killed there. That should stop, the new government in Oslo has now decided. But not right now.
Norway is thus after the Netherlands, which also get out of the fur production in 2024, the country with the second largest fur industry, which has ever issued a ban.
There are 200 to 250 fur farms, which are gradually dissolved, until in 2025 finally no longer exists.
The Ministry of Agriculture reported that there are 610,000 mink and 150,000 foxes in the farms.
The motion still has to be passed by Parliament, but seven out of nine parties have already voted in favor. So it’s just a formality.
The fur farms will be compensated in parallel to the closures.While animal rights activists in Norway and around the world are celebrating the decision, the Norwegian operators of fur farms are appalled that their very existence is at stake.
The fur breeders’ association said the producers were“shaken to the core”(!!!)
Norwegian fur farmer Per Blilie (C) skins one of his foxes at his farm in Gjovik, Norway, 28 November 2010.
My comment: And now the fur farm owners complain again: we are financially ruined, our livelihood is broken …
There are many other decent professions: teachers, mail boats, locomotive drivers …. To live from the blood of others is not a job, it is a legalized crime that a civilized society no longer needs and no longer wants.
It is enough shameful that all fur hangmen are compensated with EU funds (our money) for making croupels out of the animals in cages that they gassed, electrified and skinned alive.
The fur mafia is one of the most violent and bloodiest industries in the world and the hypocritical “Origin Assured” label (ie, “safe provenance” fur) is nothing more than a marketing tactic to veil the industry’s true atrocities. The Origin Assured Furlabel has one dirty purpose: to make people feel better when they support one of the world’s cruelest industries.
And now a small overview of the success we have had in the fur industry in recent years:
Austria, Great Britain, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzigowina, Serbia and Macedonia have legally prohibited fur farms.
The Swiss Animal Protection Act stipulates how wild animals such as mink and foxes must be kept under zoo standards. These requirements are so high that Switzerland has long been free of fur farms.
In the Czech Republic, a fur farm ban will come into force in 2019, in Norway in 2025.
In the Netherlands, the second largest mink producer in Europe, keeping chinchillas and foxes is already prohibited. The last mink farms will close in 2024.
In March 2019, it was announced that no animals were kept at the last German fur farm in Rahden (NRW). Even though the farm has not yet been deregistered by the local authorities, it can be assumed that no new animals will be used due to the high legal requirements that will apply from 2022 onwards. The penultimate farm in Döhlen (Saxony) was closed in 2018.
In the EU, import and trade in sealskins, as well as dog and cat skins are now prohibited. Unfortunately these come as “faux fur mislabeled in the trade.
And the market leader China, with 69 percent of global fur production, we will soon abolish or damage so badly that China will automatically stop running this bloody fur business.
Posted on June 17, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Monkeys should not be blinded!
Our Italian partner organization LAVhas launched a petition to the Italian Minister of Health Guilia Grillo.
Here is the translation of the petition text:
When they woke up, they did not understand what had happened. They only felt strong pain. When they tried to open their eyes, they realized that something terrible had happened: they could not see anymore!!
The #UniversityTurin is responsible for a new series of animal experiments on 6 macaque monkeys, in which the animals are surgically blinded, that is blinded – for studies on visual impairment in humans.
The macaques are first “trained” to be fixed in a primate chair for hours each day and to recognize images on a screen. After this phase, they are blinded. Invasive surgery on the brain is painful and should be done in the fall. The entire trial project is 5 years long. To stop that, we have to get active now!
We urge Minister Giulia Grillo to immediately stop the animal experimentation project “LIGHTUP – Turning the cortically blind brain to see” and to give the monkeys to rescue centers and / or animal welfare associations without delay.
Let us save the 6 macaques from these atrocities! Help us – before it’s too late!
Britches was born in March 1985 in the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Britches was an infant monkey that was withdrawn right after the birth of his mother. His eyes were sewn up in an experimental laboratory.
In 1985, Britches (and 460 more animals) were freed by brave ALF activists.
Treatment of the animals in the laboratory has been described as sadistic and inhuman.
Britches stands as a symbol for the millions of animals that are still tortured to death with increasing numbers in laboratories.
He was fortunate, though he became blind, to be liberated.
Since then the eyes of monkey babies at the University of California are no longer sewn shut!
But the Labor Mafia in the University of Torino still relies on the same torture methods as the University of California although this cruel method was practiced almost 35 years ago and proved to be a failure!!
Animal experiments do not work and have no scientific value, every good and honest scientist knows it. The animal experiments are the quackery in medicine and therefore worthless.
Posted on June 17, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Germany, Lower Saxony: A piglet has managed to escape from an animal transporter at full speed on the A1 motorway in Lower Saxony.
The animal not only survived the fall from the truck, it also gets a new home with an animal rights activist, as the police announced on Friday. How the little pig could get out of the hold of the transporter remained unclear.
During the trip, it fell out of the truck at about 80 to 90 kilometers per hour and overturned several times before it stopped next to the motorway.
A car woman-driver driving behind the truck noticed the falling piglet and called the highway patrol. The animal rights activist turned at the next exit and took part in the search.
The pig was slightly injured in the fall. The truck driver did not limit the loss of the animal from his van, as a call to the transport company revealed. Because the return of the vice to retrieve the piglet would have been too great a burden for the other animals in the van, the company decided that the animal rights activist may keep the piglet.
My comment: Frederik lives, as far as I am informed, today on the Farm Butenland, Germany, together with other animals, which are rescued from the same abovementioned similar cruel conditions and have a nice life there
Frederik won 6 in the lottery and we wish him a long and healthy life !!
The last Video from Frederik`s new life, Hof Butenland
Posted on June 16, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The strays … they are not from the street, they are on the street…
abandoned from people without responsibility, without loyalty, without heart…
they have nothing more than their lives, and they know nothing else than…
mistreated,
torturded
starved,
frozen,
fear and loneliness…
like toys that one does not need anymore and throws away
They are not toys, they are not things
they are part of the family, part of our life
friends for the whole life…
When you want a frend, adopt a dog and share your live with him
Do not betray your friends.
Posted on June 15, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
To begin to understand why it is immoral to exploit animals, it’s important to look at the euphemisms we use whenever anything negative happens to someone.
“He was like a lamb to the slaughter.”
“They were treated like farmed animals.”
“We were stared at like animals in a zoo.”
“They milked me for all I was worth.”
Why do we use these expressions for anything negative at all if what we do to animals is OK?
The truth is that it’s NOT OK. If it’s wrong to commodify humans in such a way, then so too is it wrong to commodify non-humans in such a way.
We are not so special and other animals so worthless that it is wrong for these things to be done to us but morally acceptable for us to do these things to them.
