In December 2016, undercover images of Animal Equality Mexico exposed unimaginable animal suffering in 21 slaughterhouses in Mexico.

The investigators of Animal Equality, Mexico documented the terrible everyday life in 21 slaughterhouses. Some of the slaughterhouses are owned by the government, such as Jalisco, Nuevo León, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi, Colima, Zacatecas and Nayarit. The footage clearly shows how these farms regularly violate the Federal Animal Health Law – without any legal consequences:

-ALL pigs are fully conscious when they are stabbed. In most slaughterhouses, pigs are killed by being stabbed in the side with several knife wounds and then bleeding to death.
In none of the documented abattoirs are sheep and goats stunned before slaughter. The animals are tied together, a worker pulls them on one foot over the ground and then cuts off their heads.

-Workers forcibly force them to move with blows and electric shock when they panic.

-Workers kill more than three pigs at the same time.

Some pigs try to climb over other pigs to escape the impending death, while the workers kill the other pigs and begin dissecting them.

-Pigs are beaten with a hatchet.
-Cows are driven forward with surges.

-Bleeding cows try to get up after they wake up from their anesthesia. Partially, underage children are present at the time of killing the animals.
-A worker ties a lamb, slits his throat and rips his head off while fully conscious.

These practices did not constitute a crime. In Mexico, there have been no laws protecting so-called livestock from maltreatment.

The current animal welfare laws that protect dogs and cats do not prescribe any regulations for the animals in the breeding, fattening and slaughterhouses of the food industry. If somebody treated a dog or a cat like workers in the farms visited, such as pigs, cows, sheep, chickens or goats, these people would have to face imprisonment.

The Animal Equality team in Mexico has managed to change this, at least in the Mexican state of Jalisco, with an unprecedented initiative.

Anyone who abuses so-called livestock in the future commits an offense.

This is a significant advance for animal welfare in Mexico!

That’s what the congress of the Mexican state of Jalisco decided at the weekend by an overwhelming majority. The amendment has a direct impact on 211 million animals a year: so many are killed every year in slaughterhouses in the state of Jalisco alone.

For the first time, the abuse of so-called livestock in a Mexican state is considered a criminal offense. A strong signal to the rest of the country, which will hopefully follow suit soon.

The Animal Equality team in Mexico will definitely stay tuned and we’ll keep you up to date.

And… of course, Animal Equality would monitor closely whether the farms would comply with such regulations in the future.

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My comment: We welcomed the 21st century long ago, but in the sense of “morality” we still live on the trees. These pictures prove it. That most animal eaters see such images and still participate in this daily, excessive mass murder of innocent beings proves that the human species has lost any ethical basis.

The daily torture and exploitation of our fellow animal beings for food is a matter of course in the still underdeveloped conscience of the human world.

Given that such massacres happen in EVERY land and are now widely publicized and shown many times but still have 7 billion meat eaters, one can say with certainty that the only honest reason why people eat animals, the fact is that the suffering of other beings interests them a shit.

Photo: Dulce Ramírez, chair of Animal Equality in Mexico, and Alejandro Hermosillo, MP of Movimiento Ciudadano.

 

Thank you, Animal Equality, for the courage, perseverance, and loyalty to our animal comrades!

 

 

 

 

A farmer was sentenced on Friday in Ulm (West germany) because of animal cruelty to three years imprisonment. Animal rights activists of SOKO Organisation had uncovered the abuses in a pigsty in Merklingen ( West Germany).

Image: SOKO

 

The Judge Oliver Chama spoke in his verdict in the district court Ulm ( West Germany) of a “mass animal hell” that lasted for months instead of mass animal farming. The farmer accepted the sentence with his head bowed.

Films shown as proof (published on 19.10.2016

 

The 56-year-old farmer from Merklingen (Alb-Donau-Kreis, West Germany) is responsible for the deaths of a total of 1,600 pigs due to catastrophic conditions in the completely overcrowded and filthy stables, the court said Friday. They found carcasses, bitten off tails, shredded ears. In addition, the defendant killed two animals with a hammer.

Image: SOKO

 

Animal rights activists welcomed the verdict as “historical”. “For the first time in Germany an industrial animal owner was sentenced to prison for animal cruelty,” said the founder and chairman of the association of Soko animal protection, Friedrich Mülln. “Finally, a judge has dared to break a taboo and severely punish grievances in industrial livestock farming.”

Closure: 160 animals had to be killed immediately after becoming aware of the abuses, the operation was closed. The accused, who was confessed, received a lifelong animal keeping ban. The judge cited the “rudeness” of the farmer: he had inflicted considerable pain and suffering on animals.

From a “historical judgment in Ulm” animal rights activists speak of the “miracle of Merklingen”, of a “breakthrough”.  Ulm District Court on 15 March 2019 sentenced a pigmeat from Merklingen for animal cruelty to a prison sentence of three years. With “Oh, finally,” many would have welcomed the verdict, says Friedrich Mülln, spokesman for the association Soko Animal Welfare, who testified in the process as a witness. The Soko had revealed in 2016 the catastrophic abuses in the pigsty.

For the first time in Germany, a prison sentence for crimes under the Animal Welfare Act in industrial livestock has been imposed, explains Mülln. Therefore “Ulm is so special”, the judge “courageous”. The outcome of the procedure “causes panic in pet owners,” he is sure. With a suspended sentence, the farmer would have gotten away with “unscathed”: “Then the deterrence would have failed.”

image: SOKO

The prosecutor had demanded a milder probation sentence: that the farmer was confessed and unpaid, must be appreciated. He has appealed, as well as his defense. The case will be reopened at Ulm Regional Court – possibly only in 2020.

Often in Germany no procedure is opened, says Mülln – that’s 26 years of fighting for animal rights in his experience.

The farmer’s sentencing to imprisonment is an important step, says Mülln. But even more he sees veterinary offices in the duty, which he accuses complete “failure”. Stall controls – on average every four years – are usually pre-announced, overcrowded stalls are still considered a minor offense. “We always come to it only when veterinary offices fail. ” Veterinarians are a big problem, says Mülln. “They know which companies are the worst.” But there is a law of silence throughout the industry.

https://www.swp.de/suedwesten/skandal-zeigt-wunde-punkte-auf-30656090.html
My comment: All this is not in China! it is in Germany! And it is the standard business model of the meat mafia whose employees are usually freed from any guilt, no matter how big or how small the crimes they commit against animals are.

And the evildoers, this disgusting peasants’ association, are mainly working with EU subsidies and our tax money and are under the protection of politicians and local communities who regard animals as a cash-making factory and torture them to the most hideous.
Hopefully the verdict of the Ulm court will lead to a stricter control in the farms and a certain inhibition against the sadism of the slaveholders.

My best regards, Venus