England: The Animals Have Lost A Great Friend In Tony.

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

England

Tony Moore

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Subject: Tony Moore ­ co-founder of Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe (FAACE) ­ died last Friday from lung cancer, aged 79

We are terribly saddened to learn that Tony Moore – co-founder of Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe (FAACE) – died last Friday from lung cancer, aged 79.

For over 25 years, Tony – together with his wife Vicki, who tragically died from injuries sustained whilst filming undercover in 2000 – campaigned against bullfights and fiestas and in 1996 ADI awarded Tony and Vicki the Lord Houghton Award for outstanding service to animal welfare to acknowledge their pioneering work in this area (see http://bit.ly/1gqrR44).

Our thoughts are with Tony’s family.

The animals have lost a dear friend.


SAV Comment – we always remember the terrible death of Vicki from injuries sustained whilst filming undercover to help bulls suffering in Spanish fiestas.  The world and the animals have also lost a great campaigner in Tony.  Thank you for all your hard work and dedication Tony – you will be very much missed, but now reunited with your beloved Vicki.  Two massive animal champions.

Read about FAACE here – http://www.faace.co.uk/   

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Vicki

In June 1995, whilst videoing ‘undercover’, in the village of Coria, Spain, Vicki was gored by a bull. She was tossed into the air 10 times, gored 11 times in the chest, back, groin and legs. She also suffered a punctured lung, 8 badly smashed ribs and the loss of a kidney.

Vicki’s life was saved in a seven-hour operation. She was in a coma for three weeks and spent five and a half weeks in intensive care. She struggled for years with the legacy of her injuries, but preferred not to talk about her daily plight, for fear it would detract from that of the animals she championed.

Vicki underwent numerous operations but eventually died of complications on February 6th 2000.

And about Vicki here – http://www.faace.co.uk/vicki.html#bio

The Vicki Moore Foundation – http://www.vickimoorefoundation.org/

 

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India: Please Sign Petition Asking Tamil Nadu’s Director General of Police: Indepth investigation of abduction & disposal of dogs in Mogappair.

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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Dear all;

I just signed the petition “Tamil Nadu’s Director General of Police: Indepth investigation of abduction & disposal of dogs in Mogappair” on Change.org.

It’s important. Will you sign it too?

Here’s the link:

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/tamil-nadu-s-director-general-of-police-indepth-investigation-of-abduction-disposal-of-dogs-in-mogappair?share_id=HLyQPHceZR&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

Thanks!

Mark (SAV).

Petition wording:

Tamil Nadu’s Director General of Police: Indepth investigation of abduction & disposal of dogs in Mogappair

We want an in-depth investigation on the heinous capture and loading of the community pets of Mogappair West Garden Area. We want to know where the dogs have been held or released and demand that they be returned to their original community at Mogappair West Garden.

On 28th July 2013, in Nolumbur, a Chennai Corporation employee abducted more than 20 community dogs in a tricycle used to collect trash. One passerby managed to click some photographs, as the employee was not in uniform and had no id on him. When asked he claimed that he had the necessary permission for transporting these dogs.

Due to the inaction of the officers at V7 Nolambur police station, we continued undaunted in attempting to discover the fate of these 22 dogs.

Prabudass, the only corporation employee we could clearly link to the crime informed us that the dogs had only been captured and moved to another area, which in itself is illegal. However, we were reluctant to believe this information as he was refusing to tell us into which area he had the dogs released.
In the meantime, the residential association had barracked the police station, threatening the police officers and the animal welfare activits and volunteers with dire consequences if they should continue to investigate this case. Unmoved by these threats, we continued in the quest to discover the fate of the poor innocents. We discovered a shocking sequence of events whereby the homeowner’s association had sanctioned to “arrange” the abduction and round up these dogs and remove them from the area.

The next day, 15 of the association people came to the V-7 Nolambur police station at 22:30 hours and told the Inspector they supported the association with the decision to abduct the dogs.

In our investigations we found only one dog remaining in the vicinity of Mogappair West Garden area. The dog was found with a wound on his head that could only have been inflicted by a rock flung at him with some force.

Most distressing is that fact that the police of V7 Nolambur police station are still unwilling to take up the case or even file an FIR as a senior former judge is a resident member of the association.

We implore every person who sees this post to please take up the ghastly atrocity as a cause worth fighting for and bring pressure upon the police to prosecute the guilty parties.

Again, we emphasize:

Please, sign this petition to force the Tamil Nadu’s Director General of Police to carry out an indepth investigation on the heinous capture and loading of the community pets of Mogappair West Garden Area. We want to know where the dogs have been held and demand that they be returned to their original community at Mogappair West Garden.

Also, please call up the Nolambur Police Station on 9176528259 or 9940596447 and add your outraged voices to ours.

Please, share to as MANY PEOPLE as possible.

 

 

 

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EoA (NL) Reports of December 2013 Inspections At Turkish Slaughterhouses. Also Links to Campaign For ALL EU Slaughterhoses To Ensure CCTV Is Installed. Petition Links Included for this also.

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Slaughterhouse petition

During December 2013, our very good friend and investigator, Lesley, founder of ‘Eyes on Animals’ in the Netherlands visited several Turkish slaughterhouses  – 

http://www.eyesonanimals.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=136&Itemid=286&lang=en_US.utf8%2C+en_US.UT

– please go to the bottom of the link above, and once accessed get further access to another 48 web pages of information.  Simply click on the boxed / page numbers.

The following are words written directly by Lesley:

Dear EU officials, CVO´s and Member State authorities, highway police and fellow NGO´s,

In June 2013 Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation sent a team to check on some of the slaughterhosues where many of the EU animals being exported by the EU had been previously slaughtered.

We are only sending our reports out now to all of you, as up until now we wanted to give the slaughterhouses and Turkish CVO some time to react and make improvements, before going public with them.

We have just now come back from a second inspection in Turkey to re-visit these three plants and also check on new ones. Some minor improvements were made but welfare problems remain very serious.
Hopeful news is that the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture has a team drafting welfare legislation at the time of slaughter- which may come into existence in about 2 years. In the meantime we are trying to advise the slaughterhouses on how they could reduce suffering and are in communication with authority in Turkey about our observations.

For now, here are our reports from June. In early 2014 we will send you reports of other slaughterhouses we visited in December 2013.

Best wishes,

Lesley Moffat, MSc Ethology
Eyes on Animals
Director and inspector

In addition, we are supplying copies of three (3) reports which have been produced by EoA post their December 2013 visit to Turkey.  Access these by clicking on each of the following links:

 SL-Bursa-12 06 2013_TR_Final_EN

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Turkey is not currently a member state of the EU.  Regardless, we are attempting to ensure that animals at Turkish slaughterhouses are treated with the utmost respect.  Turkey aims to join the EU in future, and so it is our aim that by the time it becomes a member state, Turkey will have to install and operate CCTV in all of its slaughterhouses, as we hope will be the situation throughout Europe and all EU member states.

This directly links in with our campaign which is now underway to try and ensure that CCTV is fitted in the future to ALL slaughterhouses within EU nations.

You can read more about this, and support the petitions by clicking on the following link:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/12/31/uk-sav-become-a-founder-organisation-to-form-the-european-alliance-for-cctv-in-slaughterhouses-petition-to-sign/

Here are further links which provide more information:

Europewide CCTV in all Slaughterhouses 

http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaughterhouses.eu 

Can you please ensure that these are stored in ‘My Favorites’ on Google so that you can access any time.

Simply click on the national flag link and then move on as required using the ‘TO PETITION’ link which is given at the end to take you through to the petition.

Please note that we are in the process of updating this continually to meet the demands of other nations.  At this very moment, we are having the petition translated into Serbian so that Serbia (another NON EU member state at present); can be worked on to ensure that CCTV will be installed in all their slaughterhouses before they become EU members.

It will not be a quick or easy campaign; but we are determined to ensure that CCTV in all EU slaughterhouses happens in the future.

 

 

 

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UK (England): Fox Saved From Death At Dig-Out.

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

England

Subject: Fox Saved From Death At Dig-Out

Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 30/12/2013

On Saturday December 28th hunt saboteurs from Yorkshire (England) attended a Pony Club meet of the York & Ainsty South Foxhounds at Escrick Park.

Three foxes that were deliberately hunted were aided in their escape by the sabs through the course of the day and, as the sun was going down, three terrier men were found just as they were about to finish digging the second fox out of an active badger sett. 

The sabs began to obstruct the men from continuing this illegal activity and the situation began to escalate, with about 8-10 more men with spades soon arriving at the scene. One sab was smashed in the head with the pistol the men planned to shoot the fox with and was also knocked down in a field by the men’s pickup truck. The sabs were not deterred by this, fought off the attackers and stood their ground.

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On stopping the dig-out the sabs had to prize a terrier from the fox as it had locked on to the fox’s face. Sabs then had to help the fox free from the earth as the earth around it had been caved in, leaving only its head exposed. The fox escaped with little visable injury, the terrier’s face was badly wounded from fighting the fox.

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The group are now preparing to prosecute the hunt for their actions and ask Escrick Park to stop facilitating these criminal activities. Anyone concerned by the activities of the Y&AS hunt should contact Escrick Park ( www.escrick.com/contact-us) to ask that they refuse the hunt access from now on.

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Lee Moon, spokesperson for the Hunt Saboteurs Association, stated: “Only two days after Boxing Day we see the real face of fox hunting. Boxing Day is the sanitized, media friendly press stunt that the hunting community use each year to pull the wool over the eyes of the British public. This is the grim reality of what occurs the rest of the time when the media spotlight is elsewhere. Escrick Park are a major supporter of the York and Ainsty South Hunt and are just as guilty as they allow these illegal acts to take place on their land. We call on them to ban the hunt from their estate before they become embroiled in any legal action taken against the hunt.”

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http://sheffieldsaboteurs.wordpress.com/news/fox-saved/

North West Hunt Saboteurs Association

07960 038230
www.nwhsa.org.uk
info@nwhsa.org.uk
Blog – http://nwhsa.wordpress.com

Direct Action Against All Forms of bloodsports

 

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UK: London Calling – Happy New Year – Enjoy the London Fireworks !!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

England

UPDATE 1/1/16 – Please click on the following link to see the 2015 London New Year fireworks display for December 31st 2015 taking us into 2016:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/01/01/england-112016/

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Happy New Year to you all !!

–          and the best of your campaigning throughout 2014.

Here in London, England, we had a pretty impressive firework display at midnight to see the old year out and the new year of 2014 in.

You can watch the full display as provided by the BBC by clicking on the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jp9_sgJcN0

Note – for our friends from overseas; in case you are wondering, the large circular structure at the centre of the display is known as the ‘London Eye’.  This is a viewing platform which revolves and allows visitors to have some very high and spectacular views over central London.

Read more about it at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Eye

And for those of you who know me; I am a big ‘Clash’ fan – ‘London Calling’ being of my favourite tracks.  Raining in London as always – just as it was last night during the firework display.  But we don’t moan; it is the lifeblood of the planet ! – I think it has rained here every day for at least the past two weeks.

In memory of the late, great Joe Strummer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c

Regards Mark – SAV.

LONDON-CALLING indicadoroculto

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UK: SAV Become A Founder Organisation To Form The ‘European Alliance For CCTV In Slaughterhouses’. Petition To Sign.

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Slaughterhouse petition 

SAV has been in contact with Euro friends over the new year holiday and we can now confirm that SAV has joined up with many other animal welfare organisations within Europe to form the European Alliance For CCTV In Slaughterhouses.

As part of the European Alliance, we at SAV join the others and demand the EU Commission submits a legislative proposal for mandatory CCTV in all areas concerned with the handling and slaughter of animals in all EU abattoirs.

Below you will find links to the petition in several languages.  This will gradually increase as the alliance grows across the EU.

At SAV we have decided to become alliance members as animal slaughter is an issue that we feel very strongly about.  There needs to be much tighter controls for standards in slaughterhouses throughout the EU.  Also, and one of our main reasons for becoming a member of the alliance; we strongly feel that this requirement for CCTV in ALL EU slaughterhouses should be a requirement for any Balkans states which are currently seeking EU Accession (membership).  Consequently, we will work to currently demand that all slaughterhouses in the existing EU have CCTV installed; and that this requirement will be one of the standards required for any new states (ie. Serbia) wishing to join the EU.

Please crosspost this section of the site to as many people as possible and ask them to add their names to the petition.

Thank you – SAV.

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 BACKGROUND

Right now hundreds of millions of animals in Europe are at risk of avoidable suffering brutality in abattoirs across Europe.

Piece-work, low-wages, defective equipment and as little as 5 seconds to slaughter animals all contribute to avoidable suffering. There are also staff who exert additional cruelty.

On the request of the Swedish Minister of Rural affairs, Eskil Erlandsson, the EU Commission confirmed in May 2011 that within individual EU countries up to 75 per cent of the animals are slaughtered improperly or not at all stunned. Alive and fully conscious they may be scalded, have their throats cut, be cut up by machines or bleed to death, hanging from a hook.

While animals suffer unnecessarily, slaughterhouse workers are also put at risk. There are a significant number of serious and fatal accidents in slaughterhouses, plus reported thefts of firearms – all of which could be reduced by the use of CCTV.

EU consumers unwittingly and unwillingly are forced to support this system of highly subsidised, low-cost meat production which subjects animals to a horrific death and puts staff unnecessarily at risk. THIS MUST END.

We demand for the whole of the European Union:

– Mandatory CCTV in all areas connected with slaughter and handling for slaughter.

– Unannounced checks that this is in effect.

– Footage being made available to agreed independent monitors.

– Mandatory prosecution for all offences.

– The placing of enforcement under the control of a national administrative body able to enforce animal protection laws regardless of local circumstances.

AN INDISPENSABLE DEMAND

EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR CCTV IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES

After discussions with individuals and organisations across Europe with an interest in manadatory CCTV in slaughterhouses collectively a number of us have decided to establish a formal alliance that will be known as the EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR CCTV IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES.

This initiative for EU wide legislation for mandatory CCTV will run parallel to any domestic campaigns we may have. This website contains an EU wide public petition that will be translated into individual nation’s languages and will be promoted by alliance members in those countries.

This will follow on from the existing GERMAN petition here:

http://www.petitionen24.com/europaweite_videouberwachung_an_schlachthofen_und_dokumentation

UK – http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaughterhouses.eu/petition-uk

IRELAND – http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaughterhouses.eu/petition-ie

SPAIN – http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaughterhouses.eu/peticion-es

Print out form for collecting hand-written signatures:

Download Form,

Download Petition Text

We would like everyone interested to take part.

Please contact us : PETITIONER
Kindly share our website http://www.europewide-cctv-in-all-slaugtherhouses.eu and the petition links with as many people as possible.

Thank you for helping us helping the animals.

EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR CCTV IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
Scotland for Animals (UK)
Animal Aid (UK)
CIWF – Compassion in World Farming (UK)
VIVA Org. (UK)

KAALE – Kent Action Against Live Export s- (UK)
ARAN Animal Rights Action Network (Ireland)
ADDA Ong (Spain)
Animal Equality (Spain)
ROLDA Foundation (Romania)
FNPA Federatia Nationala pentru Protectia Animalelor (Romania)

VOCAL CRETE (Greece)

SAV  Serbian Animals Voice (Serbia)

Veganska iniciativa (Slovenia)
ETN e.V. – Protection of Animals and Nature in Europe (Germany)
Martina Patterson (Individual capacity, Germay)
Lisa Boldizsar (Individual capacity, Austria)

Website – PETITION PAGE

Europewide CCTV in all Slaughterhouses

This petition is addressed to the
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
EUROPEAN INTERGROUP FOR ANIMALS
all in Brussels, Belgium

We demand the EU Commission submits a legislative proposal for mandatory CCTV
in all areas concerned with the handling and slaughter of animals in all EU abattoirs.

EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR CCTV IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
SCOTLAND FOR ANIMALS (UK)
ANIMAL AID (UK)
CIWF – COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING (UK)
VIVA Org. (UK)

KAALE Kent Action Against Live Exports (UK)
ARAN Animal Rights Action Network (Ireland)
ANIMAL EQUALITY (Spain)
ADDA Ong (Spain)
ROLDA Foundation (Romania)
FNPA Federatia Nationala pentru Protectia Animalelor (Romania)

SAV  Serbian Animals Voice (Serbia)

VOCAL CRETE (Greece)
Veganska iniciativa (Slovenia)
ETN e.V. – Protection of Animals and Nature in Europe (Germany)
Martina Patterson (private capacity, Germany)
Lisa Boldizsar (private capacity, Austria)

 

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USA: What Is America Teaching Its Kids ?

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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Our recent post of December 24th:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/12/24/usa-idaho-urgent-take-action-before-2812-tell-the-forest-service-and-blm-no-wolf-killing-contests-on-public-lands/

It seems that the US just cannot get enough of killing with guns and teaching youngsters that killing is the way.

https://www.change.org/petitions/2-day-holiday-idaho-killing-derby-targets-wolves-coyotes-federal-agencies-ignore-laws-re-killing-contests-on-federal-lands

 To:  governor@gov.idaho.gov,

to avoid not delivering better at BCC: virgil.moore@idfg.idaho.gov, willnaillon@gmail.com, bbarowsky@fmtc.com, svcc1@centurytel.net, john@ioga.org

 Just a sample letter, if you prefer to tell in your own words, feel free:

SAMPLE LETTER 

Ladies and Gentlemen,  frenzied killing people;

Does America never grow sick of living beings getting killed with guns ?

“hunting contest” – really? – And you still wonder where all those twisted minds come from who enjoy to torture and brutally kill or run amok in your malls, schools, cinemas, etc. ?

 I tell you a secret:  it’s the human society that’s breeding them with our contempt towards life.

Vivisections at schools  –  fur for vanity  –  factory farms  –  “religious” slaughter  –  animal testing –  zoos  –  circuses  –  trophy “hunting”  –  marine parks  –  movies, TV-advertising and shows  – bestiality  –  torture in slaughterhouses  –  kill-“shelters”  –  murderers and pedophiles who are allowed to leave prison again  –  massacres of wildlife and strays  –  big corporations supported by elected officials, destroying environment and causing health problems or even deaths of people  –  … an endless list!

We’re teaching our descendants to ban any kind of compassion from their hearts because the human way of life; your way of life, allows to use the weaker for any purpose.

 Children growing up in such a hypocritical and greedy society are at risk of losing their ability to feel compassion anyway and if this wasn’t enough, YOU really are of the opinion, what the world needs is such kind of a “contest”?

Idaho politicians say KILL, KILL, KILL – because they do not have an ounce of decency in them !

Forgive me if I doubt your sick and twisted mind but I am civilised.

 Name

Adress

Zip, Town

Country

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‘For Wildlife’, an anti-predator organization, has organized a wolf and coyote killing contest on December 28 and 29 near Salmon, Idaho.  The killing “derby” is scheduled on the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Endangered Species Act, our nation’s safety-net for wildlife, that brought wolves back from the brink of extinction. Hunt participants, in teams of two, will pursue wolves and coyotes as part of a competition for prizes, including cash awards, for the largest wolf, most female coyotes, and other categories.

Even children, as young as 10 can participate in the kill fest. 

The contest hunt will cover public and private (with permission) lands which will include lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.  Both federal agencies have regulations and policies that prohibit such commercial, competitive events without special recreation or use permits, but both agencies are allowing the Idaho contest participants to hunt on their lands without complying with federal law.

The USFS, which initially admitted that this event would require a special use permit, is now claiming that no permit is required.  The BLM, which admits that a special recreation permit is required, is expediting issuance of the permit without complying with federal environmental laws. 

If these agencies followed their own laws and policies, coyotes and wolves will be spared, and the killing contest will be crippled. 

Wildlife killing contest are ethically indefensible events allowing participants to kill wildlife to win prizes. 

They are biologically and ecologically reckless, not only harming individual animals, but also altering predator-prey dynamics, disrupting the social dynamics of predatory species, and increasing threats to public safety, all for ‘fun’ and prizes. 

They have no beneficial management purpose but, rather, promote gratuitous violence against wildlife.  They demean the immense ecological and economic value of predators in an ecosystem while teaching children to hate and trivialize the lives of predators.

 

‘Have gun, must kill’ – is this the American way ?

Dangerous, very dangerous.

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