Posted on January 24, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A massive 415,325 people have already signed our petition to tell the European Parliament it is time to End the Cage Age for rabbits.
Can you now help secure over half a million signatures, and make this a petition that Europe’s policymakers cannot ignore.
Please sign and share the above petition on EU breeder guidelines for rabbits – it will support Mr. Eck’s (MEP) efforts for a significantly improved animal welfare agenda 2016-2020 which will be discussed with the EU Commissioner Andriukaitis.
Within the past week Mr. Eck managed to convince 60 MEPs from various political parties to sign the petition.
The ultimate goal however as Mr. Eck declared in a parliamentary session is to eliminate this rabbit breeding business completely.
Relevant sections translated into English below.
Kurzmeldung aus Saarbrücken / 24.01.2016
Rekord: MdEP-Unterstützungsunterschriften für Kaninchen
In der vergangenen Sitzungswoche (18. bis 21. Januar) gelang es dem EU-Abgeordneten Stefan Bernhard Eck einen neuen persönlichen Rekord im Sammeln von MdEP-Unterstützungsunterschriften aufzustellen. Mit der Sammelaktion soll die Kommission auf die Notwendigkeit von verbindlichen EU-Richtlinien hinsichtlich der Haltungsbedingungen in der Kaninchenmast aufmerksam gemacht warden.
Trotz eines vollen Terminkalenders mit Fraktions-, Ausschuss- und Plenarsitzungen gelang es Stefan B. Eck, sechzig (60) seiner Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus unterschiedlichen Fraktionen zu einer Unterschriftsleistung zu bewegen, nachdem er jede*n einzelne*n Abgeordnete*n ausführlich über tierquälerischen Zustände in der Kaninchenmast informiert hatte. Die Reaktion und einhellige Meinung der meisten angesprochenen EU-Politiker: Klar, hier muss sich etwas ändern!
Nächste Woche geht die „Jagd nach Verbündeten“ in Brüssel mit Hochdruck weiter, denn der Tierrechtler und EU-Politiker hat sich ein ziemlich hohes Ziel gesetzt. Mindestens 20 Prozent der Abgeordneten sollen auf der Unterschriftsliste einmal stehen.
Dass damit noch eine Menge Arbeit auf den engagierten Tierrechtler zukommen wird, nimmt er gelassen, macht sein bekanntes V-Zeichen (vegan victory) mit den Fingern und sagt nur ein Wort: „Hasenpower!“
Habt Ihr bereits die Petition „End the cage age“ von „Compassion in World farming“, die EU-Kommissar Andriukaitis übergeben werden soll, unterschrieben? Es liegen inzwischen über 415.000 Unterschriften vor.
Lasst uns die halbe Million „knacken“!
Bitte teilt diesen Artikel oder die Petition weitflächig, damit noch viele Unterschriften zusammenkommen!
Bitte unterschreibt und teilt diese Petition, damit ich EU-Kommissar Vytenis Andriukaitis besser überzeugen kann, dass endlich europaweite Richtlinien für Kaninchenmast und Kaninchenzucht in die Tierschutzstrategie 2016 bis 2020 aufgenommen werden und viele Bürgerinnen und Bürger ebenfalls hinter dieser Forderung stehen.
(Please sign the petition and share this to collect a substantial number of signatures that help me convince EU Commissioner Andriukaitis even better that rabbit breeding guidelines must be included in the Animal Welfare Agenda 2016-2020 and that many citizens in Europe are supporting this).
Bitte helft den “Langohren”!
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Kurzmeldung aus Straßburg und Hinweis auf Petition / 20.01.2016
“Diese Tierquälerei muss endlich aufhören!” – Kampfansage an die Kaninchenzüchter und Kaninchenmäster!
MdEP Stefan Bernhard Eck ist auf der „Jagd“ nach Unterstützer/innen im EU-Parlament für die längst überfälligen europaweiten Haltungsvorschriften für Kaninchen-Mastbetriebe.
In den letzten Tagen – zwischen den „Votings“, Ausschuss- und Fraktionssitzungen und den Debattten im Plenum – nutzte der EU-Abgeordnete Eck jede Gelegenheit, um Unterstützungsunterschriften für das Projekt „Kaninchenzucht in der EU: Die Notwendigkeit einer Gesetzgebung“, das er mit „Compassion in World farming“ vorantreibt, zu sammeln.
In nur zwei Tagen konnte der Tierrechtler und EU-Abgeordnete bereits annährend 50 Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlamentes von der Notwendigkeit einer tierfreundlichen Gesetzgebung für die Kaninchenzucht und Kaninchenmast überzeugen. Das ist ein sehr gutes Ergebnis zum Auftakt, denn es ist nicht einfach, während der regulären Arbeit des Parlamentes Unterstützungsunterschriften zu sammeln.
Die MdEP-Unterschriften sollen zusammen mit mehreren Hunderttausend Unterschriften von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern Europas EU-Kommissar Vytenis Andriukaitis bei einem Treffen Ende März oder Anfang April bezüglich der Tierschutzstrategie 2016 – 2020 übergeben werden.
„Diese Tierquälerei muss endlich aufhören!“, so MdEP Stefan B. Eck, der sich seit fast 2 Jahrzehnten für tierfreundlichere Haltungsbedingungen in der Kaninchenmast einsetzt und bereits im letzten Jahr den Kaninchenzüchtern Europas offen den Kampf angesagt hat. Sein „Endziel“ ist nichts weniger als ein komplettes Verbot der Kaninchenmast in der Europäischen Union. (https://www.facebook.com/Stefan.Bernhard.Eck.MEP/posts/1018557891505484).
Bitte unterstützt die Petition „End the cage age“ von „Compassion in World farming“, denn mit jeder Unterschrift hat sie mehr Gewicht, wenn der Abgeordnete Eck mit EU-Kommissar Andriukaitis über die Tierschutzstrategie sprechen wird.
Bitte teilt diesen Artikel oder die Petition weitflächig, damit noch viele Unterschriften zusammenkommen!
Bericht aus Brüssel / 05.02.2015
Mastkaninchen-Züchter bezichtigen MEP Stefan B. Eck der extremistischen und terroristischen Manipulation
Am 05.02.2015 fand im Europa-Parlament in Brüssel eine von der Fraktion EFDD organisierte Konferenz zum Thema Kaninchenzucht unter dem Titel „Kaninchenfleisch: Europäische Perspektiven und Probleme“ statt, um mit Kaninchenzüchtern und Vertretern von Zuchtverbänden über geeignete Maßnahmen der EU zu diskutieren, die wirtschaftliche Krise, in der sich viele Mastbetriebe europaweit befinden, zu überwinden.
Die einzelnen Redebeiträge lieferten tiefe Einblicke in die derzeitigen Probleme, mit der die Branche zu kämpfen hat. Der Vertreter der Mastbetreiber in der italienischen Region Lazio (Italien ist der drittgrößte Produzent von Kaninchenfleisch nach China und Venezuela) forderte in seinem Redebeitrag von der EU unverzügliche Hilfsmaßnahmen (EU-Gelder und Schritte gegen die Importe von Kaninchenfleisch aus China), da aus Kostengründen schon jetzt die tierschutzrechtlichen Bestimmungen von vielen Züchtern nicht mehr eingehalten werden könnten. Selbst ein anwesender italienischer Veterinär, der für die Kaninchenzüchter tätig ist, forderte umgehende Verbesserungen hinsichtlich der Kaninchenhaltung, da die derzeitigen Bedingungen in keiner Weise den gesetzlichen Tierschutzansprüchen genügen würden.
Nach den Redebeiträgen ergriff MEP Stefan B. Eck das Wort und erklärte den anwesenden Züchtern klipp und klar, dass er als Vizepräsident der “Intergroup for Animal Welfare and Conservation” alles daransetzen werde, um die Krise in der Mastkaninchen-Branche zu vergrößern und sich für ein Verbot jeglicher Kaninchenzucht einsetzen wird. Die Zucht und Mast von Kaninchen sei eine der schlimmsten Formen von Tierquälerei!
At the end of the parliamentary session MEP Eck took to the microphone and declared in front of the present breeders that as Vice President of EUROGROUP FOR ANIMALS he will do anything to increase the economic crisis of the rabbit breeders and work for a total ban of rabbit breeding. This Business is one of the worst cruelties against animals.
Die anwesenden Kaninchenzüchter waren durch diesen unerwarteten verbalen Angriff eines EU-Abgeordneten so schockiert, dass einzelne sogar verwirrt applaudierten, die Mehrheit jedoch – wie zu erwarten war – mit protestierenden Lautäußerungen reagierten.
Ein Züchter aus der Region Puglia (Mittelitalien) meldete sich entrüstet zu Wort und warf Stefan Bernhard Eck “extremistische und verbal-terroristische Manipulation” vor.
In weiteren Gesprächen nach der Konferenz wiederholte MEP Eck gegenüber den italienischen Züchtern nochmals seinen Standpunkt: KANINCHENMAST – NEIN DANKE!
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Posted on January 23, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
As a follow up to our recent news about Ric being held in Japan –
– things have now moved on, with him being told to get out of the country, and banning him re entry for 5 years.
The Taiji dolphin murder – Watch the London Taiji demo which took place on Saturday – 16/1/16 by clicking on the following:
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Japan told Dolphin Activist: Get Out
Immigration officials to deport ‘The Cove’ star Ric O’Barry and bar him from entering the country for five years to campaign against Japan’s annual dolphin slaughter.
Jan 22, 2016
Taylor Hill is an associate editor at TakePart covering environment and wildlife.
Japan has ordered the deportation of dolphin trainer–turned–animal rights activist Ric O’Barry, who was featured in the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary The Cove.
O’Barry, 76, was detained at Japan’s Narita airport on Monday when officials refused to allow him to enter the country using a tourist visa. On Friday, authorities denied an appeal from O’Barry’s lawyer, Takashi Takano.
His son, Lincoln O’Barry, said that since the release of The Cove, which brought international scrutiny to the annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, his father gets harassed and interrogated every time he visits the country.
Lincoln O’Barry said Japanese officials initially accused his father of being a member of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, which maintains a constant presence in Taiji, monitoring the dolphin hunt.
“But now, they are saying he lied about where he went the last time he was in the country, so he can’t be trusted this time around,” Lincoln O’Barry said.
In an email to his son, Ric O’Barry said he is being held on “trumped-up charges.”
“For the past 72 hours, I have been behind bars in a detention facility, yet I have broken no laws,” he wrote.
With his appeal denied, O’Barry has been scheduled for deportation and will not be permitted to return for five years. That’s a punishment his son says cannot stand.
“He has been working for 13 years to expose the brutal dolphin hunt there, and this is their latest attempt to shut him out,” Lincoln O’Barry said.
Takano has reportedly filed a lawsuit in Japan to fight the deportation warrant. O’Barry’s conservation group, The Dolphin Project, has started a petition on its website calling for the deportation measures to be dropped.
From Sept. 1 through March 1, fishers on boats drive thousands of dolphins into Taiji Cove, after which they are either sold to aquariums and marine parks or killed for their meat.
“January is typically a brutal month of slaughter in the cove,” Lincoln O’Barry said. According to The Dolphin Project’s count, 418 dolphins have been killed so far this year. “It seems to be adding up to be an especially bad year, and this deportation issue can’t distract from that.”
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Posted on January 23, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Animal welfare is a basic need:
Dutch Presidency pleads for EU action for animals
Posted On 21 Jan 2016
Eurogroup welcomes statements Dutch Chief Veterinary Officer at Animal Welfare Intergroup.
Today the Dutch Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Christianne Bruschke, unfolded the views of the Dutch Presidency on the future of the European animal welfare related dossiers, saying “animal welfare is not a hype but a basic need in our society as fundamental for a sustainable future”. She also stressed that high ambitions in the field of animal welfare should be reflected in EU regulations as individual EU countries are no isolated islands.
Dr Bruschke called on the European Commission to put forward a new Communication on an EU Strategy on the protection and welfare of animals for the period 2016-2020.
In line with the recently adopted resolution of the European Parliament a new Animal Welfare Strategy should ensure the continuation of delivering high animal welfare standards across the Member States. Moreover, the Dutch Presidency would welcome the Commission to examine the perspectives of an updated, comprehensive and clear legislative framework for animal welfare. Such a framework would provide the opportunity to update existing regulations in accordance with new scientific insights, technological innovation and socioeconomic trends whilst addressing shortcomings and omissions.
Furthermore, a new EU platform on animal welfare, of stakeholder organisations and authorities of member states, run by the European Commission, could create more momentum and focus on the animal welfare challenges of the EU.
Such a platform could facilitate discussions and exchange of experiences and best practices on implementation, control and enforcement of animal welfare regulations. The proposal of the platform will be presented at the next Agricultural Council meeting on 15th February.
Moreover, the Dutch Government remains to be a strong supporter of a reduction of transport times of slaughter animals to 8 hours as well as for the improvement of transport of conditions like space allowances. Although not expected during the Dutch Presidency, the European Commission should look into a revision of the current Transport Regulation and the reduction of transport times.
In 2015 Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands filed a formal request for a revision of the Transport Regulation to the Commission. All three governments remain to urge the Commission for a revision.
Another point of attention for the Dutch Presidency is phasing out non-therapeutic mutilations in farming as reducing this practice will improve animal welfare and contribute to a more sustainable animal husbandry. One of the routinely applied mutilations is painful piglet castration. The Netherlands is fully committed to ending surgical castration by 2018, the deadline stipulated in the European Declaration to on Alternatives to the Surgical Castration of Pigs (Brussels declaration).
Together with Germany and Denmark, The Netherlands have urged all involved stakeholders to sign the Brussels declaration and to act accordingly.
ENDS
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For more information please contact:
Magali Vialle
Notes:
1. Eurogroup for Animals represents animal protection organisations in all EU Member States. Since its launch in 1980, the organisation has succeeded in encouraging the EU to adopt higher legal standards for animal protection. Eurogroup represents public opinion through its membership organisations across the Union, and has both the scientific and technical expertise to provide authoritative advice on issues relating to animal welfare. For more information, visit www.eurogroupforanimals.org
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Posted on January 22, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Although this is an animal welfare site; we have for years supported ‘Free Tibet’ (London) in calling for China to withdraw from Tibet and once again, make Tibet and its people the free nation that it was.
We have attempted to show the abuses of the Tibetan people by the Chinese invaders; and we hope that the following footage shows people the abuses that we have been attempting to highlight to the world.
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Posted on January 22, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Please watch the brilliant ‘Respect’ video on ‘dumb animals’
– click on the following link:
Dear friend,
We’ve just unveiled a new petition, asking the department store Harvey Nichols to stop selling real fur and join our growing list of official fur-free retailers.
Having previously promised not to sell fur from fur farmed or trapped animals, this winter Harvey Nichols (like the last few years) is selling fur from farmed and trapped animals such as foxes, coyotes and racoons.
Animals on fur farms suffer tremendously, as our recent scientific report showed. And the cruelty imposed on animals who are trapped and then killed for their fur is shocking.
Can you help us?
We need as many signatures as possible if we are to make a difference and we need your help. Please sign our petition and then share it as widely as possible amongst your friends and on social media.
Sign our petition and help the animals by clicking here
Thank You.
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Posted on January 21, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment – we knew that we would do it !
Special thanks to everyone who helped with this campaign – and a mention to my friends Clare and David here in Kent, England, who have run Kingsdown Cat Sanctuary since it was founded in 1993. Please take a look at some of the cats currently needing UK homes at http://www.kingsdowncatsanctuary.org/cats.php and visit the sanctuary site at http://www.kingsdowncatsanctuary.org/index.php – Mark.
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The following message is from Danica at Felix Shelter, Serbia:
All Funds Raised!
Dear friends, We are delighted to inform you that we’re finally able to pay for a new tank of gas which was ordered yesterday!
Thanks to your outstanding support, all of the Felix kitties will have the proper heating over the next two and a half months 🙂
We can hardly find the words to express our most sincere gratitude to the amazing Laura Simpson and her wonderful organization The Great Animal Rescue Chase and Harmony Fund who stepped in again in the very nick of time!
We would also like to thank each and every one of you who found it in your hearts to help us provide our furry little fighters with everything they need!
We are almost ashamed to ask for help over and over again, but with so many helpless creatures which depend on us for food, medical care and a home, we have no other choice and we just can’t do it all on our own.
Dozens of the Felix kitties are either above 15 years old, chronically ill, or generally in delicate health and they’re simply not able to withstand the cold; desperate times call for desperate measures.
May the kindness you’ve so generously bestowed on us come back to you all a thousand-fold!
Thank You again – Danica and the kitties.
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Finally;
Please try and support this very worthwhile campaign if you can please – URGENT !
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Posted on January 20, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark,
The fate of hammerhead, silky and thresher sharks is in our hands.
In the next few weeks, six nations will be gathering at an international meeting to decide whether to increase protections for these magnificent creatures.
In the past, my country of Costa Rica has led the way in the international protection of sharks. And I need you to take one simple action to further this protection.
I’ve been blessed with being able to swim in schools of hammerheads, silkies and threshers in the Pacific. It was one of those moments of a lifetime. And my goal is to protect the sharks and the oceans for future generations.
Thanks,
Randall Arauz,
International Director
Turtle Island Restoration Network
PS – Costa Rica has been a key player in the international shark protection arena and, with your show of support, can continue to play that role. Please add your name to the petition today!
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