Honored and tormented: An undercover research by Animal Equality in more than 100 Indian dairy companies brings unimaginable animal suffering to light.

Animal Equality has spent more than two years researching 100 dairy farms, 11 live animal markets and eight slaughterhouses in India. The result is the report Honored and tormented – The suffering of India’s “sacred” cows for milk, the most extensive research in the Indian dairy industry so far. This is directly related to the Indian leather industry – and Germany is one of the major buyers of this leather from India.

The recordings of our investigators reveal shocking:

-Cows are inseminated by inexperienced workers with contaminated equipment and unhygienic conditions.

-Due to the emotional stress of cow and calf separation, some animals stop producing milk; These cows are placed by the workers next to dead, straw-stuffed calves. So they should believe that it is their own calf.

-The animals are beaten by workers with sticks and chains, they are kicked and sometimes even sexually abused.

-In none of the farms examined are the cows cared for by veterinarians; they either remain untreated or farmers use their own medication to cut costs.

-On the way to the slaughterhouse, up to 30 animals are loaded on a transporter, which is actually only allowed for a maximum of six animals.

-Traders twist or break the tails of the animals, rubbing chilies into their eyes and ramming sticks into their genitals to force them into slaughter transports.

-In the slaughterhouse the cows and cattle are repeatedly cut through the throat; Hardly a worker kills the animals already with the first cut.

-Many animals are fully conscious during the slaughter process and also experience the subsequent mounting.

Already in 2016, Animal Equality presented the findings of this research to the Indian government and made recommendations on how to ensure a higher standard of animal welfare in the dairy, meat and leather industries. As a result, India’s government initially enacted a number of bans, particularly for live animal markets, to protect cows and buffaloes from extreme but commonplace suffering. However, following resistance from some Indian regions, animal markets have returned to some practices, such as the sale of disused dairy cows for slaughter. In dairy farms and slaughterhouses, torture states still prevail.

We have launched a petition to convince the Indian government to finally take the necessary steps to protect the cows, calves and buffaloes from this agony. Support our claims today with your signature.

https://www.change.org/p/gequ%C3%A4lt-f%C3%BCr-milch-und-leder-hilf-indiens-heiligen-k%C3%BChen

https://www.animalequality.de/neuigkeiten/verehrt-und-gequaelt-kuehe-in-indien

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The killing of 20,000 chicks at Brussels Airport causes trouble in Belgium. Several politicians responded on Tuesday outraged that the animals intended for Africa were gassed at the weekend because of a transport problem. The Flemish Greens deputy Bart Caron spoke of an incident as in “Absurdistan”.

The chicks were supposed to be flown to Kinshasa in the Congo. But the departure failed twice for technical reasons, as the news agency Belga reported. Accordingly, the transport container was on the asphalt in the burning sun all weekend. The exporter did not want to take back the container according to media reports. To stop the suffering of the animals, they should finally be gassed on Sunday evening. The airport fire brigade refused and therefore their colleagues from neighboring Zaventem were called and took action.

The action triggered outrage in Belgium. “In any case, the responsible exporter must be held accountable, maybe even the airport itself,” said the “Green” Caron. His non-party colleague Hermes Sanctorum said: “It has come to the point that the most animal-friendly solution to transports is killing.” There is probably no difference between simple Amazon packages and animals. The deputy Jelle Engelbosch of the Flemish nationalist N-VA, however, spoke of a “necessary, urgent decision”. (AP)

My Comment:  When PETA compared the lives of animals in farms with the Holocaust several years ago, “sensitive” citizens were schocked!!
This mass murder of 20,000 creatures in Brussels, or more precisely their gassing according to the well-known fascist methods of the Nazis, confirms that animals today are still the victims of a daily holocaust that will never end.

Because, as Isaak Bashevic Singer says: “when it comes to animals, everyone becomes a Nazi.
For the animals every day is Treblinka” . Or Brussels.

My regards to all

Venus

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 The influence of Angela Merkel, both in Germany and in the EU, has not brought anything good for the animals. On the contrary, their lackeys have distinguished themselves more as lobbyists in the chemical and agricultural industries. But the era Merkel comes to an end.

We can summarize the mood in the media as follows.

Angela Merkel’s time is over. This is becoming increasingly clear in her international appearances, during which the allegedly once most influential woman in the world fades more and more into a peripheral character.
In American usage, there is the term “lame duck”.

It finds use above all in the political context to describe an incumbent, who has lost all influence and its successor is long in the starting blocks. The last cannot be determined in the case of the German Chancellor, although behind the crumbling façade already some of the competitors appear, which should soon start the race …

Her fruitless trip to the United States, in which the American President was only given a few hours to relentlessly disclose the poverty of the erstwhile powerful woman, has set all the alarm bells ringing in the German executive floors.

Nobody will ever understand what brought the pastor’s daughter from Templin to the crazy idea, that she would be able to compete with someone like Trump, who would be superior to her in all matters, except perhaps her Russian and mathematical skills.

The Chancellor’s last visit was rated by both German and American press as a work routine,
in which nothing went wrong, but at least in the short term should change little.

This applies to both the US and US steel and aluminum trade disputes, as well as the nuclear deal with Iran or NATO defense spending.

Anyway, Merkel, does not matter to the US president, and also in Europe, Macron prefers to do his own thing. Because there is no unity in Transfer Union anyway, Macron reshuffles the EU just without Merkel to the French “Cash Cow”.

Only a few loyalists are remained in Brussels, who need Angela Merkel to fulfill their own political agenda. For these, however, the German Chancellor is of little use. And the allies have become rare. It is a matter of time before Merkel loses her last bastion.

Three more years Merkel cannot cope with this country any more – let’s hope that this will not only be recognized by the powerful entrepreneurs, but eventually by the other stirrup owners as well. For the benefit of Germany and Europe.

https://www.epochtimes.de/politik/deutschland/the-lame-duck-angela-merkels-reise-in-die-eigene-bedeutungslosigkeit-a2413712.html

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Anja Hägele can still remember her first assignment. She lay half naked under a plastic wrap in an oversized meat bowl, in the middle of a busy street in Jena. “I was so excited, I did not want to talk to anyone,” says the 35-year-old today. “Then came the TV and I had to go to the camera.” That was in 2006 when she was as intern at Peta. After twelve years and countless missions as a meat, fur animal or half-naked eye-catcher, Hägele is now Petas campaign boss for the German-speaking region.

Hägeles workplace is the headquarters in Stuttgart, South Germany, with 80 permanent employees. If you work here, you eat vegan and do not wear leather, silk or wool. “In terms of employment law, nobody can prescribe that, but I think that’s okay,” says Hägele.

Compared with environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Nabu or WWF Peta is considered particularly radical. The charitable and donation-financed association fights against mass animal husbandry, zoos, animal experiments and demands vegan nutrition for all people – often with provocative actions. In 2004, a campaign was banned by German and international courts: Peta had compared mass animal farming with prisoners in Nazi concentration camps.

Naked woman skin belongs to the trademark of Peta campaigns. Hägele says she likes to strip off for the good of the animals. “The chance of being reported in the media is higher then, but our society is working that way,” she says. “It’s not sexist to me, after all, I can do what I want with my body.”
But sometimes it even goes too far. When she stood naked behind a shower curtain in a water saving campaign in Amsterdam, a press photographer had his camera under the curtain pushed. “I made it clear that that’s not okay.”

The majority of her professional life, however, takes place in the Stuttgart office. Every day worried citizens, from neighbors complaining about neglected pets, to whistleblowers, denouncing abuses in a Group. If the case is important enough, the campaign engine will start. For example, a few weeks ago, when it became known that a hospital in Halle had pediatric surgeons surgically operated on live pigs for training purposes and died of the surgery.

30,000 activists in Germany, Austria, Switzerland

A typical peta action plan consists of three stages:

–  The activists first ask the wrongdoer in writing to change his actions and suggest alternatives. For example, the hospital was encouraged to practice operations on synthetic bodies or human corpses.
–   If the addressee does not respond, or responds unsatisfactorily, level two comes: a press release. “Most of them fold at this point,” says Hägele. So also, the management of the hospital. She invited the animal rights activists and expressed her willingness to compromise.
–   Stage three failed in this case: an action on the ground and the pillory in the network.

Hägele can rely on a network of more than 30,000 volunteer activists in German-speaking countries. They are contacted and mobilized – to sign a petition, to share posts on social media or as vociferous demonstrators on the ground. “These people help out of love of animals, and we take everyone, from students to pensioners,” says Hägele.

She too has been interested in environmental protection as a child. “I wondered why my dog got so much love, but not pigs.” After graduating from high school, she studied political science and cultural studies with the aim of later working for an environmental ministry or a green NGO. Then she saw on MTV a promotional video of Peta – and applied for an internship.

Peta pays newcomers an annual salary of 30,000 euros at 40 weekly hours. Hägele now earns 40,000 euros as a manager, has 27 days off and flexible working hours based on trust. “We want to reward employees appropriately so that they do not need a second job and are fully committed to animal welfare,” she says. And that also means: in miserable weather, freeze in shopping malls and recruit supporters. In Germany, Europe or even further away.

“I was once arrested in the US,” says Hägele. Peta had not registered the action correctly with the authorities, she ended up in a New York prison cell with nothing more than a yellow bikini. Nevertheless, she says, “I feel privileged to practice my passion as a profession.” This passion even goes so far that Hägele wants to pass her possession on to Peta. “My employer is in my will.”

Translation: Venus

http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/tierschutz-als-beruf-eine-peta-aktivistin-erzaehlt-von-ihrem-job-a-1205955.html

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