Month: July 2018
Every year in Pamplona, from the 6th to the 14th of July, the San Firmin, a feast in honor of the holy Firmin, are celebrated. Every morning at 8 o Clock 6 bulls are rushed through the narrow streets of the old town together with several steer oxen to an arena. In the arena, at the evening, up to eight Toreros are attached to a bull, spiked him again and injure him with daggers and Banderillas. This lasts until the bull is weakened by the loss of blood. Then the matador pierces the exhausted animal with a sword and an executioner cuts through the spinal cord.
The rush of animals takes only a few minutes. Hundreds of men, the so-called “mozos” race in front of the bulls, about 825 meters through the narrow streets of the northern Spanish city – it is considered particularly courageous to let the bulls get as close as possible to themselves!!
Thousands of tourists from all over the world feed the coffers enormously.
But only the the bull spectacle brings the tourist business realy to blooming: San Fermin shirts with bulls and bullfighters, Made in China, magnets with bull running motifs, all of the cheap kind: these are generally the best-selling products in the shops of the Estafeta street.
The origin of this idiotic custom lies in a cattle market on the occasion of the Patronesses, to which the butcher boys drove the livestock to be sold every morning.
Sometimes the Fiesta activities have orgiastic traits.
A fashion is to throw yourself from the four-meter-high fountain into the crowd, if this does not make a place before. Serious injuries are on the agenda, the ambulances are working at full speed. Machos of this earth use the moment of the Fiesta opening, in which the masses have the closest physical contact, to sexist fisticuffs, which have led in the meantime to many advertisements that the event is meticulously camera-monitored in order to make the idiots arrest.
“The mob has many heads but no brains”
The bulls are irritated before the race with electric shocks and sharp sticks, then tortured and slaughtered in the arena, criticized Birgit Wagner of the organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
“Tormenting and slaughtering animals for our entertainment is a Stone Age spectacle,” said the 33-year-old Peta activist. Criticism came also from the German animal protection federation.
The spectacle was an ordeal masquerading as a cultural tradition (!!!), said Federal Managing Director Thomas Schröder.
https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/spanien-pamplona-eroeffnet-hatz-auf-stiere_aid_316178.html
One has put him in a skirt and closed his mouth with a muzzle. His eyes are wide with fear. As a moon bear, he is one of the endangered species.
Here he is forced to drive a scooter.
The ever-present whip of his trainer is a permanent reminder of what happens when the poor bear does not cooperate.
This timid moon bear is just one of the many desperate animals that must live a life of pain, misery and fear in the shameful circuses in Vietnam
It is indisputable: In the animal circuses of Vietnam, moon bears, macaques, elephants and even orangutans suffer from daily exploitation.
For a long time they are imprisoned or chained. Through intimidation, coercion and violence they are trained.
As a result of the intense, inescapable stress many are hurt themselves.
In addition, Animals Asia has doubts as far as the papers of the endangered species are concerned (including moon bears, orangutans and elephants). Without papers, it would be very possible that they are illegally hunted and trapped animals.
Although Animals Asia has shared these shocking discoveries with the Vietnamese government, nothing has been done so far.
Bolivia, Costa Rica, Greece, Croatia and Scotland are already on the ever-growing list of countries that have completely banned cruel wildlife circuses. For Vietnam, it is time to follow their example.
Animals Asia is ready to assist in Vietnam, in the rescue of each of these circus animals. For the bears, there is room in the organization’s own award-winning rescue center and for the elephants in the partner Elephant Sanctuary.
Please appeal NOW to the Vietnamese Government for the wildlife circuses to be closed and the animals to be given a home in rescue centers.
https://help.animalsasia.org/page/25425/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=facebook
Cattle transport on Highway 6 ( Germany) stopped: animals ate each other in hunger !!
Sinsheim (Baden Wurttemberg) – The police have a strange feeling – that is also the reason why the police stop the cattle transport. When they look inside, the naked horror comes over them:
It’s Thursday night (4 July), about 19 clock, as a patrol car a heavy truck on the highway 6 in Sinsheim striking. As always, when officials feel strange about a vehicle, they stop it. The first thing they notice: The animals are penned in the transporter in the smallest space.
A sight of horror
At the moment, there is almost a revolt in Germany against animal transports.
The “German Animal Protection Office” has organized a very large campaign, with demos in 32 cities in Germany, from 1. July to 6. September.
On 1 July 2018, was a big demo in Berlin, with more than 300 people, under the motto “Truck you-animal transports do not taste good”.
“Truck you” – Demo in Berlin 1.07.2018 (from the FB-side of Stefan B.Eck)
Continue reading “The campaign: “Truck you-animal transports do not taste good”!!”
Welcome to this new site we have called ‘World Animals Voice’ (WAV).
This site has been created after spending approximately 14 years working on our other site – ‘Serbian Animals Voice’ (SAV) which can be found by clicking on the following link:
https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/
SAV dealt for many years specifically with the issue of stray dogs and cats within Serbia.
Over the past months we have noticed that we have been publishing a lot more on Global animal rights / welfare issues rather than just sticking with Serbia. So after some discussions we have decided to create this new site to give you; our visitors and fellow campaigners; an insight into issues for animals that are happening all over the world.
Here we will cover issues such as:
- Global live animal transport
- Hunting
- Vivisection
- Plastics – and how they are destroying the oceans
- Stray dogs and cats
- Factory farming
Each of these issues is given an independent link (tab) at the very top of the site.
You can click on any of these tabs to see what has been published on this particular subject. Please remember that the site is new as of July 2018 and so all the tabs have not yet had new posts added. They will be over time.
Our aim is to gradually build up posts on this site which cover global animal rights / welfare issues. New posts WILL NOT be put onto the Serbian Animals Voice site very soon – they will be located here instead. But you can still access the old SAV site by clicking on the above link – this will give you access to all the posts we have compiled over 14 years or so.
Regards – Venus and Mark
World Animals Voice 
