Posted on May 2, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
In the lush spring of 2010 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, thousands of newly minted graduates walked the stage to receive their diplomas and left campus to begin the next chapter of their lives.
Elsewhere on campus that same weekend in May, away from the celebratory pomp and circumstance, a rhesus macaque named Cornelius was born in a barren laboratory at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center(WNPRC).
He’s been trapped there ever since.
Cornelius’ decade of life has been defined by loneliness and misery. Like most monkeys born in laboratories, he was taken from his mother when he was just an infant, as his mother was so distressed that she couldn’t even care for him.
As a newborn, he was given just an inanimate surrogate—perhaps a piece of a fleece wrapped around a block of wood—to cling to for comfort.
As a baby, he suffered from a rash that covered his body and limbs. As a juvenile, he was plagued by persistent diarrhea—a sign of stress in monkeys in laboratories. He’s struggled to keep on weight, and experimenters have observed bald patches all over his body, likely from tearing out his own hair.
Checked out and passed around like a library book to various experimenters, including notorious Ned Kalin, Cornelius has endured a litany of assaults.
He’s been subjected to repeated blood draws and put under anesthesia numerous times—a frightening and disorienting experience for any animal.
On multiple occasions in 2019 and 2020, experimenters strapped Cornelius into a restraint chair.
He was used as a “semen donor,” which means that workers painfully electroshocked painfully his genitals until he ejaculated so that his semen could be used to breed more monkeys for lives of misery.
Big cats like lions belong in the wilderness, not in the arms of tourists – even if they are sugary and cuddly as babies.
The rare white lionesses Alpha and Omega are a sad example of this: They had to be used for cuddling dates, photos, and walks with people all their lives.
When it finally came to a tragedy, the fate of the beautiful animals seemed sealed – but at the last moment, the sisters got a second chance.
Despite death: lionesses are exploited for years
Alpha and Omega were separated from their mother at an early age as boys.
In South Africa, cuddling with baby predators is a real industry: tourists allow themselves to be lured by the clumsy little ones, pay a lot of money to hold them in their arms, and be photographed with them.
When the lion sisters got too old for this, their keeper used them for daily walks with visitors.
One day Alpha and Omega managed to break out of their enclosure. They killed a farmworker in the process.
But although lion experts such as the “Global White Lion Protection Trust” urgently warned against forcing the predators to continue tourist work, the tours continued.
The next tragedy was inevitable: two years later, the lionesses killed their owner on one of the walks.
Alpha and Omega were threatened with euthanasia. But at the last moment the “Global White Lion Protection Trust” stepped in: “These majestic sisters will stay together in a large, protected enclosure in their natural habitat.
Wild packs will visit them regularly and they are surrounded by the natural ecosystem” says Linda Tucker, founder of the foundation, in “People” magazine.
The foundation does not usually keep white lions with them – their main goal is to protect and increase their small numbers in the wild.
But Linda hopes the Alpha and Omega story will serve as a wake-up call: “This first-pet-then-kill industry is an incredibly exploitative, mass-production of cute babies that are torn from their penned mothers after birth and passed from tourist to tourist to be cuddled for payment – and then disposed of, “she clarifies in” People “.
“It is nothing less than a global catastrophe.”
At least for Alpha and Omega, the days of exploitation are finally over.
They are allowed to spend the rest of their lion life as it should have been from the beginning: without tight leashes and chains.
And I mean…First, the slaves kill the wrong person.
It can happen when you’re out of practice.
But then they caught the right one!
Slave keepers actually have no right to exist in a civilized society.
But because they are under human rights, they are protected by their conspecifics and are allowed to keep other animals as slaves.
Alpha and Omega corrected that.
We are on their side and wish the two brave sisters all the best for their new life in freedom and dignity
Posted on May 1, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The PETA undercover horse-drugging Investigation that changed racing as we knew it
Did you know this year’s #KentuckyDerby# marks the FIRST drug-free year of the Triple Crown?
People cheer as they watch a race at Churchill Downs before the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race on May 4, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky.
This is progress and follows years of PETA work. There’s still more the horse racing industry can do!
And I mean… In the United States, nearly 500 thoroughbreds died in competitions and hundreds more in training in 2018.
48 horses have been killed on German racetracks since 2015. Already eight horses in 2019 alone.
The number of unreported “failures” during training is higher because these are not included in the count.
“Racehorses” are tortured and beaten to the point of death. They either die on the racetrack or end up in the slaughterhouse as soon as their performance deteriorates.
“Racehorses” are regularly given medication by trainers to hide the animals’ pain and improve their performance.
Who thinks that’s good?
Only unscrupulous who are directly or indirectly involved in this billion-dollar business.
There is no justification whatsoever for the cruelty inflicted on these animals.
The horse racing industry will not give up its billion-dollar businesses voluntarily.
We are all responsible for forcing them to stop this criminal business.
Posted on May 1, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
France: A fox released by walkers who sent the images to friends and wish to remain anonymous.
(⚠ To attack a trap installed in the rules can be considered as an offense if the trapper lodges a complaint)
And I mean… We currently have self-sufficiency in beef of 96% in Germany and by the end of the year, it will not be 91%.
There is already a lot of meat coming from South America, where the animals are kept up to 40,000 in a lot of cattle and are already cutting down the rainforest because we Europeans buy their meat.
If bull fattening is stopped in Germany, the South Americans will clear even more forests.
Anyone who can count two plus two can also think for themselves who is causing the deforestation.
What do the cows eat?
Because in order to manage their 30-40 liters + per day, they have not been given grass for a long time, but also high-energy soy.
Less than 10% of the soy produced worldwide is consumed by humans, the majority of soy production is not used to make tofu, but to feed animals.
“Everyone should eat what he wants” – that is the gospel of the meat-eaters!
Not everyone can eat what they want.
We don’t eat people either.
We don’t send our children to work either, but to school and, as a rule, we don’t drive 180 in the 30 zones.
So what would be the problem if we in the developed western countries finally start eating ethically correct?
And by the way: We will no longer experience the horrors of climate change that our grandchildren and great-grandchildren have to endure.
But the survivors will hate us all for our environmental crime.
Posted on April 30, 2021 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Animal Equality’s undercover investigationhas revealed a number of serious legal violations at P&G Sleigh Pig Unit in Aberdeenshire,Scotland, a ‘quality assured’ pig farm which is owned by senior pig industry figure, Philip Sleigh.
Animal Equality sent letters outlining the breaches of animal welfare legislation to the relevant authorities, urging them to take immediate action against this facility using the full force of the law.
A criminal investigation is underway.
As individuals, the best thing we can do to help pigs just like the ones we filmed on this farm is keeping them off our plates and encouraging others to choose plant-based alternatives to animal products too.
Animal Equality has investigated 10 British pig farms within five years, finding severe animal suffering and flagrant disregard for animal welfare in every single one.
This is yet another case of an accredited ‘high welfare’ farm flouting the law.
The recordings of the undercover research show:
● Female breeding pigs who are repeatedly artificially inseminated and are forced to give birth and suckle their piglets in cages so small that they cannot even turn around
● Piglets who routinely have their tails cut off with a hot blade and their teeth cut off with pliers, without any anesthesia or pain relief
● Piglets that are killed directly on the premises because they are classified as too small or too weak
● Animals hit with a hammer
● Pigs hit against the hard, concrete floor
● Sows with labia injuries and severe prolapses, in which the uterus or internal organs protrude from the body
● a pig with an extremely severe uterine prolapse that was forced to stand and walk for over a minute and a half before being killed
● Pigs raised in poor, dark conditions
● Pigs living in pens flooded with water and feces without access to dry bedding
And I mean…Philip Sleigh helped to draw up welfare standards as chairman of the pig’s standard-setting committee of Quality Meat Scotland(QMS), a public body to which he had been appointed as a director by the Scottish government.
He resigned from QMS this month after being informed of this undercover footage shot at the P&G Sleigh Pig Unit in Aberdeenshire that showed a worker hammering pigs to death and sows with severe injuries, including organs protruding from their bodies.
This is “high welfare”!!!
“A love of farming goes back several generations in my family,” said Sleigh in an interview of 2019.
“My father was a farmer, my grandfather was a farmer and my great-grandfather was also a farmer, so that runs in my blood.”
We don’t know what runs in his blood. But certainly on his hands are tons of blood from tortured pigs
Philip Sleigh describes himself as an “advocate for keeping his pigs happyand to ensure his herd remains happy and healthy, he is fastidious about how they are cared for”!
To qualify for the Specially Selected Pork label, pork must be produced in a way that meets the strict standards required by Quality Meat Scotland’s quality assurance schemes.
QMS has now removed Sleigh’s farm from its quality assurance scheme.
The lawbreaker Sleigh declined to comment when approached at his farm today.
The unit-concentration camp has not been closed down as far as we know.
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