Posted on July 14, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We are excited to partner with Lacoste and announce its commitment to a fur-free policy.
The brand’s Global CSR manager said: “Lacoste has decided to ban fur long ago. However, we felt it was important to add our name to the list of fur-free companies to show our support for the cause around the globe.”
#LacosteFurFree
And we mean: For all who say that there is no hope for the abolition of the Fur Farms – we disagree!!!
We will continue to fight for it, and we will fight harder than ever. After all, the animals only have us.
Together, we will push the fur industry and its deadly machinery even further offside!
Posted on July 13, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
No! multi corporations do not feed the world. They feed the rich countries.
Why do not food exports go to the poor of the world? When it comes to world hunger, corporations like the GMO Seed and Pesticide Giants are called Monsanto and DuPont. These corporations advertise with the slogan “We feed the world”.
But the opposite is the case, economic interests dominate world politics, and in poor countries the greed for profit only comes down to capturing their raw materials or growing soybean, corn, palm oil, cotton or even bananas on their precious arable land.
That`s modern colonialism in Africa – the new way of enslavement in the 21st Century with the EU, US, UK,World Bank and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Industrial farms claim to end hunger in the poor countries of the world – but most of the food is exported to rich countries!
Equally absurd is the idea that about 35% of the world’s grain harvest is fed to livestock or landed in biogas plants, while hunger is still the leading cause of death worldwide.
The subsidized injustice and the increasing industrialization of agriculture are due to the ever-increasing globalization in food production.
The result was the world’s largest greenhouse landscape in Almería, southern Spain, which will supply Europe with fresh tomatoes.
There is now a large landing plain, which is only a single plastic sea. 2.8 million tonnes of fruit and vegetables are produced each year in 32,000 greenhouses. Large quantities of pesticides and fertilizers are used. The region is slowly running out of water.
Tons of toxic pesticides, plant fertilizers, plant substrates, rock wool, plastic wrap and the exploitation of African migrants allow us to enjoy fresh tomatoes from Spain in our salad.
For decades, corporate multinationals have been dominating and stealing their smallholders’ land and thus their livelihoods. And despite abundance of natural resources, these countries remain poor – who profits from hunger?
My comment: In an interview with UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Food,Jean Ziegler, he put it very aptly: “World agriculture could easily feed 12 billion people, but only half as many people live on Earth. That is, a child who dies of hunger today is being murdered. “
Yes! that’s right!
By whom murdered? Of all those who are involved in this system, that is to say exactly of the consumers who support this criminal system through the consumption of meat.
In 122 Third World countries 43,000 children die from hunger every day. The statistics are a bit old, today the number is even higher. All who participate in this daily mass murder are the second-hand killers of these children.
Posted on July 12, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Human rights and dignity apply only to human animals and are internationally strictly protected property. All other nonhuman animals suffer from lawlessness.
Domestication of animals is nothing but the other word of systematic confinement, tethering, branding, dangling tails, breeding, exploiting and brutally killing.
We, the human animals do not know what it feels like to live in chains.
Animals live in chains for the meat and milk industry, for the entertainment industry, for the laboratory industry, for the human species, which has a strong self-interest (and benefits) to assume the role of ruler, the oppressor.
The deliberate transformation of a living being into a bundle of suffering and dumb despair is a crime –
what else should be a crime?
The human being does not evolve.
Obviously, a moral change in the consciousness of the human species is not subject to an evolutionary autopilot.
In other words, what we did not understand centuries ago can not be understood today.
That animals are not our slaves, not our food, not our torture objects.
We no longer burn witches, because only the term is abolished.
We don`t gass Jews, because we have banished criminal racism. We do not dispose of disabled children, as in Sparta, because children have rights.
And yet: one still lives on the tree in terms of morality towards animals. Underdeveloped, smug assholes, that’s us.
Posted on July 11, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
At the beginning of February 2017, PETA was alerted by a whistleblower to the bad conditions in a pig breeding and fattening farm in Günthersdorf (Friedland) in the Lower Lusatia. On PETA leaked footage, which was taken at the beginning of the year, were extremely dirty with excrement pork bays and a number of seriously injured and dead piglets to see.
PETA thereupon immediately filed a complaint with the competent public prosecutor in Frankfurt on suspicion of violating the Animal Welfare Act as well as numerous serious violations of the provisions of the Animal Welfare Ordinance.
In addition, the veterinary office district was informed about the abuses.
But the catastrophic conditions were not turned off.
PETA was leaked more video material – taken in late June 2017 -. No improvements from improvements. The animals suffer and continue to die under desolate conditions.
The closure of the plant or the pronouncement of a livestock ban were considered by Thomas Maczek(the veterinary officer of the competent office), as not necessary, although he himself had classified in an interview, the attitude as bad, animal welfare relevant and not species-appropriate.
Resignation or disinterest?but in any case a behavior that is inappropriate for a medical profession.
These are shocking pictures: The pictures show once again weak, seriously injured, dying and already dead piglets.
Mast bays were not only dirty, but in some cases too crowded. (Stocking density of 0.226 m2 per animal, although according to the Animal Welfare – Livestock Regulation at least twice as large area is required for runner pigs).
Once again, the enforcement deficit in Germany shows – not even valid law is enforced, grievances are tolerated.
Despite official controls, operators have apparently been able to continue their catastrophic husbandry for months without any restrictions.
My comment: We must not get used to these pictures, it is not rare exceptions and black sheep at the animal owners, it is systemic conditions.
Here we witness a million times animal suffering, which has become normal in the existing “production system”, a normality that a civilized society with an ethical claim and an advanced animal welfare law should not take for granted.
Germany has established the largest, most disgusting and cruel mass animal farming in Europe.
Under the animal-contempting policies of the new Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner, the country is being pulled into the dirt.
“Klöckners Livestock Ordinance violates animal welfare law and constitution,” says Prof.Thomas Blaha of the Veterinary Association for Animal Welfare.
He`s right.
Posted on July 10, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
One of the largest dairy farmers in Bavaria blatantly violates animal welfare.
The dairy farm “Endres” im Allgäu, Bavaria, torments his animals, according to research by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”and the ARD ( Public TV) politics magazinesREPORT MAINZ.
This emerges from a several weeks comprehensive video documentation from the stalls. The photographs were handed over to the ARD and the” Süddeutsche Zeitung” by the animal rights association Soko Animal protection”and show that the staff always cause great pain to the cows.
The cows are kicked and beaten. Animals that can no longer walk are dragged through the barn with the help of hip clips and tractors.
Sick cows are taken to a sick bay of the barn and are not cared for there. About 1800 cows live there.
Over a period of ten days, the footage documents that a particular animal has been given very little water and food and has not been properly killed. There are several so-called Need killings to see in which the animals were stunned with a stud shot, but then bled out properly.
Minutes after the bolt shot, some cows are still showing reactions and are suffering longer than allowed. The farmer Franz Endres wants, despite multiple demand for the previous incidents, not comment.
This emerges from a several weeks comprehensive video documentation from the stables, which was handed over to the editorial by the animal rights organization “Soko animal protection” . In the opinion of Prof. Holger Martens, an expert on cattle farming, the documented conditions clearly violate existing laws.
“I have never seen such pictures, they are unacceptable, they are intolerable conditions, and this is clearly in violation of existing laws, it is depressing.” he said
Meanwhile, the responsible Bavarian consumer protection ministry has responded. A written statement on Monday stated that “animal cruelty is unacceptable” (!!!)
“ For the first time in my term of office, I am confronted with such serious allegations against a specific establishment, and the matter must be fully investigated immediately the local authorities have been involved, and I was particularly keen to have the prosecutor’s office react immediately, with criminal behavior in the area, and responsibility for the animals, and there is a strong suspicion that this responsibility has been grossly ignored” says Consumer Protection Minister Thorsten Glauber
My comment: The German industrial peasants have lobby organizations that are as powerful as those of the German automotive industry. In such a climate, where apparently and intentionally insufficient control or animal cruelty is concealed, crime flourishes.
While pet owners torture animals in Germany, they also advertise with allegedly high animal welfare standards in Germany.
What many consumers do not know: Germany is only mediocre in terms of animal welfare internationally. There is always talk of “isolated cases”, but in reality concern the majority of companies. And the farmers’ lobby – which, incidentally, mainly represents the big farmers – is doing everything to ensure that this does not change.
Posted on July 9, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The popular initiative against mass animal husbandry is likely to come about.
Animal welfare and environmental organizations have collected 120,000 signatures within a year, Campaign leader Meret Schneider said in an interview with the newspaper “Blick”.
The initiators want to submit the signatures to the Federal Chancellery in September.
The collected signatures would now be certified by the communities, said campaign manager Meret Schneider of the animal rights organization Sentience Politics.
Necessary for the realization of the initiative are 100’000 valid signatures. The collection period lasts until 12th December.
The popular initiative “No factory farming in Switzerland (factory farming initiative)” requires a constitutional amendment to agricultural livestock farming. The federal government should protect the dignity of the animal in agricultural animal husbandry. Specifically, according to the initiative text, animal dignity includes the claim “not to live in mass animal husbandry”.
Similar animal husbandry guidelines are to be adopted as those that apply to Bio Suisse,which means that the animals should above all receive more space and outdoor spouts.
Furthermore, the federal government should set criteria for animal-friendly housing and care, access to the outdoors, slaughter and the maximum group size per stall.
It should also provide for rules on the importation of animals and animal products for nutritional purposes. The implementation of the initiative has a maximum transitional period of 25 years.
Behind the referendum are people from 15 organizations.
Among them is Vera Weber of the Fondation Franz Weber or representatives of Greenpeaceand the Greens.
The farmers’ association sees it very differently (!!) About mass livestock could not speak in Switzerland, according to the position of President Markus Ritter. “Animal welfare laws in Switzerland are already among the strictest worldwide” so Ritter.
The farmers also warn against hefty surcharges if the initiative should come through. The initiators are preparing for a tough vote. Schneider is aware:
My comment: At some point, humans will understand that an equitable livestock farming no longer means that we are allowed to kill and eat animals.
But until this day, for which we all fight and hope, is a very long road and so we have to settle for smaller and modest successes.
We support this campaign and we wish our fellow campaigners, much success and strength for the future.
Posted on July 8, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The EU is deeply involved in ivory business. Tons of ivory are traded, imported and exported within the EU. Europe is a henchman of elephant poachers.
The idea is wrong that elephants are poached in Africa, their ivory is sold to Asia – and that Europe has nothing to do with it. Rather, Europe plays a central role as a hub for the legal and illegal trade in ivory.
32 African countries have appealed to the European Union to stop ivory trade.
Europe is a henchman of elephant poachers.
In the EU, ivory is offered open at auctions, in stores and on the internet. Some EU companies have even specialized in the purchase and export of ivory to Asia: More than seven tons of ivory and more than 12,000 ivory carvings have been sold to Hong Kong alone in the last two years.
The international community has now called on all governments at two important conferences to close their national ivory markets.
The EU does not comply with this demand and undermines the global efforts to save the elephants.
Although Germany supports stricter rules than the EU Commission, it intends to continue to facilitate the trade in ivory carvings, antiques and musical instruments.
A development in Asia aggravates the situation: Elephants are also killed because of their skin, because it is believed that the elephant skin has healing properties. In Myanmar, up to 110 skinned elephants were found within four years.One could despair.
Please ask the EU to ban the ivory trade completely. Only then will the mass poaching of elephants come to an end.
My comment: The European Commission knows very well that the EU is being used to “wash” illegal ivory, and is instrumental in ensuring that about 35,000 elephants still die each year.
When the international ivory trade was banned in 1989, the eradication of the African elephant seemed to have been averted. After a decade of slaughter, in which the number of animals worldwide halved, the populations recovered.
Unfortunately, however, the international trade ban did not last long: at the instigation of four states in southern Africa, it was eroded just a few years later.
Statistics show that poaching and ivory smuggling have seen a bloody comeback since 2008: in particular, the rapid increase in demand in China, combined with rising purchasing power, led to the poaching of about 100,000 elephants in Africa in the years 2010-2012 alone.
2008 In China, the price of raw ivory rose to as much as $ 2,100 per kilo.
At the same time, state-licensed ivory shops and carving factories sprang up in China, as did illegal business.
Because of ivory were many of thousands of elephants killed, and China and Hong Kong became the largest markets for both legal and illegal ivory.
Since then, heavily armed poachers have been killing entire herds of elephants, chopping off their tusks with axes.
Masterminds are globally organized criminal gangs who hire poachers in Africa and equip them with automatic weapons.
They bribe politicians, authorities and freight companies and create the “white gold” in containers, air freight shipments and personal luggage hidden through various stops in the main sales markets in Asia.
The good news is: China has already banned trade under international pressure.
The US should not import hunting trophies in the future either.
The pressure on the EU Commission must grow. The number of signatures in this petirion approaches the million, and from 1 million votes, the commission is obliged to take an official position on the subject.
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