Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

WAV Comment – we feel this a very important petition to support as it has huge implications throughout the EU regarding plant based dairy censorship.  Please give your support, thank you – petition link below.

STOP PLANT-BASED DAIRY CENSORSHIP

Dear European Commission and EU Member States, 

We want you to put a halt to plant-based dairy censorship

Please reject amendment 171. If adopted, it would totally counteract the consumer shift to more sustainable eating habits that’s urgently needed to fight climate change.

Dairy terms are already protected by law. Amendment 171 would go further and censor all use of dairy-related language, packaging, or imagery for plant-based foods. 

Words and phrases like “contains no dairy” or “creamy texture” might be banned. The same goes for a tweet or an advert mentioning scientific data showing that a product causes, for example, “half the carbon emissions of dairy butter”. Bizarrely, the amendment could even prohibit plant-based foods from using photos of their own products on packaging.

In this way, amendment 171 would not only hide information from consumers, but also hinder innovation and the emerging sustainable food sector. Altogether, it would be a huge reversal of the work done so far to meet the EU’s own goals on public health and sustainability, as agreed under the terms of the Paris Agreement. Given the urgency of the climate crisis, it’s a highly irresponsible move.

Please add your name and tell the European Union to stop plant-based censorship. 

Petition link:

Stop plant-based dairy censorship | Stop AM171 | ProVeg International

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When it comes to animal activism, I’ve always believed the most powerful tools we have as activists are undercover investigations.

The truth is that the majority of animal cruelty at the hands of humans is done for major industries behind closed doors.

Joe-Anne MacArthur

From animal farming for food and textiles to zoos and circuses to laboratories, etc. – all of these industries know that if the public saw how they regularly mistreat animals, people would be outraged.

It’s why you can’t just walk up to a factory farm or an animal testing facility, knock on the door, and ask for a tour. It’s why states across the US have passed ag-gag laws that attempt to criminalize undercover investigations.

It’s also why Ringling Bros. is out of business.

While undercover operations carried out by brave animal activists have been going on for decades, there is one activist I’d specifically like to spotlight: Jo-Anne McArthur.

Even if you’ve never heard her name, you’ve likely seen her photographs. McArthur’s award-winning, powerful and haunting work has been featured in National Geographic, HuffPost, and Photolife – among many other media outlets.

These hens are forced to share a cage with a dead friend.

Her subject? Animals in the human environment.

For more than a decade, McArthur has traveled to over 40 countries documenting how animals are exploited by humans for food, clothing, entertainment, research, and more.

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2021/03/31/jo-anne-mcarthur-the-most-important-animal-photographer-of-our-time/

And I mean…«Good information is hard to come by.
It’s even harder to do anything with them, ” said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

With the excellent work of Jo-Anne McArthur and other undercover investigators, we can know what animals suffer in concentration camps around the world.

Although the media have sold their souls to the devil and are information carriers for the meat and milk mafia around the world, we can still find out what happens when we want.
If we want! but the majority do not want to.

This is the world’s worst human character trait: indifference!
And that’s why we still come up with enough excuses not to look facts in the eye, in order not to decide and act …

1. My conscience is clear because I buy my meat from the farmer next door. All of this only happens in Thailand
2. You can actually slaughter animals in small farms, painlessly, and my neighbor will do it.
3. I am actually animal-friendly, I also have dogs myself.
4. Actually, animals are always slaughtered, which is quite natural.
5. If there was something useful in this stupid vegan diet, it would have prevailed.
6. I don’t have a great idea about animal rights and animal ethics, but all of these are arguments that are totally weak.
7. It’s just like that, we can’t change anything

Note: Each of these excuses legalizes your “private choice”. But if your private decision means torture and death for others, then it is not a private decision, it is a collaboration to crime.

My best regards to all, Venus

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Rat Meat: In just about every country around the globe there are people eating Rat corpses for pleasure or survival necessity.
West Virginia, USA & Mexico have “Rat Stew”, “Caldo de Rata” there is also Rat Jerky.

The USA citizen in the cooking photo especially enjoys eating Rat testicles.

In Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Laos, China, Cambodia, etc, etc, Rats can sometimes be seen on restaurant menus.

Some people in Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, Africa, South, Central & North America, and Europe enjoy eating Rats.

Rats from the forested wild, near wineries or grain farms, are preferred to sewer Rats, graveyard Rats & garbage dump Rats.
Buying live Rats or Rat corpses in open markets is risky because one never knows where the Rats lived and what they actually fed on.
Rats like people can survive on eating just about anything & everything.

There is a better way, a kinder way, a healthier way.

Source: Scott Young

And I mean…Yes, the whole thing is absolutely weird and disturbing, and no, it doesn’t just apply to the rats.
This affects all sentient animals.

Is severing a pig’s leg more painful than severing a rat?

If I see the infliction of pain as negative and accordingly try to avoid it, then it is consistent to do this to all living beings with pain perception.
It then makes no difference whether these creatures are humans, rats, dogs, or cattle.

In view of the masses of animal products consumed in Germany, we do not need any sharp criticism of “THE other” food cultures, the so-called exotic ones.

My best regards to all, Venus

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BREAKING NEWS: The facility known as the largest pig breeding facility in Europe is located in Germany and was part of the Straathof group of companies.

Now the plant in Alt Tellin is burning down and with it thousands of innocent creatures! They cannot escape the flames, the heat, and the smoke and die excruciatingly in these minutes!

30.03.2021, Alt Tellin: Foto: Stefan Sauer/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++

The former owner Straathof had received a nationwide professional ban due to numerous criminal violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
He had therefore initially sold the system to a bank holding company and this last year to a Swiss mailbox company.

Again and again, there were massive scandals in Alt Tellin: one time highly toxic sulfuric acid escaped and another time over a thousand piglets died due to defective ventilation.

The lawsuits against the approval of the facility have been delayed since 2017! A massive judicial scandal could be hiding here.
Because fire protection was presumably not guaranteed right from the start and the system should therefore never have been approved.

Now the horror that was, unfortunately, to be expected has occurred – the farm is on fire.
Like so many animal husbandry facilities before!

Continue reading →

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Dana Ellyn

“Man is evil and irrational
The malignancy is – besides the stupidity – the more fundamental property: the irrationality often serves to cover up the malevolence”

(Helmut F. Kaplan, animal ethicist)

good night, Venus

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Investigation – Live Horse Exports from Canada and France to Japan for Human Consumption.

Read the full story, with pictures at:

Investigation: Live Horse Exports to Japan From Canada and France for Human Consumption. 28 Hours Without Food or Water. – World Animals Voice

EU:  You Have Sidelined Live Export for Decades – Ignore It Now At Your Peril

Read the full article at:

EU: You Have Sidelined It For Decades; Now You Have To Address the Reality of EU Live Animal Exports. Continue to Ignore If You Wish, But It Will Be At Your Peril. – World Animals Voice

UK: The Foie Gras Ban Should Now Be a Few Months Away

Read the full article at:

UK: Foie Gras Ban Should Now Be A Few Months Away. UK Cross-Party Politicians Call For Urgency On Issue. – World Animals Voice

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Mexico proceeds with plan to replace 16mn tonnes of GM corn with homegrown variety
Deputy minister describes GM corn and glyphosate, which is also being banned, as ‘undesirable and unnecessary’

The federal government will go ahead with its plan to stop importing genetically modified (GM) corn and replace it with homegrown maize, according to Deputy Agriculture Minister Víctor Suárez.

Suárez: Sustainable “agro-ecological” practices must take priority.

The official also told the news agency Reuters that the government is sticking to its plan to ban glyphosate, a controversial herbicide.

The government announced by executive order on the final day of 2020 that it aims to replace approximately 16 million tonnes of yellow corn imports – most of which comes from the United States and almost all of which is GM corn – with new, local production by 2024, the final year of the current administration’s six-year term.

The imports account for more than a third of Mexican demand for corn and are mostly used as livestock fodder.

Replacing the imports by 2024 with homegrown corn would require an almost 60% increase over current domestic production levels.

ARCHIV – Protesters from 14.09.2016) +++(c) dpa – Bildfunk+++

Suárez, an agronomist, a long-term ally of President López Obrador, and a key architect of the executive order, told Reuters that GM corn and glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto herbicide Roundup, are too dangerous to be permitted long term in Mexico.

He said that Mexican agricultural production and sustainable “agro-ecological” practices must take priority.

“We are moving in this direction, and this must be clear: no one should think that they can bet that this decree will not be implemented,” Suárez said.

The deputy minister cited studies that have linked glyphosate to cancer and found that it is harmful to bees and other pollinators.

He also claimed that GM corn contaminates native strains of the grain that have long been cultivated in Mexico.

But Suárez described GM corn, and glyphosate, as “undesirable and unnecessary,” saying that they are not needed to attain the government’s goal of self-sufficiency in food production.

“We have to put the right to life, the right to health, the right to a healthy environment ahead of economic and business interests,” he said.

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2021/03/29/mexico-gm-corn-and-glyphosate-are-undesirable-and-unnecessary-great/#more-40655

An I mean…The reality in North America and Asia shows that Monsanto’s promises are nothing but promises:

– Increase in yields: No result!

– Reduced use of pesticides: no result!

– Successful fight against poverty: No result!

– Successful fight against hunger: No result!

In many cases the opposite was even the case: the yields were devastatingly low (sometimes half of the normal yield and, of course, hunger and poverty as a result.

The poverty of farmers in the third or emerging countries was even increased as a result of the expensive seeds (yes must be bought expensive new every year with all the specialty products from Monsanto).

In many cases even more pesticides (of course, Monsanto’s own expensive special products) were necessary, which further increases the costs, and increases poverty and hunger …

In fact, en masse people in South America who live in the vicinity of fields that are sprayed with insecticides or herbicides (often from airplanes) become sick.

There is also a significant relationship between these toxins and malformations and stillbirths in fetuses. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237710660_Malformaciones_Congenitas_Asociadas_a_Agrotoxicos)

The main culprit here is solely the industry that releases these toxins, including unscrupulous politicians who do not want to go out of business because of trivialities like human suffering

Thank you señor Sánchez for your courageous and right decision.

If we allow the world market leaders in pesticide production, namely Monsanto, Dow, and DuPont from the USA, Syngenta from Switzerland or Bayer and BASF from Germany, to spray their poisonous liquor on the fields as before, then it is “murder on installments”.

My best regards to all, Venus

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