You may have seen PETA India’s footage from the inspections of farms where thousands of horses, donkeys, and mules are housed in filthy conditions without proper veterinary care.
The animals are subjected to repeated injections of toxins and painful blood draws—up to 15 percent of their blood each time!—in order to make these drugs.
After hearing from more than a quarter-million PETA members and supporters worldwide—in addition to a long series of meetings and correspondence between PETA scientists and government agencies—the Indian government announced late last week that it will provide funding for the development of antitoxins made using modern, non-animal methods instead of animals who are forced to endure years of torment.
In meetings with the government, scientists from PETA India showed exactly how non-animal technology can replace the use of horses while also improving the final product.
They explained that the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. is already funding groundbreaking research to produce a diphtheria antitoxin from human cells instead of using the blood of horses and other animals. Since drugs made from animals can cause illnesses in humans and expire quickly, this is good news for everyone.
It’s progress that we can all get behind, and it wouldn’t have happened without your support.
Now, please take a moment to urge the Indian government to close the abusive horse facilities.
Posted on November 7, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A comment on the dancing butcher.
“To be happy, a butcher does not need good or crown
Work has its own reward! “(Bertolt Brecht)
And this is a dance of death in a slaughterhouse in Sao Paolo!
In the presence of enthusiastic colleagues, a butcher organizes a dance of death in Samba style.
He proves the last tribute to the slaughtered animal by dancing with it.
With the knife in his hand yet, he bows to his dance partner and thus completes the act of death.
For me the tragedy of this show is in his conviction that only the pig is dead.
But in reality, the butcher himself is dead, only he does not know, that’s the tragedy of history.
Empathy, respect, sensitivity, even professionalism, everything is dead inside him.
He could not dance a better presentation of his bluntness, of his moral mutilation.
It’s the death dance of zombies.
A moral corpse, that’s what he is, what they are all human carnivores.
Now here in England we have reached a major position in this campaign.
Whilst many of us would love to see all the slaughterhouses entirely closed down, the government has announced that it intends to install cctv in all areas of all slaughterhouses where animals are present. Crucially, slaughterhouse vets (which are required by law) will be allowed unrestricted access to all of the footage.
This is a significant amount of progress in a long and hard campaign. We welcome the proposals but like many others, still say that you can never make the process of killing animals cruelty free. In the very welcome consultation, which does take the views of all sides involved, there have been demands from welfare groups to allow for proper independent spot checking of footage.
The consultation period has now closed, but welfare organisations are keeping up the pressure to ensure that all the plans are implemented. There are also campaigns in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; which along with England make up the whole of the UK, to introduce similar legislation.
There has been good news in Scotland where the Scottish Parliament has pledged to also hold a consultation on the issue.
Hopefully soon we will witness new cctv legislation in both England and Scotland. This is a major victory for the welfare groups who at the end of the day are trying to get the best they can for animals.
We will continue to update on this important issue whenever we have more news.
You can best help by going Vegan and preventing any animals from going to slaughter in the first place!
Posted on November 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Ban ALL Bee killing pesticides !
We’ve just learned that regulators in France have authorised the use of a new bee-killing pesticide called Sulfoxaflor.
It’s a neonicotinoid — the class of pesticides that is known to pose a deadly risk for bees and other pollinators.
We still can’t believe it!
France has been at the forefront of the battle to protect the bees: it is the first country to ever decide on an outright ban of all neonics starting in 2018.
This decision to allow a new kind of neonicotinoid threatens to undermine all that we’ve fought for!
We need to act and act quickly. The regulators’ decision can still be undone by the French minister for the environment, Nicolas Hulot.
We need to show him that the decision taken in France matters to all of us around the world.
Above and below – our ‘Bee Hotel’ created to introduce new pollinators into the orchard. Below you can see all the logs drilled with chambers for the bees to enter and lay eggs. When they do, they seal the entrance with mud, as you can see on some of the chambers above. When it hatches, the youngster feeds on pollen left by the adult in the chamber, and then it breaks out through the mud and flies off to pollinate all the fruit trees.
Posted on November 2, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
5th November is always remembered here in the UK as ‘Guy Fawkes Night’. Fireworks and bonfires spread all across the land in memory of the Gunpowder Plot of 1604.
Guy Fawkes is often toasted as “the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions“. Many today would agree with this statement.
Below is a documentary by UK Channel 4 on the gunpowder plot. Enjoy !
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