Spain: 2 Actions to Take for the ‘Fire Bulls’ – see links below.

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Just over a week ago, in the town of Medinaceli in the Castilla y León region of Spain, a bull had flaming torches attached to his horns as part of El Toro Jubilo festival, a “fire bull” fiesta.

Late in the evening, the bull was roped to a post in the town square. He was held down whilst flammable materials were attached to his horns and lit.

Then, with flames leaping above his head, the bull dashed about the square tossing his head again and again, turning in one direction then the next, trying to escape the flames above his head. As the fire burned loud firecrackers exploded above the square.

It is simply not acceptable to torment an animal in this way. Please help us put an end to this terrible spectacle.

Animal suffering is never acceptable as a form of entertainment. Join us, and compassionate people from across Spain, in calling for an end to the torment of animals at these fiestas.

Please join us — sign our letter to Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, at the Ministry of Interior and Justice in Castilla y León, asking him to stop the use of animals at El Toro Jubilo and at other fiestas.

Thanks for all you do to help animals.

Sincerely,

Andrew Rowan
President & CEO
Humane Society International

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Spanish

Hola: hace unos días hemos solicitado tu ayuda en la nueva campaña para pedir que, si Córdoba es elegida como Capital Cultural Europea, que en los actos culturales no se incluyan espectáculos taurinos. Pero la participación aúnes escasa. Si aún no has participado, entra y firma en el siguiente link, es sólo un minuto. Gracias: Asanda

http://www.asanda.org/index.php?module=Peticiones&func=display&id=10

English 

Hi: few days ago we requested your help in this new campaign to ask if Cordoba was chosen as European Cultural Capital, in cultural events not included bullfighting. But participation is still low. If you have not participated in and signed on the following link, just a minute. Thanks: Asanda

  
French

Salut: il ya quelques jours, nous avons demandé votre aide pour cette nouvelle campagne pour demander si Cordoba a été choisie comme capitale culturelle européenne, en événements culturels non compris la tauromachie. Mais la participation est encore faible. Si vous n’avez pas participé et signé sur le lien suivant, juste une minute. Merci: Asanda

http://www.asanda.org/index.php?module=Peticiones&func=display&id=10

German

Hallo paar Tagen haben wir die angeforderte Ihre Hilfe in dieser neuen Kampagne zu fragen, ob Cordoba war als Kulturhauptstadt Europas im kulturellen Veranstaltungen gewählt nicht inbegriffen Stierkampf. Die Teilnahme ist jedoch noch gering. Wenn Sie noch nicht teilgenommen und signiert auf den folgenden Link, nur eine Minute. Dank: Asanda

http://www.asanda.org/index.php?module=Peticiones&func=display&id=10

 

 

 

 

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Uk: The Religious Excuse for Barbarity

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-religious-excuse-for-barbarity-2137927.html

The Independent. 19 November 2010.
Johann Hari:

The religious excuse for barbarity.

Why are we sitting silently while our treatment of many of our animals regresses to the standard of the sixth century?If you are engaged in an act of cruelty, there is an easy, effective way to silence your critics and snatch some space to carry on. Tell us all that your religion requires you to do it, and you are “offended” by any critical response. Erect an electric wire fence around your nastiest actions and call it “respect”.

There’s a good example of this religious modus operandi playing out on a dinner table near you ? and this week, we found out it is becoming more and more common. In Britain, it is a crime to kill a conscious cow or sheep or chicken for meat by slashing its throat without numbing it first. The reasons are obvious. If you don’t numb an animal, it screams as you hack through its skin, muscle, trachea, oesophagus, carotid arteries, jugular veins and major nerve trunks, and then it remains conscious as it slowly drowns in its own blood ? a process that can take up to six minutes. So we insist that an animal is stunned before its throat is slashed, to ensure it is deeply unconscious. There isn’t much humanity in our
factory farming system, but this is ? at least ? a tiny sliver of it, at the end.

But there is a loophole in the law. You are allowed to skip all this and slash the throats of un-numbed, screaming animals if you say God told you to. If you are Muslim, you call it “halal”, and if you are Jewish you call it “kosher”. Back in the Bronze Age, or the deserts of sixth-century Arabia, it was sensible to act this way. You needed to know your meat was fresh and the animal was not sick, so you made sure it was alive and alert when you killed it. As Woody Allen once said, it wasn’t so much a commandment as “advice on how to eat out safely in Jerusalem”. But we have much better ways of making sure meat is fresh and healthy now. Yet for many religious people it has hardened into a dogma, to be followed simply because it was laid down in their “holy” texts long ago by “God”.

Of course, they claim that this practice isn’t cruel at all.  Henry Grunwald, chairman of the main body overseeing the certification of kosher meat, Shechita UK, says that when you slash an animal’s throat “there is an instant drop in blood pressure in the brain. The animal is dead.” Similarly, Raghib Ali, of the Oxford Islam and Muslim Awareness Project, says:  “It’s not cruel, it is better for the animal.”

This has been proven by science to be false. The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) is the Government’s senior panel of independent scientific experts on this area, and their investigation found that “the prevailing scientific consensus that slaughter without pre-stunning causes very significant pain and distress”. The FAWC chairwoman, Dr Judy MacArthur Clark, explains: “To say [the animal] doesn’t suffer is quite ridiculous.”

To give just one example: after you cut a calf’s throat, in 62 per cent of cases, large clots form at the back of its carotid arteries, which means blood pressure to the brain massively slows and the animal doesn’t black out at all. It stays conscious as it bleeds to death from its throat in agony.  Kosher butchers never numb their animals. Most halal butchers now use some stunning, but the RSPCA warns that it is at a much lower dosage to guarantee the animal is still alive when it is killed ? so it doesn’t properly protect them from pain.  The attempts by religious people to explain this away and claim it is in fact a kindness to the animal are a pseudo-science: the intelligent design of animal welfare.  That’s why making meat like this is a crime in countries from Spain to New Zealand, where an ethnically Jewish Prime Minister banned it this year.  Yet in Britain this kind of animal cruelty is becoming standard. Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic abandonment of the numbing of animals before killing them, in the name of “respect” for a religious minority. The BBC’s You And Yours programme says that halal meat now “accounts for around a quarter of the UK’s meat trade”. It is served unlabelled and as standard meat in Wembley Stadium, Twickenham, on all British Airways flights, at Nando’s, Subway, KFC, Pizza Hut, Domino’s Pizza and even swanky Ascot racecourse. There has been a huge expansion, then, in the suffering of living creatures ? and we are supposed to applaud it as an advance for tolerance.

The halal and kosher meat industries are fighting even tepid proposals by the European Union to ensure that all meat made from unstunned animals must be clearly labelled. They claim this will render their businesses “economically unviable”.  Isn’t that an extraordinary confession ? that if people knew what they were buying, the companies would go bust?  Atheists who criticise religion are constantly being told we have missed the point and religion is really about compassion and kindness. It is only a handful of extremists and fundamentalists who “misunderstand” faith and use it for cruel ends, we are told with a wagging finger.

But here’s an example where most members of a religion choose to do something pointlessly cruel, and even the moderates demand “respect” for their “views”. Their faith makes them prioritise pleasing an invisible supernatural being over the screaming of actual living creatures. Doesn’t this suggest that faith itself ? the choice to believe something in the total absence of evidence ? is a danger that can lead you up needlessly nasty paths?  Britain is famously a nation of animal lovers who turn doe-eyed and gooey at the sight of any furry creature. So why are we sitting silently while our treatment of many of our animals regresses to the standards of the sixth century?  It is true that, at the moment, there is a frightening rise in real bigotry against Muslims and, to a lesser but still significant extent, Jews. Some people who object to the rise of halal meat try to fit it into a preposterous narrative where Britain is somehow being “taken over” by the 4 per cent of its population who are Muslim, presumably via the Protocols of the Elders of Mecca. I have written many articles against this resurgent bigotry, and I can see why some people would be shy about anything that would look like piling on.

But the only consistent position is to oppose viciousness against these minorities, and to oppose viciousness by these minorities. The proponents of halal and kosher meat are choosing to inflict terrible and unnecessary pain on living creatures every day. It would be condescending to treat them as victim-children who are exempt from moral debate ? and it would be a betrayal of the real victims here: the sentient creatures having their throats cut.  We need to be much more self-confident in criticising religious claims. Your ideas do not deserve any special status because you say they came from an invisible, supernatural being.  No, we don’t respect your desire to needlessly torment animals because some hallucinating desert nomads did it centuries ago.  We don’t respect it at all. You can cry that we are “persecuting” you if we stop you committing acts of cruelty if you want.

It’s what the religious ? Christian, Jew and Muslim alike ? did when we stopped you tormenting women and gays and anybody else you could get your hands on. One of the great markers of the advance of human kindness is the howls you will hear from the Men of God.

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Serbia: Farm Animal Conditions – Update 26/11/10. Formal Statement on Conditions Now Provided by CIWF (Uk).

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Since the publication of our post on the terrible conditions in which cattle were being kept on a Serbian farm:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/serbia-november-2010-conditions-ok-at-a-farm-according-to-serbian-veterinary-ministry-and-complaining-campaigners-dont-pressure-us/

SAV had been in regular contact with our colleagues at London based International farm animal welfare organisation, Compassion In World Farming (CIWF), in order to obtain their specialist views on these conditions.

CIWF have kindly provided us with a formal statement which can be seen below. It is clear that conditions at this farm do not comply with existing EU legislation regarding the keeping of farm animals. We wish to inform the Serbian authorities that provided with the photographs and information we have, a formal complaint would immediately have been made to the EU Legal Affairs dept should Serbia have been an existing EU member state.  As they are not, we are currently considering whether the information we have should still be provided regardless.

The following is the statement from CIWF, complete with links to existing EU COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 98/58/EC of 20 July 1998 concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes. 

CIWF Statement:

It is clear from the photographs that these cattle are being kept in squalid, filthy, unhealthy and completely unacceptable conditions. The cattle in the pictures shown are standing in water contaminated with excrement. The matted nature of their coats shows that they are unable to keep clean and have clearly been in these conditions for some time.

Cattle need a comfortable, clean and well-drained area to lie down, receive adequate rest and remain healthy. The squalid conditions these cattle are being kept in plainly fail to meet basic welfare or hygiene standards as laid down by Council of Europe Convention and EU Directive which require that animals are prevented avoidable suffering and kept in conditions which avoid risks to their health.

It is clear beyond doubt that what is shown in these photographs does not comply with existing EU legislation, and consequently would impact Serbian accession to the EU. In the event of Serbia’s accession, these photographs could form the basis of a formal complaint to be made to the Legal Affairs Dept of the EU associated with animal welfare.

Phil Brooke

Welfare Development Manager – Compassion in World Farming

COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 98/58/EC of 20 July 1998 concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes

Article 3

Member States shall make provision to ensure that the owners or keepers take all reasonable steps to ensure the welfare of animals under their care and to ensure that those animals are not caused any unnecessary pain, suffering or injury.

From the Annex:

Animals not kept in buildings

12. Animals not kept in buildings shall where necessary and possible be given protection from adverse weather conditions, predators and risks to their health.

Ref: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/1998/l_221/l_22119980808en00230027.pdf

Council of Europe Convention covering the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes state, amongst other things:

Article 9

1. Animals should be maintained in a clean condition.

2. Those parts of the accommodation with which the animals come into contact should be thoroughly cleansed, and where appropriate, disinfected, everytime the accommodation has been emptied and before new animals are brought in. While the accommodation is occupied by the animals, the interior surfaces and all equipment therein shall be kept satisfactorily clean.

Ref: http://www.coe.int/t/e/legal_affairs/legal_co-operation/biological_safety,_use_of_animals/Farming/Rec%20cattle%20E.asp#TopOfPage

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Further information can be found via the following links to the CIWF website:

http://www.ciwf.org.uk/about_us/default.aspx

http://www.ciwf.org.uk/farm_animals/default.aspx

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Serbia: November 2010 – Conditions ‘Ok’ at a Farm According to Serbian Veterinary Ministry – and Complaining Campaigners, ‘Dont Pressure Us’.

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

Just when you begin to think that the situation for most animals in Serbia can get no worse, despite the valiant efforts and work of Serbian animal activists, another story raises its head. Rather than our usual dealings with regard stray animals, this time the work involves farm animals.

We talk specifically of a farm in Rusko Selo, northern Serbia. Campaigners have issued charges to the Republic veterinary inspector regarding the conditions in which animals are kept at this facility. The first charge was sent on 25.6.2010, and the second on 21.11.2010. Copies of both these charges can be seen below.

The Republic veterinary inspector responded on 1.7.2010 informing campaigners that they had acted. The inspectors even had the audacity to declare to campaigners that by raising this issue, they were ‘putting unnecessary pressure; on the veterinary inspectors !

In their latest communication, campaigners have now insisted that the Republic veterinary inspectors suspend the operation of the facility (farm) and that the owner be prosecuted for causing unnecessary suffering to animals.

The series of photographs below provide an overview of the current situation for which campaigners are now demanding action from the Republic veterinary inspector.

As can be seen in one of the photographs, a newspaper dated 21.11.2010 is shown as photographic evidence that this situation is current and not a record of past events. The newspaper provides evidence of the date and time at which these photographs were taken.

Despite their claims that they have ‘acted’ on this issue, we now call on the Republic veterinary inspectors to act and to support the calls of the animal welfare lobby. Regardless of the situation, there is no justifiable excuses for animals to be kept and treated in the way which we are showing in the photographs below.

SAV have now provided the link to this SAV post and all of the photographs to no fewer than 20 animal welfare organisations throughout Europe which are national contacts for the European Coalition for Farm Animals (ECFA). We hope that some of these organisations will contact the Serbian Republic veterinary inspector demanding further action be taken relating to this disgusting facility.  E mail contact addresses can be found on the ‘To’ copies below.

SAV are currently seeking expert opinion regarding the conditions shown in the photographs; for future action if it is necessary should there be no action from the Serbian authorities (Ministry).

What can be seen in these photographs is not acceptable for any potential future member of the European Union. Regardless of weather conditions where they are kept, farm animals should not be kept under these conditions, walking around continually in their own liquid excrement. We understand that some of the animals shown are in calf.

We call on all our international supporters to contact their MEPs directly, providing a few copies of some of the photographs below and asking their MEPs to contact the EU Commission for Enlargement, requesting if these pictures now show the future way that European farming will be going should new member states such as Serbia join.  Serbia is not acting about these conditions, so will this now be acceptable treatment of farm animals by new future EU member states ?

Charge letters from Serbian campaigners are as follows:

To: zoran.marinkovic@minpolj.gov.rs ; zoran.micovic@minpolj.gov.rs ; s.celebicanin@minpolj.gov.rs ; Uprava za veterinu

Cc: predsednikvladesrbije@gov.rs

Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 11:24 PM

Subject: Ponavljamo prijavu 21.11.2010.god. KRAVE U RUSKOM SELUI!!!Dopuna prijave 07.07.2010. – Zahtev 28.06.2010.god. – Prijava 25.6.2010./ Cow in Serbia – vet inspection don`t care

Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva i vodoprivrede RS, Republicka veterinarska inspekcija, Kikinda

21.11.2010.god.  HITNO!!!!

Predmet: Ponavljamo prijavu zbog neprekidnog zlostavljanja velikog broja životinja  uz kršenje propisa a zbog nepostupanja nadlezne vet. inspkecije.

Istovremeno saljemo UGRENCIJU i zahtev za suspenzijom  nadleznog vet. inspektora  (videti dole prijave , fotografije u Attachmentu)

Poštovani,

U prilogu vam dostavljamo nove fotografije od 20. novembra 2010. godine, sa dnevnim novinama uz fotografije ,  sa slikom naslovne strane.

U atachmentu je vidljiva situacija koja je ista kao i junu i  julu 2010.god.  kad smo podneli prvu prijavu. (videti dole u prilogu)

Zahtevamo da odmah postupite ,  da  hitno zaustavite zlostavljanje ovih krava i  da odmah naložite da uslovi njihovog smeštaja budu odgovarajući potrebama vrste .

U prilogu dokaz, fotografije od broja IMG_1044 do IMG_1057 su od 20.11.2010.god.

S poštovanjem

Prijatelj-EPAR/OIPA Srbija/Alijansa za zastitu prirode, prava životinja i prava ljudi 

Subotica 

—– Original Message —–

To: vetinski@gmail.com ; goran.milosev@minpolj.gov.rs ; s.celebicanin@minpolj.gov.rs ; muprs@mup.gov.rs ; tuzilastvokikinda@panline.net ; rjtdz@bitsyu.net ; tuzilastsvokikindta@panline.net ; office@minpolj.gov.rs

Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 10:46 PM

Subject: Prijava 25.6.2010./ Cow in Serbia – vet inspection don`t care

Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, sumarstva i vodoprivrede RS 

Uprava za veterinu-Sektor veterinarske inspekcije, Beograd 

Republicka veterinarska inspekcija, Kikinda  

Ministarstvo zivotne sredine,-Sektor inspekcije i nadzora  zbog zagadjivanja zivotne sredine 

MUP RS- molimo prosledite, forwardujte  PU Kikinda da bi im stigle i fotografije  koje mogu pomoci u identifikaciji mesta  i pocinilaca 

RJT Beograd, molimo prosledite , forwardujte Osnovnom javnom tuzulastvu, Kikinda 

25.6.2010.

HITNO

Predmet : Prijava  zlostavljanja velikog broja zivotinja  uz krsenje propisa ,  zagadjivanja zivotne sredine i stvaranja uslova za  izbijanje epidemije zaraznih bolesti

Zahtevamo da policija odmah locira mesto i identifikuje odgovorno pravno i  odgovorna fizicka lica ,kako bi  podrucno nadlezna rep veterinarske inspekcija  i inspekcija zastite zivotne sredine ,mogle  postupati , i kako bi  policija i inspekcijske sluzbe  podneli  krivicnu i prekrsajnu prijavu protiv odgovornih lica  zbog : zlostavljanja velikog broja zivotinja , zbog stvaranja uslova za sirenje zaraznih bolesti i zbog zagadjivanja zivotne sredine  .

Takodje zahtevamo da nas postupajuci organi izveste o rezulatima svog postupanja i preduzetim merama po ovoj prijavi , jer cemo u protivnom obavestiti AWI EU Parlamenta  o ovom slucaju i o nepostupanju  organa kojima smo  dostavili prijavu .

S nase strane , sve argumente  do koji dodjemo u  nastupajucim danima , dostavicemo postupajucim organima kojima smo podneli ovu prijavu.S postovanjem

Prijatelj-EPAR/OIPA Srbija/Alijansa za prava  zivotinja i ljudi

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Romania: EU Member State Which Does Its Own Thing About Animals – Please Act and Send Sample Letter Supplied.

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

SAV Comment:  the following has been provided to us by a contact, but as can be seen in the red underlined text, there are so many similarities to the way in which Serbia currently operates – still using old outdated and illegal legislation, and telling companies to break the law.

We will monitor the situation with interest and remind the EU of what Serbia is currently doing with regard stray animals – including its continued use of old outdated and illegal laws.

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The European Commission which is also in charge with the well being of animals will meet Nov. 31st in Bruxelles to draft the new European Convention for animal welfare…and they are supposed to try to make a decision about the strays in Europe, some sort of synchronized policy for Europe, or at least for South-Eastern Europe.

This Commission is very much aware of what is going on especially in Romania, so, our goal here is to keep pressure on them about what ROMANIA has done so far, that is everything in its power to go against the “flow” when it comes to animal protection ( but not only )…

Romania HAS a LAW for the protection of animals YET continues to act based on articles of another law, which have been abrogated by the new law…authorities not only break the law, but ORDERS to others companies and agencies to break the law…

 
 

 

Please, it is just a matter of 3 minutes to copy/paste/send the letter
Thank you so much.

ALIANTA ROMANA PENTRU PROTECTIA SI DREPTURILE ANIMALELOR – International –

PLEASE CLICK “See More”
My dear friends, there is no other option, but to send a very short letter with a very long list of links with the atrocities and massacres committed – based on orders from officials – in Romania against animals, most especially the stray dogs. Romanian authorities have decided to ignore the international public outrage, and also have decided to OPENLY ORDER the violation of the Romanian Law for the protection of animals ( 2008) and all international treaties and conventions, signed, ratified and entered into force in Romania long time ago.

 

Therefore, I think all we can do is to ask the European Parliament to save the animals in Romania…
Please copy/paste the short sample letter and THE ENTIRE list of links and send it to as many European Parliamentarian groups as possible.

Please always use the same CC ( The Romanian Commission in Parliament which wants to legalize what now is illegal…massacres of animals…

 
FRENCH 😦 SVP Clickez “See More”_
Mes chers amis, il n’y a pas d’autre option que d’envoyer une tres courte lettre aven une tres longue liste d’evidences – les attrocites et les massacres quotidiens contre les animaux, surtout les chiens errants – en Roumanie. Les autorites roumaines ont decide de violer ouvertement meme leurs propres lois pour la protection animale, et tout les traites et conventions internationaux qui ont ete signes, ratiffies et entres en force en Roumanie depuis longtemps deja. Les autorites meme donnent des order pour les massacres. Alors, il ne nous reste qu’a demander au parlement europeen de sauver les animaux de Roumanie. SVP copyez/collez et envoyez la tres courte lettre et la tres longue liste des horreurs a tous les groups parlamentaires. SVP mettez toujours le meme CC ( commission du parlement roumain qui veut legaliser les massacres…)

TO :
cab-dalli-webpage@ec.europa.eu ,Frederic.vincent@ ec.europa.eu,
eac-culture@ec.europa.eu,comm-rep-ro@ec.europa.eu,niculae.idu@ec.europa.eu, daniela.rosca@ec.europa.eu,klaus.sorensen@ec.europa.eu,joe.hennon@ec.europa.eu,international@rspca.org, lorella.corato@ec.europa.eu,info@worldanimal.net,info@spcai.org ,eupaw@ghkint.com,s.kahn@oie.int , l.stuardo@oie.int , p.dallavilla@izs.it , David.G.Pritchard@defra.gsi.gov.uk , jan@fve.org , Andrea.Gavinelli@ec.europa.eu ,wilkinsvet@btinternet.com , kjosinga@ltonoord.nl , Garry.OHagan@agriculture.gov.ie , austemb.brussels@dfat.gov.au

CC

Please add the Romanian embassy in your country from this portal :
http://www.embassiesabroad.com/embassies-of/Romania#4433

 


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victor.bostinaru@europarl.europa.eu,cristiansilviu.busoi@europarl.europa.eu,corina.cretu@europarl.europa.eu,georgesabin.cutas@europarl.europa.eu,vasilicaviorica.dancila@europarl.europa.eu,ioan.enciu@europarl.europa.eu,catalinsorin.ivan@europarl.europa.eu,petru.luhan@europarl.europa.eu,monica.macovei@europarl.europa.eu,ramonanicole.manescu@europarl.europa.eu,marianjean.marinescu@europarl.europa.eu,iosif.matula@europarl.europa.eu,norica.nicolai@europarl.europa.eu,rares-lucian.niculescu@europarl.europa.eu,ioanmircea.pascu@europarl.europa.eu,rovana.plumb@europarl.europa.eu,cristiandan.preda@europarl.europa.eu,dacianaoctavia.sarbu@europarl.europa.eu,adrian.severin@europarl.europa.eu,csaba.sogor@europarl.europa.eu,theodordumitru.stolojan@europarl.europa.eu,claudiuciprian.tanasescu@europarl.europa.eu,silviaadriana.ticau@europarl.europa.eu,laszlo.tokes@europarl.europa.eu,traian.ungureanu@europarl.europa.eu,tudorcorneliu.vadim@europarl.europa.eu,
adinaioana.valean@europarl.europa.eu,renate.weber@europarl.europa.eu,iuliu.winkler@europarl.europa.eu


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Honorable Members Of the European Commission,
honorable Members of the European Parliament,
Honorable Members of the Romanian Parliament,
Distinguished Officials,

It has come to the attention of the entire world the atrocities committed against animals in Romania. We are outraged that in the 21st century in the European Community such horrors are not punished by LAW.and even more, crimes against animals are committed on a daily basis, with impunity and most of the time, condoned and even instigated, ordered, by local or even national official, who are supposed to implement, observe and apply the LAWS oh the country.

We ask The Romanian Authorities not only to OBEY and APPLY THE LAW for the Protection of animals BUT TO MAKE IT EVEN STRICTER. Crimes against some of the most vulnerable, innocent and powerless living beings – animals – SHOULD and MUST be severely punished. All necessary measures to implement international conventions and treaties regarding animal protection should be taken.

Please take a look at only a few of the hundreds and hundreds and thousands of cases of animal cruelty in Romania…and judge first and most with your conscience if these actions are compatibles first and most with the notion of “Civilized country”
http://www.youtube.com/user/savethedogs1#p/a/u/0/M54E0k65dhg
Why are Romanians going against the European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals??
http://conventions.coe.int/ Treaty/en/…
What happened to Romania ratifying the European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals – Strasbourg, 13.XI.1987 – which became the law 60/2004??What happened to 2009 report incorporating The animal welfare laws, flaws and recommendations for improvement??
http://de.strayanimalrights/. org/image…
Why are Romanians going against alternative strategies??

Animal Birth Control The World Health Organisation (WHO) now recognises that dog slaughter often produces a short term effect. Even maximal catching rates (up to 24% of dog population per year) make no significant impact. Where dogs are removed others migrate into the area to fill the ecological niche. Most of the time the females are removed and the new-born puppies left behind…Many people, especially from the rural areas abandon the puppies born in their households either in the city or on the hills, etc…many manage to survive and will multiply…


Please take all the necessary measures to STOP THE MASSACRES OF ANIMALS in ROMANIA.
http://www.stiriong.ro/pagini/romania-este-acuzata-ca-ar-fi-eutanasiat.php?&IDcom=669&vot=1
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/targoviste/Precedent-_La_Tulcea-medicii_veterinari_au_fost_condamnati_pentru_omorarea_cainilor_0_369563319.html
http://www.independentonline.ro/2010/11/09/Milionarul-Dorin-Cristian-Dragoi,-acuzat-de-atrocitati-ampotriva-unor-cai-de-rasa_3198/
http://www.realitatea.net/zeci-de-cai-de-rasa-pura-au-fost-lasati-sa-moara-de-foame_771003.html
http://stirileprotv.ro/exclusiv/stirile-tale/imagini-socante-animale-ucise-fara-mila-in-baile-herculane.html
http://www.monitorulsv.ro/Local/2010-10-13/Strazile-Sucevei-impanzite-cu-otrava-pentru-cainii-vagabonzi

 

PLOIESTI !
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/ploiesti/Violenta_si_sadism_pe_strazile_Ploiestiului_-imagini_socante_0_367763438.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/actualitate/eveniment/Targoviste-_3-000_de_caini-ucisi_si_lasati_pe_malul_Ialomitei_0_368363816.html?utm_term=nl-link&utm_source=nl-general&utm_content=316233%40home.nl&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=Adevarul-Newsletter-20101109
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/targoviste/UPDATE-_Politia_a_demarat_cercetari_in_cazul_masacrarii_maidanezilor-_VIDEO_0_367163511.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/targoviste/EXCLUSIV-_Mii_de_caini_au_fost_masacrati_in_adapostul_de_la_Aninoasa-_GALERIE_FOTO_0_366563688.html
http://stiri.botosani.ro/stire/24208/SAVENI%3A+Vanatoare+de+caini+pe+strazile+orasului+.html
http://www.observatorulph.ro/observatorulph/exclusiv/exclusiv-povesti-horror-de-la-adapostul-de-caini-din-boldesti-medicul-emilia-herescu-acuzat-ca-ucide-ilegal-cainii-oamenilor-video
http://www.realitateamedia.ro/stiri-neamt/eveniment/17184/spectacol-sangeros-in-centrul-orasului-hingheri-acuzati-ca-au-macelarit-caini-vagabonzi.html?ref=nf
http://www.obiectivbr.ro/local/49346-horez-i-a-luat-faa-fostului-poliist-cioroiu.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/suceava/Suceava-_Cainii_comunitari-otraviti_in_serie_0_356364640.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/hunedoara/Caini_maidanezi_ucisi_cu_otrava_pe_strazile_municipiului_Hunedoara_0_328167510.html
Opriti masacrul cainilor la Ocna Mures
http://www.ziarulunirea.ro/art.php?cat=12&pg_id=39838
http://www.gazetadebistrita.ro/citeste/3137-la-protan-in-poarta-zace-un-contract-cadaveric
http://www.cugetliber.ro/1284670800/articol/68422/eutanasierea–un-mijloc-de-a-tine-biobaza-aproape-goala-galerie-foto/
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/hunedoara/hunedoara-adevarul_de_seara-maidanezi-amenzi-comunitari_0_362964106.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMIhChnZpo ( GROZAVII PLOIESTI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwE5eTz0kp4&feature=more_related ( poisoned dogs in Vidin)

http://www.ecomagazin.ro/afacere-de-miliarde-cu-ciini-comunitari/

http://www.crimetime.ro/politie/cruzime-infioratoare-doua-pisici-au-fost-decapitate-iar-alta-a-sfarsit-cu-capul-zdrobit.html
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/zoo-bucov-abatorul-animalelor-salbatice-un-cerb-carpatin-a-fost-lasat-sa-moara-sub-ochii-angajatilor-audio-declaratia-directorului-zoo#comments7424
http://stirileprotv.ro/campanii/stop_torturarii_animalelorfara-cuvinte-caine-ucis-in-chinuri-merge-cineva-la-politie.htm http://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/eveniment/imagini-socante-o-vulpe-a-murit-in-chinuri-lovita-cu-bata-de-un-vanator.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xSEhnUZc8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=175wm0z766s&feature=related
http://stirileprotv.ro/campanii/stop_torturarii_animalelorimagini-cutremuratoare-batuti-si-otraviti-soarta-cainilor-din-targu-neamt.html
http://evenimentdeolt.ro/eveniment/Editorial/omul-bestie-si-jertfa-canida-adusa-in-cinstea-banilor.htm
http://stirileprotv.ro/bin/tv/?media_id=60423302
http://www.cancan.ro/actualitate/intern/atentie-imagini-socante-peste-21-de-caini-omorati-si-aruncati-de-hingheri-122148.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMIhChnZpo
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/socant-caini-cu-matele-scoase-afara-si-plagi-in-putrefactie-la-bucov-volosevici-da-l-afara-pe-cusetaru-galerie-foto
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/revoltator-caini-maltratati-la-adapostul-bucov-galerie-foto
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/exclusiv-presedintele-colegiului-medicilor-veterinari-prahova-elena-herescu-acuzat-ca-a-ucis-ilegal-aproape-5-000-de-caini-galerie-video
http://www.adoptiicaini.ro/mii-de-caini-ucisi-de-primaria-bacau/
http://www.savethedogs.eu/2010/07/masacru-la-ecarisajul-bio-baza-din-constanta-odata-adunate-probele-std-trece-la-atac/lang-pref/en/
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/constanta/Constanta-_Maidanezii_din_Cernavoda-masacrati_la_adapostul_legii_0_294570633.html
http://www.click.ro/actualitate/din_tara/VIDEO_Constanta-_Un_film_despre_modul_in_care_sunt_ucisi_cainii_din_Cernavoda_ii_socheaza_pe_romani_0_988701296.html
http://stirileprotv.ro/campanii/stop_torturarii_animalelormasacru-al-cainilor-vagabonzi-la-craiova.html
http://www.observatordebacau.ro/2009/03/27/masacru-canin-la-onesti.html
http://www.libertatea.ro/stire/foto-socant-asa-mor-cainii-in-romania-290310.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHD4t_o3UVk&feature=email

Please refer to these links to find out more about the tragedy of animals in Romania :
Stray Animal Rights Society :
http://de.strayanimalrights.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=79&lang=en
Four Paws
http://www.vier-pfoten.ro/website/output.php?id=1001&language=2
Save the Dogs Europe
http://www.savethedogs.eu/
Association Clopotel Iasi-Romania
http://www.asociatiaclopotel.com/socant.php
Tv News network/archives about animals
http://stirileprotv.ro/arhiva/campanii/stop_torturarii_animalelorindex.html
Protectia ANimalelor Romania : ( there are many Romanian associations listed on this site…they all have horror photos)
http://www.protectiaanimalelor.ro/dogs/dogs_romania.html
Please contact the Romanian authorities and ask them to implement at a national level the Law for the Protection of Animals and to respect all the international treaties and conventions they signed and ratified.

Thank you for your attention

 

 

Your name/Town/Country

 

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FRENCH VERSION :
 

Tres Honorables membres de la Commission Europeene
Tres Honorables du Pralement Europeen,
Tres Honorables Membres du Parlament Roumain
Distingues Officiels,

Nous sommes terrifies par les horribles nouvelles concernant des attrocites commises contre les animaux, chaque jour en Roumanie.
Il est inconcevable que tout cela se passe dans un pay de l’Union Europeene au 21eme siecle.
Pire encore, beaucoup de ces crimes sont inities en complicite plus ou moins ouverte avec les authorites locales, officiels qui devraient respecter la LOIS.Nous demandons aux authorites roumaines de respecter tous les traites et conventions internationales concernant la protection animale, de respecter la Lois pour la protection animale en Roumanie et plus encore, de punnir plus severement les crimes commises contre les animaux.
SVP regardez seulement quelques exemples ( parmis des milliers d’autres) de crimes barbares ….et jugez, premierement avec votre conscience si tout cela est incompatible avec un pays qui veut se nommer “civilize”
SVP, arretez le massacre des animaux en Roumanie.
http://www.stiriong.ro/pagini/romania-este-acuzata-ca-ar-fi-eutanasiat.php?&IDcom=669&vot=1http%3A%2F%2Fwww.observatorulph.ro%2Flatest-news%2Feveniment%2Frevoltator-caini-maltratati-la-adapostul-bucov-galerie-foto
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/exclusiv-presedintele-colegiului-medicilor-veterinari-prahova-elena-herescu-acuzat-ca-a-ucis-ilegal-aproape-5-000-de-caini-galerie-video
http://www.adoptiicaini.ro/mii-de-caini-ucisi-de-primaria-bacau/
http://www.savethedogs.eu/2010/07/masacru-la-ecarisajul-bio-baza-din-constanta-odata-adunate-probele-std-trece-la-atac/lang-pref/en/
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/constanta/Constanta-_Maidanezii_din_Cernavoda-masacrati_la_adapostul_legii_0_294570633.html
http://www.click.ro/actualitate/din_tara/VIDEO_Constanta-_Un_film_despre_modul_in_care_sunt_ucisi_cainii_din_Cernavoda_ii_socheaza_pe_romani_0_988701296.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/targoviste/Precedent-_La_Tulcea-medicii_veterinari_au_fost_condamnati_pentru_omorarea_cainilor_0_369563319.html

PLOIESTI !
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/ploiesti/Violenta_si_sadism_pe_strazile_Ploiestiului_-imagini_socante_0_367763438.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/actualitate/eveniment/Targoviste-_3-000_de_caini-ucisi_si_lasati_pe_malul_Ialomitei_0_368363816.html?utm_term=nl-link&utm_source=nl-general&utm_content=316233%40home.nl&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=Adevarul-Newsletter-20101109
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/targoviste/UPDATE-_Politia_a_demarat_cercetari_in_cazul_masacrarii_maidanezilor-_VIDEO_0_367163511.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/targoviste/EXCLUSIV-_Mii_de_caini_au_fost_masacrati_in_adapostul_de_la_Aninoasa-_GALERIE_FOTO_0_366563688.html
http://stiri.botosani.ro/stire/24208/SAVENI%3A+Vanatoare+de+caini+pe+strazile+orasului+.html
http://www.observatorulph.ro/observatorulph/exclusiv/exclusiv-povesti-horror-de-la-adapostul-de-caini-din-boldesti-medicul-emilia-herescu-acuzat-ca-ucide-ilegal-cainii-oamenilor-video
http://www.realitateamedia.ro/stiri-neamt/eveniment/17184/spectacol-sangeros-in-centrul-orasului-hingheri-acuzati-ca-au-macelarit-caini-vagabonzi.html?ref=nf
http://www.obiectivbr.ro/local/49346-horez-i-a-luat-faa-fostului-poliist-cioroiu.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/suceava/Suceava-_Cainii_comunitari-otraviti_in_serie_0_356364640.html
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/hunedoara/Caini_maidanezi_ucisi_cu_otrava_pe_strazile_municipiului_Hunedoara_0_328167510.html
Opriti masacrul cainilor la Ocna Mures
http://www.ziarulunirea.ro/art.php?cat=12&pg_id=39838
http://www.gazetadebistrita.ro/citeste/3137-la-protan-in-poarta-zace-un-contract-cadaveric
http://www.cugetliber.ro/1284670800/articol/68422/eutanasierea–un-mijloc-de-a-tine-biobaza-aproape-goala-galerie-foto/
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/hunedoara/hunedoara-adevarul_de_seara-maidanezi-amenzi-comunitari_0_362964106.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMIhChnZpo ( GROZAVII PLOIESTI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwE5eTz0kp4&feature=more_related ( poisoned dogs in Vidin)
http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-presa_regionala_arhiva-1730490-revolta-veterinarilor-macina-dsv-timis.htm
http://www.jurnalul.ro/stire-special/dezastru-in-serviciile-veterinare-46521.html
http://www.radiotargujiu.ro/1283/interviuri-la-minut-la-radio-targu-jiu/interviu-mircea-erbanoiu-presedintele-federatiei-romane-pentru-protectia-animalelor.html
http://www.ecomagazin.ro/afacere-de-miliarde-cu-ciini-comunitari/
http://stirileprotv.ro/exclusiv/stirile-tale/imagini-socante-animale-ucise-fara-mila-in-baile-herculane.html
http://www.monitorulsv.ro/Local/2010-10-13/Strazile-Sucevei-impanzite-cu-otrava-pentru-cainii-vagabonzi
http://www.crimetime.ro/politie/cruzime-infioratoare-doua-pisici-au-fost-decapitate-iar-alta-a-sfarsit-cu-capul-zdrobit.html
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/zoo-bucov-abatorul-animalelor-salbatice-un-cerb-carpatin-a-fost-lasat-sa-moara-sub-ochii-angajatilor-audio-declaratia-directorului-zoo#comments7424
http://stirileprotv.ro/campanii/stop_torturarii_animalelorfara-cuvinte-caine-ucis-in-chinuri-merge-cineva-la-politie.html
http://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/eveniment/imagini-socante-o-vulpe-a-murit-in-chinuri-lovita-cu-bata-de-un-vanator.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xSEhnUZc8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=175wm0z766s&feature=related
http://stirileprotv.ro/campanii/stop_torturarii_animalelorimagini-cutremuratoare-batuti-si-otraviti-soarta-cainilor-din-targu-neamt.html
http://evenimentdeolt.ro/eveniment/Editorial/omul-bestie-si-jertfa-canida-adusa-in-cinstea-banilor.htm
http://stirileprotv.ro/bin/tv/?media_id=60423302
http://www.cancan.ro/actualitate/intern/atentie-imagini-socante-peste-21-de-caini-omorati-si-aruncati-de-hingheri-122148.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMIhChnZpo
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/socant-caini-cu-matele-scoase-afara-si-plagi-in-putrefactie-la-bucov-volosevici-da-l-afara-pe-cusetaru-galerie-foto
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/revoltator-caini-maltratati-la-adapostul-bucov-galerie-foto
http://www.observatorulph.ro/latest-news/eveniment/exclusiv-presedintele-colegiului-medicilor-veterinari-prahova-elena-herescu-acuzat-ca-a-ucis-ilegal-aproape-5-000-de-caini-galerie-video
http://www.adoptiicaini.ro/mii-de-caini-ucisi-de-primaria-bacau/
http://stirileprotv.ro/campanii/stop_torturarii_animalelormasacru-al-cainilor-vagabonzi-la-craiova.html
http://www.observatordebacau.ro/2009/03/27/masacru-canin-la-onesti.html
http://www.libertatea.ro/stire/foto-socant-asa-mor-cainii-in-romania-290310.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHD4t_o3UVk&feature=emailMerci pour votre attention,
Encore plus d’evidence sur ces sites internet
Stray Animal Rights Society :
http://de.strayanimalrights.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=79&lang=en
Four Paws
http://www.vier-pfoten.ro/website/output.php?id=1001&language=2
Save the Dogs Europe
http://www.savethedogs.eu/
Association Clopotel Iasi-Romania
http://www.asociatiaclopotel.com/socant.php
Tv News network/archives about animals
http://stirileprotv.ro/arhiva/campanii/stop_torturarii_animalelorindex.html

Je vous remercie pour avoir lu ma lettre

S’il vous plait contactez les autorites roumaines le plus tot possible et suggerez leurs d’appliquer la Lois de la Portection Animale de de honorer lets conventionas et les traites internationaux.

Votre nome/ville/pays

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It is horrifying what I just found out ! The Romanian Parliament’s Committee for Public Administration Territorial Planning and Ecological Balance intends to make a new law regarding the management of strays and they want :

 – the dogs captured by the dog catchers will be PTS after 14 or maximum 60 days ( those considered dogs for fights, aggressive breeds will be PTS after 48h or 10 days ; those sick will be PTS immediately).
– sick animals will not be given for adoption.
– those who feed or take care of strays will be fined
– the minimum conditions for the captures, living quarters, transport, care ( food and shelter ) WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM the new law
– the clear description of how the euthanasia will be done and what substances are to be used WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM the new law…it will be replaced with ” the euthanasia will be done by a specialist “.
– the non profit organizations for animal protection WILL HAVE NO RIGHT to complain about the living conditions of dogs in municipal shelters. The control will be done only by the Sanitary-veterinary Authority.
– the non profit organizations for animal protection WILL HAVE NO RIGHT to capture, take care or spat/neuter strays.
Horrible requirements for adoption from a municipal shelter :
– proof that one has the space necessary to have a pet
– proof that one has enough income to have a pet
– approval from the tenants in the same building that THEY allow you to have pets, and from one’s close neighbours that THEY allow you to have more than 2 dogs
– and the adoption fees are astronomical for many Romanians..
This is HOW Romania implements the international treaties and conventions….

 

 

FRENCH

C’est effrayant ce que je viens d’apprandre : voila ce qu’ils veulent legaliser dans le parlement ! ;
-les chiens captures seront euthanasies apres 14 ( ou maximom 60 ) jours ( ceux de races soit-dites aggresives ou les chiens malades seront euthanasie immediatement )
-ceux qui donne de la nourriture aux cheins de la rue seront ammendes
-les conditions minimales imposees avant pour la capture, le trasport, l’hebergement et les soins donnees aux chiens de la rue seron annulees
– les conditions minimales imposees avant pour l’euthanasie des animaux et les substances utilisees, seront annulees…l’euthanasie sera faite par un “specialiste’
-les associations de protection animale n’auront plus aucun droit d’acces aux refuges municipaux
-les associations de protection animale n’auront plus le droits de capturer, steriliser,heberger,prendre soin d’aucun chien de la rue…
Les personnes qui voundront adopter un chien devront faire preuve qu’elles ont suffisement d’espace pour avoir un animal, suffisement d’argent pour prendre soin d’un animal, avoir la preuve ecrite que tous les locataire de leur immeuble sont d’accord qu’ella ait un animal, et l’accept ecrit des voisins directs qu’ils sont d’accord qu’elle ait des chiens…
Tout cela EST CRIMINEL…CES GENS LA sont des monstres qui ne veulent que tuer le plus d’animaux possible…

 

  

  

  

 

 

 

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2 Very Important Petitions: Action for the Polish Shelter Abuses, and Stop the US Mega Dairy System from Ever Starting in the Uk.

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

PLEASE SIGN PETITION AND CIRCULATE WIDELY

STOP ABUSE AT POLISH ANIMAL SHELTERS  !!!

The dire situation at animal shelters! PLEASE SIGN !!!!!! POLAND is a EU member state!! – the petition will be delivered to the European Commission Branch responsible for Animal Welfare etc – please SIGN and SPREAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/STOP-BRUTALITY-AND-MASSACRE-OF-DOGS-IN-POLISH-SHELTERS/ 

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and in the Uk;

Breaking news!

The companies behind the US-style cow factory farm have just relaunched their plans. Yesterday they came to London to hold a press conference and announced that they want to press ahead with the UK’s first mega-dairy.

We know that the firms behind this project find it hard to ignore public pressure. Earlier this year we forced them to abandon their original plan. Then we got one of the three companies involved to pull out. This week they announced that they will scale back the plans by 50% and offer the cows a small amount of outside space.

That’s progress, and it’s thanks to all of us. But they still want to build the biggest cow factory farm in the UK, with up to 4000 cows kept in grass-free conditions. Farms like this are going to be bad for climate change, bad for cows and bad for other farmers. [1] 

If 20,000 of us managed to force the factory farm backers to change their plan, imagine what 50,000 of us could do! We could force the businesses to abandon the plans altogether, and make sure councils block mega-dairies like this from ever being built. 

Please forward this e-mail to your friends now and ask them to add to the pressure by signing the petition:

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/stop-cow-factory-farms
 
The businesses pushing these factory farm plans hope they’ve got us off their back. They’ve scaled their plans back a bit, and they’ve hired in the spin doctors. Making our petition even bigger is our best response. If we get even more names on the petition, that will prove to the factory farmers, the media, and local councillors that we are not going away.

Together we’re proving that people power works. When we started, few people expected us to be able to stop the mega-dairy being built. But since then we’ve built a 20,000 strong petition, we’ve raised money for hard hitting ads in the local paper, we’ve got one of the businesses to drop out and the others to scale back their plans. Now let’s prove that we’re not going to stop until these plans are abandoned, by making our petition even bigger.

Please forward this email to your friends and ask them to help stop this US-style factory farm by signing the petition here:

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/stop-cow-factory-farms

Thanks for being involved,

Hannah, David, Johnny and the 38 Degrees team

P.S. You can see how many people have already signed the petition, and add your own name if you haven’t already, by clicking here: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/stop-cow-factory-farms

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Serbia: Loznica; A Lawless City Where the Government Canot Control the Animal Mafia ? – You Decide.

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Loznica is a city which is out of control – a city run by the animal mafia. 

Loznica is a Serbian city which appears to be run as a lawless town, where legislation is abused, unknown and simply downright ignored.

Do you remember our recent post relating to Mrs Rada Zivanovic and the excellent private shelter which she was running from her home:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/serbia-government-and-authorities-abuse-human-and-animal-rights-by-attempting-to-close-down-private-funded-shelter-which-will-result-in-all-animal-deaths-please-take-action-now-sample-letter-incl/

It now appears that the communal inspection of Loznica city have informed Rada that all the dogs and cats at her home must be removed, otherwise the communal inspection together with the police will enter, take the animals and kill them.

Serbian campaigners will now be bringing a criminal charge regarding this situation. You can see from the pictures on our previous post that the conditions for animals at Rada’s shelter is excellent.

We simply feel that the lawless animal mafia which appears to control Loznica city is doing everything possible to kill and destroy animal life. As can be seen in the following post the Serbian constitutional court has accepted charges against self invented legislation for the killing of animals by the Loznica city authorities. We have to question the ability and willingness of the Serbian government in relation to all of this. Maybe they support it animal killings which Loznica city is again attempting; if the Serbian government does not support animal killings but instead wishes to add here to Serbian legislation relating to stray animal welfare, then we are sent to come forward and make a formal written declaration to us at SAV informing that action is being taken against senior personnel at Loznica city.

We will keep everyone, including the European Union, informed of events and any progress should it arise and the Serbian authorities decide to contact us.

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/serbia-constitutional-court-accepts-charges-against-self-invented-legislation-for-animal-killings-by-loznica-city-authorities/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/serbia-activists-letter-to-government-loznica-urgencija-na-prijavu-loznica-dokazi-porasta-brutalnosti-prema-ljudima-i-zivotinjama-crimes-brutality-to-animals-and-humans-in-opposit/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/serbia-loznica-again-female-dog-saved-from-being-buried-alive-proof-of-the-killings-done-by-the-city-shinters-bodies-dumped-openly-on-the-city-dump-adjacent-to-the-animal-pound/

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