Posted on March 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Collapsed dog rescued with life-threatening wounds makes amazing recovery
Published on Feb 21, 2016
A street dog was near-death from an extensive maggot infested wound on his neck and a wire wrapped around his leg. Watch his amazing recovery!
Please support their excellent work with a donation if you can – Thanks SAV.
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Please do not forget out petition and video on live transport from the EU to Turkey.
Please click on the following for petition and video links:
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Posted on March 1, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
All Photos – EoA / AWF.
We have campaigned against live exports from (South East) English ports for the last 25+ years – see some of our ‘past history events’ via the following link.
UK live exports have virtually stopped completely as a result of many years dedicated campaigning. It is now only the Dutch who come to the UK and export live UK animals to Europe. The Brits have had a long hatred for live animal exports – see here what we mean:
Regards SAV.
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More than 5 years of evidence gathering, and presentation to the EU.
What have they done ? – Nothing, that’s what. Animals in transport continue to suffer the worst nightmare –
watch the video below to see what we mean.
Following on from all of our recent work and posts relating to the terrible conditions which EU animals are having to endure en route to Turkey, as filmed by Lesley and the crew at Eyes on Animals in the Netherlands – http://www.eyesonanimals.com/ we have now started a petition to get it stopped. The petition link is given directly below.
Please sign and also pass on to all your contacts – we want to make an impact with this petition and make the EU Commissioners who are responsible for allowing this animal abuse to happen accountable to the citizens of Europe and the rest of the world.
Petition link –
Look at the video below and see what exactly we are petitioning about:
Video link –
Petition wording –
To: Vytenis Andriukaitis EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety and Phil Hogan EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
Firstly, please watch the video showing how EU animals continue to suffer at the Turkish border; and have done in this way for at least the last 5 years.
Live EU animals are very regularly exported from EU member states to Turkey, a non EU state. EU citizens are continually alarmed by the clear and obvious breaches of regulations by some EU member states to protect the welfare of animals during long distance transport.
The so called EU Regulation 1/2005 on the alleged ‘protection of animals during transport’ is a complete and utter joke for which we hold you responsible. It is never enforced as the attached video taken at the Turkish border clearly shows.
You are failing animals of the EU. The EU should commit itself to immediately ending live animal exports from the EU; especially as (EU) animal welfare organisations continue to provide clear evidence of welfare breaches which you personally constantly ignore.
If animals are to be slaughtered for meat, then it should be undertaken within the EU to standards enforced by the EU rather than by third world nations such as Turkey who do not care about animal welfare or suffering at slaughter.
As global citizens concerned for the welfare of animals, we ask that the EU introduces an immediate ban on all live animal exports to third countries, including Turkey.
Your inaction and continual excuses for non action are yet more reasons why the UK has a referendum to leave the EU in June 2016. Other nations such as the Netherlands will follow in a similar manner very soon. If you continue to disregard all the evidence that is presented to you of the suffering of animals in transport; the EU will eventually disintegrate; and the only people to blame are Commissioners such as yourselves who have been provided with the continual evidence of cruelty and suffering for years, and yet still constantly ignore it.
You are not Commissioners, you are simply people that formally approve animal abuse and suffering and to support this, invent phrases about legislation to circumnavigate the reality of animal suffering!
The EU wants no animal suffering; not Commissioners such as yourselves who turn the other way when it happens !
Photo – Eyes on Animals / AWF.
Contact
Email
cab-andriukaitis-webpage@ec.europa.eu
Address:
European Commission
Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200
1049 1049 Brussels
Belgium
Link to the europa website of : Phil Hogan –
Contact
Email
phil.hogan@ec.europa.eu
Address:
European Commission
Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200
1049 1049 Brussels
Belgium
Article 13 of the Treaty of Lisbon
With the support and close co-operation of the Member States, the European Commission has been promoting animal welfare for over 40 years. A step in 1998 was Council Directive 98/58/EC on the protection of animals kept for farming purposes which gave general rules for the protection of animals of all species kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur or for other farming purposes, including fish, reptiles or amphibians.
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Freedom from hunger and thirst
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Freedom from discomfort
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Freedom from pain, injury and disease
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Freedom to express normal behaviour
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Freedom from fear and distress
When the Lisbon Treaty came into force in 2009 it amended the ‘Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union’ (TFEU) and introduced the recognition that animals are sentient beings.
Article 13 of Title II states that:
“In formulating and implementing the Union’s agriculture, fisheries, transport, internal market, research and technological development and space policies, the Union and the Member States shall, since animals are sentient beings, pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals, while respecting the legislative or administrative provisions and customs of the Member States relating in particular to religious rites, cultural traditions and regional heritage.”
National governments may adopt more stringent rules provided they are compatible with the provisions of the Treaty but Community legislation concerning the welfare conditions of farm animals lays down minimum standards.
Doomed Europe ? – maybe citizens are fed up with self righteous Commissioners who do not actually do anything the man in the street wants, except for feathering their own political nest ! – see below.
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Posted on February 27, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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What SeaWorld Won’t Tell You About Dawn Brancheau’s Death
February 24, 2016
The following is a summary of the Seaworldofhurt / Peta report which can be seen with lots more pictures at
SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau began her Dine With Shamu show on February 24, 2010, just as she had many times before, but this particular show included a gruesome finale that left Brancheau’s body without her left arm or part of her scalp, among other injuries. Dawn Brancheau was declared dead shortly after the show, but still, six years later, SeaWorld claims no responsibility for the vicious attack. So just how did one of SeaWorld’s most experienced and celebrated trainers end up crushed and drowned by the jaws of the marine park’s largest attraction?
“We don’t know for sure what motivated Tilikum. But there’s no doubt that he knew exactly what he was doing. He killed her.”
A Killer Whale Is Born
Former SeaWorld trainer Jeffrey Ventre blamed Tilikum for Brancheau’s death, but the truth begins with the wild orca’s capture near Iceland in 1983. At just 2 years old, he was torn from his mother and their ocean home and sent to the rundown marine park Sealand of the Pacific. Food was withheld from him as a training technique, and he endured attacks from the two dominant female orcas, whom he was forced to live with. After years of performing eight shows a day, seven days a week, Tilikum dragged Sealand trainer Keltie Byrne to the bottom of the pool, where he and the other orcas stripped her of all her clothing and left bite marks and bruises on her skin. It took nearly two hours to retrieve her body. Not long after Keltie’s death, Sealand closed its doors, and its orcas were purchased by SeaWorld.
My understanding of the animal’s past was very limited. In fact, there had been 30 incidents between killer whales, and trainers prior to my being hired at the park. And I didn’t know about any of them until after I left SeaWorld. So I think that’s a serious mistake on SeaWorld’s part that they weren’t letting people know the history of all the animals.”
History Repeats Itself
As Dawn Brancheau lay next to Tilikum, petting him in just a few inches of water, she likely had no reason to suspect that she was about to be torn apart. According to one of SeaWorld’s own employees, the event was unpredictable and the orca gave no indication that he was about to grab her. Even if Brancheau had spotted signs that Tilikum might act aggressively, would SeaWorld’s star performer have done anything differently? Maybe not—trainers were expected to continue performances, regardless of any signs that an orca might act out.
In one case, trainers ended a show after an orca began to ignore signals, swim rapidly, and grab at one of the trainer’s arms. In response, SeaWorld’s vice president for animal training criticized their actions in a two-page document claiming that the show should not have been ended early because it brought unnecessary attention to the incident. He argued that the trainers should have used other resources before canceling the show, despite SeaWorld’s official position that trainers could end a show at any time if they felt uncomfortable.
Why were SeaWorld trainers being forced to interact so closely with these enormous wild mammals? This was precisely the issue at the center of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) investigation. The agency cited SeaWorld for multiple violations and demanded that the company stop putting trainers at risk by making them interact with orcas during shows.
The Truth Comes Out
SeaWorld finally gave up on appealing its violations, but not before OSHA presented damning evidence that seems to imply that SeaWorld may be responsible for its own trainer’s death. OSHA found that in the 20 years leading up to Brancheau’s death, the park generated 100 reports of aggression and precursors to aggression—including 12 incidents resulting in the injury or death of a trainer—and according to SeaWorld’s own corporate curator for zoological operations, there were times that the company didn’t document incidents at all, which can be evidenced by SeaWorld’s failure to generate an incident report for Dawn Brancheau’s death and for a third death that Tilikum may have previously been involved with.
More than six years after the “accident,” there are still concerns about Dawn Brancheau’s last day as a SeaWorld trainer that have grave implications. Why did the marine park wait for 27 minutes to call for paramedics after Tilikum pulled Brancheau into the water? Was the park using this time to remove witnesses whose accounts didn’t match the story that SeaWorld was trying to create to make it seem as if her ponytail had triggered Tilikum’s reaction? Perhaps most importantly, why did SeaWorld’s then-owner try to blame his own orca trainer for her death—even after the OSHA investigation uncovered that the same safety measures and recall signals that had failed to prevent Dawn Brancheau’s death had been failing for years? And why did SeaWorld continue to rely on those failed measures?
“Let’s face it, in these types of incidents, I don’t recall any whale responding to any hand slap, food bucket, or any other distraction we tried to implement.”
The evidence in the judge’s decision seems to indicate that SeaWorld tried to downplay the risks and dangers that its trainers would encounter while working with captive orcas and to cover up its own failures in the incident that led to Dawn Brancheau’s death. SeaWorld wasn’t even willing to put the life of its own star trainer before profit, so why should anyone trust that it would ever put the well-being of its captive animals first?
To help all animals held captive by SeaWorld, please never buy a ticket, visit the parks, or support SeaWorld in any other way, and urge the marine park to stop raping orcas!
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Posted on February 25, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Stopping long distance lie animal transport is an issue that we feel very strongly about and have campaigned against for over 25 years. See more about this in ‘About Us’ which is tabbed at the top of the page.
25/2/16 update
As well as completing contact and supply of the EU / Turkish video to all of the UK MEP’s today, we have also sent copies of the video to the European Parliament’s Press Service, which comprises a team of press officers whose job it is to assist journalists and provide them with information on what is going on in Parliament. Each press officer specialises in a particular area, official language or member state, so as to ensure comprehensive coverage of all of Parliament’s activities and to provide information to journalists from all Member States.
The video or issue of non EU animal exports is not currently being discussed by Parliament, but we have made the Press Service aware of the UK referendum in June; which we know they will be interested in. We have outlined that many UK voters will be influenced by the video.
We have today (25/2/16) written to:
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the Director for the Media and European Parliament Spokesman
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the Head of Press Unit and Deputy Spokesperson
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the Head of the Media Services Unit
And the 4 members of the Press Unit – Spokespersons Service
We flagged the message and have already had confirmation back from almost everyone that they have read the mail (which contains the video link).
We hope that even though the issue is not currently being discussed by the Parliament, the UK referendum and the release of the new video may work its way through to some EU journalists.
Above – A Turkish Slaughterhouse.
Video Link –
SAV post links associated with this issue:
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Posted on February 24, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Further update – 25/2/16.
We have now also submitted copies of the video to all
Scottish and Welsh MEP’s.
We are flagging all messages sent so that we can check who is / is not reading our mail.
We really hope that other EU citizens / visitors to this site are also sending copies of the video link to their own MEP(s).
We need pressure to be put on from all areas of the EU, not just the UK and Netherlands.
EU / Turkey live export update – 24/2/16.
Video Link –
We have been busy today making sure that a copy of the video (see link above) has been provided, along with a covering letter, to every one of the 57 Member’s of the European Parliament (MEP).
This now leaves us with just copies to be sent to MEP’s in Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland – about 13 copies in total.
We need to make an impact on the MEP’s who are elected by the people to undertake the wishes of the people.
We hope that other EU citizens will forward the video link on to their MEP’s just the same as we have.
Video Link –
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Posted on February 23, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Further update – 25/2/16.
We have now also submitted copies of the video to all
Scottish and Welsh MEP’s, as well as to all the English MEP’s.
We are flagging all messages sent so that we can check who is / is not reading our mail.
We really hope that other EU citizens / visitors to this site are also sending copies of the video link to their own MEP(s).
We need pressure to be put on from all areas of the EU, not just the UK and Netherlands.
23/2/16 – Today (so far) we have been doing a lot of follow up work with regard the new video showing the situation for EU animals going into Turkey (a non EU nation) for slaughter. View our post and link to the video via the following.
What have we done today:
Provided copies of the video and written links on the situation to:
– All South East England Members of the European Parliament (MEP’s)
– Supplied a copy of the video to the All Party Animal Welfare Group – http://www.apgaw.org/ – About:
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare (APGAW) is an all-party group made up of MPs, Peers and associate animal welfare organisations or groups with a specific interest in this area. The aim of the Group is to promote and further the cause of animal welfare by all means available to the Parliaments at Westminster and in Europe. APGAW seeks to influence the development and introduction of effective wide-ranging legislation to improve welfare and also acts as a discussion forum of politicians and welfare experts to looks at areas of concern.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) have no formal place in the legislature unlike Select Committees, but are an effective way of bringing together parliamentarians and interested parties to start raising the profile on issues. APGAW chooses topics which are likely to be high profile to discuss and can then put forward ideas for improvements to the current Government. Members of the public are not able to attend APGAW meetings unless specifically invited by the Chairman but they can ask their MP to attend if they are concerned about an area of animal welfare. – http://www.apgaw.org/farm-animals
– Liaised with our friends at ‘Eyes on Animals’ http://www.eyesonanimals.com/ in the Netherlands to inform them of what we are doing to promote the video on the UK side of the North Sea.
That is this morning – this afternoon we will be supplying yet further links of the video to other UK MEP’s located around the country. Although we are in the South East of England and have already been in contact with all out MEP’s about this issue, it will do no harm to send out further copies (and express our views !) elsewhere across the country – especially as we have an In / Out EU referendum in June – we need to let the MEP’s know that we are not happy and that they need to do something or face the consequences in June. MEP’s really should only deal with concerns from their own regional constituents – hence why we have done the SE of England, where we live.
Thus we hope that may EU citizens located in many EU nations will now send a copy of the new video, and a request for action to stop the trade, to their own national / regional MEP’s.
Here are 2 links to help anyone find their own MEP’s, regardless of where they are in the EU:
Above – Lesley from EoA – Netherlands
Please write to them today. Here is a direct copy of the video link relating to EU animals stranded at the Turkish border – you must copy this link and attach it when writing to your MEP’s – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udReHkAumrY&feature=youtu.be
We are also more than happy if you wish to include some of our SAV post links with your letter. Here are the links that relate directly to this issue:
Thanks – SAV.
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Posted on February 22, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Further update – 25/2/16.
We have now also submitted copies of the video to all
English, Scottish and Welsh MEP’s.
We are flagging all messages sent so that we can check who is / is not reading our mail.
We really hope that other EU citizens / visitors to this site are also sending copies of the video link to their own MEP(s).
We need pressure to be put on from all areas of the EU, not just the UK and Netherlands.
All above photos – Eyes on Animals (NL).
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Mark and Lesley have been campaigners and friends in the fight against live animal exports for many years. Lesley is the founder and Director of ‘Eyes on Animals’ who are based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Mark and Lesley worked together to produce the 2010 EU report, part of which can be seen in the following:
They have campaigned against live animal exports for many years on several other occasions also.
In the above post, we (SAV) specifically mention the situation for EU animals which are crossing from the EU into Turkey. Some people may not believe us when we say that transporters are stuck on the border for several days and as a result, the animals suffer terribly or die – well now we hope that with the excellent new video from Lesley, actual visual evidence of the conditions and what we have been campaigning about are shown.
Watch the new ‘Eyes on Animals’ video by clicking on the following link – Note it shows extreme animal suffering – the fault of politicians:
Again, and as we have previously said, the EU system for the welfare of animals in transport is NOT working. Who wants to part of an international group of nations called the ‘EU’ which do not take action to prevent this suffering ?
All national political leaders are failing, MEP’s are failing; the EU Commissions are failing – in fact the whole bloody system called the ‘EU’ is failing.
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