WAV Comment – we need to help SAFE (NZ) to get an immediate ban from the NZ government on the export of live animals.  Please take action and send your mail as per the link below – it only takes a minute or two, but will make a huge difference – Thanks.

Ban on live export by sea announced!

On 14 April 2021, Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor announced a ban on the export of live animals by sea. The trade will be phased out over the next two years.

Please email the Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture to thank them for banning live export by sea and to demand that this ban be implemented immediately.

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Two years is too long – Demand an immediate ban on live export

This email will be sent directly to Rt Hon Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Minister of Agriculture Hon Damien O’Connor, and Associate Minister of Agriculture (Animal Welfare) Hon Meka Whaitiri. You will also receive a copy for your records. Emails are public information ‒ if you would like any of your information withheld, please state this in your email.

This month, the New Zealand Government announced a ban on all livestock export by sea. More than 57,000 of you directly pleaded with our Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, asking them both for a ban on cruel live export – and our voices were heard.While this is a historic step forward, we are concerned about the tens of thousands of animals that will continue to suffer for the next two years during phase-out, as well as the animals that continue to be exported by air.
 
The Minister for Agriculture has said he could end this trade now and he’s chosen not to.

This isn’t good enough for animals, and it’s not good enough for us as New Zealanders. 

Help SAFE take action by emailing the Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture to thank them for banning live export by sea and to demand that this ban be implemented immediately.

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Government moves to ban live export – SAFE | For Animals

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Monkeys, demented by genetic engineering, should help in the search for Alzheimer’s drugs!!

Munich

A patent on monkeys and other animals in which symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are triggered by genetic engineering causes protests among patent opponents.

It protects rodents, primates, and great apes, which are specifically made demented for research in the pharmaceutical industry and then used as laboratory animals.

The organization Testbiotech announced that opposition has now been filed against the patent.
The European Patent Office (EPO) confirmed receipt of the opposition.

“The patented process is associated with considerable suffering for the animals – the specific medical benefit, on the other hand, seems questionable”, said Christoph Then from Testbiotech.

There are ethical concerns.

Last but not least, such patents could create economic incentives for unnecessary animal testing.
“But no profit should be made from the suffering of animals,” says Then.

https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/bayern/alzheimer-affen-fuer-forschung-patentiert-art-723253

And I mean…The patenting of animals in Europe has been hotly contested since 1992.

At that time, a genetically modified mammal was patented for the first time in Europe, the so-called ‘cancer mouse’
They wanted to earn money with it as a pathology model and test system for drugs.

 

To date, the history of cancer research is the story of how to cure cancer in mice.
Mice have been cured of cancer for decades, but to this day it still doesn’t work for humans.

It is undeniable that the treatments for some types of cancer give some success.
But in view of the billions in investments and the millions upon millions of animal sacrifices, the overall balance is more than frustrating.

And yet the patent on the cancer mouse drove the number of animal experiments up

Since 1990, the EPO has granted thousands of similar patents, mostly on laboratory animals, but in some cases also on animals used for agriculture such as cattle and pigs.

This is a commercial incentive to keep doing more animal testing.

The pharmaceutical industry has tried for decades to convince us that every health problem and disease can be repaired, which is an outrageous lie.

The fact that animal experiments are still carried out today, despite the animal-free and high-quality in-vitro methods, shows which unscrupulous charlatans our health depends on.

We will fight for a total ban on animal patenting.

Because it is about a lot of suffering for animals and in view of previous failures a success here seems very doubtful.

My best regards to all, Venus

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This is criminal. Nothing more. Not less.

The deliberate transformation of a living being into a bundle of suffering and silent despair is a crime – what else should be a crime?

This picture tells its own story without saying a word.

But we say: what we did not understand centuries ago, we cannot understand today either.
That animals are not our slaves, not our food, not our objects of torture.
They have their right to live as roommates in peace on this planet.

But the plague of this planet, man, allows itself the fascist right to impress, enslave them, kill them and eat them.

Never can humanity be ashamed enough of it

regards and good night, Venus

 

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18 years ago, Brazilian photographer Sebastian Salgado* and his wife Lélia decided to reforest their 600-hectare land in Aimorés, Brazil.

With their friends, they planted more than 2 million trees!

Today there are 293 species of plants, 172 species of birds, and 33 different animal species, some of which were endangered.

It was just then that his parents signed the farm over to him and his wife Lélia.

Salgado was shocked: There was nothing left of the magical forests through which he roamed as a child and first consciously perceived the magic of light and shadow.

Livestock farming and erosion had turned the farm into a lunar landscape.

“When we got this piece of earth, it was just as wounded, yes, dead as I was.
Once it was an ecological oasis. When I was a kid, half of the farm was forest and I grew up in a paradise. But now there was less than half a percent forest left. “

His wife finally had the idea, says Salgado. Lélia said: “let’s rebuild paradise, let’s replant the forest.”

Continue reading →

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Our main site has now moved to World Animals Voice at  World Animals Voice – Animal news from around the world.

When possible; we do also try to repeat all articles here; but this is not always possible; so we have to group several articles together and let you select.  This is the situation here; where you will fine a listing of recent articles.

UK: Government Minister Says – “We Must Be the Last Generation To Industrialise Animals”, and He promotes Veganism. – World Animals Voice

Ireland: Introducing ‘Ethical Farming Ireland’ – A Voice For The Animals. Check Them Out. – World Animals Voice

USA: ‘Indigo’ – Joaquin Phoenix Speaks About ‘Los Angeles Animal Save’ To Help Rescue a Mother and Baby Cow From An L.A. slaughterhouse. – World Animals Voice

England: Spring Is Here – Pictures From Pauline. – World Animals Voice

Interesting Article From idausa: What Is Zoochosis ? – Basically, Psychosis That Develops in Animals Held Captive in Zoos. – World Animals Voice

Thailand: Inhumane Treatment of Bua Noi & Primates in Pata Zoo – Please Sign and Demand Freedom To Sanctuary Home. – World Animals Voice

Belize: ‘Teeming with biodiversity’: green groups buy Belize forest to protect it ‘in perpetuity’. – World Animals Voice

Vietnam: Lets Get Cam the Bear Out of His Bile Farm Cage Now – Please Donate If You Can. – World Animals Voice

C’est Assez! supports the European Citizens’ Initiative #StopFinningEU to end the European Union’s shark fin trade. – World Animals Voice

The rapid closing of dolphinariums poses a threat to dolphins. – World Animals Voice

Beef production drives deforestation five times more than any other sector. – World Animals Voice

Lebanon: From ‘Animals Lebanon’ – Shocking video! Beautiful Dog Dragged Behind Car! Rescued and Now in Safe Hands. Driver Arrested and Issue Now With ISF. – World Animals Voice

Thursday 22/4 is the Official ‘Earth Day’. – World Animals Voice

WHO Calls for a Ban on Sale of Live Wild Mammals for Consumption. – World Animals Voice

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Alt Tellin: For the meat industry, the Alt Tellin fire is something like the Fukushima reactor disaster is for nuclear power.

In the pig breeding facility Alt Tellin (one of the largest in Europe), more than 55,000 animals perished in agony on March 30, 2021.  (https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2021/03/30/germany-hell-of-fire-in-europes-largest-pig-fattening/

There was no effective fire protection, the rescue services could not save anything from the stables, only 1,300 pigs were loaded back into the trucks alive and driven to the next slaughterhouse.

The stables were completely burned down

The worst prognoses of the animal rights activists, even from the time before the establishment of the fattening plant in 2012, have been confirmed.
Because of attacks against the environment and animal welfare, there was then a court case as to whether the facility could be granted a permit.

101 violations alone were registered between 2011 and 2014, according to a response from the ministry to a request from the left-wing parliamentary group. Even then, that would have been enough to revoke the approval of the fattening operation.

During the trial, animal rights activists said that in the event of a fire it would be impossible to evacuate animals. The number of animals alone would not allow it and because the fire protection system of the fattening facility never worked anyway.

There had been repeated citizen protests and demonstrations against this form of factory farming because not only animals but entire regions suffered from the mega stables.

The stall was approved by the local council many years ago, despite many concerns and even an accompanying survey of citizens with rejection.

The stable complex (with 18 stalls) belongs to one of the largest pig breeding companies in Germany – Agricultural Piglet Breeding Germany (LFD) Holding. This was taken over by the Swiss company Terra Grundwerte AG in the previous year.

And now we read that it is a decided matter: the burned down mega-stable in Alt Tellin is to be rebuilt – and the politicians are selling the new business as a “model project with a nationwide model”, which wants to rebuild modern slave breeding with our tax money.

Now it’s no longer about the pain, now it’s about the anger, and it comes up dangerously!

The question is: who approved this?
It is said that the approval process was independent of the country.

In clear words: The approval documents were drawn up by another planning office commissioned by the Straathof company (do you remember him?).

That means: a permit for the new factory in Alt Tellin is feasible even without the involvement of the state, according to the Ministry of Agriculture!!

Now the Ministry of Agriculture has other worries anyway; is trying to get up to 3000 tons of carcasses into the landfill, but the costs are high, and therefore a cheap solution has to be found for the “hazardous waste”!

https://fb.watch/57-LcDD4pI/

Such animal factories have nothing to do with agriculture, they are just the business of unscrupulous farm owners and their lobbyists in politics.

We don’t need mega stables, we have to abolish factory farming.
It is no longer a matter of feeding one’s own population with it. Germany is the world champion exporter of pork.

It is always and only about criminal business, of criminal farm owners and their accomplices in politics at the expense of the animals
They must be banned, we will fight hard for this.

https://www.topagrar.com/schwein/news/auf-schweinezuchtanlage-in-alt-tellin-soll-stall-der-zukunft-enthaben-12531879.html

https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/Nachrichten/MV-aktuell/Alt-Tellin-Mega-Stall-soll-wieder-aufgebaut-haben-als-Musterbetrieb

My best regards to all, Venus

 

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All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

These animals are not voluntary sacrifices. The sacrifice of their life is forced from them by force.

All of these animals feel and think. They feel fear and pain, joy and hope, lead a conscious life, and want to grow old with their feelings and thoughts.
Therefore they have a natural right to their life, to protection, to freedom.

The power of the fittest, but not morality, enables their death.
Murder is murder.

There is no murder made in China
made in India
made in Italy
or in Germany

Don’t take part in this murder.
You can do a lot for the animals if you don’t eat them.

regards and good night, Venus

 

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