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.
Posted on June 15, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Come in, walk in – come and marvel!
On the stage of the Circus Roncallielephants with long tusks rise again on a pedestal and bow.
But after the show, the animals do not have to be in a tight cage and across the highway to the next town.
Because: they are not real, but created holographically. For its new, animal-free concept, the circus of animal welfare organizations such as Peta is classified as “exemplary”.
Roncalli has banished wildlife from his program since 1991, and last year circus director Bernhard Paul said goodbye to the last animal actors – the horses. At least from the real ones: instead, horses made of stardust run through the ring as holograms; more than a million gold particles are animated according to Roncalli press spokesman Markus Strobl.
The times have changed. Many of these circuses have long since canceled their sails, and the whole “circus” concept has also seemed a little out of time. Those who still travel the country with their programs face a sharp headwind. This often has to do exactly with the circus animals, because PETA and other organizations, but also more and more individuals refuse the conditions under which the animals have to live.
The circus director from Roncalli Bernhard Paul is aware that this innovation has also “hit the nerve of the times”. But that was not the reason for it: “That was a lonely decision of mine, in which many have said: ‘But this will be difficult without animals`.
“It was not.It was right.We notice what’s going on in other circuses that work with animals. ”
And I say…Thank you, Roncalli!
Now I can go to the circus again.
No animals are abused and “broken” for the amusement of stupid circus visitors.
I hope that other circuses will take Roncalli as a role model and make the same decision.
Posted on June 14, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
It is a great success for marine mammals suffering from marine zoos: Canada has banned the confinement and breeding of orcas, whales and dolphins in captivity.
For the first time in history, the Canadian parliament voted in favor of an animal welfare law.
Zoos and aquariums that violate the ban must expect a fine of up to $ 200,000.
Independent Senator and former Judge Murray Sinclair, who led the bill through Parliament, comments on the ban as follows:
“This bill is simple and clear. It is based on the assumption that it is very cruel animal cruelty to keep these beautiful animals in just those enclosures in which they were previously held”.
And I mean...It is important to pass on such information. Many people still ignore the conditions in which animals live in water parks.
They think that dolphins and whales naturally cooperate with the stupid acrobatic number and that they do it because they just are more intelligent than other mammals!!
They are forced to perform meaningless tricks and have to play the ever-smiling clowns for stupid visitors. They are often separated from family members because they are traded between zoos and carried around.
Today we know that …
Orcas and dolphins live in large, complex, social groups and they can swim in freedom up to 100 km and dive several hundred meters in the open ocean every day. In captivity, these animals can only swim in endless circles in bare, narrow concrete basins and are denied the opportunity to live almost any natural behavior.
They are held in narrow, flat and monotonous pools where they can only stereotypically make their rounds . In addition, the artificially treated water leads to skin rashes and eye inflammation.
A single dolphin can bring up to one million dollars a year to its owner – which is quite realistic, if hundreds of brainless visitors are routed through the swimming programs every day and paid between 100 and 200 dollars per capita.
The marketing of dolphins as clowns, petting animals and acrobats generates billions in sales worldwide each year.
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