Posted on November 12, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
During the First Fruits Festival that occurs every December in South Africa, teenage boys as young as 14 years old are tasked with killing a bull.
About 40 teens reportedly force sand or mud down a bull’s throat, gouge his eyes out, and twist his genitals before kicking and beating him to death.
Then they tear apart his flesh—all with their bare hands.
The fear and suffering that this bull will experience and the psychological damage these teens will be sure to endure is unimaginable.
And for what?!
Teaching children to be callous and violent killers has no place in any country’s traditions.
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Posted on November 4, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Russia has announced that it will send four rhesus monkeys on a suicide mission to Mars in 2017.
During this mission, the monkeys will likely endure inhumane tests, dehydration, and emotional upset.
We need to take action today to preserve the physical and emotional health of these exceptional animals.
Please sign the petition using the above link, thank you.
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Posted on October 28, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark,
It’s sickening. Birds punched, thrown, and even sexually assaulted.
Even after all I’ve seen in the 16 years since I founded Mercy For Animals, I was still completely shocked by the horrific cruelty and violence our brave investigator just exposed at Tyson Foods—the world’s largest poultry company.
Working undercover at a Tyson Foods slaughterhouse in Mississippi, a courageous MFA investigator documented chickens being dumped, dropped, dragged, hit like punching bags, tortured for fun, and even sexually assaulted as they were violently slammed into shackles on the slaughter line. He also documented countless birds getting their heads ripped off while they were still alive and chirping.
Yesterday, MFA filed affidavits with the Leake County Court in Mississippi to initiate charges of a total of 33 counts of animal cruelty against Tyson Foods Inc. and six particularly malicious workers at the facility.
This is the third time since July that we’ve busted Tyson Foods for torturing animals, and now TV legend Candice Bergen is lending her voice to our campaign to push for meaningful changes to alleviate much of the suffering these sensitive and intelligent animals are forced to endure.
But we need your help too.
Please, take a moment to sign our petition calling on Tyson Foods to implement less cruel killing methods and other meaningful animal welfare policies to prevent the worst forms of animal abuse in its facilities.
Then please share the hidden-camera video with friends and encourage them to take action too.
And remember, the most powerful choice we can make to prevent cruelty to animals is to leave chickens and other animals off our plates.
Sincerely,
Nathan Runkle
President
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Posted on October 26, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Mauritius flying fox: NO to the cull!
Dear friends of the rainforests,
The government of Mauritius is gearing up for a massacre: it wants to kill 18,000 Mauritius flying foxes – giant fruit bats found only on the island – in response to complaints from orchard operators.
The ecological consequences and sheer cruelty of the plan loom large: The impact of flying foxes on the island’s fruit crops has been debunked as wildly exaggerated. Furthermore, they play a vital role as pollinators and seed dispersers in the Mauritian ecosystem.
The cull would take place at a time when females are pregnant or nursing their offspring. A significant part of the next generation would thus be left behind to starve. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the killing could leave the species critically endangered.
Tell the Mauritian government not to risk the extinction of the Mauritius flying fox to protect the profits of a handful of orchard operators.
Thanks for being involved,
Reinhard Behrend
Rainforest Rescue (Rettet den Regenwald e.V.)
Rainforest Rescue
Jupiterweg 15, 22391 Hamburg, Germany • Tel: +49 40 4103804 info@rainforest-rescue.org •
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Posted on October 21, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark
Next week, on Wednesday 28th October, the European Union will vote on budgets for 2016. Each year the European Union provides an estimated £100 million through Common Agriculture Policy payments to farmers who breed bulls for bullfights.
You will be horrified to learn that YOUR hard-earned tax is helping to support this barbaric industry, with £13.5 million coming from the UK alone!
Next Wednesday, your MEP will have an opportunity to support and vote for an amendment to prohibit the use of European funds to support farmers who breed bulls for bullfights. Last year, a similar amendment fell just short of an overall majority, but the tide is turning against bullfighting. 76% of Spanish people are opposed to public subsidies for bullfighting, and only 29% support bullfighting at all.
The European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes is clear: Animals should not suffer pain, injury, fear or distress. Farmers breeding bulls to be tortured slowly for public display can never comply with these conditions and therefore should not be eligible for agricultural subsidies.
Bullfighting relies heavily on the backing of European funds and also funds from Spanish Administrations. Without these payments, trends show that this bloodthirsty industry would be on the brink of collapse.
We need to demonstrate political and public support against the use of our taxes being used in this way. Last year we came so close, and all we need is a few more MEPs to turn up and vote.
Please contact your MEPs TODAY and urge that they vote to stop European subsidies for bullfighting on Wednesday. You can choose to contact any or all of your MEPs that are listed as there may be several representing your region. We have provided some suggested text for you to use if you wish, however personalised emails have a greater impact so please add your personal comments.
Thank you for your support.
Mark McCormick
Senior Communications Officer
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Posted on October 14, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark:
A secret branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) called The U.S. Meat Animal Research Center has recently been exposed for horrifying experiments on meat-producing animals, so inhumane that even the meat industry itself is rejecting the federal agency’s grisly methods and glaring lack of oversight.
In an attempt to bolster birth rates and factory farm profit margins despite declines in American meat consumption of up to 36%, every year the research center ‘modifies’ some 30,000 cows, pigs and sheep – ending in starvation, ghoulish genetic mutation, and surgical mutilation. With death rates for baby and adult animals greater than THREE TIMES industry standards, mangled corpses are buried en masse in a place called the “Dead Pit”‘ flying in the face of a growing U.S. focus on humanely raised meat.
The taxpayer-funded agency has lain hidden on the Nebraska plains for nearly 50 years since Congress approved its existence.
The USDA says they have addressed the problems. IDA believes the facility must be closed!
Please email USDA head Tom Vilsack now and tell him it’s time to shut down the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center.
Thank you for whatever you can do, today!
Marilyn Kroplick, M.D.
President, In Defense of Animals
IDA is involved in many projects to protect animals’ rights, welfare, and habitats. Money contributed to IDA supports ALL of our worthy programs and gives us the flexibility to respond to emerging needs.
Thank you for your support and consideration.
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Posted on October 14, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Pictures – CIWF London.
Last Friday, Compassion’s #CowOnTour started her 7-stop European trip to protest against live exports from the EU.
The tour was launched outside the EU offices in central London. Protestors came from far and wide to stand shoulder to shoulder and say NO MORE LIVE EXPORTS!
And those at the protest weren’t alone.
The online #CowOnTour petition has already been signed by over 68,000 people and, at the end of the tour, all those signatures will be delivered directly to the European Commission HQ in Brussels.
Compassion’s #CowOnTour has now also collected her very first real-life signatures all over her body – including that of Harry Potter star, Evanna Lynch, who was the first person to sign.
Live Export Disaster
We recently discovered that a livestock vessel with 5,000 cattle aboard, overturned while still at its loading pier, in Brazil.
Due to depart for Venezuela, the ship started taking on water and eventually capsized next to the pier.
Onlookers took videos with their mobile phones, which show the horror the cattle endured in their final moments.
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