Posted on March 17, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on March 15, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Target: Susan Bulling, Events Coordinator of Lancaster Event Center
Goal: Ban the James Cristy Cole Circus from using animal acts in its show.
The Lancaster Event Center is planning on hosting a circus put together by the James Cristy Cole Circus which has featured a cruel bear show during past performances. The bear show, which is produced by Castle’s Bears, puts terrified bears in crowded, loud arenas. It is time to stop supporting this cruelty.
Click on the petition link to read more.
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Dear Mark,
A bear cub wakes up in a cage. She cries out, scared, then paws at the rusty metal bars and tries to bite through them, but there’s no way for her to escape the trainer who is heading her way.
He ties a rope tightly around her neck and yanks her across the room. He yells, hitting her with a stick. It’s painful and confusing—she doesn’t understand what he wants.
But the day’s misery is not yet over. The trainer tethers her to a wall by the rope still around her neck, forcing her to stand upright on her hind legs. It’s agonizing for her—she’s used to being on all fours—but if she doesn’t remain standing, she could choke and die.
Bear cubs exploited by circuses are enduring torment like this right now—but you can help us stop it. We are opening people’s eyes and turning the public away from such exhibits—especially young people, their key audience. Please strengthen PETA’s work for bears and all other animals by making a generous gift today.
A PETA investigator documented that bear cubs in circuses and animal-training facilities across China endured precisely this kind of cruelty, but such abuse is not unique to that country. Circuses around the world confine animals to cramped cages and use violence and intimidation—exactly like that uncovered during this investigation—all the time. These animals are forced to perform repetitive contortions that, to them, are baffling, uncomfortable, and even physically damaging. It’s suffering on a global scale.
PETA’s exposé did more than just reveal the deplorable treatment of animals held captive by circuses. It also inspired tens of thousands of compassionate people to speak out against those who exploit animals for entertainment. Together with our international affiliates, we’re pushing back against cruel spectacles and achieving many victories—from 80 German towns’ decisions to ban wild-animal circuses to the forthcoming closure of the notorious Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the U.S.
As always, thank you so much for your support and for all that you do for animals.
Kind regards, Ingrid E Newkirk
Founder
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Posted on March 15, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment – Whilst we very much welcome the result of the EU vote; we further question how far this will progress. MEP’s do NOT have the final say – Commissioners such as Phil Hogan (Ireland) have very much influence; and as he does not believe live exports are a problem, we question his views on EU rabbit farm conditions. Will Hogan take on the views of over 600,ooo EU citizens, or will he ignore and only do as he wants; as we have seen so often before. Watch this space !
Dear Mark,
Great news: earlier today, thanks to people like you across Europe, MEPs voted to back a report that could help End the Cage Age for rabbits.
The report recognises that barren cages do not meet the welfare requirements of farmed rabbits, and that Europe needs to move away from this obsolete system – bringing rabbit farming into the 21st century. This is an historic moment in the movement towards ending factory farming.
In even better news, MEPs also voted to call on the European Commission to begin drafting legislation to introduce minimum standards for Europe’s rabbits, including banning caged rabbit farming.
Thank you to everyone who signed our 600,000 signature petition, donated, or sent in a child’s drawing to show politicians how rabbits ought to live. And thank you to those who emailed, called and tweeted MEPs ahead of this critical vote.
As this campaign progresses, we’ll need your help again to keep the pressure on Europe’s policy makers and ensure this issue stays on the agenda. But today, because of you, 320 million rabbits every year are a big hop, skip and jump closer to receiving the protection they so desperately need.
Read the full article:
Thank you,
James West
Senior Campaign Manager
Our posts relating to this campaign:
Photos – CIWF.
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Posted on March 12, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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Korean President Park Geun-Hye Impeached!!
South Korean President’s impeachment is finalized by their Constitutional Court’s decision on March 10. The Korea Herald reported that 86% of Korean public approves of Park’s impeachment and that among the presidential candidates, “The survey showed Moon to be the unrivalled front-runner, with 36 percent in support rating.” (http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170310001053)
Now Korea has a chance to elect new president who will be more interested to addressing the dog meat cruelty issue.
Click HERE to learn more about Mr. Moon Jae-In’s campaign pledge to strengthening animal protection.
See our other recent posts on South Korea by clicking:
FIFA : Take a stand in
FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea 2017
against the dog and cat meat trade!!
FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea 2017 will be held in South Korea in about a couple of months – May 20 to June 11. The world will be watching South Korea, which is why this is perfect time you take action to support our campaign to end the horrific dog and cat meat trade in South Korea for good!
You can help by signing and sharing our petition, sending out letters and emails raising awareness of this brutal and medieval practice and calling for an end to the trade and taking to social media.
Click HERE to take action.
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Posted on March 8, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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To the Sponsors of PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea:
please help bring an end to the dog and cat meat trades in South Korea!
Please sign our petition and send email and postal letters to the Sponsors of PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics.
Click HERE to take action.
Pyeongchang’s project to hide the Dog Meat Restaurants
from Olympic visitors!
Please contact your country’s news media to write about this.
Now we have translations in Spanish, Greek, Russian,
Japanese and Swedish and more to come.
The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics is less than a year away. On our “Boycott PyeongChang 2018 Action Center” we have a list of actions you can take to protest South Korea’s horrific cruelty of its dog and cat meat industry.
Below is a translation of Korea Animal Rights Advocates’ (KARA) commentary regarding PyeongChang’s plan to dodge criticism of Korea’s dog meat cruelty. Please read and share. Click HERE to read from our homepage.
Gangwon Province is currently making preparations to welcome guests to the Winter Olympics, which will be held in February 2018. To alleviate the shortage of lodging accommodations and restaurants, and to create income for agricultural households, support will be provided to the hospitality industry to strengthen the spirit of service as well as networking with the local agricultural community to introduce Korean culture to the visitors. In addition, certain restaurants that may evoke negative emotions from foreign visitors will undergo renovations, including new signage, in order to conceal the underlying cause of the controversy and avert debate.
What is the underlying cause of the expected negative emotions from the Winter Olympics guests? 18 dog meat restaurants in Gangwon Province around Pyeongchang and Gangneung. The government will subsidize up to 10,000,000 won for each restaurant to change their signs (3,000,000) and renovate their facilities (7,000,000). 50% of the cost for this project will be paid by the Province and 50% by the city.
Click below to take more action:
New Friendship City Campaigns – Gyeongsan and Yeosu
Please take action to give a voice to the poor Korean dogs and cats.
Friendship City Campaign – Yeosu, South Korea – Seward, Alaska
Friendship City Campaign – Gyeongsan, South Korea – San Bernadino, California
The mayor of Long Beach, California responds with support for our campaign against the South Korean dog and cat meat industry.
We have received a response from Mr. Mark Taylor, Chief of Staff for the Mayor Robert Garcia, in Long Beach, California regarding our campaign, asking them to take action over the dog-meat trade in Pohang in South Korea. We are grateful to the Mayor and his office for responding to our concern so quickly, and especially appreciate the Mayor for supporting animal rights and opposing cruelty in the South Korea’s dog and cat meat trade.
Click HERE to learn more
SAV – Finally, there may be some good news for the future – read our good news post by clicking here:
We hope for better for the dogs of South Korea !
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Posted on March 8, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
This new footage of a farm in Serbia has been forwarded to us.
Here is the video link to the new footage:
Once again; we are informed that the Serbian Ministry – the Chief of Veterinary Inspections at the Ministry of Agriculture have informed journalists and newspapers that ‘everything is ok’ !!
We would argue that the footage shown in the video does NOT show that everything is ok; quite the opposite. But once again we have a Serbian government ministry living on a different planet to everyone else. They appear to be able to see everything through rose coloured spectacles when everyone else sees only helplessness and misery for animals involved.
We have been in similar circumstances before; and guess what; when we questioned the terrible conditions in which cattle was kept in the past; the same Ministry replied with the very same comment – that everything is ok.
Here are the links to our old posts; which show the disgusting conditions in which cattle was being kept. But as we say, all ‘ok’ in the eyes of the government Ministry Chief Veterinary Inspector.
We have provided the footage to our friends and colleagues at CIWF here in London – https://www.ciwf.org.uk/ – and they in turn have put both their Polish and Czech Republic office / campaigners onto this.
We are sending the footage to the EU Enlargement Commission who are responsible for monitoring Serbia’s application to become a member state of the EU. This is not satisfactory animal welfare – the keeping of animals – especially if they are destined to end up in the human food (meat) chain. The EU needs to take action and get Serbia to clean up its act in ALL areas of animal welfare.
We have worked with CIWF on this issue and have also asked that they provide evidence to the EU regarding in this instance what is an obvious abuse of farm animals / possible animals entering the human food chain. We hope that the EU will make representations on this issue to the Serbian Veterinary Ministry, but as with most EU / animal welfare issues and the EU association with Serbia; we do not expect much !
If there is any further news regarding this issue we will naturally bring it to you – SAV.
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Posted on March 5, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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