Bosnia and Herzegovina: 08/09/10 – Puppy Killer Girl Update.

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Our recent article post:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/uk-sav-attempts-to-help-uk-newspaper-find-sadistic-young-puppy-killer-captured-on-video/

UPDATE 08/09/10

The Bosnian puppy-thrower is being protected by an elderly woman who claims she saved the dogs from being swept to their death, villagers say.

Ruza Pavlovic, who lives in the village of Curcic Lug near the town of Bugojno, told the Jutarnji List newspaper she found the puppies two weeks ago and put them in her garage.

The puppies are apparently the same ones that appeared in a sickening 47-second video posted online, showing a hooded teenage girl throwing them into a river.

Photographs published on Monday show Pavlovic holding a litter of puppies in her arms — but the animals are brown and black while the ones in the video are black and white.

Freelance reporter Ljubica Vujadinovic, who has contacts within the Curcic Lug village, told ninemsn Ms Pavlovic was a neighbour of the teenage girl.

“The old lady is next door neighbour of the girl’s family … [my source said] they made a deal to make up that rescue story to ‘save’ the girl,” Vujadinovic said.

Vujadinovic said she found her source by calling bars and other villagers in the area until she found someone who would talk to her.

“[The girl] can hardly bear to live with the reactions and everyone believes Pavlovic made this up only to try to help the girl and her family,” the source was quoted as saying.

The man would only speak on the condition his identity was not revealed.

Vujadinovic said locals were protective of the girl and did not understand the media attention because they live in a region where stray cats and dogs are regularly killed.

“On many internet pages you find lot of comments like, ‘what is all that fuss about a few dogs?’,” Vujadinovic said.

Bosnian police have tracked down the girl in the video but it is not yet clear if she has been charged.

Under Bosnian law a person who kills or tortures animals is punishable with fines ranging from $6900 to $16,000.

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Uk / Bosnia and Herzegovina: SAV Attempts to Help Uk Newspaper Find Sadistic, Young (Bosnian ?) Puppy Killer Captured on Video.

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

31/08/10

Today SAV have been trying to help a Uk national newspaper identify a young girl who has been shown on video throwing live young puppies into a river – and certain death.

From the information obtained by the newspaper; ‘The Sun’; it is thought that the video was taken in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although this cannot be absolutely verified.  Further attempts to check this are currently under way.

SAV have posted the video to all contacts in the Balkans with the help of Slavica.

We have also provided the newspaper with much data and many photographs about the terrible situation for stray animals in Serbia and other Balkans states, with the hope that they may do a follow up article.

First and foremost, we need to find out who this girl is; a person who seems to get a sadistic sick pleasure by throwing young animals to their deaths in a fast flowing river.

If any of you can help by distributing the video via this SAV post link then it would be very appreciated.  Any names and details can be left on the ‘Responses’ section at the end of this post.

The video can be seen by clicking on the following link and then scrolling down.

WARNING – contains animal cruelty.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3119142/Sicko-throws-puppies-to-death.html

Thanks SAV.

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Uk: Sadistic Fox Killer Jailed – If Only Gutless Serbian Officials Did the Same !

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

  

.. but Serbia will have to do something before it joins the EU.

Sadistic’ fox killer jailed

by KATIE BOWLER 

A MAN who killed a fox “in a sadistic and prolonged act of cruelty” has been sent to prison for five months and banned from keeping dogs for life.  

William Burrell, 50, of Short Street, Stapenhill, was jailed after being found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a wild animal by confining it to a cage before allowing a dog to attack, and causing or attempting to cause an animal fight.  

Burrell was arrested and taken into custody by officers after a one-and-a-half hour sentencing hearing at Burton Magistrates’ Court yesterday. 

At a previous hearing it was said Burrell caged the fox for eight hours before fitting a lead around its neck and ‘slinging’ it in a dog kennel to be mauled to death “like a rag doll.” The fox finally died from a ‘fatal blow’ to the head with a piece of wood. Burrell had claimed he killed the fox instantly with three blows to its skull, before slinging the animal’s dead carcass to a Staffordshire bull terrier kept in a pen at his house. 

John Sutcliffe, prosecuting, said this act of cruelty ‘shows total lack of humanity’.  

He said: “If he is able to do this to an animal who knows what else he is capable of? “Burrell is clearly not capable of keeping animals, and with behaving the way he has, I’m calling for a life-long ban to prevent him from keeping dogs again. 

“He killed the fox in a sadistic and prolonged manner.” Simon Dean, defending, said: “My client accepts what he did was wrong, he’s very sorry, and understands how serious this matter is. 

“He should not have behaved like that. I think unpaid work would be more beneficial as this would be like pay back to the community.” 

However, magistrate Linda Cooper said the offence was so serious jail would be the only option. 

She said: “For the serious offence of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal you will go to prison for five months and for causing an animal to fight you will also serve five months, to run concurrently.  

“Had you pleaded guilty you would have only served three months. 

“You carried out a sadistic and prolonged act of cruelty and deliberately put the fox in the pen to fight.” RSPCA Inspector Penny Barker said she was ‘extremely pleased’ with the sentence, as this was the ‘worst and most horrific’ case of animal cruelty she had ever seen in her career. 

She said: “This incident will send out a strong message that this behaviour will not be tolerated and people caught doing such acts will be prosecuted. I hope this warns other people.” Inspector Barker added: “It is not an offence to catch a fox in a humane trap. However, the way in which the animal is disposed of must be humane. The manner in which this fox was killed was both illegal and inhumane, causing barbaric suffering to the animal. 

“The RSPCA recognises the necessity of capturing animals on a limited scale for a variety of reasons. However, there is never any justification for inflicting a cruel and painful death on any animal, regardless of species. 

This fox was killed by being set on by a dog and clearly this is a horrific way to die.”  

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/Sadistic-fox-killer-jailed.htm 

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SAV Comment 

 

   

   

   

   

Take note Serbia; Europe and the world is watching you.

The Uk / Europe can set an example – it is now time that you came out of the dark ages and acted in defence of animals. 

If and when you join the EU then things will change. 

We have the evidence: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnBSUACkBg&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMmIsDGGXV0&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcjjss3csAs&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgTgQgIBJG4&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQlhObPR27I&feature=channel 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boFlt99eVGU&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D7ZSXlSH4pEA%26feature%3Dchannel 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGYF30tHtbE&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5NN7bmd1QE&feature=related 

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Uk: Animal Organisation (Animal Aid) Undercover Animal Abuse Video Footage Forces Closure of English Slaughterhouse

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

SAV Comment:

Congratulations to Andrew, Kate and the crew at Kent based Animal Aid.  Excellent undercover work and quite rightly, this hell hole for animals now resigned to the scrap heap.

Go veggie, Go vegan, and cut out the animal abuse !

WARNING – The ‘More Information’ links given below show some of the undercover footage taken as part of this investigation.

WARNING – EXTREME ANIMAL SUFFERING SHOWN.

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http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_slaughter//2331//

Essex slaughterhouse exposé finds ‘unbearable cruelty and suffering’

Posted 27 June 2010

Animal Aid has today released footage taken secretly inside an Essex slaughterhouse that kills pigs. The film, which was shot over three days in April, shows scenes of extreme and deliberately-inflicted suffering, including use of electric tongs on animals’ snouts, tails and their open mouths. It was shot at A & G Barber’s abattoir in Purleigh, and is the seventh ‘red meat’ abattoir that the national campaign group has secretly filmed since January 2009. The Barber’s footage is the most shocking of all.

The Food Standards Agency has confirmed that one man has had his slaughter licence permanently revoked, and that both he and his employer are being investigated with a view to a prosecution.

Among the scenes filmed were:

  • Incompetent and inadequate stunning for almost every one of the 767 pigs filmed
  • Stunned pigs left to regain consciousness
  • The application of electric stunning tongs to snouts, ears and tails to encourage the animals to move or out of apparent malice
  • The use of electric stunning tongs around the bodies of animals, which does not stun but delivers instead a painful electric shock
  • Pigs being routinely kicked in the face
  • Pigs being hit in the face with shackle hooks, in one case, drawing blood

This is the seventh red meat slaughterhouse that Animal Aid has secretly filmed during the past 18 months, and the sixth where legal breaches have been recorded. As a result of this ongoing investigation, nine men from five slaughterhouses have been either suspended or have had their slaughter licences permanently revoked. Additionally, legal action has been taken or is underway against all nine men and also against four of the slaughterhouse operators.

Says Animal Aid Head of Campaigns, Kate Fowler:

‘The suffering inflicted on pigs at A & G Barber’s is unbearable to watch. That these vulnerable animals are forced to endure terrible and deliberate cruelty while the slaughterer mocks their plight is absolutely shocking.

‘The system has failed to protect these animals from violence, and our investigations indicate that breaches of animal welfare laws are widespread and commonplace. Our campaign to have CCTV installed in all slaughterhouses – which now has the support of the Food Standards Agency – would help ensure best practice and provide evidence for prosecutions but it will never end the suffering. The only way to do that is to choose meat-free foods.’

WARNING – EXTREME ANIMAL SUFFERING SHOWN

More information:

Notes for Editors:

Since Animal Aid first released footage in August 2009, we have been calling for CCTV to be installed in all slaughterhouses to help vets monitor the stunning and slaughter process, to encourage best practice, to help with training and retraining and to provide evidence. We called for CCTV to be installed because it is clear from our investigations that the current monitoring system is inadequate and that many legal breaches and examples of bad practice are going undetected by vets.

We are now supported in this aim by the RSPCA, Compassion in World Farming, the Soil Association (which has given accreditation to two of the abattoirs we filmed) and – most importantly – the government’s Food Standards Agency (FSA).

The footage from our cameras is being used by Bristol University to help train abattoir vets and Soil Association inspectors, and by the FSA as evidence for prosecutions.

Additional slaughterhouse failings that Animal Aid aims to change include the poor provision of training for slaughterers, and the currently meaningless ‘fit and proper person’ test. Details on these can be found here: http://www.animalaid.org.uk/images/pdf/factfiles/slaughtertraining.pdf.

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http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/business/business-news/slaughterhouse-accused-of-unbearable-cruelty-closes/33811.article

 Slaughterhouse accused of ‘unbearable cruelty’ closes

19 August 2010 | By Alistair Driver

AN Essex slaughterhouse has been forced to close after secret filming inside it by animal welfare campaigners led to allegations of serious cruelty towards pigs.

A and G Barber, of Purleigh, used to kill a quarter of all cull sows in the UK. Its main buyer, said to be a German sausage manufacturer, cancelled its contract after viewing the footage, forcing the abattoir to close.

The abattoir was one of a number exposed in secret filming by Animal Aid earlier this year. The animal welfare group said the film, shot over three days in April, showed scenes of ‘extreme and deliberately-inflicted suffering’, including use of electric tongs on animals’ snouts, tails and in their mouths.

It said other breaches filmed include ‘incompetent and inadequate stunning’ for most of the 767 pigs filmed, stunned pigs left to regain consciousness, and pigs being routinely kicked in the face and hit in the face with shackle hooks.

One worker and the slaughterhouse operator still face prosecution.

Kate Fowler, Animal Aid’s head of campaign, criticised the failure of the regulatory system to pick up the abuses at an abattoir where veterinary inspectors were in attendance.

“It is appalling that the cruelties meted out to animals at A&G Barber were allowed to continue and that all regulatory systems failed to detect and stop the abuses,” she said.

“If Animal Aid hadn’t happened to film at the plant, we believe that workers would still be kicking, beating and causing deliberate suffering to pigs there. It is right and proper that companies who have seen our film shunned A&G Barber.”

Animal Aid has covertly filmed inside seven randomly chosen red meat slaughterhouses since January 2009. In six of the seven, it claims to have recorded ‘breaches of animal welfare laws and avoidable animal suffering’.

A Government-industry group formed by the Veterinary Public Health Association (VPHA) to address issues raised by the filming has proposed changes to the way staff are monitored in abattoirs.

The group fell short of accepting calls by Animal Aid and other campaigners for compulsory CCTV in abattoirs.

But it agreed that plant operators and Official Veterinarians must have effective procedures in place either to constantly monitor stunning and slaughter operations, or to enable them to ‘inconspicuously observe’ them ‘at any time’.

These arrangements may include an aperture or window into the stunning area or the use of CCTV, the group agreed.

The organisations represented, include various meat trade bodies, Defra, the Food Standards Agency and the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA), with the British Veterinary Association observing.

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Sweden: The Horror of Sweden’s Fur Farms Exposed – Take Action Now – Sample Letter and Contacts Included

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

 

 

The Horror of Sweden’s Fur Farms Exposed –

Take Action Now!!!

The Animal Rights Alliance in Sweden have just released the shocking
results of their 18 month investigation in to the Swedish Mink Farming
Industry, including sick and injured animals, stereotypical behaviour and
cannibalism.

Full details of the investigation can be found here:–
 http://www.sveketmotminkarna.se/horror-revealed-swedish-fur-farms

With a General Election in Sweden only weeks away, one of the major topics
of the election campaign is a potential ban on all fur farms in Sweden.

Please support the campaign to end fur farming in Sweden by emailing Swedish Embassies worldwide to demand a complete ban on fur farming,

(Emails and Sample Letter below).
 

The Animal Rights Alliance reveals major animal abuse – Minks have been let down for 22 years!

For the past year-and-a-half, the Animal Rights Alliance investigation unit has been mapping out the Swedish fur industry. We have combed through environmental inspection protocols, court documents and research reports and what’s more – we have visited one-fifth of the 75 mink farms in Sweden to see them for ourselves. We have discovered major environmental violations by an industry that is already highly-criticized. Above all we have discovered the mink. Clever, beautiful wild mink imprisoned in shed after shed, housing row after row of small dirty cages. Mink that will never see any water beyond what comes out of a water nipple, even though they are hunters that naturally spend half of their life in water. Mink that express so-called stereotypical behavior, endless repetitive motion without purpose, a feeble attempt at dealing with stress and frustration.

     We already knew that this would be the case. We were prepared for meeting curious eyes behind bars from animals that are so psychologically-broken that they incessantly circle their cages. We knew that it would be bad, but reality on the farms was worse than we could have ever imagined.

     We understood that the mortality rate would be high. Several reports show that one out of every four or five animals die before they reach 6 months of age. But we didn’t know how they die – and how they suffer. Now we know. We have seen pups chewing on their dead littermates, entire litters where every animals has had its ear bitten off; young animals with gaping wounds on their heads; and fully-grown mink that twist and turn in agony, screaming in panic from pain and illness that minutes later ceases but only with their death.

     It has been terrible to see all of this without being able to do anything about it. On our worst days, we felt completely powerless. But we’ve been driven to continue toward our goal – to make public the horrific animal cruelty that occurs on the farms. This animal cruelty cannot continue in silence.

     The fourth paragraph of the Animal Welfare Act clearly states that all animals must be allowed to express their natural behaviours and that they must be protected from unnecessary suffering. But Sweden continues to allow mink to be bred and kept in mesh cages that are no bigger than 30 x 90 centimeters before being killed to produce an unnecessary luxury product that nobody needs. In 2003, the Swedish Commission of Inquiry into the Fur Industry gave Swedish fur farms until 2010 to comply with the Animal Welfare Act.  Seven years later we can conclude that the Swedish fur industry has done nothing to improve conditions for mink on fur farms. It is high-time that the fur industry is made history.

   
The Animal Rights Alliance
    The Animal Rights Alliance is a not-for-profit campaigning group that speaks for the animals. Founded in 2005, we have since then brought about the criminalization of bestiality, organized five veggie food conventions and exposed the Swedish pork industry through undercover investigation. Our work for the animals is completely dependent on donations, supporting members and active volunteers.

STEREOTYPICAL BEHAVIOR
    “Animals shall be kept and maintained in an environment that furthers their good health and allows them to behave naturally”.  – Animal Welfare Act (1988:534), 4 §
    We have filmed evidence of stereotypical behavior on thirteen of the fifteen farms that we visited. The stereotypes, by which we mean incessant repetitive motion that serves no purpose, is a feeble attempt by the mink to deal with stress and frustration. It is a common symptom of an animal’s natural needs not being met.
     “The majority of mink show typical signs of derangement that animals express when confined to areas that are too constrictive” – Sverre Sjölander, Professor in Zoology.

SICK AND INJURED ANIMALS
    “A sick or injured animal shall be given necessary medical attention, if the illness or injury isn’t severe enough to justify the animal being put down immediately”.
    Animal Welfare Act (1988:534) § 9.
    We have found sick animals with infected eyes and ear; unconscious, convulsive and dead animals were found on two-thirds of the farms. Maimed, bleeding animals with torn-off ears, large gaping head wounds and missing limps were found on eleven of the fifteen visited farms. The horrific injuries are the result of fights caused by crowding in shockingly small cages – in the wild mink interact only to mate – but the injuries are also oftentimes caused by self-mutilation. According to 2 § of the Animal Welfare Act, animals are to be “treated well and are to be protected from unnecessary suffering and illness”.
     “If a cow becomes sick, then we’re called immediately. But the mink are so many that if one animal becomes sick, then we’re not called – the animal has too little economic value for the farmer. We only get called if there is an epidemic. But every animal has an intrinsic value and the Animal Welfare Act clearly states that if an animal becomes sick, then it must be treated or euthanised. Large farms like mink farms have so many animals that it can take time before illness is discovered”
     – My Leffler, District Veterinarian who used to work on mink farms.

DEAD ANIMALS IN THE CAGES
    On 80% of the farms, we found dead animals in the cages – in most cases, the carcasses were left among other living animals. In many cases, the carcasses had been half-eaten by their mother and siblings.
     “ In the natural world, it isn’t normal for a mink to be forced to be around another dead mink.  When it happens on a farm, it can lead to cannibalism because they are so under stimulated and don’t know how to react to the situation” – Mark Collins, Veterinarian

DIRTY CAGES
    On 67% of the farms, we found cages where large amounts of faeces had piled up, oftentimes in thick layers. Mink avoid their own feces so when the cage fills up with waste, an already small space becomes even smaller.

ILLEGAL SEWAGE RUNOFF
    Manure runoff could be documented at 80% of the farms. Mink manure contains high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus and causes contamination of water and soil if leaked out into the environment. Mink farms are therefore classified as environmentally-hazardous operations. By law, manure must be stored in such a way that it is sheltered from rain while preventing soil seepage.

ILLEGAL HANDLING OF CARCASSES
    “Carcasses awaiting transport shall be stored in such a way that disease cannot be spread through contact with wild animals. The waste shall be stored separate from living animals” – Board of Agriculture Regulations 2009:6, section K 14.
    Dead mink that had been left to rot throughout and around the farm property, or were otherwise disposed of improperly, were found on 73% of the farms, even though all carcasses must be immediately removed and stored, preferably frozen. Many carcasses had been left to rot for at least 6 months, since the pelting season last November.

CANNIBALISM
    We have documented cannibalism on half of the farms. Mink females that kill their young and littermates that kill and eat one another is more the rule than the exception. Cannibalism is caused by stress and lack of stimulation. The mink have no release for their hunting instincts and those mink that fall victim to attack have no possibility to take flight or cover in their tiny cages.
    “Animals on fur farms have high levels of stress and this can cause cannibalism” –  My Leffler, Veterinarian.

Emails; (6 Blocks of 20):–

 ambassaden.kampala@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.hanoi@foreign.ministry.se, ambassaden.zagreb@foreign.ministry.se,
swedish.embassy@zg.htnet.hr, ambassaden.lusaka@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.tallinn@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.athen@foreign.ministry.se, conswed@cwpanama.net,
erika.domann@rieder.net.py, ambassaden.abudhabi@foreign.ministry.se,
moscow.sweinfo@foreign.ministry.se, ambassaden.moskva@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.kiev@foreign.ministry.se, visa.kiev@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.washington@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.washington-info@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.abudhabi@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.washington-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.harare@foreign.ministry.se, consuladogensuecia@cantv.net

 sweden@un.int, newyork@consulateofsweden.org,
representationen.strasbourg@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.madrid@foreign.ministry.se,
generalkonsulat.st-petersburg@foreign.ministry.se,
generalkonsulat.st-petersburg-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.bukarest@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.bukarest-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.lissabon@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.warszawa@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.bangkok@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.bangkok-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.oslo@foreign.ministry.se, ambassaden.mexico@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.riga@foreign.ministry.se, embassy@swedemb.or.kr,
sydkorea@swedishtrade.se, info@sweden.or.jp,
generalkonsulat.jerusalem@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.amman@foreign.ministry.se

 nato-delegationen.bryssel@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.jakarta@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.new-delhi@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.new-delhi-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
generalkonsulat.hongkong@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.london@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.london-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.london-pass@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.berlin@foreign.ministry.se, dl.sweden@unesco-delegations.org,
info@amb-suede.fr, ambassaden.helsingfors@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.kopenhamn@foreign.ministry.se,
generalkonsulat.shanghai@foreign.ministry.se,
generalkonsulat.shanghai-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.dhaka@foreign.ministry.se, sweden.ottawa@foreign.ministry.se,
sweden@iimetro.com.au, ambassaden.canberra-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.canberra-pass@foreign.ministry.se

 ambassaden.kabul@foreign.ministry.se, swedishoffice.tirana@sida.se,
ambassaden.alger@foreign.ministry.se, ambassaden.luanda@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.buenos-aires@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.wien@foreign.ministry.se, ambassaden.minsk@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.bryssel@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.sarajevo@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.pretoria@foreign.ministry.se, sweden@iafrica.com,
ambassaden.brasilia@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.sofia@foreign.ministry.se, ambassaden.peking@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.santiago-de-chile@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.bogota@foreign.ministry.se, embsueca@cable.net.co,
ambassaden.havanna@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.nicosia@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.kinshasa@foreign.ministry.se

 ambassaden.prag@foreign.ministry.se, info@swedalex.org,
ambassaden.kairo@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.addis-abeba@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.addis-abeba-visum@foreign.ministry.se, sverige.kons@aland.net,
ambassaden.guatemala@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.budapest@foreign.ministry.se, mission.sweden@bluewin.ch,
ambassaden.bagdad@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.teheran@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.teheran-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.rom@foreign.ministry.se, ambassaden.nairobi@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.tokyo@foreign.ministry.se, swedishoffice.pristina@sida.se,
ambassaden.pyongyang@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.vilnius@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.skopje@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.kuala-lumpur@foreign.ministry.se

 ambassaden.rabat@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.maputo@foreign.ministry.se, ambassaden.haag@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.abuja@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.islamabad@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.islamabad-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.riyadh@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.riyadh-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.belgrad@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.belgrad-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.singapore@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.khartoum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.damaskus@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.dar-es-salaam@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.ankara@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.ankara-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
generalkonsulat.istanbul@foreign.ministry.se,
generalkonsulat.istanbul-visum@foreign.ministry.se,
ambassaden.bern@foreign.ministry.se

 Sample Letter:–

For the attention of the Government of Sweden,

 I’m writing to you today to express my horror at the shocking animal
welfare standards on Swedish mink farms that have been exposed in a recent
investigation conducted by the Animal Rights Alliance in Sweden.

 Full details of their investigation can be found here:–
 http://www.sveketmotminkarna.se

 As I’m sure you will be aware, in 2003 the Swedish Commission of Inquiry
into the Fur Industry gave Swedish fur farms until 2010 to comply with the
Animal Welfare Act (1988:534), however seven years later we can conclude
that the Swedish fur industry has done absolutely nothing to improve
conditions for mink on fur farms in that time!

 It is evident that the Fur Industry and Animal Welfare are completely
incompatible, and therefore I urge you in the strongest possible terms to
ensure that both the Swedish Animal Welfare Act (1988:534) is properly
enforced and that the decision of the Swedish Commission of Inquiry into the
Fur Industry is acted upon.

 Sincerely,

 YOUR NAME / YOUR COUNTRY

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Animal TV – A Video About Modern Intensive Food Production

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

** WARNING – LOTS OF ANIMAL SUFFERING SHOWN **

This short video  contains very graphic footage about all issues of factory farming and animal slaughter.  A real condensed insight into animal abuse for food production in our modern world.

You do not need to understand what is being said; the images tell the whole story on their own.

Video Link

http://www.animal-tv.org/html/english/movie_wmp_03_03_5reasons_spanish.html

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Romania: Hells Basement for Animals – Video Link, Sample Letter and Contact Details Provided – Please Act TODAY to Close This Animal Abuse Establishment DOWN

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

 

 

SAV Comment

Please click on the link directly below to see the video footage which has been taken of this Hells Basement for Animals.

http://ourcompass.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/romania-hells-basement-for-animals/

After the video, please act and send the sample letter given to all the contacts given in the block listing below.

For EU citizens, if you wish to contact your own MEP’s about this issue, then click on the following link – select your nation and then move on to find all your national MEPs.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch.do?language=en 

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Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 2:20 PM

Subject: Romania: Hell’s Basement for Animals (Enfer pour les chiens dans un refuge en Roumanie) (letter)

http://ourcompass.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/romania-hells-basement-for-animals/

Because compassion directs us …

Please send SAMPLE LETTER (below) to email block; I do not know who wrote this letter for credit as it was on the original alert. Also PLEASE NOTE that I have removed five invalid addresses from the original alert, including one for the mayor, but more may refuse letters so it is possible you will receive additional address failures. Thank you.

Simulposted with Save the Dogs

Three months were needed of waiting and investigations to show what everyone knew for a very long time: the public dog pound in Costanza, managed by the company Alfmob srl, is nothing more than a big slaughterhouse for stray dogs. The images posted next to the dog pound, clearly show healthy animals injected in the thorax by someone looking like a veterinarian, placed in line on the ground dead and in a plastic bag. The bodies are then transported to an incinerator in a nearby region, an incinerator financed with European funds.

In the video material gathered by Save the Dogs, one can also see the captures in Cernavoda, the prohibited hygienic conditions in the Costanza dog pound and the large pincers (banned by the Romanian law – like the killing of healthy animals) used to seize the poor animals. Save the Dogs has sent a series of images to all the major Romanian television stations and the press, as well, the members of the local council of Cernavoda, asking to immediately interrupt their contract with Alfmob. Moreover, a legal action as been undertaken against the company and the vet who undertook the killings. To view the press release, click HERE.

ADDITIONAL PHOTO EVIDENCE can be found by clicking HERE

WHERE TO SEND YOUR LETTERS OF PROTEST (copy/paste into your TO: and hit one carriage return):
primarie@primaria-constanta.ro , radu@radumazare.ro , consjud@cjc.ro , relatii_publice@cjc.ro , cancelarie@prefecturaconstanta.ro , mircea_gj@yahoo.com , primaria@cernavoda.ro , info@romaniatourism.com , mircea_gj@yahoo.com , cp06@cdep.ro , sulfina.barbu@cdep.ro , dusa_mircea@cdep.ro , mapostolache@cdep.ro , attila.korodi@cdep.ro , marin.bobes@cdep.ro , victor.boiangiu@cdep.ro , dan.bordeianu@cdep.ro , cristian.buican@cdep.ro , ion.calin@cdep.ro , gheorghe.ciocan@cdep.ro , relu.fenechiu@cdep.ro , vasile.gherasim@cdep.ro , ghervazen.longher@cdep.ro , costica.macaleti@cdep.ro , antonella.marinescu@cdep.ro , marius.neculai@cdep.ro , cristinadumitru@mail.com , dumitru.pardau@cdep.ro , ioan.oltean@cdep.ro , cornel.pieptea@cdep.ro , neculai.ratoi@cdep.ro , denes.seres@cdep.ro , szilagy@rmdsz.ro , soporan.vasile@cdep.ro , nicolae.stan@cdep.ro , claudiu.taga@cdep.ro , radu.timpau@cdep.ro , ecu777@yahoo.com , lucia.varga@cdep.ro , varga.lucia@yahoo.com , aurel.vladoiu@cdep.ro , sorin.zamfirescu@cdep.ro , portal@santos.sp.gov.br , info@rotterdam.nl , contact@brest-metropole-oceane.fr , contact@mairie-brest.fr , mayor@cityofmobile.org , turun.kaupunki@turku.fi , webmaster@comune.sulmona.aq.it , urp@comune.perugia.it , comune.perugia@postacert.umbria.it , presidenza.consiglio@comune.trapani.it

*** SAMPLE LETTER ***

 (as provided in initial alert, thank you to whomever wrote it):

To whom it may concern,

“The GREATNESS and the MORAL PROGRESS of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” ( M Gandhi )

I am outraged by the terrifying news about the way animals are treated in your country. It is beyond human comprehension to understand how it is possible such barbaric acts happen every day, all over your country, and more, the perpetrators are not punished in accordance with the full extent of the law for the protection of animals and also based on the Principles of the European Convention For the Protection of Companion Animals ( Strasbourg Nov.13, 1987.)

Please stop the slaughter of dogs in CONSTANTA…and defer to justice those who killed helpless, defenseless , healthy dogs….There is a criminal who ORDERED this massacre and he must legally punished for this…

Romania is a beautiful country; it used to have a good reputation around the world. I am afraid that, due to the horrifying cruelty shown by many Romanians against animals, due to the lack of action from the authorities supposed to implement the law, due to the fact that many perpetrators are even those hired by local authorities…Romania’s and Romanian people’s reputation has been badly tarnished.

I will not visit your country any time soon and I will inform my relatives and friends not to visit either, until all those who committed crimes against animals are punished at the full extent of the law and until the Law for the protection of animals is IMPLEMENTED and applied to everybody, including the officials who did not observe it. I will avoid buying any product of Romania, until animals are treated with respect and dignity and fully protected by the LAW.

The public dog pound in Costanza, managed by the company Alfmob srl, is nothing more than a big slaughterhouse for stray dogs:

http://www.savethedogs.eu/2010/07/masacru-la-ecarisajul-bio-baza-din-constanta-odata-adunate-probele-std-trece-la-atac/lang-pref/en/

http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/constanta/Constanta-_Maidanezii_din_Cernavoda-masacrati_la_adapostul_legii_0_294570633.html

http://www.click.ro/actualitate/din_tara/VIDEO_Constanta-_Un_film_despre_modul_in_care_sunt_ucisi_cainii_din_Cernavoda_ii_socheaza_pe_romani_0_988701296.html

How the public dog pound really looks like and what happens in there. In those areas, dogs are left to starve …no water either…for one week….then they are killed. As simple as that.

http://www.protectiaanimalelor.ro/caini/caini_constanta.html

Mangalia public pound finally closed ….does it look HUMAN to you ?

http://www.protectiaanimalelor.ro/caini/caini_mangalia.html

Thank you for your attention.

YOUR NAME and Nationality

 

 

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