Posted on December 22, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Harvard Law School has introduced a program which will teach law students how to fight for animal rights.
The course named Animal Law & Policy Clinic follows a national trend of schools offering animal rights legal training.
The course provides students with direct hands-on experience in litigation, legislation, administrative practice, and policymaking.
The clinic will work on a broad range of issues affecting farmed animals, wildlife, animals in captivity, and the overarching threat to all forms of life from climate change.
Harvard hopes the course will see ‘a new generation of leaders for the animal protection movement’.
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The clinic will be part of the Animal Law & Policy Program, led by Faculty Director Professor Kristen Stilt.
Announcing the clinic, Stilt said: “The Animal Law & Policy Clinic at HLS will train and prepare our graduates to embark on careers in the animal protection field, produce impactful litigation and policy analysis to benefit the animal protection movement, and provide an internationally renowned platform for educating the broader public about the many pressing issues involving animal law and policy.”
Growing field
Harvard said in a statement that animal protection is one of the fastest developing areas of public interest law.
The number of institutions in the US offering Animal Law courses has dramatically risen from just nine in 2000 to 167 in 2019.
“Animal law is a vitally important and rapidly growing field,” said Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’85.
“Our new Animal Law & Policy Clinic will give students real-world experience in this burgeoning field, build on Harvard Law School’s long tradition of innovative pedagogy, and prepare future graduates to address significant societal challenges.
“I am delighted to welcome Katherine Meyer to the Harvard Law School community and congratulate her, Kristen Stilt, and Nicole Negowetti on the launch of this terrific initiative.”
The Animal Law & Policy Clinic was supported by major gifts from the Brooks McCormick Jr. Trust, the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, the Animal Welfare Trust and other generous supporters.
My comment: I have never heard of such an offer anywhere.
What I knew was the offer of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, which provides students with the theoretical and practical tools needed to become familiar with legal protection for animals, so that at the end of the course students have a total comprehension of how the law works in this new subject area; It’s calledMaster’s Degree in Animal Law and Society and it is done as a distance learning course.
The fact that now the highly valued Harvard University offers a special course in training “Animal Rights” gives us hope that in the future there will be better legal expertise on this subject, which will consequently lead to more active and effective actions in the animal rights movement.
I believe that the historical moment has come to overcome the barrier of “speciesism” after nationalism, racism and sexism, which justifies discrimination against living beings only on the basis of their species.
Evolutionary biologists do not distinguish between humans and animals, but between humans and other animals.
Nevertheless! until now we have animals without rights.
And even if these “other animals” do not need the same rights as we humans (right to vote, freedom of religion, etc.) this does not deny their rights for freedom, life and autonomy.
We welcome very much the decision of the Harvard Law School !
Posted on December 21, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Striking official failure in Steinfurt, in the district (North Rhine-Westphalia), a dying peregrine falcon was found on Wednesday – he had just captured a color-coded domestic pigeon.
The find circumstances clearly indicate a so-called “Kamikaze pigeon”– a living pigeon is prepared with a contact poison.
The color is intended to draw the birds of prey’s attention to the pigeon.
Falcon and alleged bait were handed over to the police in Rheine.
But instead of properly handing over the evidence to the responsible veterinary inspection office, it was simply thrown away in the garbage can.
The police rely on the district veterinary office, which is said to have said that there were no known cases of raptor persecution in Steinfurt.
But that’s not true! because this district, with a total of 45 cases since 2005, is one of the regions in Central Europe most affected by this form of environmental crime.
The Lower Nature Conservation Authority of Steinfurt has also made a fool of itself – despite requests from the committee, they had refused to contact the police and urge the animals to be examined.
The committee against the bird murder is currently having a lawyer check to what extent the officials involved have abused their office.
And I mean…They all agree on corruption, ignorance and abuse of their powers.
A disgusting, corrupt, perpetrator-friendly gang = the German authority.
And straw stupid! so stupid that they should have got the job only through relationships and favors.
Police officers, veterinary officers, criminal police rabble … all stupid like a banana.
These are the instances that are supposed to protect our animals and us from criminals.
Posted on December 20, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Stuffed, fattened, tortured: the life of the Christmas geese
The so-called Christmas celebrations together with the New Year and the so-called Easter festivals have become the cruelest slaughter festivals of mankind, which among other things bring painful deaths to millions of geese and other animals.
In reality, it is a festival for the animal cannibal connoisseur and not a festival of love, the festival of Christmas.
Turkeys are often taken from their barns late at night, to make it easier for workers to collect them. They are picked up by their ankles, carried upside down and roughly shoved into crates.
During this process, their bones—weakened and brittle from the lack of sunlight and nutrition—are often broken, and their bodies bruised.They are then transported to a slaughterhouse.
Across the world, it is often legal to transport turkeys without food and water for days on end, in open-sided crates where they are exposed to weather extremes from scorching heat to freezing sub-zero temperatures.
Thousands of individuals die during transportation.
Those that reach the slaughterhouse alive are grabbed and hung upside down, causing even more pain and distress. Their heads are dragged through an electrified “stunning tank,”which aims to immobilise them; however, many will attempt to dodge this, and so are not stunned.
Furthermore, studies have shown that whilst their bodies may be immobilised, they can still understand what is happening, and still feel pain. This isn’t a step designed to make their slaughter less painful—it’s designed to make it easier for workers to kill them. Following this, they have their throats slit.
Again, this isn’t always effective, and those that survive this step will be boiled alive in a tank of hot water used for feather removal.
And does anyone really believe that the animal has no sensations and has no idea what terrible things will soon happen to it?
The suffering of the geese begins at the latest before the church’s so-called “Martin’s Day” on November 11th, when they are declared “Martin’s geese” according to church tradition and their necks are therefore turned around.
Meat consumption, the priesthood and the church have been closely linked in our culture since their beginnings. But the leading politicians together with the church authorities are very bad role models on the days off in December.
So it was already in the newspaper “Die Welt” in 2010: Angela Merkel fries her Christmas goose herself (December 21, 2010). And the year before, the “Main Echo” wrote: “At Christmas the Chancellor must have a goose, otherwise it is not a real Christmas, Merkel knows no pardon. The poultry is plucked and goes into the stove”.
It is not known that something has changed since then with the Chancellor.
The question is: Do the meat eaters really want to eat animals that were kept in this way? Do you really want to take part in this stupid, bloody and cruel animal tradition?
We cannot wish a good appetite and merry Christmas to eyeryone who celebrates this festival with a corpse on his table.
We don’t feel like celebrating with them.
Our message is: let the geese live!
And let the other animals live, too, the ducks, the turkeys, the chickens, the calves, the lambs, the deer, the pigs and the many other animals, which, especially on the big church slaughter days, still raise up to hundreds of thousands, even millions most terrible way to lose their lives.
Posted on December 20, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
URGENT: closing SUNDAY. Kangaroos are being shot and injured, and joeys decapitated, bludgeoned or left to suffer and die — all so these unique native animals can be sold as meat or skins. Now’s your chance to speak out against kangaroo shooting cruelty:
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