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Russia: First Watch the Video, Then Sign The Petition For Dogs and Cats in Russia.

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6K2LYyzGaI

Please sign the petition for the dogs and cats in Russia, thank you.

Petition link – https://secure.avaaz.org/it/petition/State_Commissioner_Regulatory_authority_for_the_national_public_Estab_CHIUDERE_il_rifugio_Charitable_Autonomous_NonProfi/?cdMtTjb

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Australia: Animals Killed Using Sledgehammers, The Live Export Industry and GUTLESS Australian Politicians !

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

SAV Comment – We think it is clear from this site our views on the live animal export trade. Here again we hear of pathetic whines from the Australian government and talk of yet another full investigation – how many of these have we endured from gutless politicians over the years ?

The evidence will continue to be shown; animals will suffer unnecessarily and the trade will probably continue – all due to a totally immature and inadequate government. What are they being bribed with, and by whom, you have to ask, to keep the trade of cruelty open ?

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He cowered in fear. Then, they sledgehammered him to death.

Dear Mark,

Tonight, our latest cruelty investigation was broadcast on national TV — and it sent shockwaves across the country. Our undercover investigators have put their own lives on the line to again expose the nightly horrors faced by animals exported live to Vietnam. I have no wish to burden you with the upsetting details, but one animal’s struggle will stay with me forever. He saw his mates ‘processed’ before him. He knew what was coming.

As I watched the video evidence of this sickening night unfold, all I could hope was that his death would come swiftly. Tragically, the reality for countless animals exported to Vietnam is that their deaths will not be swift. Some will suffer multiple, agonising blows with a sledgehammer before finally succumbing to oblivion in a filthy slaughterhouse, so many miles away from home. What makes their suffering even more difficult to bear is the knowledge that our government is completely aware of the terror that awaits so many animals exported to Vietnam. And has issued permits to live exporters to ship them anyway. Mark, these animals need your help, today. As you read this, thousands of gentle animals await live export to Vietnam. The only thing standing between them and the possibility of being sledgehammered to death is the number of people who step up on their behalf.

Be their voice »

By helping us to expose the evidence and by supporting the brave work of our investigations unit, you can help protect animals from harrowing cruelty. On behalf of animals, thank you.

Lyn White AM Campaign Director

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-16/australian-cattle-bludgeoned-with-sledgehammer-in-vietnam/7516326

Dear Mark,

The live export atrocities continues, this time in Vietnam with the sledgehammering of Australian cattle.

This cruelty must stop.

Tell our politicians that it’s time to make a commitment to:

End the live export of animals for slaughter in favour of a meat export trade

Immediately remove the regulation of live export from the Department of Agriculture to an independent authority

Re-establish the Australian Government’s leadership role in animal welfare.

‘Australian cattle’ being bludgeoned to death in Vietnam sparks Government investigation

Workers in Vietnamese abattoirs have been filmed bludgeoning what appears to be Australian live export cattle with sledgehammers.

Key points:

Animals Australia described the vision as profoundly distressing

Ear notches and animal behaviour suggest the cattle are from Australia

The abattoir in question has been suspended from receiving cattle

The Federal Government has ruled out a live export ban

The Federal Government launched an investigation into the apparent breach of the live export regulation after they were shown the footage by animal welfare group Animals Australia last week.

The ABC has obtained the vision filmed by undercover investigators hired by Animals Australia.

Warning: Vision in this story may disturb some viewers.

One of the videos shows a worker clubbing a cow over the head five times with a sledgehammer before it falls to the ground.

The man then hits the cow a further four times before it finally dies.

“I thought I’d seen it all, and I haven’t,” Animals Australia campaign director Lyn White said.

“It’s profoundly distressing and unnecessary and preventable and we shouldn’t forget that it’s been happening on a nightly basis since we [Australia] opened this trade in Vietnam.”

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce ruled out a live export ban, but said action would be taken.

“Immediately when we found out about this we went straight into action,” he said.

SAV Comment – well bully for you brave man !

“The Department [of Agriculture] has been working closely with the industry, the abattoir has been suspended from receiving cattle, we are investigating this process but further action needs to take place and will take place.”

Australian Broadcasting Corporation …

Animals Australia said they visited 13 slaughterhouses in North and Central Vietnam.

“Only two met Australian requirements for approved abattoirs,” Ms White said.

She described the vision as “the most shocking” she had ever seen when asked to compare the gravity of the conditions with those exposed in Indonesia by the ABC’s Four Corners program in 2011.

The meat workers, who were secretly filmed, told the undercover investigators that the cows being slaughtered were from Australia.

The cows also have distinctive ear notches which are unique to Australian cattle.

They also have holes in their ears, suggesting electronic national livestock identification tags have been removed.

“They know that the ear tags are not meant to be in the animals at these locations so there’s quite deliberate corruption of the system that’s going on that has meant that Australian cattle are ending up in these traditional slaughterhouses,” Ms White said.

This is the second time Animals Australia has captured footage of what appeared to be Australian cattle being slaughtered with sledgehammers in non-approved Vietnamese abattoirs.

Animals Australia said it chose not to publicly release that vision last March, but instead took it to the Australian Livestock Exporters Council (ALEC).

Ms White claims she was promised a response within six weeks, but has not heard from the industry body since.

She said she decided to make the vision public this time to pressure the live export industry to act.

“The Australian public needs to be aware of the risks that Australian animals are still facing, that these regulations are not working and are not working because no one is being made accountable when they breach them,” she said.

ALEC chairman and former Labor leader Simon Crean admits the council did not respond to Animals Australia’s concerns last year.

He said the industry implemented reforms to address animal welfare concerns.

“We have committed ourselves to the introduction of people on the ground, to training programs, the implementation of CCTV cameras, all of the tracing and tracking procedures,” he said.

“We have been constantly engaged, the investment by the industry in this respect has been huge.”

Mr Crean viewed the footage of the cattle being killed with sledgehammers on Wednesday, and described it as “inexcusable”.

“I’m shattered,” he said.

“This is the very thing that I, along with the industry, have committed to end.

“No animal should have to go through the fear and the pain.

“It’s what we’re committed to eliminate and this just reinforces we’ve still got work to do.”

ALEC chief executive Alison Penfold acknowledged it “seemed” there were Australian cattle in the holding pens of the sledgehammer slaughterhouse.

“The behaviour of the animals gives every suggestion that they’re Australian,” she said.

Through Mr Crean, ALEC announced yesterday it would be cutting off the supply of animals to the facilities under investigation.

“We’ve also determined that if any exporter is in deliberate breach of requirements… we will take every step to ensure they do not supply into the market,” he said.

Feedlot ‘has been suspended twice before’

However, Mr Crean said suspending trade, as the Labor government did to Indonesia in 2011, would be a mistake.

“What we want to do is to lift the standards across the industry and Australian commitment is world-best practice in this,” he said.

“[It’s] not perfect, but it’s just world-best practice.”

However, Ms White said she had little faith in the industry.

“The feedlot that they have suspended has been suspended on at least two occasions before,” she said.

“That this is still occurring despite CCTV, despite exporter supply chain officers being there, just goes to show that the system has been corrupted.”

The Department of Agriculture has viewed the footage and has launched an investigation.

“The footage… depicts abhorrent and indefensible treatment of cattle at an abattoir not approved to receive livestock exported from Australia,” the department said in a statement.

“A thorough investigation of this evidence has begun.”

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USA: Take Action For Elephants In Circuses.

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

circus world

Libby the Elephant Abused by Cruel Circus Trainer (Video)

A Circus World trainer was caught on video yelling profanity and violently jabbing an elephant with a bullhook. Now, Circus World has added big cats to its cruel lineup.

TELL CIRCUS WORLD TO END ANIMAL ACTS

Video link –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYrulqdSlX0

Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin, insists on hosting cruel and archaic elephant acts and rides and has contracted with the notorious Carson & Barnes Circus again in 2016. This circus employs elephant handler Habib Omar, who is presenting elephants at Circus World all summer.

And the facility has decided to exploit tigers this year, too. Join PETA in letting Circus World know that these cruel animal acts have got to go.

Carson & Barnes Circus‘ appalling history of abusing elephants and endangering the public spans decades. It was Carson & Barnes that supplied the elephants who escaped and ran amok for nearly an hour at the Moolah Shrine Circus in 2014, an incident that prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to issue a $16,000 fine to Carson & Barnes. The circus’s head elephant trainer, Tim Frisco, was caught on video viciously attacking terrified elephants with a bullhook and shocking them with electric prods. Frisco can be heard instructing others to sink the bullhook into the animals’ flesh and twist it until they scream in pain.

In what resembles a juvenile act of defiance in response to the public’s disdain for circuses’ cruelty to animals, Circus World is taking an even bigger step backward this year by exploiting tigers in its shows as well. Big cats used in circus-style performances endure lives of abuse, neglect, deprivation, and confinement. They are forced to live in virtually barren cages that can’t come close to the vast, dense forests that they would roam in the wild. Many are forced to eat, drink, sleep, defecate, and urinate all in the same small space and are only let out for training or performances. During training, these beautiful cats are often dragged by heavy chains or ropes around their necks and hit with sticks, poles, and whips.

Speak up for animals now by urging Circus World to get with the times and end cruel, archaic animal acts once and for all!

Help Libby!

Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin, which continues to host cruel elephant acts and rides, has contracted with the notorious Carson & Barnes Circus again.

Habib Omar, a Carson & Barnes elephant handler who is exhibiting elephants at Circus World all summer, and Tim Frisco, the head elephant trainer at Carson & Barnes, have both been caught on video attacking elephants with bullhooks.

Tell Circus World to stop supporting animal abuse.

http://www.peta2.com/achievements/circus-world-still-exploiting-animals/?utm_campaign=0616%20circus%20world%20EA&utm_source=peta2%20E-Mail&utm_medium=Alert

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Take Action To Prevent Rhino Extinction.

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Mark,

Only days after South Africa rejected a reckless scheme to legalize the international rhino horn trade, neighboring country Swaziland rushed out a similar plan that could push Africa’s last wild rhinos to extinction.

And it couldn’t come at a worse time: Illegal rhino killings in South Africa alone rose 7,000% in three years, fueled by skyrocketing international demand for rhino horn on the black market.

We must move quickly to mobilize strong international pressure on Swaziland’s King Mswati III to derail this destructive proposal — and show him that the whole world is watching.

Add your voice now: Urge Swaziland’s king to abandon plans to legalize the rhino horn trade.

Thanks in part to pressure from NRDC supporters, two months ago South Africa — home to 80% of the world’s rhinos — shelved a proposal to legalize the rhino horn trade after concluding that it could drive wild rhinos closer to extinction.

Unfortunately, it appears that Swaziland — a small monarchy in southern Africa — has picked up the mantle and is prepared to present its ill-advised plan at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) world treaty talks in September.

Swaziland’s risky scheme would overturn a 40-year-old international ban on the rhino horn trade, which would likely increase demand and fuel more senseless rhino killings.

We must do everything we can to make sure Swaziland never gets that chance.

Urge King Mswati III to drop his disastrous proposal to legalize the international rhino horn trade and give rhinos a fighting chance at survival.

Make no mistake: The world’s last rhinos are on the brink — and their fate is in our hands.

Please add your voice to mine to help save rhinos before they are lost forever.

Sincerely,
Rhea Suh
President, NRDC

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The EU Excuses Get More Pathetic By The Day – Contact Mr Van Goethem And Show Your Disgust.

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

David Cameron – British Prime Minister; has sadly bleated on for weeks now in the lead up to the UK / EU In / Out referendum being held on 23^rd June; about how essential it is for the UK to remain in the EU.

Well here is yet another example of just how pathetic Mr Cameron’s EU is. Did we hear anything about animal welfare issues during the renegotiations which Cameron and the EU took place in a few months ago ? – No. He was only busy looking after business and his banker mates who work in the city – nothing else matters.

So we were annoyed, but not really surprised, (after all we have been campaigning for many years !), to see the latest from wonderful Lesley at ‘Eyes on Animals’ regarding the situation for EU animals being exported live to Turkey. As some of you will know, this has been an issue which we have been very actively involved with quite a lot over recent months.

The response to Lesley and the TSB/AWF from Bernard van Goethem (at the EU Commission) just shows everything that is continually WRONG WITH THE EU; and further supports why many people in the UK are in support of getting out completely. For many in the animal welfare camp, this abuse of evidence and the essential changes (from the EU) which are necessary but are not happening as a result of clear evidence just show how separated from the real world Mr Van Goethem and all his team are.

Here below is the post meeting statement from EoA with regard their meeting with the EU (Van Goethem) regarding live animals suffering at the EU / Turkish border for many days.

Mr van Goethem holds a meeting with his team.

You can read and check out more on the EoA website which is at

http://www.eyesonanimals.com/category/news/bad-news-2/

So lets recap a few of the main points associated with this.

The EU claims to have a Council Regulation, No 1/2005 of 22 December 2004, on the protection of animals during transport and related operations. This legislation is supposed to protect animals in transport – but it does nothing of the kind as we have shown with evidence for many years. The scope of the directive states – “This Regulation shall apply to the transport of live vertebrate animals carried out within the Community, including the specific checks to be carried out by officials on consignments entering or leaving the customs territory of the EU”.

In reality, what this means is the EU has, on paper only, some kind of pointless regulation, which hauliers do not comply with; which many EU member states do not comply with; and most worryingly, which the EU is utterly afraid to use as a pointer for any kind of prosecutions.

I am afraid that I have no more faith in Mr Van Goethem and his team than I do being able to ride a pushbike from the UK to Australia without a single stop !

Have a look at the terrible video made by EoA which shows EU animals destined for Turkey and the terrible conditions in which they are transported by some EU member states. Remember, this video evidence was made by EoA some 5 years ago, and has been presented to the EU as clear breaches of Regulations for as many years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udReHkAumrY&feature=youtu.be

As you may remember, Mark made several phone calls to Marco Valletta at the EU about the suffering of EU animals destined for Turkey. Just like Mr van Goethem, Mr Valletta is a very well paid EU diplomat who in reality does very little. If they did do something, then we would not see the suffering at the Turkish border as is shown in the video from Lesley for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udReHkAumrY&feature=youtu.be

And yet, even with an alleged ‘Council Regulation’ to support them, our friends at EoA in the Netherlands had word back from the EU Commission that:

“Mr Van Goethem and his team informed us that they cannot take any concrete steps to change the situation”;
And that they “do not have the power to put an end to the way this trade being run despite it being in violation of their own EU legislation”.
“they cannot forbid anything”
“They also cannot insist that a stable be built at the border to unload the animals in urgent situations, nor insist on shade and more water pumps be placed there”.

“The EU Commission has so little power over the exporting Member States that routinely cause problems”.

So in summary, Mr van Goethem and his team at the EU, have EU legislation (in the form of a Regulation 1/2005) to ‘protect’ animals during transport. But in reality, and despite this EU Regulation, the EU cannot, or does not wish to give protection to EU animals which are being transported to Turkey !, or to many other locations within the EU. It would be a joke it was not so bad and involve so much suffering.

So, what is the point of a farce of an ‘EU Regulation’ to protect animals during transport ? when it is clear (and has been for many years) that regulations and rules do nothing and mean nothing to certain member states ? – are we not going to see the same when Serbia joins up ?

Also – What is the actual point of Mr Van Goethem and his ‘team’ when they cannot even enforce EU regulations that exist or take action to amend the blatantly clear animal abuse and suffering evidence which is presented to them ?

Maybe it would be best for the useless Van Goethem and his team to all take very early retirement; like this week ! – who wants to pay millions into an EU each week only then to witness gutless and pointless departments such as van Goethems come along and say “well there is not really anything we can do despite the regulations”.

Is that an EU – if it is, then it is crap; just like the majority who ‘work’ and take money from it.

So, where are we now ? – nowhere different to where we were last week or probably 5 years ago, as Lesley’s video makes clear. We fight on as always, against utterly useless bureaucrats like Mr Van Goethem, – the man with a nice pay cheque but a man who can not enforce the regulation.

If this is not the best example of why the UK should get out of the EU, then he and his team are a wonderful example. It is a typical example of the people who take fat salaries, sit in the corridors of Brussels, and then tell us that in reality, they are powerless to do anything for the better. Do we want to be in an EU run by Van Goethems and the rest ? – NO.

As an existing EU citizen, I should be able to rely on the EU, my EU, to take action when it is obviously clear (in evidence) that things are wrong. The evidence is clear, but the Van Goethems of this world do not, cannot and will not take action against those who break the rules. That is a sad situation; I guess when a situation like that arises, you get up and walk away, and take action and campaign from the outside.

Hopefully, come 23^rd June, that is what the people of the UK will do. As for the EU; well it can fester in its own uselessness whilst giving welcoming kisses and hugs to new corrupt member states such as Serbia; or ‘Romania 2’ as it is now called.

Our petition for animals exported to Turkey is still open.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/763/168/053/eu-commissioners-fail-live-animals-transported-to-turkey./

Send an e mail to the utterly useless EU team using this address – cab-andriukaitis-webpage@ec.europa.eu

Lesley has produced a sample letter which you can send to the useless Commission at the above e mail. Copy and send or use it as the basis for your own.

SAMPLE LETTER

Dear Commissioner Andriukaitis,

The suffering of farm animals trucked along the route from Europe to Turkey is well known. Your authorities at the EU Commission and all exporting Member States have received photos, video footage and detailed reports about the reality on the ground there since 2010. These problems are not incidences, but routine violations of the EU animal-transport legislation and to the dignity of sentient beings. Society has evolved, and transporting live animals in ways that are known to cause, or seriously risk causing suffering and pain, is no longer acceptable. I am a resident of Europe and I would like to kindly insist that the European Commission puts its foot down on this trade route and finally puts an end to the misery. I am particularly appalled at the fact that Europe is planning on exporting over 5000 cattle this month to Turkey, right when the summer heat peaks and suffering is known to be the most unbearable.

Please let the Commission know you are an EU citizen if you reside within an EU member state.

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/03/08/england-eu-turkey-live-exports-update-8316/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/04/29/england-29416-sav-today-sent-formal-reply-from-eu-commission-on-live-animal-exports-to-turkey/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/04/05/netherlands-live-exports-eu-turkey-from-eyes-on-animals/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/04/05/england-eu-live-exports-to-turkey-latest-news-4416/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/04/27/update-27416-live-animal-exports-turkish-border-sample-letter-to-copy-and-send/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/04/06/england-further-update-turkish-live-exports-6416/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/04/01/england-response-from-eu-regarding-turkish-live-export-petition/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/03/01/36981/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/11/25/england-over-176000-eu-citizens-sign-to-stop-live-exports/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/02/24/england-copy-of-eu-turkish-border-animal-transport-video-now-sent-to-all-57-members-of-the-european-parliament-meps/

You ask yourself – what is the point of giving millions of pounds to the EU each week when they disregard your evidence and are as useless as what they are ?

Vote out – and we say that to all EU member states.

Above – June 23rd – just as useless as EU politicians

– one thing and one thing only of interest to them – self survival !

Problem ? – what problem ? – we say no problem.

England: CIWF Exposes Intensive Quail Farming In Some Parts Of Europe.

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M6o3XOicUk

Photo – CIWF.

In the winter of 2015/16, Compassion in World Farming visited farms, cage-makers and slaughterhouses in France, Italy, Portugal and Greece.

Our target: European quail farming.

In this groundbreaking investigation – a ‘first of its kind’ international exposé – we’ve lifted the lid on an industry that cages millions of animals every year, creating enormous suffering, yet markets its products as ‘luxury’. Please take a moment to watch our short film, and call on the European Commission to End the Cage Age for quail.

Each year in Europe, over 140 million quail are farmed for meat, confined to factory farm floors or densely packed in cages. They often try to leap in these cages and invariably hit their heads on the cage roof.

Of the 400,000 quail farmed every year for their eggs, over 90% are also kept in crowded, barren cages where they are unable to express even the most basic of natural behaviours.

These birds have no earth or undergrowth to explore, nowhere to dustbathe, nowhere to hide, and barely space to move. The space allowance per factory farmed quail can be no bigger than a beer mat.

Quail are the third most caged farm animal in Europe, and there is no species-specific legislation to protect them. They desperately need your help. But the good news is that there is hope.

Compassion staff have visited an alternative system; an egg farm where the quail are raised in naturally lit barns with the space and freedom to explore, dustbathe, hide and peck at straw bales. This is no hobby farm, but a large commercial operation.

Higher welfare quail farming is possible. Please take action now to give ALL quail a life worth living.

Take action

Quail are the smallest animals to be intensively farmed, but this comes at a big price. Will you help to end this factory farming in miniature?

We need your help

For more information about the investigation including eyewitness reports, click here

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Cupcake Disaster !

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Hi Mark,

Earlier this year, nearly 500,000 of us told big name brands they needed to do more to stop the destruction of Indonesia’s forests at the hands of palm oil companies. And they listened.

When a huge palm oil company – IOI – recently had their sustainable palm oil certificates pulled for repeatedly destroying forests and peatlands, all the big brands like Nestle, Unilever and Mars have said they will stop buying from them. All, that is, except one. General Mills – makers of Betty Crocker cake mixes and Jus-Rol pastry – think it’s still ok to buy palm oil from IOI and have refused to stop doing business with them.

ACTION

Tell General Mills to stop buying palm oil from this forest-trashing company.

IOI has been draining peat swamps and tearing down forests – creating the perfect conditions for the fires which swept across Indonesia last year. These forests are also prime orangutan habitat, and this magnificent ape is already threatened with extinction. And yet General Mills is still doing business with them. Even the industry’s own sustainable palm oil group – the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – thinks IOI is bad news and pulled IOI’s sustainable palm oil certificates.

The RSPO almost never takes action against its members, which shows just how poor IOI’s track record is. The bosses at General Mills have a half-baked idea that if they keep buying palm oil from IOI, they can persuade the forest destroyer to change. But time and again, IOI have left a trail of devastation and the only way they will change is if their customers take a stand and stop buying their palm oil.

Enough is enough. Tell General Mills that if they’re serious about protecting Indonesia’s forests, they need to stop buying from IOI, right now.

Let’s make it happen. Jamie Greenpeace PS The only way IOI will end the destruction is if their customers walk away. Other big brands have dropped them, but General Mills is still using their palm oil.

Email General Mills now and tell them to stop.

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Please sign the petition for the dogs and cats in Russia, thank you.

Petition link – https://secure.avaaz.org/it/petition/State_Commissioner_Regulatory_authority_for_the_national_public_Estab_CHIUDERE_il_rifugio_Charitable_Autonomous_NonProfi/?cdMtTjb

SAV Comment – We think it is clear from this site our views on the live animal export trade. Here again we hear of pathetic whines from the Australian government and talk of yet another full investigation – how many of these have we endured from gutless politicians over the years ?

The evidence will continue to be shown; animals will suffer unnecessarily and the trade will probably continue – all due to a totally immature and inadequate government. What are they being bribed with, and by whom, you have to ask, to keep the trade of cruelty open ?

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Dear Mark,

By helping us to expose the evidence and by supporting the brave work of our investigations unit, you can help protect animals from harrowing cruelty. On behalf of animals, thank you.

Lyn White AM Campaign Director

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Dear Mark,

The live export atrocities continues, this time in Vietnam with the sledgehammering of Australian cattle.

This cruelty must stop.

Tell our politicians that it’s time to make a commitment to:

End the live export of animals for slaughter in favour of a meat export trade

Immediately remove the regulation of live export from the Department of Agriculture to an independent authority

Re-establish the Australian Government’s leadership role in animal welfare.

‘Australian cattle’ being bludgeoned to death in Vietnam sparks Government investigation

Workers in Vietnamese abattoirs have been filmed bludgeoning what appears to be Australian live export cattle with sledgehammers.

Key points:

Animals Australia described the vision as profoundly distressing

Ear notches and animal behaviour suggest the cattle are from Australia

The abattoir in question has been suspended from receiving cattle

The Federal Government has ruled out a live export ban

The Federal Government launched an investigation into the apparent breach of the live export regulation after they were shown the footage by animal welfare group Animals Australia last week.

The ABC has obtained the vision filmed by undercover investigators hired by Animals Australia.

Warning: Vision in this story may disturb some viewers.

One of the videos shows a worker clubbing a cow over the head five times with a sledgehammer before it falls to the ground.

The man then hits the cow a further four times before it finally dies.

“I thought I’d seen it all, and I haven’t,” Animals Australia campaign director Lyn White said.

“It’s profoundly distressing and unnecessary and preventable and we shouldn’t forget that it’s been happening on a nightly basis since we [Australia] opened this trade in Vietnam.”

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce ruled out a live export ban, but said action would be taken.

“Immediately when we found out about this we went straight into action,” he said.

SAV Comment – well bully for you brave man !

“The Department [of Agriculture] has been working closely with the industry, the abattoir has been suspended from receiving cattle, we are investigating this process but further action needs to take place and will take place.”

Australian Broadcasting Corporation …

Animals Australia said they visited 13 slaughterhouses in North and Central Vietnam.

“Only two met Australian requirements for approved abattoirs,” Ms White said.

She described the vision as “the most shocking” she had ever seen when asked to compare the gravity of the conditions with those exposed in Indonesia by the ABC’s Four Corners program in 2011.

The meat workers, who were secretly filmed, told the undercover investigators that the cows being slaughtered were from Australia.

The cows also have distinctive ear notches which are unique to Australian cattle.

They also have holes in their ears, suggesting electronic national livestock identification tags have been removed.

“They know that the ear tags are not meant to be in the animals at these locations so there’s quite deliberate corruption of the system that’s going on that has meant that Australian cattle are ending up in these traditional slaughterhouses,” Ms White said.

This is the second time Animals Australia has captured footage of what appeared to be Australian cattle being slaughtered with sledgehammers in non-approved Vietnamese abattoirs.

Animals Australia said it chose not to publicly release that vision last March, but instead took it to the Australian Livestock Exporters Council (ALEC).

Ms White claims she was promised a response within six weeks, but has not heard from the industry body since.

She said she decided to make the vision public this time to pressure the live export industry to act.

“The Australian public needs to be aware of the risks that Australian animals are still facing, that these regulations are not working and are not working because no one is being made accountable when they breach them,” she said.

ALEC chairman and former Labor leader Simon Crean admits the council did not respond to Animals Australia’s concerns last year.

He said the industry implemented reforms to address animal welfare concerns.

“We have committed ourselves to the introduction of people on the ground, to training programs, the implementation of CCTV cameras, all of the tracing and tracking procedures,” he said.

“We have been constantly engaged, the investment by the industry in this respect has been huge.”

Mr Crean viewed the footage of the cattle being killed with sledgehammers on Wednesday, and described it as “inexcusable”.

“I’m shattered,” he said.

“This is the very thing that I, along with the industry, have committed to end.

“No animal should have to go through the fear and the pain.

“It’s what we’re committed to eliminate and this just reinforces we’ve still got work to do.”

ALEC chief executive Alison Penfold acknowledged it “seemed” there were Australian cattle in the holding pens of the sledgehammer slaughterhouse.

“The behaviour of the animals gives every suggestion that they’re Australian,” she said.

Through Mr Crean, ALEC announced yesterday it would be cutting off the supply of animals to the facilities under investigation.

“We’ve also determined that if any exporter is in deliberate breach of requirements… we will take every step to ensure they do not supply into the market,” he said.

Feedlot ‘has been suspended twice before’

However, Mr Crean said suspending trade, as the Labor government did to Indonesia in 2011, would be a mistake.

“What we want to do is to lift the standards across the industry and Australian commitment is world-best practice in this,” he said.

“[It’s] not perfect, but it’s just world-best practice.”

However, Ms White said she had little faith in the industry.

“The feedlot that they have suspended has been suspended on at least two occasions before,” she said.

“That this is still occurring despite CCTV, despite exporter supply chain officers being there, just goes to show that the system has been corrupted.”

The Department of Agriculture has viewed the footage and has launched an investigation.

“The footage… depicts abhorrent and indefensible treatment of cattle at an abattoir not approved to receive livestock exported from Australia,” the department said in a statement.

“A thorough investigation of this evidence has begun.”

A Circus World trainer was caught on video yelling profanity and violently jabbing an elephant with a bullhook. Now, Circus World has added big cats to its cruel lineup.

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Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin, insists on hosting cruel and archaic elephant acts and rides and has contracted with the notorious Carson & Barnes Circus again in 2016. This circus employs elephant handler Habib Omar, who is presenting elephants at Circus World all summer.

And the facility has decided to exploit tigers this year, too. Join PETA in letting Circus World know that these cruel animal acts have got to go.

Speak up for animals now by urging Circus World to get with the times and end cruel, archaic animal acts once and for all!

Help Libby!

David Cameron – British Prime Minister; has sadly bleated on for weeks now in the lead up to the UK / EU In / Out referendum being held on 23^rd June; about how essential it is for the UK to remain in the EU.

Hopefully, come 23^rd June, that is what the people of the UK will do. As for the EU; well it can fester in its own uselessness whilst giving welcoming kisses and hugs to new corrupt member states such as Serbia; or ‘Romania 2’ as it is now called.