Posted on May 1, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft has made an emotional call to the government to follow the lead of the US and the Netherlands and ban the import of “barbaric” captive lion trophies.
It comes as he reveals his findings from an investigation in to lion farming in South Africa.
In the year-long investigation, called Operation Simba, he claims that lions are being bred en mass, with the aim of killing them and using them in “medicine” or as trinkets in the far east – so that hunters can make a profit.
Tigers and lions are pictured as their captors breed them together. Pic: Lord Ashcroft
Lord Ashcroft`s probe into the lion farms also showed that in the space of two days, 54 lions were killed in a single slaughterhouse, so that their bones could be harvested and sent to companies who want to use them in “traditional” Asian medicine.
Reporting in the Mail on Sunday, he said: “Dead lions, some skinned and others waiting to be skinned, littered the blood stained floor.
Lions are slaughtered on an industrial scale. Pic: Lord Ashcroft
“A pile of innards and skeletons lay elsewhere inside. While discarded internal body parts were piled high in overflowing black plastic bags on a trailer outside.”
The harrowing findings did not stop there though, as he also discovered that lions and tigers were being cross-bred, in an attempt to create bigger, and “more imposing” animals, that are worth more to those who want to hunt them.
Lord Ashcrofthas vowed to lobby the government over what he calls the “failure to close a glaring loophole” that encourages imports of lion skins into the UK.
Posted on May 1, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
England:
I can remember attending circus demos as long as 25 years ago; and including the issue of wild animals in circuses as part of my contribution to the Animal Welfare Act for the UK.
Now, today, May 1st, we have been given the following news:
Wild Animals Are To Be Banned From Circuses.
Finally, we get there ! – It is such a massive victory for the UK animal welfare movement I cannot even start to describe. Very mixed emotions today; about another issue.
Posted on May 1, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We wish that! A revolution against injustice, exploitation, a revolution against rulers. For a world without slaves, subjects, lawless beings. We are not the victims. No more.
Our conspecifics fought for it 130 years ago, so today we have the right to 8 hours of working time, protected and paid properly.
The time of human proletarians is over.
The slaves of yesteryear are the dominant species of today. Those have the acknowledged privilege to exploit other species as a sign of a good and high standard of living.
Just belonging to the same species automatically increments a person to those who have rights. In (almost) all areas of life. It is the special right of the ruling species that only the oligarchs had before the May Revolution.
Therefore, the first of May is the reminder of a bitter and unjust reality for us: people have rights, or they can fight for it. Animals still have no rights because they can not fight for it.
But we can do it for them, and we do it. And we will continue to fight for it so that slavery and the massive exploitation of non-human proletarians will cease.
My best regards and a beautiful May 1st at all, Venus
Posted on April 30, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
In October 2018,more than 72 million bees died – in just one day. Three months after the mass extinction the cause was confirmed.
A pesticide sprayed on a nearby field is responsible.
In Argentina, near the city of La Paz, south of the Traslasierra Valley, 920 beehives were ruined in just one day.
On the other side of the world another beekeeper lost a million of his bees. Now the Australian beekeeper also received confirmation from a lab that the bees had died of fipronil poisoning, an insecticide commonly used to kill termites.
The beehives were about 5 kilometers away from another beekeeper, where about 120 beehives previously died from the same insecticide.
In Europe, an Austrian fruit-grower was even sentenced to jail for illegally spreading an insecticide. Dozens of neighboring bee colonies were destroyed.
It is a dying that is watched with concern worldwide.
Scientists have found that honeybees in Europe are killed by 57 different pesticides.
The vast majority of them are approved for use in the European Union.
The pesticide Thiacloprid from Bayer/Monsanto will continue to be used without restriction. The most industrious of all animals, which reliably fly from flower to flower, disappears slowly.
A life without the bee is unthinkable. She is the big breadwinners of the people. The worldwide demand for natural products rests on their delicate wings.
Posted on April 30, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Image: Jane Goodall and her team
That’s what you do with your friends. You say goodbye lovingly and give your sincere gratitude to the one who, after years of imprisonment, allows you to live in freedom.
Before going home, a final hug that no one will ever forget.
Gratitude is an exclusive trait of nonhuman animals.
Tigers and lions are pictured as their captors breed them together. Pic: Lord Ashcroft
Lions are slaughtered on an industrial scale. Pic: Lord Ashcroft
