Posted on June 12, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Portugal, 17.03.2020
This Tuesday morning, on the N17-1 road, near the exit to the Industrial Area of Alto do Padrão(between Miranda do Corvo and Lousã), a truck carrying pigs to the slaughterhouse collapsed, having been in the situation that you can see in the video. The driver of the vehicle, we found, was not injured.
But the animals it carried, yes.
We were unable to provide support as the road was closed.
But we managed to register some images so that everyone can see and hear the suffering of these animals.
According to the information that arrived at the site, about 100 animals died.
But that was not all we found: the scene was of many dead pigs, but even more pigs in agony. Bleeding, with broken legs, with a broken spine, dying … an authentic Dante scene.
At the end of the day, more than 9 hours later, we returned to the place. Some animals had already been taken, but many pigs were still there, clearly very injured.
It should also be noted that, when they realized that we were filming this violence, they turned off the truck lights and tried to get the GNR to expel us from the place.
There are not enough words to describe the horror that happened today. So we let the screams of these animals speak for us.
Where’s our empathy ?! How is it possible that these situations continue to happen?
And I mean…The next day, a pig that survived the accident was still at the scene.
More than 24 hours later.
Would an injured person ever be forgotten at an accident site?
No, never!
Because the law protects human animals.
There is no law to protect non-human animals.
Therefore, according to the law, these pigs are viewed as objects that have no right to life.
Their life belongs to someone, their body belongs to someone, there is no RIGHT to protect these animals.
Many wondered how the accident happened, what was the reason.
The correct question is: Am I one of the REASONS for this accident? I, the meat consumer?
Am I the one responsible for their hell life, their agonizing transports, their brutal death in the slaughterhouse?
If there is demand, there will be an offer. And as long as there is demand, these “accidents” will continue to happen because of thousands of trucks like these transport millions of sentient beings to an inhuman death every day.
We want this industry to be smashed in the next 10 years.
There is no point in fighting for “organic” farming, shorter transports, and larger cages.
You can only get out and use your personal behavior, your personal diet, to inflict the death blow on this death industry.
Stop eating animals and their products.
Stop cooperating with this fascist system of exploitation.
In a hopeful step toward protecting wild animals and public health, China has removed the endangered pangolin from its official list of traditional medicines. The decision comes days after the country’s State Forestry and Grassland Administration (SFGA) increased the pangolin’s protection status to the highest possible level because of the creatures’ dwindling population.
Pangolins are the world’s most heavily-trafficked animal with around 200,000 poached annually. Their scales are extremely valuable in China’s lucrative black market due to their supposed medicinal qualities, despite scientists affirming that there is currently no known medical benefit.
Holding pangolins captive could be dangerous to human health, as well. Some researchers think the coronavirus may have transmitted to its first human host via a pangolin. More generally, the ongoing global COVID-19 crisis is thought to have originated at a ‘wet market’ in Wuhan, China, drawing widespread attention to the dangers of the live animal trade, which unavoidably brings humans and animals within unnaturally close proximity.
China’s decision to upgrade pangolins’ protection status and remove them from its list of traditional medicines is the latest in a series of legislative moves responding to the current pandemic, including a nationwide ban on the wild animal trade and the government offering to buy out wild animal farmers and transition to plant-based farming.
This is a monumental step in a more humane direction, but truly ending the cruel pangolin trade, which continues despite the ban, remains an uphill battle. Lady Freethinker applauds China’s efforts, but more must be done to protect these innocent creatures.
Good to see at least that Andrea (Gavinelli); one head of unit at DG SANTE is going to be speaking at this event. I used to send Andrea a lot of letters and info when I was EU correspondent for a English live export campaign group in the more recent past.
Andrea is a good man and I always found him to be supportive of our work to stop live animal transport. Although he is now a head of unit; he sadly still comes under the control of Bernard (I can do nothing) Van Goethem. We hope that in the 15 minutes allocated to Mr Gavinelli to speak; regarding Animal welfare within the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy, he will push for a reduction / ban on the transport on live animals within the EU
As we have shown in very recent posts; if South Africa and Australia can take action on the issue of live animal transport; then the EU can do the same. As with most EU issues, there is a mafia type control (the meat mafia) which prevents the wishes of EU citizens coming into force.
It is sad when an organisation such as the EU, which claims to ‘represent the people’; does exactly the opposite and in reality, represents only the mafia style operators who wish to see live animal transport continue. There has been a ‘crisis’ in live animal transport within the EU for years – and its head (Van Goethem) does nothing about the crisis; he simply holds his hands up and says ‘I can do nothing’.
1115 – 1130 am – morning session – Animal welfare within the Farm to Fork strategy.
Andrea Gavinelli, Head of Unit, Directorate Crisis Management in Food, Animals and Plants, DG SANTE
Animals
Animal welfare: 7th meeting of the EU Platform to take place on Monday 15 June
On Monday 15 June, Health and Food Safety Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, will participate in the EU Platform on Animal Welfare for the first time. She will present the key animal welfare actions as part of the newly adopted Farm to Fork Strategy. Over the next five years, the Commission will conduct an ambitious programme, including an evaluation of the legislation, and will consider options to better inform consumers on animal welfare. For this purpose, the Commission will announce the creation of a subgroup on labelling under the Platform. The one-day meeting will be web-streamed (from 09:30 CET).
Posted on June 11, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The black people in the US have started fighting for their freedom again.
When will we go out on the streets for the animals and protest massively and united against their slavery, against the fascist system of their exploitation?
When, if not now? Now, that the corona gives us the weapon, we have to use demonstrations to force criminal politicians to end the indescribable suffering of slaves in every animal industry.
Symbolic actions, candles, and selfies on the Internet may be profitable, but they don’t stop anyone, the animals will continue to die.
The current struggle of black people in the United States shows it clearly:
Each of these murderous mechanisms is man-made and can be broken by people.
Che Guevara said: “even the strongest walls fall when they get cracks”.
Now is the time for direct confrontation, the time of the cracks.
Posted on June 11, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Hi Mark,
Animal Equality’s latest investigation, carried out with the Spanish news website Público, has shed a light on the atrocities that are common in chicken farms across Europe.
Selectively bred to grow to huge weights in a matter of weeks so that the industry has more meat to sell, and more money to make, many of the birds we filmed were unable to stand because of the sheer size of their bodies. With no veterinary care, the painful sores and burns on their skin went untreated, and the corpses of those who didn’t survive were left to rot on the urine-soaked floor. These shocking conditions are typical in Europe, and we’ve filmed similar scenes inside British chicken farms too.
Almost 700 million chickens are slaughtered each year in Spain, with many of them exported to other countries. This makes it one of Europe’s biggest chicken producers, although an even larger number of chickens are raised and killed in the UK – nearly a staggering one billion every year.
Our investigative work has again exposed the horrendous reality of conditions inside typical factory farms, shattering the idyllic image that the meat industry often tries to hide behind.
Tragically, it’s too late to save the chickens we filmed on this farm, but you can help countless others just like them, by choosing to eat plant-based options more often. For recipes, advice and more, head to our Love Veg website.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 