THE Nick Xenophon Team is pushing for Australian meat to be processed locally and has signalled it will likely deliver crucial crossbench support to a proposal to ban live exports.
Mayo MP Rebekha Sharkie, whose electorate is home to a number of sheep farmers, has written to Agriculture Minister David Littleproud to call for an end to animal abuse in the industry.
Liberal backbench MP Sussan Ley has pledged to introduce a Bill next month to ban live exports to the Middle East despite efforts by farming groups to dissuade her.
Because a ban is not Government policy, for Ms Ley’s plan to be successful she would need support from Labor as well as some members of the crossbench, or for some Liberals to cross the floor.
Ms Sharkie said she would need to see the Bill’s content before making a firm decision.
“However … I believe she is looking at a very measured and logical approach to phasing out the industry,” Ms Sharkie said.
“My preference has always been to have meat processed on Australian shores and exported in a chilled form.
“The meat processing industry in Australia directly employs 35,000 people and indirectly employs 100,000 people. I want to keep these jobs in Australia.”
Acting Labor leader Tanya Plibersek urged the Government to consider a suspension in the northern hemisphere summer trade while a review ordered by Mr Littleproud was completed.
Posted on April 26, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
For 15 years, the elephant cow Sambo worked as a tourist attraction in Cambodia, until she suddenly overturned and died last Friday. According to the attending veterinarian Sambo suffered a heart attack “due to high temperatures, exhaustion and lack of wind cooling”. This is reported by the Cambodian newspaper “Phnom Penh Post”. For 40 minutes the elephant cow apparently had to carry two tourists through the temple complex Angkor Wat that day – without interruptions and in the scorching heat of 40 degrees.
The load was apparently too much for Sambo, who is said to have been between 40 and 45 years old. On the way from one temple to another, she just collapsed, the report said.
Recordings posted on Facebook show the lifeless body of the elephant lady on the roadside. As media reports, several eyewitnesses are said to have cried when they saw the majestic animal in that condition.
Animal rights activists around the world are dismayed by Sambo’s circumstances. With a petition they want to bring about the end of elephant riding in the archeology park Siem Reap.
“A cruel tourist attraction that has been proven to harm elephants and harm the tourism industry in Cambodia should be stopped,” reads the online petition website.
Lifelong misery for animals
“Tourists may think that an elephant ride on holiday does not harm anyone, but atrocities are often hidden, but what you need to realize is that what is a unique experience for you or just an item on your must-do list, lifelong misery for a wild animal, “say the initiators. More than 48,000 people have already signed the petition.
Since 2001, the elephant cow Sambo was owned by the Angkor Elephant Company. The temples of Angkor Wat are among Cambodia’s most famous sights. Tourists like to visit the ancient plant on the back of elephants. Thirteen more elephants are said to be owned by the company tourists have to carry through the temple complex, as the “Phnom Penh Post” writes. Oan Kiri, the manager of the Angkor Elphant Company, told the newspaper that the company was very upset about the elephant’s death.
A few words to this case:
Did anyone believe that the elephant company is really upset about the death of Sambo?
Not me!
Unrestrained businessmen, who use animals as their servants to collect money, do not feel sadness for their slaves if they die.
Such people have no conscience and do not know compassion for animals.
They are looking now for new slaves, and maybe the next Sambo is already ordered.
And visitors who cry, when a tortured animal lying on the street like a filth, don`t need to cry, because crying does not help.
Protesting, fighting, screaming in front of the temple against slavery that never finds an earth … that’s what the visitors have to do.
Ad we all too, everywhere we encounter this slavery.
Posted on April 26, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Proposal introduced to end Bear Bile farming in China
From Animals Asia
At the National People’s Congress and the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference meetings in March 2018 (Beijing); a proposal was raised to end bear bile farming in China by 2022 similar to the proposal put forth in Vietnam last year.
7 steps were proposed, including:
Banning the breeding of black bears by 2022
Banning bear farming by 2022
Eliminating everything to do with the bear industry by 2035
Speeding up research and approval of synthetic bear bile products
Working with international conventions such as CITES to improve the protection level of the black bear.
It is significant that these proposals are being raised at high level gatherings in China.
The fact alone that the motion was allowed to be made public is very encouraging.
Paws crossed that this will progress into actual legislation now.
The reason for the shooting of the dogs is an upcoming visit from the FIFA, where the city should deliver a good picture. Namely, Morocco wants the 2026 World Cup to be held in the North African country. Sadly, stray dogs are seen as a blight on the landscape – so Morocco wants to get rid of them – by shooting.
We have a petition link for Moroccan stray dogs – you can visit it here:
Unfortunately, Morocco is not the only place where stray dogs and the football elite seem to clash. The World Cup is being held in Russia this year, 2018.
Russia is planning a mass slaughter of stray dogs ahead of the this year’s World Cup; despite assurances this will not happen, animal rights campaigners claim.
Some £1.4million has been assigned to host cities to pay for deployment of ‘canine KGB’ death squads, according to Ekaterina Dmitrieva, director of the City Animal Protection Foundation.
Animal campaigners are furious that FIFA is turning a blind eye to the ‘butchers’ and refusing to press the Russian government over the ‘scandal’.
Deputy premier Vitaly Mutko – Vladimir Putin’s ex-sports minister mired in controversy over the Russian doping scandal – recently ordered host cities to set up temporary animal shelters for the estimated two million strays in these locations.
But Dmitrieva insisted that that cash has been paid already to pay for armed teams – nicknamed ‘canine KGB hit squads’ – and poisons to wipe out homeless dogs and other animals.
Photo – Daily Mail (UK)
She said: ‘The tenders have been signed, the money is sent to contractors.’
Her demands to switch the cash to sterilising, immunising and caring for the animals has been met with silence, she said.
Is this not typical – Serbia being another – cash which could be spent on sterilising, immunising and caring for the strays in properly run shelters is again being used to simply kill animals. Governments and authorities appear to miss the fact that you cannot eradicate every stray dog in an area – and those left the cull will reproduce and gradually bring stray numbers back up to what they were before – or even more. This action by stray death squads does nothing to resolve the long term issue of strays in any location. It is a simple ‘short term hopeful fix’ by the authorities. We predict that many strays will be back on the streets within a very short time. Cities and towns may look squeaky clean whilst those oh so well behaved football fans roam the streets; but shooting strays to clean up any town is a short fix which will not last. It appears that the Russian authorities, just like the Serbian government; are too thick min the head to understand this.
But then maybe they want the corruption associated with a never ending supply of stray dogs to be killed. Some people in high places are getting very rich out of a never ending supply of strays which they can kill and claim back money off the government for. In Serbia for example, just one stray killed can get a government bounty payment of up to 500 Euros paid directly to regional authorities from government funds. And the average wage in Serbia ? – about 300 Euros per month.
Big money to be made by some from endless stray dog killing as we have always said. But the EU, OIE and the rest of the big players just do not really want to listen to us or more importantly, do anything about this corruption that is ‘stray dog control’.
Posted on April 25, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
25/4/18 – Today we have been working with Slavica in Serbia regarding 2 Griffon Vultures which appear to have been kidnapped (or birdnapped ?) in Iraq after they had flown more than 2,500km from a wildlife centre in Serbia. One of the birds was fully ringed by a specialist in Serbia; and so via the data on the rings it carries, be traced back to Serbia. The other bird is un ringed, but not all birds from Serbia were ringed at the time, and it is possible that this second bird ‘paired up’ with the ringed bird for migration, arriving in Iraq.
The really sad part about all this is that it is expected that the birds may have been kidnapped for falconry purposes; as a ransom was requested by telephone. But vultures are never used in falconry; as they only eat from dead and decaying corpses already on the ground. Falconry does not work in the same way; Wherever the birds are located; they are effectively the property of the Serbian state. If they are injured in Iraq for example, then they can be sorted by a specialist within Iraq but then they have to be released back into the wild if and when they recover.
Here is the link to the letter (draft only – without headers) which has been sent to Iraq, UK and USA embassies in Iraq, asking for involvement in this case. The Iraq embassy in Serbia has also been asked to take action.
In the following pictures you can see the original time in Serbia when the bird was taken and ringed by specialist ornithologists. The ring numbers which were fitted can be clearly seen to show that the bird originated and is recorded as being Serbian origin.
It is hoped that these pictures can be used to help identify the bird in Iraq if it is captured back from the people asking for a ransom.
Posted on April 25, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Vegan Faces
We have had a really nice e mail from (Mum) Lynette telling us that the family have enjoyed and tried a few of the Vegan dishes that we have covered on the site.
Lynette says to us:
“My family is making an attempt to go vegan, and we thought your page was really cool. My son’s have been spending quite a bit of their computer time looking at vegan recipes and tips for people trying to adapt- they mentioned how much they enjoyed your page, and I thought you’d like to hear!”
We sure do – that is what the site needs, some positive feedback about some of our posts.
Both Alex and James (Lynette’s boys) have teamed up and sent us another great link which we have said we will share on the site; form them to us to you ! – It is about some really cool vegan recipes that Alex and James have found and are currently checking out.
Here you can see and make a whole range of great vegan food – the soup list looks really great – we need to try those.
Lynette and the boys tried the Banana Berry Breakfast smoothie at the weekend and the reports back are that “it was great” !
So thanks Alex and James for sending us some more great cruelty free grub; as you can see here we have made a post of your info for the world to see – check it out to see where your info is going at https://clustrmaps.com/site/h5no
The link is really cool – thanks boys and mum; we are sure that with all this great vegan food we can convert a lot more people. There is a great deal of good feedback on Veganism from all over the world – it is ‘the’ business to be involved with at the moment.
