When it comes to animal rights Egypt is renowned globally for a less than promising record.
Horses and camels play an important part in Egypt’s tourism, many families depend on them for their survival, still these working animals are being mistreated.
Animals such as cart and riding horses and camels are being brutally beaten, neglected and whipped as they cart loads of tourists around the pyramids. They are forced to work in the extreme heat without shelter, food or water supply for 20 hours every day and facing a long agonizing life.
They have medical diseases and conditions and obvious, untreated giant flesh wounds (see photo above) under their saddles and still being ridden. Undoubtedly, they demonstrate distress and are worked or starved to death.
This area is „Hell on Earth” for carriage horses and camels. This horror must be stopped now.
Stopping the misery would surely benefit not only the working animals in Giza but would raise awareness of the importance of animal rights as a topic in Egypt in general.
Posted on August 20, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The Cold Truth About Man’s Best Friend.
SAV Comment:
For years, maybe decades; animal welfare people and groups have been trying everything to stop the Iditarod sled race. Major sponsors have been targetted in their hundreds with e mail campaigns etc.
Always the same response – that everything is ok and that all the dogs are looked after very well. Well maybe this new movie will blow the lid off this race and the world will see what we have campaigned about for years. A cruel race with untold amounts of animals suffering
It will be interesting, after this is made public; to see what the response of the ‘no problems’ corporate sponsorship organisations are. Will they stop sponsorship or will they continue ? – will the race continue ?
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UPDATE 21/8/17 – Major sponsor pulls out of Iditarod:
SAV. We have had the following in from Venus in Germany. The German General Election is in September; but whatever your political bias; things are not looking very positive for animals and their welfare. We share in the despair – no better with Trump in the US; the EU does nothing positive; just people looking after their own interests – not even considering others !
But the fighting and campaigning will go on regardless.
The following is the in edited message from Venus:
Dear Mark,
the association animal public e:V has made a survey to the five parliamentary parties.
They wanted to know how these parties were thinking about animal protection, and what they would decide about the lives of millions of animals. So that the German citizen knows who to give his voice to.
I find the results catastrophic, especially from the parties, which unfortunately and most likely will come to the coalition.
Just for reference, here is another of our recent posts and why Venus will not vote – have a look:
On September 24, the federal elections are held in Germany.
The association animal public.e.V has sent a list of ten questions to all parties which are expected to move into the Bundestag, with a request to tick with “yes” or “no”.
Some of these questions were in the past the subject of petitions here in Germany, which were ignored by the Merkel government.
Sure, many animal protectionists remember how many petitions and demonstrations for the ban on wild animals in circus we have done. Without success.
The parties in order, are:
Christian Democrats (Conservatives),
the Socialists,
the Liberals,
the Left and
the Greens.
The extreme right did not answer.
The questions were:
ban on wild animals in circuses,
the end of the dolphinariums,
amendment of the Hunting Act,
import ban on wild animals for private purposes,
prohibiting commercial animal exchanges,
positive list for the private keeping of wild animals,
recognizing the fundamental rights of great apes,
the right to legal action for animal welfare associations,
Federal Commissioner for animal welfare,
amendment of the zoological legislation.
One notices of the many “no” of the strongest parties of Germany that after the elections everything will be like before the elections, namely absolutely nothing new and certainly nothing good for the animals.
I predict a stupid and harmful coalition between Merkel and Schulz, and this will also be fatal consequences not only for Germany, but for many other countries of Europe that are politically and economically dependent on Germany. Because Germany is Europe.
Above – Merkel;
Below (left) – Schultz – the other person is Junker – Mr EU.
And there will be no good for the animals. The only parties who have responded with the most “yes” are “the Left” and the “Greens”; But the first has no power, and the second has not shown any political fairness.
I really do not know who is hoping for something good against animal suffering and the animal miseries in Germany with these elections. I certainly do not!
Posted on August 11, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We are giving a few links here about animal welfare / rights in China as we see this as a very forward moving area; much more so than certain areas of Europe where some governments just refuse to accept animals as sentient living creatures that deserve our protection during their lives; a basic requirement – nothing special about that.
There is a lot of information here, and so we provide links to the many write ups on the situation in China. We leave it to individuals to select what they wish to view by clicking on the links provided. Much of the news is very positive and we take great satisfaction from the fact that animals in China will certainly have better treatment in the future than they often have had in the past.
We offer support and congratulations to all the activists, groups and individuals who are working to make things much better for animals in China. SAV.
I have questioned myself for a while if I should actually show the following. I have provided them to UK welfare groups going to China for additional ‘support’ for their campaigns. The pictures are probably around 10 years old now and show pigs in China going for slaughter and how they have been treated in the past. These photos were taken undercover. You can see the hooks going through the lower jaws of the animals and how they are then restrained on vehicles taking them for slaughter.
I have had these pictures in my private collection for many years and they have never been released. With the growing movement of animal welfare and rights in China I now feel that these must be shown as a memory of how animals were treated until recently.
Many people will be shocked by these, but this is the reality of animal treatment and cruelty. These photos could have come from many places in the world which treats animals as throw away trash. I hope that people will see these and gain more respect for living sentient creatures wherever they may be located in the world.
We don’t ask much, only that all animals are treated with respect and as sentient beings. Like you and me, if you kick them, they hurt. There is no difference; they are NOT different, so lets not pretend or think that they are, as some governments and people do.
Posted on August 8, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
I read this news in “Spiegel.de/panorama” a few days ago, here is the translation:
“Indonesia: Army should stop monkey invasion”!!
Indonesia has the army marched up – against naughty monkey bands. The animals are increasingly becoming a problem for the residents of the Boyolali district on the island of Java. The military should now help.
The chief of the district, Seno Samodro, spoke of an “invasion of hundreds of monkeys”, which could only be met with firearms. The long-tailed macaques fell massively over plantations, they steadied maize and fruits and sometimes even attacked people, complained Samodro. Alone this year monkeys had bitten eleven local residents.
The district administration therefore mobilizes soldiers, policemen, hunters and members of shooting clubs, who are to go on patrols and kill the monkeys. A local shooters’ association sends ten members every day. According to “Newsweek” against the animals however only rubber boots are used.
In the region is currently dry season, the food in nature is scarce. This forces the monkeys to look for food in humans.
And here is my response to the article:
Why the animals walk around hungry and “steal” fruit or maize the journalist does not tell us, of course.
If he had told us that Indonesia is one of the main cultivators for palm oil, and every day countless hectares of the jungle would be burnt for this shit palm oil, he might lose his job, the palm oil industry does not joke!
And only who gets this information knows that monkeys and other animals lose their homes, their food their families every day. At the beginning of the 1990s, some 150,000 orangutans still lived in Sumatra and Borneo. Today there are only 49,000.
SAV Comment
– see pictures below – the journalist does not tell us that 300 soccer fields sized areas are deforested every hour – and that 50 Orangutans are killed every week doing this.
He claims to be a journalist but his writing is very much one sided; that in defence of the palm oil industry and of the destruction caused by the monkeys to humans who have invaded the monkeys homelands !. What about the destruction caused by the humans in the rainforest every hour ? – tell us about that Mr Journalist. Or do you not want people to know about an industry which kills so many wonderful animals ?
The journalist has not told us this, because he is paid neither to write truth nor real facts. For this reason, he tells us in the end that the cause of this “invasion” is the dryness.
The most successful way to cover up the truth is to confuse effect with cause. The press writes of aggressive monkeys and threatened people. And so the mass murder against the expellees is justified. We experience a lie shock every day, in the television, in the press on the radio.
I think the German press is a typical case of presstitution.
Posted on August 6, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
UK consumers have listened and purchased according to the message – animal welfare matters – and purchased 35 million more free range eggs – so campaigners must be doing something right ! – SAV.
Free range eggs have outsold those laid by
caged hens for the first time.
Major supermarkets are committed to ending sales of caged eggs – and official figures show consumers are backing the move.
From October last year to June 35million more free range eggs were produced by UK farmers than eggs from caged and barn-raised hens.
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