Posted on January 19, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Photo – EoA
This second part on live animal transport is intended primarily to give EU campaigners (and others) an insight into what information is available; with the hope that you can further research and follow up with your own national authorities if you think necessary. We also outline current work we are undertaking, which is still on going.
So lets get started
– we will try to be as helpful as we can on this. All information is available via the web; but unless, (like us); you really need to get as much info as possible; this data remains hidden from campaigners and observers who may not know of its existence or the large amount of live animal transport info that exists in the ‘hidden depths’.
To start with, we will give links to videos made by friends at ‘AWF’, ‘TSB’ and ‘Eyes on Animals’ regarding their investigations into live EU animals being exported to Turkey; a non EU ‘Third Nation’.
Many visitors will find the videos extremely disturbing and upsetting. They are; and for us also. Unfortunately, they show the real, daily side of what the live animal export trade is about. It happens everywhere around the globe; this is just one snapshot of what happens in one location every day. The same can be said for many global locations all the time. Despite the cruelty which is severe and obvious, this is what makes us, as campaigners, go on investigating. We have to show the world the immense cruelty of the live trade, with the hope that people will act against it.
In addition, and to supplement the videos relating to exports to Turkey, we also suggest that the excellent investigation report by EoA (NL) on the same subject is also read as further evidence of non compliance tor EU animals being transported by road. The report can be accessed via the following link:
The EU animal transport industry from some particular EU member states have routinely been shown to ignore the animal welfare requirements of Regulation 1/2005. It is the norm that certain EU member states do not bother to apply them; and the EU Commission which is the called / supposed to be the ‘guardian of Treaty enforcement’ does nothing as a follow up, even when presented time and time again with evidence such as the videos and report detailed above.
If you wish to have a look at the full version of EU Regulation 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport, then here below is the link. Note – The information is provided in several formats and all languages of (EU) member state nations. This may make it easier for EU citizens who do not use English as their prime language.
The European Commission, DG Sante project aims to improve animal welfare around transport. The project will develop and disseminate Guides to Good and Better Practice for animals transported within Europe and to third countries for slaughter, fattening and breeding. Guides will be developed for cattle, horses, pigs, poultry and sheep transport. The project started in May 2015 and will finish by the end of 2018.
The project is divided into 5 tasks:
Task 1: Collection
Collect and collate appropriate best practices implemented and supported by scientific evidence
Task 2 and 3: Development
Develop practical guidelines with those that will use it
Task 4: Dissemination
Disseminate these guidelines through the networks of the main European stakeholder groups involved
Task 5: Verification
To verify if the new transport guidelines reached the end-users
Also; something that is very hidden by the EU from anti export campaigners. Now we expose very useful information.
Inspection reports from EU countries
Article 27 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport requires the Member States to submit an annual report to the Commission of their inspections of the transport of live animals and to provide an analysis of the major deficiencies detected and an action plan to address them.
Annual reports can be seen in the following link. This site allows access to reports and analysis for the years 2007 through to 2015. As the Animal Transport Guidelines Project started in 2015 and is due to finish in 2018; we can only assume that this is why there is no information available for years 2016 and 2017.
If you select any year via the following link, you should then click on the year of interest.
Lets say we are interested in 2015.
So the first thing we do is use the following link to access all the years:
Next, we then (for example) click on the year of interest; which in our case is 2015.
The year then automatically breaks into 2 sections – namely ‘Report’ and ‘Analysis’.
If you click on the word ‘Report’; you then get automatically directed to pdf for each member state of the EU.
Lets take ‘Bulgaria’ for example; as live EU animals going to Turkey are exported via Bulgaria.
So we click on the link for the pdf file associated for Bulgaria; and we get information as shown in the following link. This data is usually provided in a tabulated form and shows things like:
The animal type when inspected
The number of inspections undertaken within Bulgaria
The number of animals inspected
The number of non compliances with the Regulation (1/2005).
Our example for Bulgaria can be viewed via this link:
This provides us with information relating to an analysis for the animal transport situation for Bulgaria in 2015. Lots of useful and very hidden information !
Important – as we have said, this type of information is available using the links provided for EVERY member state of the EU; and for the years for 2007 through 2015. The information in the reports and analysis may prove to be very useful to many campaign groups involved with fighting the live animal trade in their (EU) country.
SAV Comment
As we said at the start, this information and ways of getting through it are guides which we hope will allow any anti export campaigner within the EU to find out a lot more about the live transport situation in ‘their’ nation, and other EU states for years 2007 through 2015.
I hope this normally hidden data is now exposed for many more campaigners to see and use. There is nothing secret or hidden about this; it is available on ‘normal’ web sites; you just have to know where to go and how to get the info you want.
I hope and trust this data can be used by many to fight the disgusting trade of our day – live animal exports.
Happy info gathering and happy campaigning !
Regards Mark.
For all animals suffering in unnecessary transport.
JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER made another plea to the British people to reconsider leaving the European Union after a chorus of fresh calls for a second Brexit referendum.
The President of the European Commission said the European Union’s hands were “outstretched” to welcome Britain back into the bloc.
Speaking in European Parliament, he said: “When it comes to Brexit I am sure that there will be no winners from this situation.
“This is a lose-lose situation, it’s a lose-lose situation both for the British and for the members of the European Union.
“I continue to feel that the exit of Great Britain is a catastrophe.
“It is a defeat that we all have to deal with the consequences of but the causes of the British decision run much deeper.
“As Mrs May has said the British have never felt entirely comfortable with the European Union so the guilt lies upon many shoulders.
“Mr Tusk said that our hands remain outstretched.
“The British people, the British government may wish to find a different way out of the Brexit situation, we’re very much willing to deal with them.
“We are not throwing the British out, we would like the British to stay and if they so wish they should be allowed to do so.”
Mr Juncker also addressed outrage by Brexiteer’s over the EU’s attempts to bring Britain back into the fold on Tuesday.
He said: “I did note that in London, there was a rather irritated response to this proposal.
“Note that even if the British leave, according to Article 50, then Article 94 would allow them to exit again.
“I would be happy to facilitate that so I certainly wouldn’t want to push anyone into a corner.”
SAV Comment – No Thanks – Penny Dropping with you now is it ? – should have listened to the people of the UK and the rest of the EU years ago. Here is just one reason why !
THE POUND is “very, very” undervalued and could make some major gains against the dollar this year as more clarity about Brexit emerges.
The pound could rocket in 2018 as Brexit uncertainty clears up, Peter Kinsella, senior FX and rates strategist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia said.
Speaking to CNBC about which currency would make the biggest gains against the dollar in 2018, he said: “It’s a toss up between sterling and the euro.
“I think sterling’s very undervalued, I’ve thought that for quite some time.
“The initial optics when we get to the beginning of Brexit negotiations in March will probably be poor for sterling.
“Because I think what you’ll find is the European Union negotiators as they said, slaughter a few unicorns, and I think that was the term they used.”
Kinsella said this might have a negative impact on the pound in the short term but that clarity around Brexit will push sterling up by the end of the year.
He said: “I think short-term that will be poor for sterling but over the medium term, sterling is very very undervalued.
“If we get some kind of a trade deal I think that will be good news for sterling.”
In a note on Monday, ING FX strategist, Viraj Patel, who sees sterling above $1.50 this year, said: “Judging by GBP’s rally since late November, which has continued in the first few weeks of the new year, a reassessment of the Brexit political games looks to be underway.
“But we feel there is more upside to come – especially if a transition deal were to be signed, sealed and delivered in 1Q18.”
The pound rose 0.4 percent against the euro to 1.1289 at 12:57 in London.
Sterling was little changed against the dollar at 1.3786 at 12:57 in London.
Posted on January 14, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment
In the near future we hope to be able to publish 2 major articles on how the EU is failing animals. We are producing these at the moment. Watch this space.
The EU and its Colonies
Above – EU Must Ensure Animal Welfare; or put it another way;
Animal rights activists are firmly convinced that the hell of the “useful” animals can only be improved by two measures:
1. People should stop eating meat and
2. The countries (at least in the EU area) should finally adopt an effective animal welfare law and respect it.
There are also a few, few who have invested great hope in the intervention of the EU. And still believe that the criminal circumstances, especially in the slaughterhouses, can only be abolished by laws, decisions and prohibitions by the EU.
They believe that an EU country can live well on subsidies and thus help animals.
But they forget the example of Romania, as with the EU’s subsidies for the strays and their sterilizations, some have become over one-night rich as “dog catcher “and professional animal killers.
Today I will be more careful with the Dog Catchers business of Romania.
Because in Germany it is just like that at the moment, not with strays, but with wild boar. In many German states, there are now livestock premiums to encourage local hunters to go hunting more often despite falling prices for wild boar meat.
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the land gives the huntsman € 25 for each hunted animal, in Bavaria it is € 20.
I do not know how many are dreaming of EU membership.
All I know is that this dream can become a nightmare.
Because the biggest betrayal of the EU so far is the betrayal of the animals.
And for us too, who have been trying for years to persuade these lazy, high-paid and irreverent gang (the Members of the European Parliament) to do their duty.
Millions of petitions against animal transports were ignored.
Petitions against illegal crimes in German slaughterhouses were also ignored.
Undercover investigations by animal rights activists have recently shocked even carnivores and not vegan citizens of Germany.
For some of those I send as a link below.
But the German government, with the arrogance and indifference of a country that is practically the EU, despises laws and agreements and allows itself to act according to the economic interests of the meat mafia, when and where it suits them. In its own country and in EU countries.
So Germany is no different than the EU dynasty with its 28 colonies. Poverty, credit, profits and economic crises favor the EU for poor countries.
Illegal animal transports, slaughterhouses-Dachau, animal farms like cemeteries support the EU for the animals.
I consider the EU (Germany) to be the moral and economic bankrupt of the 21st century.
And there’s no reason to keep this syndicate alive. No one!
It remains only to discuss how we can eliminate this extermination machine.
As we see in Video, (and here, nobody needs translation) the pigs have to live in their own excrement in this farm. Coughing animals were documented because of the ammonia.
Also, tumors, eye infections, injured limbs were documented. Many pigs are bitten and bloodied from other pigs on the tips of their ears, because these intelligent and clean animals permanently suffer from boredom, stress and catastrophic living conditions.
Finally, if the costs in the farm are higher than the “economic value” of the animal, it is not uncommon to kill – legally and illegally. Also in this operation (video) dying and already dead animals were documented.
They will end up in the garbage – after a painful life.
PETA has already documented and published massive animal protection violations in this pig farm in Günthersdorf, Brandenburg.
But nothing has been done by either the policy or the veterinary office.
The pig farm belongs to the farmer AG Neißetal, which was subsidized by the EU in 2016 for more than 888,000 Euros,
– among other things for their livestock husbandry!!!
Please read the petition (I did the translation in English) and sign.
Best regards to all
Venus
The petition (Translation in English)
Signature campaign:
Petition: Please help the pigs in Brandenburg
Dear Prime Minister,
PETA was again able to publish the massive animal suffering in a Brandenburg pig farm. This case clearly shows that the problem lies in the system.
Sensitive and intelligent creatures are adapted to a construct that pursues purely economic interests.
The pictures illustrate how animals will be handled in 2017: ailing, heavily stalled animal houses and dirty feed and water troughs. Sick and dying pigs can be seen, also dead and injured animals can be found in the inventory. Bloody ear tips and completely gnawed ticks are only an indication of the psychological and physical stress the animals have to endure.
It is well known how clean and intelligent pigs are, which is why they cannot be kept close to species in the withered and barren bays. In addition, they often make the hard-slatted floors and the air, which is usually contaminated with ammonia, sick. Controls seem to fail once again – or are such conditions in Brandenburg of economic interest wanted?
I therefore urge you to end the suffering of the pigs in this farm and to take measures so that the torments of all pigs in Brandenburg come to an end.
Posted on January 8, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Above: Mr ‘I can do nothing’ Van Goethem
Above -Mr Junker
SAV Comment
If Junker and his cronies made sure that the EU actually enforced Existing EU legislation rather than ignoring it and not prosecuting, then maybe the UK would have voted to remain in the EU. The cause ?- an ineffective Junker and Commissioners. All talk and no action. Ask the EU animals being transported live to Turkey for example – does EU animals in transport (Reg 1/2005) protect them? – NO. So why should the UK pay all this money when Junker is so useless ?
EU’s Juncker: Don’t believe Brexit won’t happen
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker says he believes Brexit will happen and the EU should tackle its looming budget shortfall.
“Don’t believe those who say that it’s not going to happen and that people in the UK have realised their error… I don’t think that’s going to be the case,” he told a Brussels conference.
The EU budget commissioner said the UK’s departure would leave a hole of about €12-13bn (£11-12bn; $14-$16bn).
The UK’s exit is set for March 2019.
50% spending Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger said the budget gap would have to be closed with cuts and 50% fresh money. He suggested a Europe-wide tax on plastic products as a source of extra revenue.
The Commission will publish a proposal in May this year and has urged EU leaders to agree a budget deal by May 2019.
Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and former Prime Minister Tony Blair are among the prominent voices arguing that Brexit can still be reversed, possibly by holding a new referendum on whatever deal is reached on the UK withdrawal.
The EU is bracing for hard bargaining between the bloc’s net contributors and net recipients for the next budget period, 2020-2026. The UK is currently among the major net contributors.
What do the EU budget figures mean?
By Adam Fleming, BBC News, Brussels
§€1 trillion – Rough amount that will be spent by the EU in 2014-2020, including on agriculture, energy, regional policy and administration
§€12-13bn – Permanent hole left in the budget each year by the UK’s departure, according to the European Commission
§1% – Size of the EU budget as a proportion of the European economy; Mr Juncker wants it to go up
§85% – Size of eurozone as share of total EU economy after UK’s departure – up from 73%, showing a shift of power to the eurozone after Brexit
“There will have to be cuts in some major [EU] programmes – some significant cuts,” Mr Oettinger warned.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said Britain will honour its current commitments to the EU budget, until 2020.
The UK is one of 10 member states who pay more into the EU budget than they get out. Only France and Germany contribute more.
According to UK Treasury figures, the UK’s net contribution for 2014/15 was £8.8bn. The total contribution was more, but the UK received a £4.6bn rebate. That annual rebate was won by the late Margaret Thatcher.
In 2014/15, Poland was the largest beneficiary, followed by Hungary and Greece.
On Monday the veteran pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage met EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels. “Mr Barnier clearly did not understand why Brexit happened,” he said after the meeting.
SAV Comment – None of them do understand why Nigel – or certainly they will not admit – they want to blame the UK for THEIR FAILINGS. Its called NON ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING EU REGULATIONS. Aka 1/2005 for the protection of animals during transport – the best joke in the EU.
Junker – ‘I have this vision that someday in the distant future, the EU WILL actually enforce existing EU Regulations – then we can say that we have actually done what we are paid to do’
Please consider calling and getting friends, family, and associates to make polite phone calls to Marado Sushi at 905-707-0546 and Gal’s Sushi at 905-597-0176, urging them to remove live animals from their menus.
At Marado Sushi in Toronto, (Just Google search the name for full details) PETA captured footage of a chef crudely hacking off the arms and legs of a flailing octopus.
The writhing limbs were then served to diners in a dish called “sannakji.” We filed a complaint with the Ontario SPCA, which—agreeing that octopuses are protected by cruelty-to-animals legislation—promptly informed Marado Sushi of the law.
But Marado Sushi continues to serve sannakji by chopping the heads off live octopuses before dicing up their limbs, and other restaurants continue to mutilate and serve live animals.
Others “prepare” live shrimp and lobsters by cutting off their tails and plating them next to their flailing heads—all for the sake of diners’ entertainment.
Please speak out against butchering and serving live animals.
Join us in urging Toronto restaurants to stop butchering and
serving live animals.
Together, we can prevent an enormous amount of suffering.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 