Month: September 2018
German chickens are an export hit: Every year hundreds of thousands of chicks are transported by plane around the world. This shows the response of the Federal Government to a request from the Greens. How many animals are dying, the Ministry of Agriculture does not know – in the Netherlands recently 19,000 chicks frozen in the cargo hold.
Dead chicks in a transport box – found at the airport Amsterdam. Photo: NVWA
According to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Germany exported 1.77 million animals by air last year. Almost a third of them were flown to Russia, 217,000 to Pakistan and 156,000 to Uzbekistan. In 2016, there were a total of more than 4 million chickens chickens who went on a plane trip. The significant decline in exports is related to the avian influenza outbreak here. Many third countries would then have prohibited imports from Germany.
Green find practice absurd
The export by air plays an important role in the business of so-called breeding and reproductive chicks, said a spokeswoman for the Association of Poultry Economics
The animals are used to build herds elsewhere, and are quite valuable.
Legally prescribed transport times for the chicks are often only to be observed for air transports, the association said. An important transport center is Frankfurt Airport, which specializes in the handling of live animals.
Green Parliament’s deputy Friedrich Ostendorff called it “absurd, newly hatched chicks to fly halfway around the world.” That does not fit his image of animal-friendly agriculture. He pointed out that in case of delays the supply of the animals was hardly guaranteed. “In the worst case, this leads to the death of thousands of animals,” said Ostendorff.
Dead chicks in Amsterdam
How many chicks die in such transports, the poultry Association could not say. The Federal Government could call on the Green request no numbers. In 2013, the fire of a plane at Leipzig Airport killed tens of thousands of chicks, which are supposed to be exported to the Caucasus. The crew was able to save themselves from the flames.
In the Netherlands, too, a chick transport recently hit the headlines: At Amsterdam Airport, veterinarians discovered 19,000 dead turkey chicks in December, who were actually en route from Canada to Poland. The animals had allegedly died of hypothermia in the air.
The Netherlands are significantly more active in chick-air transport than Germany. In 2017, nearly 600,000 day old chicks were imported into the EU via the Netherlands. Target countries were often Austria and Poland. Meanwhile, 23 million turkey and chicken chicks left the Netherlands for the onward journey by plane.
My comment: The Green politician Ostendorff has said: “In the worst case, these leads to the death of thousands of animals”.
Does he really believe, that such a thing interests the meat and transport mafia?
If these professional killer had an interest in the lives of the animals, they would not do that job.
Therefore, if a few thousand “products” break down, then the company gets compensation.
Such “losses” are part of the job risk, and immediately try to repair the damage. With new animals, with new victim
But on the other hand, the responsibility is not only and not fully due to the meat ma.
All who eat these victims finance the business.
We order, they kill.
Because for an apathetic majority taste is more important than life.
He who does not act morally has failed!
My best regards, Venus
| Dear Mark,
A few days ago, we were alerted to the plight of a lonely little moon bear.
Captured as a just a baby, Sky grew up all alone in this cage. Farmed for her gall bladder bile for the past 13 years. Stabbed with long needles. Nowhere soft to lay her head. Not a friend in the world… This is no life. It is unlikely that Sky has ever seen a vet in her life. We don’t yet know what damage years of confinement, malnutrition, and cruel bile farming has caused. Will you help save and care for little Sky, Mark? Stolen from the wild and crammed into a cage as a tiny cub, this is the only life gentle Sky can remember. But today, 13 long and lonely years will come to an end for Sky… all thanks to the power of your love and support. Thank you! With the warmest bear hugs for your generosity and compassion,
PS You can be with Sky every step of the way by following LIVE updates of the rescue on our Facebook page, including updates on her condition, her first sweet slurp of strawberry sauce, and the special moment she arrives at her forever home. A place filled with all the love and kindness she’s been waiting for all her life. Thank you!
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For years, nearly every commercial airline has refused to fly monkeys and other animals to laboratories, where they would face torment and death.
Now, a trade group representing animal experimenters that defends all experiments on animals, no matter how cruel, has filed a legal complaint with the U.S. Department of Transportation to force airlines to transport monkeys to laboratories.
If they’re successful, airlines will be legally compelled to ship tens of thousands of monkeys from China and other countries to U.S laboratories where they’d be caged alone, poisoned, cut into, kept thirsty to coerce them to obey, and eventually killed.
Please take action right now by leaving polite comments stating that you want airlines to be able to make their own policy decisions and that monkeys should never be torn from their families, shoved into tiny wooden boxes, stuffed into the dark and terrifying cargo holds of commercial airplanes, and flown thousands of miles to certain suffering and death in laboratories
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German – 291 Tiere wurden bei einer Kampagne in Mioveni sterilisiert
Um die Situation der Streunertiere, die durch Besitzertiere verursacht wird, in angemessener Weise zu lösen, ist die korrekte Information über den Vorteil von Sterilisation und die gesetzlichen Vorschriften sehr wichtig. Information über verantwortliche Sterilisation ist der Anfang für erfolgreiche Kastration, der dann als Nächstes mit kostenlosen Sterilisations-Programmen erweitert werden muss, da die finanziellen Möglichkeiten von den Besitzern sehr beschränkt sind, besonders in ländlichen Gegenden.
Die Stadtverwaltung von Mioveni hat das alles sehr gut verstanden, und SEdC Mioveni öffnete die Türen für die Ausführung eines Sterilisations-Programms, das die Adoption von Shelter-Hunden ermöglicht und bessere Lebensbedingungen für die 400 Hunde, die momentan in dem Shelter leben, gewährleistet.
In Zusammenarbeit mit der Stadtverwaltung von Mioveni organisierten wir vom 3. bis zum 8. September die erste kostenlose Sterilisierungs-Kampagne in Miovenis öffentlichem Shelter. Im Ganzen wurden 291 Tiere kastriert, 124 Hunde aus dem öffentlichen Shelter und 167 Hunde und Katzen mit privaten Besitzern.
Die Sterilisations-Aktion wurde finanziell von „Helft Handeln“ aus Deutschland unterstützt, der NGO, mit der wir schon seit mehreren Jahren den Tieren in Rumänien und ihren Besitzern geholfen haben. Zusammen mit der österreichischen „Salzburger Initiative 50+“, die auch stark an Sterisierungs-Projekten beteiligt ist, werden wir weiterhin bei dem öffentlichen Shelter in Mioveni tätig sein. „Helft Handeln“ war nicht nur finanziell, sondern auch persönlich an den Shelter-Aktionen beteiligt und organisierte den Transport von Tieren, deren Besitzer keine Möglichkeit hatten, zum Ort der Sterilisations-Kampagne zu kommen.
In einem öffentlichen Shelter muss Vieles neben der Sterilisation unternommen werden. Deswegen wurden Hunde mit medizinischen Problemen behandelt und operiert, und Welpen wurden entwurmt und geimpft.
SEdC Mioveni gewährleistete eine vorbildliche Zusammenarbeit nicht nur durch die Teamarbeit mit uns, sondern auch wegen der prompten Einführung von Verbesserungen für die Lage der Hunde im Asyl, die wir mit ihnen besprochen hatten.
Ausserdem haben die Stadtverwaltung und SEdC von Mioveni mit einer Aktion begonnen: „Das Shelter ist kein Zuhause“. In Zusammenarbeit mit National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA) werden die Stadtbehörden ihren ersten „Adoptions-Tag“ in einem Park vor dem öffentlichen Shelter durchführen, bei dem auch kreative Unterhaltung für Kinder angeboten wird. Wir bitten Alle, die sich ein Haustier anschaffen wollen, zu adoptieren und nicht zu kaufen! Die Dankbarkeit und Erfüllung, die durch eine Adoption gewährt wird, kann niemals bei einem Verkäufer gefunden werden.
Carmen ARSENE
Präsidentin
National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA)
ENGLISH VERSION ………
291 animals neutered during the campaign organized in Mioveni
Appropriate information on the benefits of animal sterilization and the requirements of the law is paramount in solving the situation of stray animals that is generated by the owned animals. Information in responsible way is the basis, the start, in sterilization programs, and then supplemented with free sterilization programs because the financial possibilities of the owners, especially those from rural areas, are very low.
All these have been understood by the Mioveni City Hall and the SEdC Mioveni that have opened their doors to the implementation of a sterilization program, promoting the adoptions of shelter dogs, collaborating in order to provide better conditions for the 400 dogs that is currently in shelter.
Within the partnership that we will develop with the Mioveni City Hall, we organized the first free sterilization campaign in the public shelter of the Mioveni City Hall, on 3-8 September. 291 animals -124 dogs from the public shelter, and 167 dogs and cats with owner were sterilized by our collaborator vets.
The campaign for sterilization was financially supported by “Helft Handeln”, from Germany, the organization with whom we have been working for several years in support of animals in Romania and their owners and who. Together with Salzburger Initiative 50+ from Austria, also deep involved in sterilisation campaign, will be constantly involved in the Mioveni public shelter. “Helft Handeln” has not only been involved financially but also practically through effective participation in shelter actions as well as by ensuring the transport of animals of the owners who did not have transport facilities, to the site, for sterilization.
A public shelter involves many requirements, which is why our activity in the shelter during the campaign was not just sterilization, but also the treatment and operation of dogs with medical problems, deworming and vaccination of puppies.
SEdC Mioveni has proved an exemplary collaboration not only through team work we have done, but also through the quick start of some of the works we have discussed in order to improve the conditions of dog shelter.
Moreover, Mioveni City Hall and SEdC have launched the campaign “The shelter is not home”. Within this campaign, in partnership with National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA), the local authorities organize the first “adoption day”, in a park, outside the public shelter Mioveni, as well as creative themes for children. We urge anyone who wants a pet, to adopt and not buy! Gratitude and the satisfaction of adopting an animal from a shelter are feelings which can not be found in any trader’s location.
Carmen ARSENE
President
National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA)
Below – The Heroes !
best regards, venus
Police consider drones to monitor badger cull protesters
Devon and Cornwall police warn activists as cull zone is massively expanded
Police have warned badger cull protesters that they may use drones to try to keep order in the far south-west of England following heightened tensions between activists and officers.
In an email to protesters seen by the Guardian, a Devon and Cornwall officer said the force would consider using drones “where intelligence dictates”.
The force said it was considering drones because of a spike in crimes in some areas within cull zones but protesters insisted the move would not stop them from trying to prevent badgers being killed.
The cull in England has been hugely expanded into 10 new areas, with up to 42,000 animals now due to be shot in an attempt to curb tuberculosis in cattle, up from 32,500 last year.
The cull zones now cover vast swathes of many counties, including 68% of Devon and 54% of Cornwall.
The increase is adding to pressure on police forces in these areas. In the email to the protester, the officer wrote: “I have been asked to let you know – and that you forward as you believe necessary – that a decision has been made that where intelligence dictates police will consider the deployment of drones.”
My best regards, Venus
There are around 800 fur farms in Poland, where more than eight million animals are imprisoned and killed. PETA has taken pictures of five of these farms, from 2016, showing shocking animal suffering. By keeping in tiny wire cages, foxes go crazy, constantly turning in circles and scratching desperately on the cage walls. The grid wires of the cage floors lead to swollen and inflamed paws in the animals. Diseases such as swollen palate obviously are not treated. Due to the systematic animal suffering, a bill has now been introduced in the Polish parliament to ban fur farms.
Background information
Poland has become the second largest fur producer in Europe in recent years, after Denmark. However, systematic research on the farms had repeatedly documented cannibalism, injuries, behavioral problems and deceased animals on farms across the country.
Bill for a fur farm ban
After the draft bill for a fur farm ban has been discussed in the Polish parliament until the end of 2017, the vote is still pending. More than 25,000 supporters together with PETA appealed to those responsible to follow the example of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain, Croatia, the Netherlands, Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Austria and ban fur farms.
The majority of Poles want a fur farm ban
According to polls by the opinion research institute GfK in 2017, 67 percent of Polish citizens are already in favor of a fur farm ban.
Sign our current petition (on the link) and ask Escada to immediately ban the resale of fur!
https: https://www.peta.de/Pelzfarmen-Polen
And I say: It has always amazed me: although almost all fur farms in Germany have been closed (not by itself, but with the fight of the animal rights activists) I have always seen brainless women on the street wearing expensive fur parts.
Why that? From where? I thought.
Therefore! Now I know that! from the nice neighbor, who will soon see his Dachau being shot. Times have changed, and Poland needs to find other means to get the money.
Best regards to all, Venus
World Animals Voice 