Ethics? The billion-dollar companies such as VW, BMW and Daimler are now because of the test series of monkeys in the criticism, but honestly, what has changed since the announcement of the exhaust gas scandal really?
Mauritius is after China the number 2 country selling monkeys for animal testing.
Tens of thousands of monkeys are kept in large farms across the island. The offspring of these wild-caught monkeys are then sent to labs around the world.
In 2016, the breeders exported 8245 animals to North America and Europe – nearly half of them to the United States (see table below).
6000 primatessuffer every year in research in Europewith the support of taxpayers!
Ethics play no role in the global economy today! This is shown by the 10 monkeys, who were sitting in an airtight gas chamber, inhaling the fumes from a VW Beetle, while “cartoons” were shown on a screen.
The car used in the experiment was equipped with illegal fraud software. As a result of the rapid increase in laboratory tests on live monkeys, Sir David Attenborough published an open letter in 2016 (see below).
Every year around 6000 primates suffer from research in Europe.The Patent Office in Munich even approved patents on great apes in 2012.
According to the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, about 2.8 million animals were used for scientific purposes in 2014, including 4636 dogs and 997 cats. Large centers with laboratory laboratories are located in Munich, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hanover, Heidelberg, Tübingen and Freiburg.
Instead of stopping the animal experiments, there is even a new initiative for animal experiments to be financed with taxpayers’ money.
The German Research Foundation(DFG) is an institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 2015, it had a subsidy budget of 2.84 billion euros. The DFG not only funds animal experiments but also supports the new campaign “Understanding Animal Experiments” (!!!).
How great the pressure from opponents of animal experiments is, shows the new campaign of the Alliance of Science Organizations. It is an association of science and research organizations in Germany. With a new initiative, science in Germany wants to inform comprehensively and transparently (!!!) about animal experiments in research. The Alliance of Science Organizations presented their joint project “Understanding Animal Experiments” on September 6, 2016 in Berlin.
It offers a variety of information material on an Internet platform and via social media, provides experts and allows interactive discussions. This campaign costs 250,000 euros annually and is initially limited to three years.The money comes from the five members of the Alliance, who work with animal experiments themselves. In addition, the German Research Foundation (DFG) finances a full-time position to update the contents of the site and to answer inquiries from the population.
The illegal trade in endangered animals for so-called research is a billion dollar business. Especially in China, the demand is increasing more and more. Also great apes find rapid sales there.
After a doctor pointed out to us in 2013 the monkeys in Mauritius and we made this public,the doctor was threatened and she had to stop her engagement against this massacre.She was even threatened with a career ban.We can see how big this criminal lobby is.
The monkeys are crammed into small wooden boxes and shipped as cargo in passenger aircraft. On long-haul flights, animals suffer from hunger, thirst, anxiety and stress. Animal rights activists have been protesting for years. Many airlines have already left the cruel transport business due to the worldwide protests.
Mauritius still supplies the primates for animal experiments.
What happens to monkeys from Mauritius in the animal experiment lab … can be seen in this video.
Sir David Attenborough is part of a group of leading scientists and animal welfare experts from around the world who have signed an open letter calling for an end to the use of primates for neuroscientific testing.
The letter, published in The Independent, calls for an end to support for certain neuroscientific experiments given the scale of the suffering inflicted on animals and the availability of human approaches.
“We, the undersigned, are concerned about the extent of the suffering that occurs in many neuroscience experiments on non-human primates, especially when it comes to fluid deprivation and movement restriction.
We believe there is now enough progress on human alternatives and are seriously wondering if further research of this kind is needed,” says the letter organized by animal rights organization Cruelty Free International.
The naturalist said that recent findings in understanding the ability of primates to suffer pain meant that science should no longer expose monkeys to painful or cruel experiments.
“Realizing that monkeys are, to a certain extent, similar to other primates, and that these animals suffer just as much as we suffer, has changed our attitude and should not be misused to our own benefit,” said Sir David Attenborough after he had signed the letter.
My comment: In Mauritius itself, there have been no animal experiments. But the government has now launched a law that will allow the establishment of animal testing laboratories.
Animal experimenters are to be lured into the country to be able to conduct research on monkeys directly on site.
A billion dollar business, a corrupt mafia that earns it and corrupt countries that support this business. From this recycling of violence and unscrupulousness lives the business of the laboratory mafia.
Long-tailed macaques are caught in the wild with traps and penned for mass-breeding in animal factories – a legalized crime. Animals for which there are no consumers, such as big males, are killed and disposed of like garbage.
The breeding establishment Noveprim in Mauritius belongs to 47% of the company Covance. The American company has contract laboratories around the world, including in Münster, Germany.
At Covance in Münster every year about 1,000-2,000 monkeys are killed in painful toxicity tests. The animals are pumped chemicals or drugs into the stomach with a tube or injected into the bloodstream. Eventually the animals are killed.
For many years, the Doctors against animal tests, have together with their European partners launched and supported various protest and letter campaigns from ECEAE (European Coalition to End Animal Experiments).
Target: Marilyn Hite Ross, State’s Attorney for Winnebago County, Illinois
Goal: Punish the two men who allegedly shot a dog multiple times, leading to the animal’s death.
An innocent dog was apparently shot multiple times in a shocking case of animal cruelty. The suspects in the case fled the scene and are still at large. Demand justice for this poor animal.
Rockford police are searching for two men in connection with the brutal slaying of an innocent dog. Per authorities, Kelvin Langston, 28, and Douglas Hollyfield, 26, entered a woman’s home and began shooting at the dog in her care. They took turns firing, the witness stated, and only targeted her friend’s animal. Sadly, the pup suffered serious injuries in the apparent attack and later died.
Langston and Hollyfield have been charged with aggravated cruelty to an animal, unlawful use of weapons by a felon, reckless discharge, and no FOID card. Both have warrants and bonds set at $150,000. Sign below to demand that these men are punished for their heartless crime, if convicted.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear State’s Attorney Ross,
A dog was apparently shot repeatedly by two men while being cared for by the owner’s friend. The poor animal later died due to the severity of the gunshot wounds. I demand that the people responsible be brought to justice.
They entered the woman’s home, the witness stated, and aimed their guns at her friend’s dog. They then reportedly took turns shooting the helpless animal, eventually inflicting fatal injuries. These men, identified by police as Kelvin Langston and Douglas Hollyfield, are accused felons and one is reportedly a gang member. Now, despite the continued efforts of the Rockford Police Department, they are on the loose and likely dangerous to other animals.
Those responsible for this innocent animal’s death must be found and brought to justice. Prosecute them and seek the maximum penalty to ensure the safety of all local animals.
In reality, taking a few seconds to read ingredients, to look for a brand that doesn’t test on animals, or to find clothing that isn’t derived from an animal is hardly an inconvenience compared to what the animals are forced to endure.
What IS difficultis seeing the dairy industry through the eyes of a female cow: being forcibly impregnated, having your baby taken away and then aching for them, being hooked to a milking machine, and having the cycle repeat until your body physically cannot take it anymore.
What IS difficult is seeing through the eyes of a male calf: being ripped away from your mom, being forced to live chained to a tiny crate and rarely getting exercise, receiving milk replacer instead of your mom’s milk, and being killed at as young as three weeks old for veal.
What IS difficultis seeing the egg industry through the eyes of a hen: having your body manipulated to lay an unnatural amount of eggs, dying from having eggs backed up in your oviduct, having the highest rate of ovarian cancer out of any animal species because your body is overproducing, and being crammed inside a tiny cage with several others while covered in faeces.
What IS difficult is seeing through the eyes of a male chick: being gassed or ground up alive simply because your body isn’t perceived as resourceful to the human species.
What IS difficult is seeing the meat industry through the eyes of pigs, cows, chickens, and other land animals: knowing you are about to die because you can smell the blood and hear the screams of others, being stunned (which usually takes multiple tries), and having your throat slit or being gassed alive, all just so you can wind up on someone’s plate.
What IS difficultis seeing the seafood industry through the eyes of fish, crabs, and other sea animals: having your gills collapse and your eyes pop out from painful decompression, being suffocated, being crammed in floating sea cages or ponds with hundreds of thousands of others, facing infections and diseases, being starved for days before slaughter, and then being slaughtered, all just so you can wind up on someone’s plate.
What IS difficult is what all non-human animals face under speciesism.
As vegans, all we do is align our morals to include them.
📷 Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals
….and when we recall the last journey to the agonizing death of the 70,000 living creatures of “Midia,” not only we find it difficult to accept it, but we find it as a crime against any morality, decency and progress of a civilized society.
What IS difficult is to accept that 7 billion human carnivores are allowed to decide about the life and death of the “other animals”.
The Al Shuwaikh has now docked in Jeddah port tonight (2330hrs local).
Why ? – A ‘Route Plan’ has to be submitted under EU Regulations BEFORE the shipment can take place. So did the Romanian approved Route Plan always declare Jeddah as the final destination ?, and the ship was simply to return to home base of Kuwait EMPTY from there ?
Now we need to check out the formal Romanian Route Plan to see what the sheep’s final destination actually was – Saudi Arabia or Kuwait ?
The AK could set sail from Jeddah in the next few days, but it does not mean the sheep are on board – it could be returning home empty to Kuwait.
Only the Route Plan approved by the Romanian authorities will declare exactly what the final destination of the sheep was to be. It could have been Jeddah.
So does this from the EU Commissioner make any sense:
On the subject of this weekend’s decision by Romania to go ahead with the transport of 70,000 sheep from Romania to the Persian Gulf, Commissioner Andriukaitis said that the Commission is investigating the issue and that “infringement proceedings against Romania cannot be excluded at this time”.
He said ‘Persian Gulf’ but the plan could have said Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), not Kuwait. The East of Saudi is in the Persian Gulf; so ‘Persian Gulf’ could have actually meant ‘Saudi Arabia’.
But also, the question is – how many sheep have perished under the shipment conditions ?
The Romanians SHOULD have taken the temperatures for the sheep on the journey into account when they were looking at the submitted (but not approved at the time – Route Plan) in ADVANCE of the shipment. Did they ?
We will get the Route Plan in some way now and check out what is says.
On July 15, 2019 we received two horror reports from the small port of Romania, Midia.
One was that 70,000 live sheep were to be transported to Kuwaitby ship.
The other horror message was the impudent refusal of the meaningless Romanian Minister of Agriculture to ban the transport.
EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety’s Andriukaitishad emailed Petre Daea to ban this brutal drive of 70,000 sheep to the Persian Gulf. “I urge you to stop the import of sheep to the Persian Gulf”, said Vytenis Andriukaitis in his letter.
The EU representative Anja Hazekamp was on site and had also demonstrated against the transport unmistakable.
The cruise should take 6 days. Until now (21.07.19, 19:34) the ship is still on its way, and the still alive animals suffer from dehydration, hunger, ammonia stench and heat stroke.
Finally, Agra Minister Daea writes Commissioner Andriukaitis on his assand gives the green light to a transport that will soon become the mobile Auschwitz for a few thousand animals.
Petre Daeawas just finished with his six-month EU- Council presidency when he admitted this illegal animal transport.
In this short time, Daea has been well aware of the inability of certain EU commissioners to benefit. He understood that he had nothing to fearbecause his EU colleagues had neither the authority nor the courage to force a meaningless minister to obedience.
And at once he acted with an outrageous authority over his colleague Andriukaitis, which disgusted every civilized and democratic man.
Due to the fundamental inability and ignorance of the EU Commission to take elementary measures against unnecessary suffering in animal transport (such as the ban on transport through Europe and to third countries in the summer), every corrupt minister becomes the head and hangman of the Animal Protection Act, and even in a continent that wants to assert itself as progressive and superior to China or Africa.
The EU Commission, including its 28 idle and useless commissioners, has failed.
All over.
This fact is not new, but it is getting more dramatic.
The case of Midia, including ministers and commissioners, is a scandal, it is cruel, it is inhuman and extremely irresponsible.
The deeper the disappointment for all animal rights activists grows, the more we hope that the new President of the EU Commission, the German Ursula von der Leynen, will bring an appropriate share of responsibility and authority to the lame men of the Commission.
We will talk more about this topic soon.
From what we can find out, the Al Shuwaikh is still sailing for Kuwait; with its arrival date now set at an ETA of 2/8/19.
But as of 10-50hrs GMT today, 21/7/19; she is still way up in the Red Sea; just to the East of the port of Jeddah / (near Mecca) in Saudi Arabia. The speed of the vessel over recent times has been between 0.2 and 1.5 knots.
Above – the planned route to Kuwait.
So, we ask, what is happening ? – are there mechanical issues ? – has ‘Kuwait’ as a destination suddenly changed to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia ? – yet the vessel is still scheduled to arrive in Kuwait on 2/8.
0.2 -1.5 knots is not exactly racing along; so why the slow speed ?
With a cargo of 70,000 live sheep travelling under such extreme conditions; and with temperatures in the area at around 40 degrees, would the vessel not be trying to get to Kuwait as fast as it could ?
We think there are problems, as there have been with many of these livestock vessels in the past.
Unfortunately we cannot prove this at present, but this ship has been in the Red Sea for a few days now; and that is not really a great distance to travel.
More news to come if we can track with further updates;
Each year, millions of live farmed non-human animals are transported thousands of miles for slaughter—or to places where they will be fattened for slaughter. Live export, defined as “the commercial transport of livestock across national borders,” is still a widespread global occurrence, with around 3 million non-human animals shipped each year from Australia alone.
Every year 416 million animals are transported within Europe or across borders to third countries.The individuals that are shipped, usually cows, sheep, and pigs, face cramped and overcrowded spaces, extreme temperatures, and exhaustion and dehydration due to lack of food and water.
Secretly taken pictures also show lambs born on board. They lie on the feces-covered floor of the ship. Such births at sea are actually prohibited by law.
But animals are considered as things.
Furthermore, with no room to move, they often become drenched in their own and other individuals’ excrement. It’s estimated that more than 100,000 litres of urine and faeces accumulate on a typical live-export ship every day.
Anonymous for the Voiceless
Many of those who face this fate do not reach their final destination and instead die in transport.High levels of ammonia, due to the build-up of urine, cause the air to become toxic, choking and burning those on board.
In low temperatures, the container becomes like a freezer, and in higher temperatures, like an oven.
Live exports exist because we consider animals not as individuals but as things.
We must stop evaluating animals as our slaves.
We do not practice mass animal husbandry.
We operate a mass animal hell.
“Wherever we humans take the right, to sacrifice an animal for our purposes, We commit not only a wrong, but a crime”. Karlheinz Deschner (German religion critics)
According to all the information over the past week, the Al Shuwaikh which has been sailing from Romania to Kuwait with 70,000 live sheep, should have arrived at its destination in the early hours of this morning.
Instead, from information we have now obtained, the vessel is still only just half way down the Red Sea; and now the expected arrival date (ETA) has changed to 2/8/19; which is nearly another 2 weeks away !
We are trying to find out if this vessel has had any issues (such as breakdowns) which have delayed it (it is well known for past problems at sea); and we will publish these if we find out. There could also have been issues relating to health and paperwork issues in allowing this vessel to get into the Red Sea from the Med.
God knows what the conditions are like on board for the animals; now that the journey appears to be destined to take more than twice its scheduled sailing time. (see the video below which will show similarities).
Obviously the Romanian government does not care about the suffering of animals; as it ignored the requests from the EU and other authorities to stop the sailing before it even commenced. This is Romania, an EU member state which does not comply with EU legislation, and which certainly does not give a toss about the suffering of animals; as we have seen for years regarding their approach to stray dog control.
This sailing is just one of many that are carrying livestock all over the world by sea. We wanted to follow this, giving you reports each day so that you can get a feel for the suffering the animals on board will be suffering. Now it appears that these poor Romanian sheep have over another week at sea before they reach their destination in Kuwait; only then to be greeted by ritual slaughter under the name of Eid. https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/saying-goodbye-to-the-al-shuwaikh/ customs / health
Red Sea temperatures on 20/7 are between 38 and 43 degrees.
In Kuwait port today the temperature is 40 degrees.
EU Regulations (1/2005) for animals in transport, say that animals must not be transported in temperatures above 30 degrees.
Who is the “most dangerous animal”?
While the child lay unconscious on the ground, Jambo sat near him to protect him from other curious gorillas, this happened in 1986! The gorilla died in 1992 at the age of 32 years of a burst artery.
Binti-Jua, the gorilla lady, was on hand in 1996 when a three-year-old climbed over the barrier and fell more than five meters. She took the unconscious boy in her arms and lovingly cared for the child, while the passers-by watched in disbelief.
Binti-Juaprotected the little boy until finally the paramedics arrived. Then she carried him cautiously to the front door of the enclosure and laid it tenderly.
And in May 2016, another kid in the zoo the US city Cincinnati fell into a gorilla enclosure. This time, the gorilla was not so lucky, he was shot in the rescue attempt.
Therefore, one wants to take their livelihood from the last remaining gorillas in the Congo?
Who is really the “most dangerous animal” now?
https://netzfrauen.org/2018/03/16/kongo/
And I mean…Three identical events, but two different reactions from the side of the human animal.
The third time in May 2016 (I remember the case) Silverback male Harambe reached for the child and was shot ten minutes later by the most dangerous and cruel animal in the world, the human.
With the right of the stronger. The fundamental fascist right of man to other animals.
Anonymous for the Voiceless
World Animals Voice 