Posted on December 11, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment – Terrible news. We hope that others will pick up the fight to undertake all the dedicated work JP did. His work and efforts to protect animals being abused for fun will be sadly missed. Thank you for your compassion and respect for all living beings Jean Pierre.
Hi Mark,
I have just read today that the famous anti-corrida fighter Jean Pierre Garrigues has died. He was only 53 years old.
I am very sad, I knew him from the media and the press reports as an activist that even the aficionados were afraid of him.
Because he acted directly during a bullfight, and has often managed to cancel a fight; he was a very passionate anti-bullfighting activist.
Posted on December 10, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Today is the day of human rights.
I read that on the first page of a local newspaper.
Since 1948, the Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on the 10th of December. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” says the UN Human Rights Charter.
Article 3 says: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
Article 4 says: “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”
As I was leafing through the newspaper, I came across three advertisements about animals, under the category “Agricultural Products”:
The first was: “Fresh offspring to sell directly from the farm. Please pre-order, our slaughter animals are limited because of holidays “!
Then: “turkeys – half or whole, from free-range, ready to roast dismantled directly from farm”.
And the third ad: “Slaughter rabbits, especially low priced, as well as one lamb slaughtered fresh on order to sell”.
And then I thought of the animals I fight for.
I thought of their rights, for which there is no charter.
Why should human beings alone have the right to life, freedom and security, and deny the same rights to other beings capable of suffering?
Who gives us the right to still keep animals as slaves, to torture them and thus to decide that animals have no right to life, freedom and happiness?
And if human rights oppose slavery, torture, discrimination and violence, under what law may this injustice be the daily routine for billions of chickens, pigs, cattle, fish and innumerable other non-human animals?
But even if all of this is not totally abolished with respect to people, and massive human rights violations are condemned, the criminal treatment of animals is taken for granted.
I refuse to put human rights first.
People are not more important, they are not better, and they do not deserve to live privileged in relation to animals.
And I hate people who turn my holidays into mourning days, because no matter what kind of animal, these days mean massive killing days for the animals.
People celebrate by taking animals’ lives. In the midst of the misery, suffering and unhappiness of animals, people are happy and exuberant, do not waste a second of their thoughts on life, what they have taken – whether the Christmas goose in Germany, the carp in Austria, the turkey in the US.
No! I reject the dictatorship of human rights.
I am against the hypocrisy of equal rights, based only on human superiority.
Just hours ago, the ground team from Animals Asia visited the farm and took these upsetting pictures:
Likely captured from the wild as innocent cubs, for more than 12 years they have used as machines and treated as disposable objects. These sweet, gentle moon bears have had half their lives have stolen already.
It is the season of goodwill – please give anything you can to help support the recue of these 6 bears by AA; who have promised now to undertake a full rescue of all animals.
Posted on December 6, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Society and Truth.
Sunday 3/12 there was an action from “anonymous for the voiceless” in my town.
Two people wear the Guy Fawkes mask on their faces and a poster in their hands with the word “truth”.
So nobody could see the person and recognize him.
But as soon as a passerby reads the word, he will be curious about the people next door.
These two other people standing next door carry two laptops in their hands and show pictures from the slaughterhouse.
And they also wear masks on their faces.
I also participated in this action, I was the person with the mask and the poster.
Many people were shocked at the cruel pictures.
But most tried to avoid the place of action.
I could hear some “arguments” coming from people who have come to dialogue but just to justify their meat consumption:
1. My conscience is pure, because I buy my meat from the farmer next door.
2. You can actually slaughter animals in small farms, painless, and my neighbor does that.
3. I am also pet-friendly, I also have two dogs myself.
4. Actually, animals have been always slaughtered, that’s natural.
5. If anything was useful to that stupid vegan diet, it would have prevailed.
6. Although I have no idea about animal rights and animal ethics, all this is argumentatively totally weak. 7. It’s just like that, we cannot change anything.
It was already cold and I could not see much effect on this action.
That’s why I went home after two hours.
On the way home, I thought: our problem is Civil Obedience.
Our problem is that people around the world unconditionally obey the propaganda of the meat mafia, and with their obedience they allow the agonizing death of billions of beings.
Our problem is that we remain obedient, even if we look at these pictures, those of today, when we see crime, sadism, violence, we still remain obedient to a system that would not exist without this obedience.
When I came home and restarted my PC, I read some very good news that healed my frustration with the Anonymous campaign: the signatures against our Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt are over one million already.
This minister voted in favor of glyphosate, now more than a million people demand his resignation.
It was good news which gave me hope again, that the next Minister of Agriculture in Germany will have less criminal energy against animals than Schmidt.
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