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UN report on agriculture-Article from the German magazine “Der Spiegel” 

To say it right from the start: an organic steak alone is not enough to save the world.

At least not if it is eaten daily.

According to a recent study, meat consumption is the world’s biggest destroyer of nature, and this includes organic meat. Only with more plant-based nutrition can the dramatic loss of biodiversity and ecologically sensitive habitats

Cattle breeding in South America Foto: Martin Harvey / Getty Images

The global meat industry and intensive agriculture have become the main drivers of this destruction of nature. The loss of habitats and biodiversity has never been as dramatic as in the past 50 years.

The reason is the reallocation of natural ecosystems for feed production or grazing land.

The more intensive agriculture that relies on pesticides and monocultures is particularly problematic. This would permanently destroy the soil, which in turn would lead to even more reallocation of natural land.

In addition, large amounts of fossil energy, fertilizer, and water are needed to produce meat.

This is being fueled by the trend towards more and more cheap food.

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2021/02/05/meat-consumption-is-natures-greatest-enemy/

And I mean...It is the crime of cheap beef: the EU is the third most important buyer of Brazilian beef in terms of sales.
In 2018 imports increased significantly.

115,333 tons of imports were already registered in the first ten months of 2018. That was 22 percent more than in 2017.
The quantities are likely to increase by the end of the year.

At just under 58,000 tons, the Argentinians delivered 40 percent more.

Beef from these two countries is comparatively cheap. While Brazilian goods cost the equivalent of around 217 euros / 100 kg, according to EU data, 374 euros / 100 kg must be created for EU goods.

Thousands of hectares of primeval forest are being cleared in South America, and a unique ecosystem is threatened.

Companies are creating huge areas there for growing soybeans – especially for German meat producers.
Most of the soy harvest ends up in Germany as feed for animal fattening.

The future plantations look like open wounds, freed from trees, armadillos, and wild boars.

Prepared for growing soybeans in gigantic monocultures.

Soy cultivation / South America / Paraguay

Breeders and fatteners have made Germany the largest soybean importer in Europe, with imports totaling 3.7 million tons of soybeans and 2.8 million tons of soybean meal in 2016.

The German importers get most of the deliveries from South America – and according to research by the Mighty Earth Organization, they also buy the lion’s share of the soy for which the Gran Chaco is cleared in Argentina and Paraguay.

Our capitalist system doesn’t know any other direction, it has to go on and on.

“As a matter of fact, nothing else can be given as the purpose of our existence other than the knowledge that it would be better not to be there”.
Schopenhauer

My best regards to all, Venus

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https://land-der-tiere.de/puten/: Report

This is our answer to conditions in turkey farms that go beyond the worst imagination of what is done to the animals on the fattening and breeding farms.

Pictures of ARIWA Organisation like we published yesterday on our blog look totally different.  https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2021/02/04/germany-scandal-in-the-stable-of-europes-largest-turkey-producer/

The rescued turkeys Claudius, Bibo, Jolanda, and Jasmin now live on the farm https://land-der-tiere.de/puten/ 🦃 and they live fine.

This is the life they deserve.

But…

30,000 turkeys were officially “killed and disposed of” in two Brandenburg facilities in the last 10 days.

Most of these animals are probably still healthy. However, since they can no longer be “recycled”, the motto is: caught, hung up.

Where animals are treated as goods and life counts for nothing, the phrase “dangerous pathogen” has nothing to do with the danger for the turkeys concerned.

It’s all about the economic risk for those who wanted to kill these turkeys anyway – just for a profit.

The tragic thing is that it is precisely this commercial animal use itself that poses the greatest risk for the further spread of avian flu and many other infectious diseases.

We are doing it consciously, knowingly, deliberately … almost from inferior basic motives.

My best regards to all, Venus

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Numerous media report on the research images of the ARIWA (animal rights watch organization) from the turkey fattening of a high agricultural official.

The operator’s attempts at justification are nothing new:
He claims the incidents are exceptional and that responsibility is being shifted to the bottom line.
In fact, however, the footage shows the cruel everyday life in every turkey fattening.

Of course, the employees are inexcusably brutal with the animals.

But this is an almost inevitable consequence of the system, which is also based on the lack of prospects for exploited workers.

Sanctioning individual workers will NOT change anything.

Because our recordings do not show any individual misconduct, but the principle according to which this violent industry works.
The operator is one of the main beneficiaries of this branch.

He must be held accountable and his business model belongs to the dump of history!

The story: Necks cut with bolt cutters, torn tail feathers with which the employees played “soccer”, suffering and dying animals

The torture case in one of Storck’s large turkey farms, which was also uncovered and dealt with in the media in December by “ANIMAL RIGHTS WATCH”, has now been expanded to include countless other abused, bludgeoned animals and scandalous events in another farm of the poultry president …

AnimalsUnited reported also on the scandal exposure in December 2020.

“Thomas Storck is Europe’s most influential poultry lobbyist. The pictures from two locations in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania show turkeys being clubbed to death or killed with a bolt cutter -Turkeys that slowly die, turkeys that are kicked for slaughter and whose tail feathers are pulled out by workers for fun ”, describes the animal rights activists.

The scenes were filmed with hidden cameras in Roddahn (Ostprignitz-Ruppin district) and Goldberg (Ludwigslust-Parchim district). “Workers beat sick turkeys with a club.
With their skull shattered, the animals suffered for minutes.

Film material from “ARIWA (the video is in German but will be partially translated)

Video: //vcdn01.spiegel.de/players/jUiRwUZV-9QTGcSm3.html

Video: some animals are apparently doing badly
Open wounds can be seen, animals maltreating from conspecifics, and an employee of the company who with a
Club hits a half-dead animal.

The business is owned by Thomas Storck, and he is the largest turkey breeder in Europe.

Storck has already been accused of keeping the animals in very poor conditions.
The organization Animal Rights Watch again accuses Storck of animal cruelty.

For more at …https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2021/02/04/germany-scandal-in-the-stable-of-europes-largest-turkey-producer/

And I mean…The operator, Thomas Storck, who has also been Europe’s largest “turkey producer” since autumn 2020, is responsible for more than a dozen such fattening systems and thus for the suffering of many hundreds of thousands of turkeys every year.

As a lobbyist and “turkey president” he literally claims that Germany has the “best housing conditions in the world”.

His political goal is clear: everything should stay as it is. So that this cruel business remains profitable, for him and the entire industry.

With the support of politicians and authorities, of course!

My best regards to all, Venus

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Orcas have no natural predators.
They are only threatened by us humans.

Overfishing of their food sources, pollution of their habitats, and the live trade of the dolphinarium industry are among the greatest threats to orcas.

In Canada, the encroachment on their habitat is already drastically revealed and the orcas have to fight for survival.

The salmon farming industry is changing their food supplies, so animals starve and young animals die.

Hence, the survival of this ecotype depends on our choices.

Sea Shepherd Germany

…there are many reasons not to eat animals
one of them is a clear conscience
but there are many more benefits than having a clear conscience.

regards and good night, Venus

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Committee against Bird Murder e.V. (CABS)

Strike against bird smuggling from Italy to Malta – After months of surveillance in Villa San Giovanni (Calabria), the Italian financial supervisory authority (Guardia di Finanza) has caught a well-known Maltese businessman with more than 1,000 illegally caught goldfinches, chaffinches, and hawfinches.

The birds were hidden in a van that the former diamond dealer wanted to use to take the ferry to Malta. On the black market there, the charge would have been worth between 75,000 and 100,000 euros.

The birds are now flying free again, a video of the release and the smuggling vehicle has now been published on Youtube:

The committee congratulates the Italian police on this great success but also points out that the Maltese authorities had already been informed about the smuggling activities of the man who was now arrested since 2018 and apparently remained inactive.

In order to combat the illegal fishing of finches in Malta in spring, the committee will be present on the Mediterranean island with two teams in March and April 2021.

https://www.facebook.com/Komitee.CABS/

And I mean…Criminal methods are used by hunters on the Mediterranean island of Malta at a mafia-style!

With 385,000 inhabitants, of which 14,000 are registered as hunters and 8,000 as trappers, the archipelago has the highest population density as well as the highest “hunter density” in Europe.
Another 3,000 or so illegal hunters are added, making a total of 25,000 bird hunters in Malta.

And that on a land area (316 km2) that is smaller than Lake Garda!

Bird hunting and trapping have a long tradition in Malta. The so-called “trapping” in particular has an important social component. Instead of going to the football field, people catch birds on Sundays.

80% of the hunters collect shot birds stuffed as trophies. That is, the motivation to hunt does not result from the desire to have something edible on the table, but to complement the missing species in the living room showcase.

When Malta joined the EU, in 2004, it was required to integrate the directive into its national legislation, but according to Birdlife Malta and CABS, successive Maltese governments have been lax in preventing trapping.

In June 2018, the European Court of Justice ruled that Malta had violated the directive by introducing too many exemptions and failing to implement adequate enforcement measures.

In October 2018, in response to the June ruling, Malta lifted its rules on the fall live capture of finches and only allowed the catching of golden plover and song thrush.

But Birdlife Malta and CABS, which were searching the island for illegal activity, reported that nothing had changed.

My best regards to all, Venus

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This year we have an excellent record against the hunt.

1) According to the “New Press” _Magazin in Frankfurt, 100 high seats had been eliminated by animal rights activists until July 2020.

Quotes from the newspaper report: “The perpetrators used brute force. Where they couldn’t saw, they bent the metal ladders.” Everything is now unusable, “says the tenant.

(Brute force is only used by hunters against defenseless animals.
Therefore we are pleased that at least from these places no animals are shot anymore)

2) It is a concerted action that began in Hessen in February with the destruction of 42 high seats in the city forest.
The damage is estimated at 20,000 euros.

(What a crap!!
The hunters build a high seat with wood, which they loot from the trees of the forest, and costs a maximum of 100 euros each. And most of them aren’t  legal!)

3) The police and the public prosecutor are currently investigating who is responsible for the destruction.

Senior Public Prosecutor Nadja Niesen confirmed: “We are investigating unknown persons because of property damage.”
The police are not investigating for property damage, but for “politically motivated crime” (!!!)

(The crime is not that someone destroyed the cruel high seats, but that they exist at all).

4) So announces the hunting tenant to go hunting with mobile high stands in the future – smaller, collapsible ladders that can be leaned against a tree.
However, it is inconvenient. “When hunting wild boar, we often have to wait for hours in the raised hide in winter.”

(Clear! who is looking for a victim in the forest has to work hard.
And most of the murder seats will be paid – like the others – with money from the community)

https://www.fnp.de/frankfurt/hessen-frankfurt-schwanheim-bergen-enkheim-tierschutzaktivisten-faellen-hochsitze-polizei-staatsanwaltschaft-13835089.html

My best regards to all, Venus

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