These were not just the primeval forests that were destroyed for palm oil.
These were their houses.
Now they are homeless, delivered to the poachers and hunters,
delivered to hunger and misery..

The demagogic electoral slogan for the EU elections has, as its main theme,  family protection, minimum wages and affordable housing for all.
Politicians and political systems always prefer, and at best, the human species.
People have rights, all other species have NO rights.
Before the elections, is like after elections for the animals, nothing changes. Not in Europe, not in the whole world.

Anyone who places people in his political convictions before animals, he already makes propaganda against animals.
But we are for the animals.
We fight to stop losing their homes, their families, their existence, their freedom.
Maybe it’s utopia.
But it’s better than EUtopia.

My best regards to all, Venus

For a long time, it was a foregone conclusion that crustaceans did not feel any pain. Underdeveloped is their nervous system, the animals are only capable of reflexes. It would be nice if this assumption were true, considering how lobsters are boiled alive in hot water.

However, research has already produced results that point in a very different direction. For example, in experiments, the probes of shrimp were irritated with acid, whereupon the animals began to rub them. If the sensors were previously anesthetized, there was no reaction. Even with a painful injection, crabs began to rub the affected part of the body on the floor.

Most meaningful, however, was an attempt with common beach crabs. The animals were placed in the center of an enlightened aquarium, whereupon they sought shelter on the darkened sides. They did this to instinctively secure the best possible protection against predators like gulls. In the experiment, however, the animals were given surges as soon as they were in the dark areas. After two test runs, the animals had learned that the dark faced a surge and despite the strong urge to protect themselves from predators, the beach crabs remained in the light. Obviously, they found the impulse so unpleasant that they favored fear in the light. Their behavior was similar to that of vertebrates.

As invertebrates, however, lobster, crawfish and crabshave no rights whatsoever. Animal welfare regulations do not apply to them. As knowledge progresses, however, man’s attitude towards crustaceans is also changing. In Switzerland, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, it is now mandatory to stun lobster before cooking.

How far the animals go to avoid the pain is illustrated by a video that went viral in June 2018: a small crayfish cut off its own pair of scissors to escape the cooking pot.

Since the potential for suffering is obvious, the handling of crustaceans in the food industry needs to be reconsidered. Catch, storage, transport and killing are by no means species-appropriate. For lobsters alone, 250 million animals are caught every year, all in all they care about billions of crustaceans.

https://www.tierschutzpartei.de/das-stille-leiden-der-hummer/

My comment:  Why do we still have to discuss today, in the 21st century, whether we are allowed to throw a living being with feeding organs into the boiling water?

Did the cavemen not do the same thing with other animals because they were simply underdeveloped at the time, and this was the only way to deal with animals that corresponded to their culture at the time?

So the question is not whether a lobster feels pain or not, but how far that information is relevant to our current ethics and gives us the right to treat animals like lifeless objects.

My best regards, Venus

Who does not know it? We all know the lovely advertising signs: “Our mother is the best”. The love of the mother is considered one of the strongest feelings ever.
But it is always forgotten that nonhuman mothers are not allowed to experience this feeling.

And I think today especially of them.

I remember the chickens who are locked up to lay eggs until their bodies are completely exhausted. I think of their male children, who never knew their mothers, because they are gassed or shredded shortly after their birth and after the first “beep”.

I commemorate the pig-mothers who are pressed into crates or farrowing rods as living birth-machines. I remember the newborn piglets looking for maternal warmth, and the only thing they can find is a trapped mother behind bars, who often crushes her own children.

I remember all the animal mothers, such as cows, goats or sheep, whose children are taken away shortly after birth and, because of human consumption and they never can give them their milk – year after year.

For today’s Mother’s Day torments me again the fatal question why we allow this nightmare of all non-human mothers?

They do not want to be locked up, not even a bit, but not at all. They do not want to be exploited, not even a bit, but not at all.
Also, they do not want to be in pain, not even a bit, but not at all.
And they also do not want to be killed, not even “lovingly”, but not at all.
Everyone has the right to integrity, freedom, live, including nonhuman animals, whether we like it or not.

And the fact that the exploitation of all animal beings is a basic principle of our moral system, not an exception,  is definitely the most despicable point in the genealogy of the human race, for which one can never be sufficiently ashamed.

My best regards to all, Venus