Posted on February 18, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We start by showing you the excellent anti fur video from (UK) ‘Respect for Animals’ called ‘dumb animals’ – click on the following link:
Then we move on to the new Peta campaign:
Think about how terrible it would be if you had a broken leg and you couldn’t go to the doctor—and no one cared. That’s the reality for these rabbits who are packed into urine-incrusted cages on a fur farm. They are left to suffer.
After living on a fur farm like this, rabbits arrived at the slaughterhouse. As seen in the new expose, workers left them to struggle and thrash wildly after smacking them on the head with the back of a knife, hanging them upside down, and slitting their throats.
They weren’t checked for signs of life before being skinned, and some were still kicking and twitching as the skin was torn off their bodies.
This happens because companies sell rabbit fur. Who could be so heartless? Find out and tell the companies to STOP selling fur now.
Until every cage is empty,
All photos are from Peta.
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Posted on February 12, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
? Animal welfare improvements ? – Forget it !
EU is all talk and no action for animals.
Just one of the reasons why the UK may exit the
EU (membership) this summer – 2016.
Below are just a few photographs from our huge archive collection – this is the reality in Serbia now, today, 2016 – ask yourself, is this the EU getting Serbia to enforce its own animal welfare legislations ?
– we don’t think so, do you ?:
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Posted on February 7, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on January 20, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Above – Ric.
SAV comment – we are really starting to see the Jap whale and dolphin murderers in their true colours now. We have given the links to international Japanese embassies on some of other posts, but here they are again should you individually wish to write regarding this latest incident.
Watch the London Taiji demo which took place last Saturday – 16/1/16 by clicking on the following:
Congress Member Asks State Department to Help Dolphin Activist Held in Japan
Immigration officials have detained Ric O’Barry at Tokyo’s Narita Airport since Monday.
A California representative has requested that United States diplomatic officials intervene in the detention of an American environmental activist at Tokyo’s Narita Airport.
Jack d’Annibale, the director of communications for Rep. Ted Lieu, confirmed on Tuesday that in response to a request from the California Democrat’s office, the U.S. State Department has asked Japanese officials to immediately release Ric O’Barry, who has been held at the airport since arriving on Monday afternoon.
Ric O’Barry is a longtime leader of opposition to an annual dolphin drive and hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji. The hunt, which was brought to worldwide attention in the 2009 documentary The Cove, results in thousands of dolphins being killed for meat or captured for sale to aquariums and marine parks.
“We don’t believe there’s any reason for him to be stopped at immigration,” said O’Barry’s son, Lincoln O’Barry. “He’s always been very careful not to violate any laws and to work with the legal system in Japan.”
The State Department would not confirm that it had intervened on O’Barry’s behalf, citing privacy concerns.
Americans do not need visas to enter Japan for visits of under 90 days, according to the website of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
O’Barry’s efforts to stop the Taiji hunt are featured in The Cove, and Japanese immigration officials have challenged his entry into the country as a tourist based in part on his presence in the documentary, said his son.
“[Japanese] immigration says the reason is that he made The Cove, which is not true. He was in the film but not part of the production company,” said Lincoln O’Barry. “They also say he’s part of Sea Shepherd,” an environmental group well known for interfering with Japan’s whale hunts, “which is not true.”
O’Barry is being held in a “deportees facility” at Narita Airport “that is more like a jail than a hotel,” his son said.
A lawyer has appealed Ric O’Barry’s detention to the Japanese courts, he added, but if officials succeed in their deportation effort, the senior O’Barry will not be able to reenter Japan for five years or more.
“This is another form of the government trying to hide what’s going on in Taiji,” he said.
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We have put together a sample letter which you can copy and send to the Japanese authorities across the world.
Click on the following links to find many Japanese ‘national’ contacts:
SAMPLE LETTER – copy and send, or copy and personalise as you wish.
Use the above 2 links to select where you send copies of your letter.
Each year in Taiji, Japan; dolphins are chased into a small cove and butchered in the most horrific and cruel way imaginable. These hunts are subsidized by the dolphin captivity industry, which pays top money for a few “show quality” dolphins that are ripped from their families and sold on to aquatic centres in order to perform stupid tricks for a brain dead audience, whilst the rest of the captured pod is killed for meat. This dolphin meat has been proven to be laden with mercury and PCBs, all of which are very harmful to Japanese citizens who eat the meat.
Due to a major attempt to cover up the hunt by the Japanese government (which drastically fails in the rest of the world); most Japanese citizens don’t even know that the hunts exist in their land. The Japanese government very much supports the dolphin killers, whilst denying any public health issues. Both issues are now being widely publicised to the world through international campaign networks, the internet and film such as ‘The Cove’.
The Japanese government are still attempting to resist worldwide actions taken against them for both dolphin and for whale slaughter; which takes place each year under the false guise of ‘Scientific research’. The Japanese government may believe there are no public health issues for its own citizens regarding the dolphin slaughter, and may kid itself that it needs to undertake ‘research’ in whales as it falsely claimed for many years; but thanks to global communication processes nowdays, the rest of the world instantly knows the real truth; this is why Japan (as a nation) is hated internationally by the environmental movement and also why so many protests are taking place outside its embassies located around the world.
There is a simple way to resolve this – that is for Japan to stop the killing of both dolphins and whales now. Animal welfare campaigners who speak out against the dolphin murders are now being directly targeted – the latest being Mr Ric O’Barry who has been held at Tokyo’s Narita airport since Monday 18th January.
Mr O’Barry is a longtime leader in opposition to the annual Taiji (town) dolphin hunt, which has gained a negative worldwide reputation since the release and viewing of the film ‘The Cove’. ‘The Cove’ has shown the teal cruelty of Japan to the rest of the world; which has led to a worldwide hatred for the actions of Japan on whales and dolphins ever since.
There is no reason whatsoever why Mr O’Barry should be held by Japan. He has always been very careful not to violate any laws, whilst at the same time working within the legal system of Japan. If Japan thinks their actions will result in bad publicity for the organisation named ‘Sea Shepherd’, which is most probably why Mr O’Barry is now being held; then Japan is very wrong.
The world largely supports the actions of Sea Shepherd whilst undertaking a national hatred of the Japanese people and what they do in murdering the natural wonders of our oceans.
It is time for Japan to change, and change now – immediately. For only when Japan does take actions to ban both the dolphin murders and whale murders which it undertakes at present; only then will it be accepted back into the international community as a nation which has respect of others for attempts to preserve the wonderful creatures of our oceans. All the time the Japanese led killings continue, Japan will continue to be singled out and targeted for what it is – simply murderers of the wonderful wildlife of the world’s oceans; nothing more, nothing less.
Japan needs to take action and to take it immediately – ban the killing of dolphins and whales now, today.
Yours truly,
YOUR Name and nationality.
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ALSO, please help us:
Please try and support this very worthwhile campaign to help many dogs if you can please – URGENT !
Thank You – SAV
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Posted on January 9, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Youcaring safe site-
As you can see from the photos; things have definitely got colder now.
The shelter is down to its last week of gas to keep the cats warm.
We very recently did a post to ask for people to try and give so that a new tank of gas can be purchased – here is the link:
Please give anything that you can – things are now colder and the cats need to be kept warm; especially as some of them are old and frail.
Thank you.
Direct donations if you do not want to see the post mentioned above:
Last years’ fuel held up longer than usual, but now the tank’s running low.
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Posted on January 8, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
13,000 Australian LIVE EXPORT animals stricken at sea:
LiveExport – GlobalVoice4Animals
Latest news on the Ocean Outback indicates it is being held well out to sea (about 110 km), west of Perth.
The sea conditions in the area are moderate to rough, and temperatures are high, all of which is not very good at all for the welfare of the animals.
Of course, the exporter’s spokesman continues to report that it’s all good on board, along with the broken record like announcements about the so called excellent ventilation characteristics of the ship. However, the facts are not changed by his childish propaganda. Animals are dying. It should be noted that the ship went well beyond 50 km out, so far out that, at one point, it seriously looked like it was being taken out of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone, which is 320 km out. No doubt a main reason to go so far out would have been to get rid of the evidence of the deaths.
This is day 11 of this sorry saga, and nothing of substance has progressed. The ship is not going to the Middle East, realistically it can’t in its present condition. It can really only make it to a South East Asian destination, but sheep are not wanted there. So, no matter what, the sheep will have to be taken off this ship.
The Ocean Drover is currently less than 2 days north of Perth en route to Portland, Victoria. It’s possible that it could be diverted to Fremantle as part of a possible the contingency plan, but that would take several days, and the load would be well below its carrying capacity. We also believe that mixing the stranded consignment (which no longer has a permit to be sent to Israel) with others would be out of the question due mainly to quarantine rules. The upshot is, we don’t believe the Ocean Drover will be used as a replacement ship.
There is another livestock ship, the Lincoln Express, which has rather suspiciously been moored off the coast of Fremantle for several days now. It is possible that it is in the process of being chartered as a replacement vessel, however, as we mentioned earlier, to our knowledge, there is no longer a destination for the stranded consignment.
This is dragging on and on, and there is no relief in sight for the animals.
We will continue to be bombarded with all the usual spin from the industry about how good the conditions are on this ship. But have a good look at this photo (courtesy of Animals Australia)…it graphically shows the filth the animals are being kept in. It was taken only on day 7 of this fiasco, we are now at day 11. Bear in mind that this only shows the edge of the vessel, it would have been much worse internally. This is from the operator whose management continually announces to the world that it is the best of any of them and animal welfare is its priority. Well, if this is the best, and if this is its standard of animal welfare ‘priority’, it speaks volumes about the animal welfare standards of the whole industry.
We also have to ask why it is that this industry is able to refuse RSPCA inspections, and why it is that they can dictate there own terms, in particular the timing, of any inspections it might begrudgingly agree to? It’s thoroughly indicative of a whitewash and a cover up. As a result of the 2011 revelations on 4 Corners, the industry promised that things would immediately change, that it would comply with community expectations, and that the situation had heralded in a new dawn of transparency, so that the public could have confidence that things really had changed. Well, since that time, the opposite has been the case, and in fact, its getting more and more opaque. Of course, there is a good reason for this; it simply cannot allow transparency, because that would expose the truth of the inherent, systemic cruelty of the trade.
We’d like to raise one more point of observation for now; there is an extraordinary lack of coverage of this obvious and developing animal welfare crisis on the part of Australia’s media. There have been a few narrow, brief articles here and there, all of which insist on prominently promulgating the industry’s repetitive, lengthy and patronising spin, but there has been no effort made by any media outlet to pursue, for themselves, the actual truth. That is an abject journalistic failure, and it is one of the main reasons this cruel industry still exists in this country.
Shame Australia, shame shame shame!
Here’s a typical example, but note the photo in it of conditions in a pen on the ship. It would have been selected as a better one to show by this pro live export rag, yet it is still shows how filthy things are!
TO GET INVOLVED AND TAKE ACTION:
Dear Mark
Sorry for the lack of communication over the debacle that is the Ocean Outback – it has been a hectic week and most of our outreach now is through facebook. 13,000 animals set sail for brutal slaughter in Israel’s Dabbah abattoir on 29 December last year after loading on the 28th and 29th at Fremantle Port. They returned to anchorage off Fremantle on the 30th and 11 days after the first animals were loaded, suffering temperatures even exceeding 40 degrees, they are still on there, apart from the (reported) 12 sheep and two cattle who have died so far – the lucky ones. As this is written, they still sit off the coast of Fremantle in limbo.
Please join Stop Live Exports in protesting loudly at the abhorrent treatment the victims of this trade suffer abroad AND here.
Mark Pearson, Animal Justice Party NSW MP is flying over to join us – Mark is a long time animal activist, once heading up Animal Liberation NSW and is only the second person IN THE WORLD, to be elected to Parliament on an animal protection platform.
WHERE: on the dock in front of E Shed markets, where the Rottnest Ferry leaves from
WHEN: THIS Sunday 10 January at 11.00 am FORECAST: 26 degrees and partly cloudy FAMILY FRIENDLY PLENTY OF PARKING AND 5 MINUTE WALK FROM FREMANTLE TRAIN STATION
Bring your own signs and banners if you want, and we will have plenty there as well.
Please remember to cover up and leave your fur friends at home if it is hot – the forecast is for a perfect 26 and partly cloudy, but check on the day!
See you there – for the animals!
Katrina Love – Campaign Manager
SAV Comment – At least this subhuman and live export supporter is past history now !
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Posted on December 27, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
For non UK supporters – Boxing Day (26/12) is traditionally the day of the year in the UK (especially England) when hunts go out after Christmas. They parade through villages and towns in an attempt to gain support from the public. Anti hunt protesters, sabs and the public opposed to hunting always show up in force to make their point of the case also.
If hunting is a form of wildlife control as the hunts always say, then why keep foxes in sheds ready to hunt in the future as shown in the first video above ?
There is nothing about hunting that is anything to do with wildlife control; it is simply a blood lust of some people.
Fortunately the British public have shown their feelings about this in a new poll released on 26/12/15.
Photo below – The reality of the fox hunt
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Dear Mark
Today (26/12), across Britain, huntsmen and women are showcasing their call for the Hunting Act to be scrapped and for the cruelty of hunting with dogs for sport to be legalised again.
Despite the pro-hunt lobby claims that it is just ‘townies’ and ‘animal rights’ people opposed to hunting, this same poll showed that in fact more people are opposed to hunting in rural areas (84%) than they are in urban areas (82%). Another myth and lie of the hunters abolished!
Also, 85% of the public do not want deer hunting to become legal again and 87% do not want hare hunting / coursing to become legal again. The polling shows once again that opposition to these cruel sports remains at an all time high.
One of the most important numbers released today comes from separate analysis carried out by the League which shows a massive rise in opposition to legalising hunting from Conservative MPs.
At least 50 Conservative MPs have clearly stated in public that they will oppose a repeal of the ban on hunting. At least 20 others have indicated they would oppose repeal in private. Compare these numbers to just 6 Conservative MPs who supported the Hunting Act when it was brought in 11 years ago and you get a clear picture of the growing support for the Hunting Act.
We can only hope that all of this means that Boxing Day 2015 will be the last hooray of hunters in their attempts to legalise their cruelty. Regardless, the League Against Cruel Sports remains ever vigilant and we will do everything we can to stop the hunters.
None of this work could be possible without your support Mark. We would love if today you might consider donating to our Boxing Day Appeal to ensure that in 2016 our campaign to defend the Hunting Act and the animals it protects is as strong as can be.
Thank you so much for your support,
Kind regards,
Mark McCormick
Senior Communications Officer – LACS.
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