Posted on August 4, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Don’t support this cruelty by drinking cows milk:
In all my years doing live export campaign work; the thing that used to get to me the most was witnessing truck loads of baby calves destined for the veal farms of Europe. You could hear the transporters often before you actually saw them, such was the noise of hundreds of baby calves desperately bellowing for their mothers. They would never see them again – such was the human want for veal steaks and money.
That is why I gave up meat a long, long time ago and turned to a cruelty free diet – I cannot support the dairy industry or anything that involves meat production. To me it is all an industry of cruelty and animal exploitation in return for a financial result.
Some will think I am stupid for what I do and that is fine by me.
In my opinion, when those same folk have heard it, seen it and smelled it then they can criticise me, but not before. They are the kind who just want to turn the other way and try to pretend that there is nothing wrong.
Well, in my opinion, they are the ones who are wrong.
There is something desperately wrong with the whole animal farming process.
Below is one of hundreds of photos I took of calf transporters going through Dover port in England.
Click on the image to enlarge it and you will see the tongues of many calves licking the bars of the transporter. They are trying to get milk as they would naturally from their mothers. They would endure this for another 8-10 hours before they arrived at Dutch veal farms where they would be given a cheap and crappy milk substitute to drink. They would never taste their own mothers milk ever again. Now confined to a crate and waiting for death in the name of veal in 6 months or less.
That is why I don’t do milk or meat – cows milk is for baby cows, not humans.
Other images below form part of the investigation reports into calf exports submitted to the EU.
With thanks to friends at PMAF. See more about this at ‘About Us’ – tab at top of page.
Posted on August 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
News from the Center for Biological Diversity
A Big Win for Great Lakes Wolves
A victory for wolves this week: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was wrong when it removed Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves in the western Great Lakes states. This ruling protects more than 3,000 wolves in the region and saves hundreds from killing each year. The decision marks the eighth time — at least — that a federal court has ruled that the Service has wrongly ended gray wolf protections. “The second-highest court in the nation reaffirmed that we must do much more to recover gray wolves before declaring the mission accomplished,” said the Center’s Noah Greenwald. “Wolves are still missing from more than 90 percent of their historic range in the lower 48 states, and both the Endangered Species Act and common sense tell us we can’t ignore that loss.” Read more in the Chicago Tribune.
Trump Flouts the Law to Rush Border-wall Construction
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday it’s exempting itself from all laws — including environmental laws — to rush construction of the border wall near San Diego. This waiver would speed construction of replacement walls, roads, 30-foot-high “prototypes,” lighting and other infrastructure without any analysis of environmental impacts on local endangered species — including Quino checkerspot butterflies and tiny gray songbirds called coastal California gnatcatchers.
The Center is suing Trump’s administration over its failure to perform environmental analysis or release information about the border-wall project. “Trump’s wall is a divisive symbol of fear and hatred, and it does real harm to the landscape and border communities,” said Center attorney Brian Segee
The Fight’s Getting Started to Save Yellowstone’s Grizzlies
The road to recovery for Yellowstone’s grizzly bears just got steeper — but the battle to save them is far from over. This week the Trump administration finalized the removal of federal Endangered Species Act protections from grizzlies living in and around Yellowstone National Park — even though grizzlies only occupy less than 5 percent of their historic range, and Yellowstone grizzlies remain isolated. Wyoming, Montana and Idaho have now taken over management and have stated they plan to implement trophy-hunting seasons soon.
But the Center, along with conservation and tribal allies, have already told the Fish and Wildlife Service we’ll sue if the agency doesn’t reverse course. Stay tuned for how you can help.
Appeal Filed Against Destructive SoCal Freeway Plan
A $1.7 billion, six-lane freeway project in Southern California would hurt low-income neighborhoods, fragment San Jacinto Valley wildlife preserves, and pollute the air — so the Center and partners have filed a federal challenge. The project site harbors species like burrowing owls, Swainson’s hawks, tricolored blackbirds and Stephens’ kangaroo rats. “Rather than offer 21st-century transit solutions, the feds ignored environmental laws and pushed through this boondoggle, which will hurt imperiled animals and force hundreds of people from their homes,” said the Center’s Aruna Prabhala.
Suit Seeks to Expose Trump’s Collusion With Coal
The Center has sued the Trump administration for not providing public records on closed-door meetings between the U.S. Department of the Interior and fossil-fuel industry executives. “If Trump and Zinke had nothing to hide, they’d comply with our simple call to release meeting records,” said the Center’s Senior Counsel Bill Snape. “Instead the administration continues to plot with fossil-fuel executives in secret, making decisions that hurt public health and affect the future of all Americans.”
Today we released footage filmed over the past two months on a West Country chicken farm that supplies Faccenda – the UK’s second largest chicken company.
More than 150,000 birds are housed in four giant sheds in crowded, barren conditions to end up on shelves and menus of retailers such as Nando’s, Lidl and Asda.
Some of the distressing scenes captured by our investigators include:
Hundreds of dead chicks being dumped every day for several days, including one who was thrown into a wheelbarrow alive with dozens of dead bodies and left for at least an hour.
A worker kicking birds during daily checksinside the sheds; collecting ill birds and breaking their necks, with some still alive and flapping their wings as he carried them around.
Lame birds in obvious discomfort attempting to walk; birds on their backs slowly dying because they are unable to stand and reach water and birds with red, raw sores from the filthy ammonia-soaked litter underfoot.
Workers violently catching and crating birds for transport to the slaughterhouse, including carrying birds by one leg in violation of Defra’s welfare code.
Our expose featured in The Times and The Independent today, alerting millions of people to the agony endured by chickens raised and killed for meat in Britain.
Please help spread the word by sharing our video with your friends and family, and encouraging them to discover the joys of plant-based food by signing our Love Veg pledge!
Thank you for helping to make the world a better place for animals.
