Posted on October 12, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The monkeys run backwards in a circle in their small cells. One always makes a somersault. Others run from left to right, from right to left.
The animals are housed in bare cages, in which a monkey does not even have a cubic meter of space.
This is much less than the law requires when animals stay in cells for longer periods of time.
That’s in Germany, not in China!
The images are from inside the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, LPT for short.
It is considered one of the larger private laboratories in the country and employs 175 people. In the rooms tests for the approval of drugs are carried out.
The photos were submitted by the animal rights organizations SOKO Tierschutz and Cruelty Free Internationalto the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the “ARD Fakt magazine”.
An animal rights activist has been working as a caregiver in the lab for several months and has recorded scenes showing that some of the monkeys are housed in tiny cages. They show dogs that bleed heavily, captive monkeys who seem to be resisting fixation, and cats whose blood is taken by force.
The pictures also show how roughly employees deal with animals.
“This leads to such absurd situations that a pharmaceutical company from South Korea causes monkeys in Lower Saxony to be tormented, or dogs from the USA are taken to Hamburg for a laboratory to suffer a cruel death from severe bleeding for medication” so Mülln from “SOKO Tierschutz”
The federal government is under pressure. Since the summer of 2018, a so-called infringement procedure against Germany is ongoing.
Germany has to improve the anchoring of animal welfare in the law, so the accusation from Brussels. 20 points are on the list of deficiencies. It is objected, among other things, that the expertise of researchers sharing in animal experiments need not be proven.
My comment: As soon as undercover investigations reveal an illegal barbarity and animal cruelty in the name of the research, then the authority determines.
Until then, the authorities have tolerated it hand in hand with the lab.
The veterinarians know that, but nobody wants to know anything about it, until a search forces everyone to confess that all they cooperated in such crimes, even though they knew it.
According to the Federal Government, 2.8 million animals were used in animal experiments in 2017.
80 percent of them were rodents, such as mice or rats. Also listed in the balance sheet are 3,500 monkeys and half-monkeys. The numbers from 2018 are not yet available.
Surely the statistics would look different if this corrupt coalition government had implemented the EU’s intrinsic standards in dealing with animal experiments.
The deadline for this was 2012 (!!!)
On the one hand, the rules should limit the experiments with animals to the essentials and on the other hand promote alternative research methods.
Germany is practically the EU, and if the EU Commission since 2012 demands that Germany finally fulfills its obligations in animal testing lines, then even the stupidest can understand who has the power here.
Added to this is the ridiculous infringement procedure, which runs for over a year.
Here Brussels can count on success only by a miracle.
Posted on October 11, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
An orangutan female must be moved from the former Buenos Aires Zoo to an apes rescue center in the United States. The court awarded the animal the rights of a “non-human person”, the release is mandatory.
At the request of the Argentine judiciary, orangutan lady Sandra moves to the United States.
A court in Buenos Aires awarded the animal the rights of a “non-human person”, so their release is mandatory. The animal was already taken to Dallas by direct flight – but not as a passenger, but in the cargo hold.
Born in Rostock, Germany
Sandra had made it famous. She was born in 1986 in the Rostock Zoo and brought to Argentina in 1994. Animal rights activists fought for their release in 2014 because the monkey lady suffered an “unjustified imprisonment” at the zoo in Buenos Aires.
Although it is not biologically identical with humans, it would be psychologically just like people under captivity. Orangutan Lady Sandra was the first “animal” to be awarded the “habeas corpus right”.
In freedom, she would be happier, argued the animal rights activists – and got right. The judgment allowed the monkey with the rights of a “nonhuman person” to become known worldwide from one day to the next.
After Sandra was awarded human rights in 2014, she was a headline worth all the media, but what became of her, unfortunately, only very few interested. It had been promised to take her to a protected area in Brazil, where the 33-year-old orangutan lady born in a German zoo was to spend her old age.
But although the “case” Sandra became known worldwide, no one was interested in her fate, let alone her release.
Many came to the zoo to see her, but she lived in a small enclosure, chewed on a blade of grass given to her, and waited for her end.
She did not move much afterwards, she did not feel well at the Buenos Aires Zoo. This was eventually converted by the authorities into an eco-park.
Fortunate for Sandra: Experts from the University of Buenos Aires then explained that the changed living conditions posed a threat to the orangutan lady and that she needed to be housed in a more spacious enclosure. Again, the judges have agreed in this case, too.
Since the 53-pound monkey lady is unable to adapt to life in the wild, she should live in the future in the outdoor enclosure of the Center for Great Apes in Florida. There are already 21 other orangutans and 31 chimpanzees.
Before entering Florida, however, Sandra still has to endure a 40-day quarantine at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.
My comment: The fact that they want to finally release the lady after a total of 33 years of imprisonment into freedom is the only right step and hopefully others will follow this example.
On the other hand, after such a long time “Guantanamo” will not be easy for Sandra to get along with freedom and a totally foreign environment.
Animals indeed have abilities that we humans do not have, or have never had, and they always find a way to live with one another, but 33 years in prison have certainly ruined her adaptability and natural behavior.
After all, it’s worth a try, and we wish Sandra all the best.
Posted on October 10, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Martin Balluch* writes for international dog day:
“When I came out of the prison cell in early September 2008, in which I had to innocently sit for 105 days, I decided to free another innocent being from a cell. I wanted to (again) for the third time a dog from a shelter with me.
My wish soon became known in all animal shelters in Austria and a call from the animal paradise Schabenreith reported a dog, which would absolutely fit in with me.
Actually, it was love at first sight! After a short time we were inseparable!
We are already together for over 11 years. And what we did not experience anything! Never have I been so close to another being because we spend the day and night together.
Even for my many lectures and presentations gets Kuksi – that’s his name! – a special permit for entry, whether in the Ministry, in the Natural History Museum or in the Casino Linz, just to name a few examples.
We grew old together. He unfortunately much faster than me. One eye he has lost, but – in good times as well as bad – we will of course continue to help each other. In loud demos, he remains at home now, but we still go great hikes together, over 10 hours and more a day!
He has not lost his great love for nature and the wilderness, is happy as a puppy about the first snow and every new day, whether rain or shine, the main thing somewhere outside.
I want to take this as an example, to be able to enjoy nature, even if the signs of old age become more and more.
I’m looking forward to more wonderful years with you, old friend, my dear Kuksi!”
Dear Martin,
We wish that to you and Kuksi with all our heart.
We think that only someone who has loved an animal knows all the facets of love!
*Dr. Dr. Martin Balluch is a well-known (and not only in his country) Austrian animal rights activist. He studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Vienna. He holds a doctorate in physics and philosophy, and from 1990 to 1997 he worked as a university assistant alongside Stephen Hawking in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge.
Since 2002 he is the chairman of the VGT(Association against animal factories).
Posted on October 9, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Every year in November, Medinaceli is in a festive mood, celebrating the “Cuerpos Santos” church festival, when a bull must be cruelly tortured. “Toro de Jubilo” in Medicaneli!
Spaniards call it tradition, which is nothing but a brutal murder in the name of the church.
The “Toro Júbilo” is the most famous festival of Medinaceli. Five campfires are lit in the square of the play, five symbolic campfires, components of the “Sacred Body”: Paulilo, Arcadio, Pascasio, Probo and Eutiquiano. The origin is attributed to the Celtic Iberians.
They put burning bad-luck torches to the horns of the bulls and let them run in panic in the arena: Participants of the traditional festival ‘Toro Jubilo’ roar with criminal energy and let themselves be magnificently entertained by the cruel action, like every mentally weak and primitive proletarian.
For centuries, bulls have been tormented in Medinaceli,Spain, with no chance of ending.
This medieval torture is to attach to the bull a kind of metal frame on the horns, to which in turn balls are fixed, consisting of tar and sulfur.
These are lit, after rubbing the bull’s back with clay to “protect” it against the falling sparks !!
The bull is let go and is thus driven through the streets. These balls burn for hours and the strong heat melts the soft and sensitive part of the inside of the horn, causing the bull unimaginable pain.
How strong the pain must be, one can only guess at the terrible and desperate cries of the bull. The tar melts slowly and begins to drip, causing deep burning in the animal.
The burning liquid penetrates his eyes and scorches them.
Not infrequently the bulls throw themselves blind against pain and despair violently against walls, whereby they hurt themselves so much that they often kill themselves.
When the party is over, the bull is executed, with the famous dagger blow, known from the bullfights. Days later, his body is served at a feast in the village.
PETA has launched a petition,PACMA party has been trying for years to end this massacre, which is Spain’s shame.
My comment: In less than a month, this bunch of mentally ill idiots will again massacre innocent, defenseless animals to death, in the name of a barbaric tradition for which not even the stupidest of God’s believers have understanding.
If one can enjoy with enthusiasm and sadistic fanaticism how innocent and totally defenseless animals suffer and are tortured to death like this, he is nothing more than a miserable monster and does not deserve anything like own human rights.
For me, it is a mystery how one came up with the idea of calling the human species the “coronation of creation”.
Posted on October 9, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Surprise! Some moviegoers in Los Angeles got a special treat Saturday when Joaquin Phoenix made surprise appearances during the end credits to his new blockbuster ” Joker”
Joaquin Phoenix was the “voice” in the well-known film by Shaun Monson “Earthlings”.
We have already reported about the new movie “Dominion” by Chris Delforce, which is considered as a preseason for “Earthlings”.
One of the voices in “Dominion” is that of Joaquin Phoenix.
In short, he is a dedicated and committed vegan who uses his fame above all for animal rights.
Now another film is filmed with Joaquin Phoenix, who has nothing to do with animal documentation and its name is “Joker”.
With Joaquin Phoenix as the lead actor, the film has won the “Golden Lion” in Venice.
In this interview about “Joker” , Joaquin renounced his character’s vivid red suit for a reserved black hoodie for the Animal Liberation Front, a leader-less animal rights organization.
We thank him for that!
Nice, if we have powerful friends to support the animal rights idea!
Posted on October 8, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The documentary “Dominion” (2018) is a sequel to “Lucent,” released in 2014, which features the dark side of the Australian pig breeding industry in feature film length. “Dominion” goes further and gives a comprehensive insight into the different livestock industries in Australia.
Worldwide attention caught on Australia’s Animal Welfare business model in 2018 after shocking pictures were released showing sheep being crammed together on a ship from Australia to Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, dying painfully. Then there were protests against the unspeakable animal transports worldwide.
How to finance a documentary that reveals the reality of the meat industry?
The film aims to present facts about the way animals are used. “Dominion” was written and directed by Chris Delforce and co-produced by Shaun Monson, director of “Earthlings” in 2005.
The documentary is told by vegan celebrities such as Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Sia, Sadie Sink and Kat Von D. This film was financed by donations.
And there is one man who has a big stake in making such films financially possible.
Philip Wollen
Philip Wollen
He was a successful investment banker and even became the vice president of Citibank and general director of Citicorp at the age of 34. Oh, a banker? Yes, and what for one! He was even named one of the Top 40 Most Influential Leaders by Australian Business Magazine.
Then came the turning point in his life that was to change everything.
His rethinking should have taken place after visiting a slaughterhouse of one of his customers. He then researched and knew that there would be no going back to his ordinary life as he had led it.
He sponsors the anti-whaling ship Sea Shepherd and the South Australian Children’s Ballet Company and has built schools, orphanages, lion parks and much more.
His Winsome Constance Kindness Trust supports more than 400 projects in 40 countries.
Wollen says his goal is to die broke and to give away all he has with “warm hands” and that he is on the right track. Incidentally, he also financed the “Earthlings” trilogy and thus made it possible.
The wish of Philip Wollens came true because the film has sparked national protests against Australian livestock.
Meanwhile, “DOMINION” is even free, which means that everyone has the opportunity to look at this documentation. Website: dominionmovement.com
And I mean…Not everyone who earns, or has earned a lot of money is automatically a capitalist asshole.
We need money for our fight, and above all to keep up the competition with the conventional media.
If the money comes from people who also ideologically support our fight and stay behind the idea of animal liberation, the better.
Posted on October 7, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
In an accident near Kasel,Germany, on October 3, a poultry truck is overturned. According to initial findings about 6000 non-human persons(chickens) have died.
Eyewitnesses report a cruel scene that showed up between meadows and fields. A big overturned truck immediately catches your eye before you see the many boxes of thousands of squashed chickens.
80 percent of the chickens did not survive!
A forklift carries one box after another into the van. Sad is the sight that offers itself because the animals seem to have been crushed by the thousands.
So here stands out a foot, there a wing or the tender comb of a cockerel.
The whole thing is overshadowed by the typical chicken stall smell, which always hits your nose when hundreds of dead animals pass by again. The beeping of the survivors sounds desperate and powerless, considering the many hours in this hell, no wonder.
At some point there are no more cages on the dirt road from where you can still see their former home. In just over an hour, the survivors will have reached Gudensberg, the largest poultry slaughterhouse in Hesse, Germany.
Overall, the 40-tonner had loaded 7500 animals. The vehicle was no significant damage according to police, even the 38-year-old driver of a company from the district of Lower Saxony remained unhurt.
The driver claimed that it rained in torrents and it was correspondingly dark. Suddenly he noticed that the right rear tires have strayed off the road and he has lost the control of the truck.
As a result of the impact, some of the transport boxes were opened so that some of the chickens had to be caught in the adjacent field. Although the van “very slowly,” slipped into the ditch, so the driver, 80 percent of the animals did not survive the accident. All persons were 32 days old!
The surviving chickens can not avoid their fate even after the disaster. After the transporter has been raised again, they should be brought to a slaughterhouse in Gudensberg, Germany.
My comment: If an accident happened to 6000 human animals, the third world media war would break out.
And the driver would have been responsible for negligent homicide in 6000 cases before the court. He would also have been accused of grievous bodily harm in another 1500 cases.
Now the message has disappeared, nowhere can you get new information about the “accident”. And so these messages get the color of a torture voyeurism for a gossipy society!
Coming soon, the farm animal exploiter will probably receive a generous compensation for the damage, because the EU agricultural subsidies are intended for such crimes.
This way, he can rebuild his Dachau as soon as possible and possibly gets more inmates.
And Germany can continue to produce 57 million tonnes of poultry (carcass weight) as in 2018. Because Germany is one of the largest meat and milk producers in the world, it produces 8 million tons of meat every year!!
And this business is subsidized with taxpayers’ money!
There may be some who have difficulty responding to this crime if they are to be “reasonable” or “appropriate” without being “fanatical”.
I can say that I am very sad that there is not at least ONE human person among the 6000 dead. That would be fair for me.
Whoever wants to define this as “fanaticism” is a pseudo-moralist and accepts the right understanding of a banana republic.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 