Two Petitions and Yulin Latest.

Posted on June 18, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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We will start with a petition regarding a dog that was killed over a pair of shoes !

Please support:

Petition link – https://forcechange.com/158472/justice-for-dog-reportedly-beaten-starved-and-hung-from-a-doorknob/?utm_source=ForceChange+Newsletter&utm_campaign=162581ced4-666FC6_17_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_600a6911b9-162581ced4-278817597

…  and another …

Dog kept on chain with artery exposed.

Petition link:  https://animalpetitions.org/132131/dog-with-exposed-artery-from-6-pound-chain-deserves-justice/?utm_source=Animal+Petitions&utm_campaign=50c4844bb3-369AP6_16_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c8ef52732-50c4844bb3-79739337

Here is the latest news we have on Yulin.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/11691254/Yulin-dog-meat-festival-Thousands-of-animals-slaughted-in-China-in-pictures.html?frame=3349582

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/yulin-dog-meat-festival-2016-new-pictures-emerge-of-nightmare-conditions-for-animals-involved-in-a6973021.html

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HUNDREDS of dogs destined for the dinner table at China’s Yulin Dog Meat Festival have been rescued after animal rights endured a three-day stand off with an abattoir -bound lorry.

Read more – http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/673316/Activists-rescue-dogs-death-China-barbaric-Yulin-dog-meat-festival

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Millions of Chinese Are Calling for an End to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.

Read more – http://time.com/4363824/yulin-dog-meat-festival-china-petition/

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China begins its annual dog meat festival… and the pictures are heartbreaking

See photos and a video in this article from the Metro (London). Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/05/china-begins-its-annual-dog-meat-festival-and-the-pictures-are-grim-5795659/#ixzz4BwZyIs6k

 

 

 

 

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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)

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Yulin Latest.

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

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Update! Chinese Embassy refuses to accept Petition/ re URGENT:  DEMO, LONDON AGAINST HORRIFIC YULIN ‘FESTIVAL’ 24 June – and  – Request for help in Yulin

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http://www.dogmagazine.net/chinese-embassy-refuses-to-accept-petition-with-11-million-signatures-to-stopyulin/

Wake up! It’s always about money and power!

The only way to have an effect is to boycott Chinese tourism and to tell every big corporation manufacturing in or buying cheap crap from China and re-selling it to us, that we will not buy their products so long as this obscenity is allowed to continue!  Added benefit would be that it would bring back the millions of manufacturing jobs that have been lost in our own country!

The same goes for the Philipines,  S. Korea, Vietnam and other countries in S.E. Asia where eating dogs/cats is still allowed.

China has no humane laws and they have been dragging their heels on this for years. it’s time to end bear-bile farms as well, where thousands of bears are imprisoned and suffering in excruciating pain; the farms that raise and kill tigers for their penises; and the use of rhino horn for their traditional medicines.

 

American & International Corporations Who Manufacture In China-

http://www.jiesworld.com/international_corporations_in_china.htm

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NOTATION- even though this is a very long list of American and other foreign corporations in China,it is certainly not a complete listing. We have only included a few of the names you may recognize.

This is a list of companies who either own factories, or have contract factories producing their productsin China. Some of the companies produce 100% of their products there, and others only produce parts,or certain ingredients for their products. The list below is approximately 1% of the actual Corporate list.

Companies such as Avon, GE, and AT&T for example, have been in China and manufacturing productsfor 20 to 30 years. Most American consumers simply had no idea. Previously their source was Japan.

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http://www.jiesworld.com/international_corporations_in_china.htm

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AT&T

Abercrombe & Fitch

Abbott Laboratories

Acer Electronics

Ademco Security

Adidas

ADI Security

AGI- American Gem Institute

AIG Financial

Agrilink Foods, Inc. (ProFac)

Allergan Laboratories

American Eagle Outfitters

American Standard

American Tourister

Ames Tools

Amphenol Corporation

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Amway Corporation

Analog Devices, Inc.

Apple Computer

Armani

Armour Meats

Ashland Chemical

Ashley Furniture

Associated Grocers

Audi Motors

AudioVox

AutoZone, Inc.

Avon

Banana Republic

Bausch & Lomb, Inc.

Baxter International

Bed, Bath & Beyond

Belkin Electronics

Best Buy

Best Foods

Big 5 Sporting Goods

Black & Decker

Body Shop

Borden Foods

Briggs & Stratton

Calrad Electric

Campbell ‘s Soup

Canon Electronics

Carole Cable

Casio Instrument

Caterpillar, Inc.

CBC America

CCTV Outlet

Checker Auto

CitiCorp

Cisco Systems

Chiquita Brands International

Claire’s Boutique

Cobra Electronics

Coby Electronics

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Coca Cola Foods

Colgate-Palmolive

Colorado Spectrum

ConAgra Foods

Cooper Tire

Corning, Inc.

Coleman Sporting Goods

Compaq

Crabtree & Evelyn

Cracker Barrel Stores

Craftsman Tools (see Sears)

Cummins, Inc.

Dannon Foods

Dell Computer

Del Monte Foods

Dewalt Tools

DHL

Dial Corporation

Diebold, Inc.

Dillard’s, Inc.

Dodge-Phelps

Dole Foods

Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.

Dow-Corning

Eastman Kodak

EchoStar

Eclipse CCTV

Edge Electronics Group

Electric Vehicles USA, Inc.

Eli Lilly Company

Emerson Electric

Enfamil

Estee Lauder

Eveready

Family Dollar Stores

FedEx

Fisher Scientific

Ford Motors

Fossil

Frito Lay

Furniture Brands International

GAP Stores

Gateway Computer

GE, General Electric

General Foods International

General Mills

General Motors

Gentek

Gerber Foods

Gillette Company

Goodrich Company

Goodyear Tire

Google

Gucci

Guess?

Haagen-Dazs

Harley Davidson

Hasbro Company

Heinz Foods

Hershey Foods

Hitachi

Hoffman-LaRoche

Holt’s Automotive Products

Hormel Foods

Home Depot

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Honda Motor

Hoover Vacuum

HP Computer

Honda

Honeywell

Hubbell Inc.

Huggies

Hunts-Wesson Foods

ICON Office Solutions

IBM

Ikea

Intel Corporation

J.C. Penny’s

J.M. Smucker Company

John Deere

Johnson Control

Johnson & Johnson

Johnstone Supply

JVC Electronics

KB Home

Keebler Foods

Kenwood Audio

KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken

Kimberly Clark

Knorr Foods

K-Mart

Kohler

Kohl’s Corporation

Kraft Foods

Kragen Auto

Land’s End

Lee Kum Kee Foods

Lexmark

LG Electronics

Lipton Foods

L.L. Bean, Inc.

Logitech

Libby’s Foods

Linen & Things

Lipo Chemicals, Inc.

Lowe’s Hardware

Lucent Technologies

Lufkin

Mars Candy

Martha Stewart Products

Mattel

McCormick Foods

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McDonald’s

McKesson Corporation

Megellan GPS

Memorex

Merck & Company

Michael’s Stores

Mitsubishi Electronics

Mitsubishi Motors

Mobile Oil

Molex

Motorola

Motts Applesauce

Multifoods Corporation

Nabisco Foods

National Semiconductor

Nescafe

Nestles Foods

Nextar

Nike

Nikon

Nivea Cosmetics

Nokia Electronics

Northrop Grumman Corporation

NuSkin International

Nutrilite (see Amway)

Nvidia Corporation (G-Force)

Office Depot

Olin Corporation

Old Navy

Olympus Electronics

Orion-Knight Electronics

Pacific Sunwear, Inc.

Pamper’s

Panasonic

Pan Pacific Electronics

Panvise

Papa Johns

Payless Shoesource

Pelco

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Pentax Optics

Pep Boy’s

Pepsico International

PetsMart

Petco

Pfizer, Inc.

Philips Electronics

Phillip Morris Companies

Pier 1 Imports

Pierre Cardin

Pillsbury Company

Pioneer Electronics

Pitney Bowes, Inc.

Pizza Hut

Plantronics

PlaySchool Toys

Polaris Industries

Polaroid

Polo (see Ralph Loren)

Post Cereals

Price-Pfister

Pringles

Praxair

Proctor & Gamble

PSS World Medical

Pyle Audio

Qualcomm

Quest One

Radio Shack

Ralph Loren

RCA

Reebok International

Reynolds Aluminum

Revlon

Rohm & Hass Company

Samsonite

Samsung

Sanyo

Shell Oil

Schwinn Bike

Sears-Craftsman

Seven-Eleven (7-11)

Sharp Electronics

Sherwin-Williams

Shure Electronics

Sony

Speco Technologies/Pro Video

Shopko Stores

Skechers Footwear

SmartHome

Smucker’s (see J.M. Smucker’s)

Solar Power, Inc.

Spencer Gifts

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Stanley Tools

Staple’s

Starbucks Corporation

Steelcase, Inc.

STP Oil

Sunkist Growers

SunMaid Raisins

Sunglass Hut

Sunkist

Subway Sandwiches

Switchcraft Electronics

SYSCO Foods

Sylvania Electric

3-M

Tai Pan Trading Company

Tamron Optics

Target

TDK

Tektronix, Inc

Texas Instruments

Timex

Timken Bearing

TNT

Tommy Hilfiger

Toro

Toshiba

Tower Automotive

Toyota

Toy’s R Us, Inc.

Trader Joe’s

Tripp-lite

True Value Hardware

Tupper Ware

Tyson Foods

Uniden Electronics

UPS

Valspar Corporation

Victoria ‘s Secret

Vizio Electronics

Volkswagen

VTech

Walgreen Company

Walt Disney Company

Walmart

WD-40 Corporation

Weller Electric Company

Western Digital

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Westinghouse Electric

Weyerhaeuser Company

Whirlpool Corporation

Wilson Sporting Goods

Wrigley

WW Grainger, Inc.

Wyeth Laboratories

X-10

Xelite

Xerox

Yahoo

Yamaha

Yoplait Foods

Yum Brands

Zale Corporation

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Subject: URGENT: DEMO, LONDON AGAINST HORRIFIC YULIN ‘FESTIVAL’ 24 June – and – Request for help in Yulin Importance: High

Importance: High

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DEMO, CHINESE EMBASSY, 51 PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON W1B 1JL – FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 12 NOON-5PM

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY, POST ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, SOCIAL MEDIA ETC. AND SHARE

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See below:

Dear Friends I received the following message re: Yulin from Adrian please read with attention and if there is anything you can do to help please do so.  We can Stop this torture if we all stick together! Thank you

Hi everyone. Your aid is very dearly needed. This is a significant effort that may spell a relatively quick death for Yulin festival. The founder of the Animal Hope & Wellness Foundation, Marc Ching, is leading a carefully orchestrated effort to strongly expose and speak out against the Yulin “festival” as well as the dog and cat meat torture trade in general.

But Marc Ching is requesting aid. Please view (and most importantly, Share widely) this post of his request, which includes some details on his strategy — but he needs our help. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1477398962574778/permalink/1617003798614293/ Exposure of his call for help is greatly needed. Please, Share widely in your social circles (Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere).  This is the critical moment to put all support in the effort. Thank you very much! Contents of the post:

FROM Marc

I need help.

In Yulin, I am going on a frontal assault.  Shutting down slaughterhouses. Shutting down restaurants. I will be rescuing what I assume will exceed far over a hundred dogs.

1) We need to connect with other groups who have local space to shelter the dogs. This means making contact, and getting people to commit. We do not need contact numbers, we need you to connect and work to get the committals for us.

2) I need two volunteer vets that have Visas and are willing to come with me to China (I will pay for everything).

During the festival, I am airing torture videos on possibly ten monitors around the city to show the world and the people at the festival – the truths of what really happens behind the walls.

3) I need help finding a contact that lives in the Guangxi Province so that I can send my equipment and banners directly.

4) I need 2 to 4 drivers local to the area who are able to rent something like a large Uhaul to help transport the dogs (I will pay for everything).

I am putting together a PSA featuring Matt Damon, Bill Maher, Orlando Bloom, Russel Simmons, Sophia Bush, and others which we plan to air in China before the festival.

5) I need help contacting small media groups in China who would air the PSA.

I leave to Asia in 9 days, and there is just too much for me and my director Valarie to do by ourselves. This trip – it will be the journey into darkness and dying. This is the last stand. This is f***ing war. And if we can put the pieces into place, I promise you the effect we will have, it will change history.

In life – we get one moment. One chance to really change the world. This is that moment. This is that time. Let’s save humanity, and these dogs…

#‎TheCompassionProject

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‘EU Must Ensure Animal Welfare’ Or Mr Van Goethem Will Get You – And The Next Joke Is ….

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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Regarding our recent post on the failure of the EU to enforce any protection for EU animals being tucked to Turkey, a non EU state,  https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/06/06/the-eu-excuses-get-more-pathetic-by-the-day-contact-mr-van-goethem-and-show-your-disgust/  as the ex EU correspondent for Kent Action Against Live Exports (KAALE), I decided to go back into my old files as I know the name of Bernard Van Goethem very well.  The two of us have corresponded in the past, when I presented many other failures of EU live animal transportation regulations to the EU; sadly, all of these appear to have been ignored also; certainly from what is recently still seen at Kent, English ports.  There is very little, if any change.

As the copy of the letter (below) shows; I wrote on behalf of KAAALE to the EU (one of many letters – see ‘About Us’ – https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/  ) regarding concerns for animals in transport within the EU, including the UK.  This letter is from early 2013 and specifically deals with the issue of trailer identification and the fact that live animals are / were being carried  on vehicles which did not identify this in any way.  It was often seen at Kent ports that live animal transporters did NOT carry any identification on them that live animals were being carried.  To many outsiders or those not familiar with the trade, I can understand when people say that you must be able to identify an animal transporter trailer just by the look of it.  Well I am afraid this is not always the case; as ‘box trailers’ with no visible access to the animals were sometimes used by the Dutch when operating in the UK.  Here is a photo of a typical closed box trailer; which actually contains many dozens of live sheep.

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Live sheep being carried in this trailer within the UK by a Dutch haulier – would you know it ? – where is the signage in accordance with EU Regulations on the transport of live animals ?

If you do not know that, then how are UK emergency services supposed to know it if the trailer overturns on a UK motorway ?.  That my friends was the very essence of my letter of complaint to Mr Van Goethem – that trailers are not identified as carrying live animals; hence failing the requirements of EU Regulation 1/2005, and that the trailers did not have access doors fitted to them – something which Lesley identified so very much in her report to the EU on the very same issue.

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Here below is a link to Lesley’s report on the importance of access in livestock trailers – why it is so very important to have multiple access doors to allow access to animals should they need it.

http://www.eyesonanimals.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Downloads_Eyes_on_Animals_report_Importance_of_Access.pdf

A statement exists in EU Regulation 1/2005 on ‘the protection of animals during transport’, that:  ANNEX I – Technical Rules; Chapter II – Means of Transport; Section 2 – ‘Additional provisions for transport by road or rail’ – Para 2.1 clearly defines:

2.1  “Vehicles in which animals are transported shall be clearly and visibly marked indicating the presence of live animals, except where the animals are transported in containers marked in accordance with paragraph 5.1”.

SAV underline and red type above.

Evidence of the failure of ‘clear and visible markings’ on some livestock trailers is yet another example of where the EU has written legislation, in the form of Regulation 1/2005; but effectively, it (the EU) does not wish to ensure that its regulations are enforced by member states.

In his letter back to Mark of 6/5/2013, Mr Van Goethem clearly states at the end of page 1 that:

“You alert us to the fact that transports, often do not display notices warning that live animals are being transported.  This is indeed contrary to the terms of the legislation, according to which road vehicles carrying animals ‘shall be clearly and visibly marked indicating the presence of live animals’.”

“This is of course of great importance to ensure the welfare and safety of the animals on board”.

“The Commission sees that it is important that the Regulation is properly implemented.  It is however the member states that are primarily responsible for the daily enforcement of EU legislation, and the Commission would intervene mainly where there appears to be a systemic failure of the competent authority of a member state to enforce adequately the EU Regulation”

As of 2016, Dutch livestock transporters using the box type trailers are still being witnessed by UK activists on the roads of the UK, and ARE STILL carrying no signage whatsoever in accordance with EU Regulations.

So, we have to ask exactly what Mr Van Goethem and his ‘team’ are actually doing for the welfare of animals in transport from EU member states.  In our opinion, very little at all; maybe even nothing.  Not particularly good for someone who in his letter of May 2013 to Mark claims to be the ‘Director responsible for animal welfare in the DG for Health and Consumers’ (at the EU).

As you can clearly see in our other recent post, https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/06/06/the-eu-excuses-get-more-pathetic-by-the-day-contact-mr-van-goethem-and-show-your-disgust/  and despite utterly clear evidence obtained by Lesley and the team on the Turkish border, the EU Regulation for animals in transport is completely ignored by the ‘Director’ Mr van Goethem; who appears with his response that things just continue as they are and that animals will continue to suffer.

Why Mr van Goethem, have you taken no action either about the lack of clear signage on livestock carrying trailers ?  We have given you the clear photographic evidence, the names of some of the hauliers doing this, and the actual sub para of the EU Regulation which declares that signage is completely important.

Why ?, why are you happy to fail the animals ? – you declare that you are a ‘Director responsible for animal welfare’ art the EU Commission.

Can we make a suggestion – that you practice what you claim to be and that you give a lot more understanding to the lives and suffering of animals in transport rather than just to your retirement pension from the EU !

Yet another reason for the UK groups to get out of the utterly useless EU and to undertake ex EU campaigning for all live animals in transport across the EU.

And more importantly, time for EU ‘importants’ to wake up to the real world; see all their failings and to actually do something about it.  Something we have not seen to date.

Things are very close at the moment – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36271589  – many people wanting out simply because the EU does nothing; talks the talk; fails to enforce and then charges member states millions of pounds each week for not enforcing the regulations.

What would you do in such a situation ?  – support the Van Goethem ‘do nothing’ policy or get out and try to improve the welfare of animals in transport ?

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We witness the dictatorship of incompetents!

In June 2012, the then EU Commissioner John Dalli assured us all to pursue the will of the 395 MEPs until 2014, who signed for a reduction of the transport of animals to 8 hours.
And the will of 1,100,000 EU citizens who had signed the petition.
In June 2012, Dalli disclaimed his promise.

To date, 6 years after, Dalli goes unpunished.
A MEP cannot nullify his promise without consequences, just because it fits him like that.
Unless he suffers from dementia or is corrupt.
Both very poor properties to direct the Office of Health and Food.

Dalli is out, a new is here!
His name is Mr. Van Goethem or perhaps Mr. Andiukaitis, or even Mr. Hogan.
No one knows, because no one is responsible for anything.
The only thing we know with certainty that all can nothing.
It would be enough if they bring the 8hours campaign to an end, as a sign of fairness and restitution.
If they had corrected the EU bad reputation in animal welfare because of the Dalli affair.
If they had abolished the shameful Transport Regulation from 01/2005, we would not accuse the EU of being responsible for medieval barbarism in animal transport.
We do not ask that they do all this because of love for the animals, but because animal welfare is in their contract, and because they get a turbo salary.

Clearly, we are experiencing the dictatorship of incompetents!
When conducting talks with MEPs, you are at the end after half an hour.
You sit opposite to merciless, disinterested and stupid janitor, with nice white shirts. And one wonders what they’re doing there.
Besides earning a lot of money, of course.

Both Mr. Van Goethem and Mr. Andiukaitis would gain a higher reputation, if both would give up her job.
Both are not able to lead a responsible animal welfare policy.
In whose hands lies the future of animal transport?

In those of the incompetents, the washouts, the clueless.
We need a new European model.
For humans and animals.
Venus

 

 

 

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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)

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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 23rd 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

watch the video

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”.

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“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.

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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.

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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 23rd 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.

Petition 2

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

Read more from Lesley at  http://www.eyesonanimals.com/europe-plans-export-5000-cattle-turkey-extreme-heat/

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.

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Other past posts we have written on the EU / Turkish exports issue:

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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watch the video

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

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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.

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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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