Month: October 2018

Idaho ‘Wildlife Officer’ Slaughters Entire Baboon Family With Bow And Arrow. Demand He Is Prosecuted.

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So that’s it is it ? – he resigns from his job.  What does he now do ? – continue to kill without being punished ? –  we think this needs to be taken a lot further than it currently seems to be.

 

https://ladyfreethinker.org/petition-fire-idaho-wildlife-official-brutally-killed-entire-baboon-family/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=contentviews&utm_campaign=custom_grid

 

PETITION TARGET: Idaho Governor Butch Otter

It’s a photograph that makes your stomach turn: Idaho wildlife officer Blake Fischer beams as he displays the lifeless bodies of an entire family of baboons, joyful at the massacre of the animals he has just brutally slain with a bow and arrow. The smallest baboon has blood leaking from its stomach, evidence of the fresh, fatal wound.

“So I shot a whole family of baboons,” Fischer boasted in an email he sent to over 100 people.

On this bloody hunting trip in Namibia, Fischer and his wife shot and killed over 14 animals, including giraffes, leopards, antelopes, and impalas. He then posed proudly with his slain victims.

The cruelty is sickening enough on its own. But even worse is that Fisher serves on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission, making decisions that affect wildlife throughout the state — including decisions about hunting regulations for grizzly bears, wolves and other animals often killed as “trophies.” This man has no business serving as a wildlife official, and should be immediately dismissed.

Sign this petition to urge Idaho Governor Butch Otter to fight for Fischer’s resignation. This cold-hearted killer should never have a position where he is responsible for wildlife again. We need to make it clear that trophy hunting is unacceptable, and killing animals is nothing to smile about.

UPDATE: We are thrilled to announce that, upon request of the governor, Blake Fischer has resigned from his position. We applaud Governor Otter for taking action, and implore him to treat all cases of animal cruelty with the severity they deserve.

 

Petition link –  https://ladyfreethinker.org/petition-fire-idaho-wildlife-official-brutally-killed-entire-baboon-family/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=contentviews&utm_campaign=custom_grid

Romania: Portrays Himself As ‘Jeckyll’, The Child Lover; But In Reality He Is ‘Hyde’ – The Mass Animal Killer.

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Reproduced from our other site – SAV – January 2013.

 

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/01/10/romania-exposed-the-mass-dog-catcher-and-killer-from-brasov-romania-contact-your-meps-and-ask-them-to-take-action-now/

Portraying himself as the ‘Jekyll’ child lover; exposed as the ‘Hyde’ Mass Animal Murderer.

A person who enjoys witnessing, and takes great delight in the deaths of animals.

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde.It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll,and the evil Edward Hyde.

The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called “split personality”, referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality.In this case, there are two personalities within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil; completely opposite levels of morality. The novella’s impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase “Jekyll and Hyde” coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.

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The Portrait of a Mass Dog Catcher and Killer … Barbulescu Flavius from Brasov, Romania

Barbulescu Flavius Dumitru, the Dog Catcher in Chief in BRASOV, is fascinated by the “big numbers”.

To kill a “big number“ of dogs (not less than 30,000, of which over 8,000 only in 2008 and 2009, since the Euhtanasia is BANNED) and, as he stipulated at a Conference for The Protection of Animals in München (where he went on funds given by some associations) that he killed a big number (26,000 until 2008) which appalled everybody.

It looked for him that Germans do not understand the symbolism of the “big number”, that they feel like one dead animal is an act of cruelty but a “big number” ( 26,000 -3 0,000) dead animals are only a statistic.

Barbulescu Flavius Dumitru is an “ ideological “ dog catcher.

He is not content with torturing and killing dogs, he wants to convince the nation that the torture and the killing of dogs if not a simple Dog Catching act…it is a “science” a “doctrine” a “way”…

This is why he speaks (like a zoo-technician) about “heads” when he refers to dogs, and seals all declarations (as stupid as it might be) with the formula “based on the legislation in force”, and continuously propagates his inept statements in the local media, invoking “the state institutions“ he presents him self always in his uniform and hates the word “dog catcher“, which he wants to eliminate from the Romanian Language.

In fact, he doesn’t even manage a “dog catching“ service,
he manages the Public Service for the Management of Animals (SPGA – Brasov).

He does not have in his subordination any “dog catcher”….only “inspectors” whose brains he washed by demonstrating them “scientifically“ that dog catchers do not exist anymore, they disappeared like the dinosaurs, long time ago.

Barbulescu Flavius is an accomplished manager. “The Public Service“ which he manages is located in a luminous centre, modern furniture, laminated flooring, a desk for the Director, a bright label with his name on the door, air conditioning, computers, a secretary with eye glasses (wife of an “ inspector”) an exotic plant and a jurist who uselessly wears the same uniform as the dog catchers.

As for the Dog shelter which he manages, a filthy den (scraped in a former pig farm, with humid area, darken, smelling like death, without any surgery room, without recovery room, without running water) he got “brilliant certificates“ and authorizations: ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.

Barbulescu Flavius likes the army, the police and the fire fighters and he likes to believe that dog catching is a kind of urban guerilla and he wants to be seen as the “generous commander“.

He dresses up his dog catchers in military uniforms reminiscent of the “blackshirts” the “ brown shirts” or the “green shirts”, they get pins and they have guns with tranquilizers and vials with Ketamine (a risk drug); he says nothing when the “boys” drink during the working program, and he blesses them with lots of gasoline coupons.
From time to time he lets the “inspectors” play games on the secretary’s computers and gives them some whisky and approves them to party with expired
sausages received for free from the supermarkets (of course for the dogs).

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Barbulescu Flavius has built a beautiful villa for him self, drives an Black SUV Mitsubishi L200,(given to him by the Local City council) to which he can attach or detach (based on how discrete he wants to be) some magnetic yellow plates (112 SGA) and until 2010 he managed to bring his entire family in the service he manages. His father (retired) was the “chief inspector”, his father-in-law “care taker” in the shelter and his brother ( or a short time, because he did not liked it) “inspector”.

Between 2001 and 2010, when they killed around 500 dogs per month, Barbulescu Flavius could rely on the “veterinarian specialized personnel“: The veterinarian SABAU CRISTIAN and the veterinary technician MOLDOVAN DORIN. Sabau Cristian is an “innocent character“ he is about 53 years old, of which 10 were spent studying at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, never castrated, never treated any animal, he “identified in the shelter a “miniature Saint-Bernard” and when asked why he never treated any dog he used to shout : “don’t you understand that the City Hall has no money, sir, has nooooo money“. Basically Mr. Sabau was introduced in the “system” by ENACHE DORIN, the Director of the DSVSA (Direction of Sanitary-Veterynary Authority Brasov) to give Barbulescu Flaviusa PUPPET, to invent diagnostics and to sign the so-called “euthanasia papers “.

The veterinary technician MOLDOVAN DORIN, Barbulescu’s most trusted buddy, his number one accomplice, has fun castrating piglets without anaesthesia (for his buddies who did not wan tto pay a veterinarian) he falsified many times the diagnostics, he himself shoved the syringe with T61 in the hearts of thousands of “heads” (also instead of the veterinarian) and of course, he also builds a two stories house, for himself as any dog catcher.

Before the “euthanasia” Barbulescu Flavius, gave those 30,000 “heads”/animals, the “chance” to die by them selves: he let them suffocate in the “coffins on wheels” of the SPGA ( where they struggled to breath through some wholes done with a borer let then starve to death for weeks, without water for days, no vaccines, no treatment after being exposed to the viruses in his filthy shelter, he let them bite one another and let the wounds get infected, let them give birth in the mud and eat their puppies. And because most of them stubbornly decided not to die, he gave the order to the “veterinary personnel” to kill them, and then if they still have some time left, and ink in their pens, to diagnose then in bulk, with his 4 favourite “incurable diseases” :

– mamita (instead of Mastitis),
– mange (demodicie …here any skin condition)
– chronic enteritis
– casexis

The “Professional veterinary personnel “ subordinated to Barbulescu Flavius, took pride with “remarkable performances”.

SABAU CRISTIAN said that he managed to euthanise 131–210 animals in 3-4 hours (number for which any other veterinarian would need at least 11-17 hours) and he also identified some animals with unique and unrepeatable ailments amongst those caught by the “inspectors”.

By example: he found some males suffering of MASTITIS (inflammation of the mammary glands) some puppies suffering of senility …and some living corpses.

Fearing that these diseases could be transmitted rapidly to other animals, they rushed the dead animals to PROTAN to be incinerated.

At 39 years old, Barbulescu Flavius, speaks very proudly about his “career”. He looks very nostalgic and with envy in the same time at the photo of Simona Panaitescu (the goddess of the Romanian dog catching, with 140,000 dogs killed in her career) photo which is placed on his desk like the Icon of the Virgin Mary, he meditates upon the glorious times between 2002 and 2009 (when he massacred 500 dogs per month, sustains that SPGA Brasov is most efficient service in the country, that he caught and killed dogs from 5 counties (Brasov, Covasna, Harghita, Mures, Suceava, Alba) when he had contracts with tens of towns and when he became the only hope Scripcaru (Mayor of Brasov) had to a “bite” from the “budgetary excedent” (he brought 130,000 Lei/year, only 10% from what he spent, but still…)

To his close ones he unveils his plans for the future. He dreams of killing dogs for 25 more years, and also to expand his actions in 10 more counties and to retire after a massa euthanasia of at least 250 dogs.

Barbulescu Flavius cannot sleep also because of his “legislator vocation”. HE IS THE AUTHOR of the original and countless modified versions, supplemented with the most inept amendments of the Regulation number 66/1999 “about the ownership of domestic animals and birds“ in Brasov (by far the most illegal and unconstitutional and inept By-Law from the city council in Brasov in the last 15 years.

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But Barbulescu Flavius did not stop here.

He felt the inner impulse to go farther and he went in place where no other dog catcher ever dreamt to set foot. He got next to the Prefect of Bucharest Mihai Atanasoaei din Senator Iulian Urban.

Surrounded by these “mentors” Barbulescu Flavius has discovered the “call of the law” and in the vicinity with Urban he understood that the Law for the Protection of Animals had to beabrogated, urgently, because it bans the euthanasia and because it transforms the cruelty against animals in infraction…Atanasoaie “inspired “ him to understand that the “Law for the management of strays needed to be “updated” (to neutralize the “curse” of the ban of the euthanasia) and “improved” by allowing the “hack” of dogs after 2-3 days if they could be deemed: aggressive, sick, unrecoverable, dangerous, unidentified, identified, left free, lost, stolen etc), and also to “kill” the adoption (in order to maintain as many animals as possible in shelters as “raw material “ for the profitable process of euthanasia/incineration) and to boost the powers to the troglodyte dog catching services giving them the right to FINE from 5,000= to 10,000 lei for all sort of abhorrent things, some of which with no connection to the law, what so ever.

Barbulescu Flavius detests the civil society, detests the associations for the protection of animals about which he says that they have NO right to control him not to monitor him, especially if they have no intention to feed the animals in his shelters, to treat them, to help him euthanise them and to accept inept protocols from which only he has something to gain.

BARBULESCU FLAVIUS has broken all the laws.

There are none to have escaped from being stumped upon. From the tens of laws and regulations which intersected his activities, until today he has committed at least one infraction every three days and at least three contraventions per day.

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In a short summary he has:

– killed between 7,700 to 10,000 dogs since their killing has become an offence;
– he killed in horrible pain thousands of animals (first years after 2002);
he took animals by force from people’s yard or from some institutions yards;
– he took, at the demand others the dogs from people’s yards and institutions yards,
he did not feed the animals, did not treat them did not vaccinate them against rabies;
– did not disinfect the shelter, he falsified the diagnostics for the so-called “euthanasia”;
– he abusively forbade the access to the public and the civil society in the shelters;
– he killed dogs in their kennels (and not in the surgical room);
– he left to die in horrible pains animals who really did not have any chance of survival;
he suffocated the dogs in his trailers;
he tranquilized all dogs, small, large, aggressive, non aggressive, although only a veterinarian has the right to do so;
– he used too small dosage during the euthanasia,
he killed dogs without euthanasia;
he refused to return dogs who have been claimed and refused to give them for adoption;
– he got and used high risk drugs without having the right to do so;
he bought huge quantities of tranquilizers and lethal substances without medical prescription;
– he transported cadavers in cars without authorization for the transport of dead animals;
– he transported dogs for more than 160 km in cars which where authorized only for 65 km;
– he registered hundreds of dogs as adopted in the place where euthanasied dogs were supposed to be registered;
– he refused the presence of animal protection associations to the actions of capture, shelter, vaccination, euthanasia (Art 11 from the law regarding the management of strays);
– he broke the law regarding the arms and ammunition by using arms with tranquilizers without authorization;
– he broke the law regarding animals from areas declared with rabies infestation, by taking them to the shelter in Stupini-Brasov;
– he made false declarations (in many penal cases) …etc, etc, etc

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Barbulescu Flavius has 8 legal complains filed against him and tens of other reports, at the DSVSA, ANSVSA and Police.

Yet, his superiors (he dwarfs from the garden of the mayor Scripcaru – who also are members of the municipal council) never gave any sign, at least for the eyes of the public, to even ask him what is going on at the SPGA.

Barbulescu Flavius is a media monster, which has the local media at his fingers tips. By example, if he wants to call a press conference to announce everybody that his “inspectors” will change the winter uniforms with the summer ones, there will be at least a dozen of “grasshoppers” from Rtt, Realitatea, TVS , Antena 1 Brasov or BB, ready to sip his words.

Every time the DVS decides to show us the “fox with rabies”(which is it said to have been kept in their freezers for ten years) and they want now to declare quarantine, in less than one hour, the space around him is full with microphones, camera, notebooks, and inept question

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In the last ten years since the dog catcher in chief has erupted in the local media, tens of journalists flock around him, groomed him and embalmed him like the mummy of Tutankhamon and in the same time have destroyed his enemies.

These are a few of his journalists followers, fans of Barbulescu Silviu:
Liviu Cioineag,
Vifor Rotar,
Dan Ghita,
Paul Petrosel,
Silvana Enache sau
Daniel Giurma.

Barbulescu Silviu believes with ardour in authorities and in their unshakable commitment to save him from all his foul tricks.

He has confidence in Commissioner MIRCEA POPA “boys” and in the Director Enache Dorin Valter’s“ inspectors “ who know how to white-wash “responsibly” the traces of his frauds, and to let the proves disappear between fingers, like magicians and then they put on all files the well known NUP.

He hopes that the prosecutors and the judges will confirm the Not-Guilty stamps put on his files, based on the “benefit of the doubt “in dubio pro reo” as if it was visible from afar that this “doubt” is the constant refusal of the police to put him under a serious investigation.

And to dissipate all doubts that there is a doubt” which gives them advantage, Barbulescu Flavius and Moldovan Dorin, polish their boots, iron their uniforms and come in front of the judge, grave but dignified, like war veterans who after a life of sacrifices, came to be humiliated and insulted by some pranks.

The German ARD TV station has shown a documentary on Dec. 8th 2012 about the machinations of Romanian dog catchers titled “a dog’s life in (Ro) shelters)”

… TV-Mitschnitt      (link to TV recording)

It is not different in Brasov Stupin: (Caution – cruel scenes from 2011)

… Video

At this moment some 250 dogs suffer in Brasov Stupin!

Current videos from 30.11. 2012:  (WARNING – Distressing Scenes of animal suffering)

… Video 1

… Video 2

… Video 3

… Video 4

… Video 5

… Video 6

… Video 7

… Video 8

No Fair Play for street dogs: Rasnov disposes of all dogs in the run-up to the “European Youth Olympic Festival” in February 2013.

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The machinations of the dog catcher mafia slams the breaks on animal welfare in Romania

… Current situation in Brasov in August 2012

… Report on current situation in Brasov May 2012

… Report by Petra Zipp (BMT) of 04. May 2012 (with Protest addresses)

… Protest Newsletter 04-2012 (online Protest)

… Letter to the city of Codlea

… Reaction of the city of Codlea

… Letter to town council of Brasov

 

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Friends help friends!

 

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A herd of lions has eaten several suspected rhino poachers in a nature reserve in South Africa. Park guards at the Sibuya Private Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape discovered human bones, clothing and equipment.The lions spotted and tore the invaders and ate them up. More than the shoes of poatchers did not leave the big cats behind.

In addition to body parts Park guards found, among other things, a rifle with silencer, an ax and three pairs of shoes. With the ax the horns should be cut off the rhinos.

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The Sibuya Game Reserve went out because of the shoes and clothing scraps of at least three poachers, who had probably targeted rhinos. Apparently, they accidentally got in the way of the six-lion pack, as reserve owner Fox explained. The intruders came to the reserve on Monday night. Dogs specialized in hunting poachers still attacked at night.

“The lions are our guardians and protectors. The poachers picked the wrong pack and became a meal, “said Nick Fox, 60, owner of Sibuya Private Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape.

Although Mr. Fox saddened the hunters’ death, he made it clear: “The poachers came here to kill our animals. And that sends the clear message to all other poachers that they will not always be the winners”!

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As a precaution, an armed park attendant will accompany the safari vehicles until further notice. Whether the killed had more accomplices remained unclear at first.

The police are still investigating, said police spokeswoman Govender.In South Africa, about 1,000 rhinos are killed each year by poachers. The horns are sold mainly to Asia, where they – as an ingredient of traditional medicine – a fortune is paid.

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/loewen-fressen-wilderer-sibuya-suedafrika-100.html

My comment: Why can not animals get such meals every day?
WE torture animals every day in millions, because WE see them as our meals!

Because our underdeveloped morality says: This is normal, they are just animals and their function is to torture and eat them. No one would think of bringing to the newspaper the slaughter of a cow or the torture of a pig in the boiling water as a sensational message. As soon as three criminals want to assassinate innocent animals and are fairly punished by their conspecifics, this is sold as a human tragedy.

I hope the lions had a good and vitamin-rich meal!

My best regards, Venus

Against the killing of stray dogs in Europe

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In many European countries brutal mass murders are being used against the high number of abandoned stray dogs.

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Government subsidies and the establishment of killing stations have turned the killing of dogs into a lucrative business that needs to be stopped as soon as possible!
For each animal caught, the dog catchers assigned by the towns receive a certain sum- to earn as much as possible they are all bestial means right: The strays are pursued and hunted, poisoned and abused, tortured and killed in a cruel manner.

Continue reading “Against the killing of stray dogs in Europe”

The new delicacy for carnists: robins!

 

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In a bird catcher in Brescia (northern Italy), the Carabinieri have found over 1,000 (mostly) plucked robins.
Officers from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter had taken the officers to the poacher’s track as soon as they found and reported a trap with illegal nets.

After the police were able to convict the culprit inflagranti, a house search brought the grisly find to light.
The sheltered birds are coveted delicacies and were intended for restaurants where they are served on closed days or in back rooms personally known guests.

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The catching and selling of songbirds has long been banned in Italy, with high penalties especially for restaurants. But because the birds are not mentioned as such on any menu, restaurant owners are very rarely caught. The man with the 1,000 robins was poachen 30 of the current committee bird protection camp in Brescia.

https://www.facebook.com/Komitee.CABS/

 

My comment: The largest cemetery in the world is the human stomach.
For just a few minutes palate enjoyment of the carnists, others have to pay with their lives, their freedom, their luck.
With the fascist right of the stronger we destroy the most precious thing for every being, his life.

That’s why eating meat means murder.

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My best regards, Venus

Australia: Another Company Closely Associated With Disgraced Live Exporters Has Its Export Licence APPROVED !

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Another company closely affiliated with disgraced live exporters Emanuel Exports and EMS Rural Exports has had an export licence approved.

The Department of Agriculture has today granted an export licence to the Kuwait Livestock and Trading (KLTT) company’s Australia subsidiary, Rural Export Trading WA (RETWA).

Here’s what you need to know:

    • KLTT has a horrific track record of animal cruelty and disaster in live exports, and has been implicated in multiple ESCAS breaches and animal cruelty investigations in Kuwait in recent years.
    • RETWA had its export licence cancelled in 2004 by then Nationals Agriculture Minister Warren Truss following 25 high mortality voyages within a two-year period between 2000-2002.
    • When this happened, Emanuel Exports filled the gap providing export services for KLTT.
    • Now that Emanuel Exports has had its licence cancelled, RETWA is stepping back in.
    • It’s another example of the live export shell game, and KLTT is playing the Department of Agriculture for fools.

 

  • RETWA and disgraced Emanuel Exports are closely affiliated trading partners – they’ve shared the same Directors and the same live export ships.

 

  • Graham Daws founded RETWA in 1973, the same year he became director of Emanuel Exports before stepping down earlier this year following the Awassi Express scandal.
  • KLTT leased the Awassi Express, and was the consignee/importer for all five horrific voyages exposed on 60 Minutes this year.

 

How can the Department think it could possibly meet its regulatory obligations in granting this licence?

How can the live sheep export industry and their supporters think this is a good move?

The answer is simple.

This is what business-as-usual for live sheep exporters looks like.

Protecting their mates and doing their best to doing their best to get around government regulations.

This is the best they’ve got.

This is as good as it gets.

If you agree it’s not good enough (and we know you do), write to your MP now.

Tell them this is further proof of the incompetence of the live export regulator.

Tell them it’s clearer than ever before, that the live sheep export industry has no capacity or willingness to change.

Tell them you want political leaders to step up, and start implementing the phase-out now.

An industry that has such reckless disregard for community expectations and Australian regulations has no chance of long-term survival.

Like you, we’re sick to death of this trade, and it’s only a matter of time before it will be brought to an end.

Thanks as always for your support.

Dr Jed Goodfellow
Senior Policy Officer
RSPCA Australia

 

Scotland: ‘Mad cow disease’ at Aberdeenshire farm after BSE confirmed.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-45901043

‘Mad cow disease’ at Aberdeenshire farm after BSE confirmed

 

A case of BSE – so-called mad cow disease – has been confirmed at a farm in Aberdeenshire.

Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said a movement ban was now in place on the unnamed farm.

Investigations are under way to identify the origin of the disease – the first of its kind in Scotland in 10 years – which was found after an animal died.

The “isolated” case was identified before entering the human food chain.

There are understood to have been 16 cases in the UK since 2011, with the last in 2015.

‘Lose status’

Chief Veterinary Officer Sheila Voas said: “I would urge any farmer who has concerns to seek veterinary advice.”

She added: “While it is too early to tell where the disease came from in this case, its detection is proof that our surveillance system is doing its job.

“We are working closely with the Animal and Plant Health Agency to answer this question.”

Andrew McCornick, president of NFU Scotland, said: “It is disappointing to learn of this BSE case within the Aberdeenshire area.

“Whilst we lose our negligible risk status, it is not unexpected to see a new case and demonstrates the efficacy of the surveillance measures in place. This simply brings us back in line with the rest of Great Britain, reverting back to where we were 18 months ago.

“When Scotland applied for BSE negligible risk status it was with the full knowledge that there was every possibility of a sporadic case of BSE emerging as has been the case in France and Ireland.”

‘Strict controls’

Ian McWatt, director of operations in Food Standards Scotland, said: “There are strict controls in place to protect consumers from the risk of BSE, including controls on animal feed, and removal of the parts of cattle most likely to carry BSE infectivity.”

BSE stands for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

In 2015, farming officials confirmed a case of BSE in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

The cow was discovered to have BSE following routine tests carried out when an animal dies on a farm.

 

Also:

https://news.sky.com/story/mad-cow-disease-case-confirmed-on-farm-in-scotland-11528621

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/18/uk/scotland-mad-cow-disease-intl/index.html

 

Scottish calves exported from Ramsgate, England – Tuesday 16th October.

The transporter was a CALF transporter, a guy called McCreery, Southern Irish, who has been working out of Scotland for some time taking Scottish calves on P&O via Cairnryan to Larne, then Southern Ireland to Rosslere, then to Cherbourg (France) and on to Spain.

 

More About BSE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy

 

 

Bye, bye “Nutella”!

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Nutella is a very popular “staple” in households.
However, one man believes that his healthier alternative, which contains 97 percent less sugar and no palm oil, could convince consumers to change brands.

Nutella’s sugar content has risen from 55.9% to 56.3% and its fat content is 30.9%, according to the nutritional chart.
Nutella is therefore a sugar-fat cream.

Did you know that? The biggest producers of chocolate are still Nestlé and Ferrero! By the way, the chocolate is still made by “modern slaves”.
Nestlé has sold its US candy business to Nutella -Maker Ferrero for $ 2.8 billion.

But Ferrero is under pressure since the edible oil is listed as potentially carcinogenic. In Italy, Ferrero launched a major advertising campaign after sales slumped. The advertising machinery is running at full speed because the cash register has to ring. But consumers are increasingly looking for an alternative and say: Bye, bye “Nutella”!

In early January 2017, the Italian confectionery manufacturer Ferrero was fiercely criticized for using palm oil. Ferrero uses palm oil primarily for its popular spread Nutella, as the product will be creamy and easily spreadable. “If we made Nutella without palm oil, we would produce a worse substitute for the real product,” explains Ferrero purchasing manager Vincenzo Tapella on the loud criticism.

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Giovanni Ferrero wants, according to Forbes, only one more thing: Ferrero make even bigger. The nerve center of Ferrero is no longer in Italy, but in Luxembourg. Thanks to favorable taxes, the small state is the hub of the global enterprise. In 2017, the company sold candy worth $ 12.5 billion. The family’s private fortune amounts to an estimated $ 31 billion. Alone 21 billion US $ belong to Giovanni, which ranks 47th among the richest people in the world.

Ferrero uses around 185,000 tonnes of palm oil a year!

From land grabbing to murder, from the extinction of many species of animals and especially the orangutans – we have reported several times. Nevertheless, people lubricate Nutella with palm oil on the bread and bring the Ferrero Group two billion euros from the already 20 billion euros, the Ferreo made in the past fiscal year in sales.

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Yet a man from Melbourne believes that his healthier alternative could convince consumers to change brands.

Nuttvia has a very similar name and contains 97 percent less sugar and no palm oil.

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Brand inventor Samuel Tew has developed a formula for the product, confident that it will be able to market it in supermarkets in the face of the growing appetite for healthier alternatives.

He admits that it is a lofty ambition to take on such a popular brand as Nutella, but nonetheless, since 2000, Tew has been working to change people’s relationship with sugar, feeling he has a chance.

EDrfinder des Ersatzes NutellaSamuel Tew is the creator of Nuttvia. –

 

His chocolate spread has been in the supermarkets of Coles for several months and the latest sales figures are promising. With Nuttvia, he was able to make $ 8 million in sales, even though the product has not even been on the market for more than a year. The 2017/18 sales figure is expected to exceed $ 10 million!

He employs 15 people, including a marketing manager in the UK, to enter the global marketplace. Nuttvia and Natvia (an other product of him) are now available in 14 markets around the world, including New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Iran and Singapore.

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Comment: I had already decided years ago for a replacement for Nutella, which is vegan.
Now I’m waiting for the Nuttvia.
With it we will all have a clear conscience and less kilos on the scales!!

My best regards to all, Venus

Donkey Skins Are The New Ivory In China. Immense Global Animal Suffering Results.

DONKEYS are the backbone of many farming villages in developing countries. But if current trends continue, the world’s rural poor may soon need to find a new beast of burden.

The animals’ ranks have thinned dramatically in many African countries: Kenya’s donkey population, for example, has fallen by half since 2009, to 900,000. The primary cause is neither disease nor declining demand for live donkeys, but instead a burgeoning market for their pelts.

 

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Since ancient times the Chinese have consumed , a gelatine made by boiling and refining donkey skin to produce a tonic taken as an elixir.

As the country grew richer in the 1990s and 2000s, demand for the product grew and fewer donkeys were needed for agriculture and transport. As a result, there were only 5m donkeys in China in 2016, down from 11m in 1990. Because donkeys are relatively poor breeders, China no longer has enough of them to satisfy its thirst for . One solution is to fake the product using the skin of other animals, such as pigs. But some manufacturers have now instituted DNA testing to ensure their is genuine. The other option is to import from abroad.

China’s biggest sources are African. In Kenya, the price of a donkey soared by 325% during a six-month period last year. From 2011 to 2016, the number of donkeys fell by 60% in Botswana and a fifth in Lesotho. But countries all over the world are getting in on the act. In Kyrgyzstan, which borders China, and in India, the populations fell by a fifth during 2015 and 2016 alone.

Farther afield, Colombia lost almost a tenth of its donkeys and Brazil around 5% over the same period. Some South American donkeys are transported more than 1,000km for slaughter, demonstrating the reach of the Chinese demand.