Month: August 2019

Spain: Taco Bell Spain Launches Plant-Based Meat In Over 50 Stores.

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'We have always been a safe alternative for vegetarians' (Photo: Taco Bell/ Instagram)

Taco Bell Spain Launches Plant-Based Meat In Over 50 Stores

The Mexican-inspired food chain has welcomed a meat-free substitute to beef made from pulled oats

Liam Gilliver

 

Fast-food giant, Taco Bell, has launched a plant-based alternative to meat in 53 stores across 15 Spanish provinces.

The eatery has welcomed Gold & Green Foods’ meat substitute, which is made from pulled oats, beans, peas, and is certified by the American Vegetarian Association (AVA).

For the first time, the chain will also have a vegetarian menu highlighted in its Spanish restaurants so customers can clearly see its meatless offerings. 

According to Restauracion News, María José Michavila, General Manager of Taco Bell Spain, said: “[At] Taco Bell, we have always been a safe alternative for vegetarians because we can offer all our products in their veggie version, but many people do not know it.

“This new initiative to customize the menu represents Taco Bell’s commitment to our consumers.”

National Vegetarian Week

Earlier this year, Taco Bell launched limited edition vegan-friendly tacos in three of its London stores for National Vegetarian Week.

The Edgy Veggie Tacos also featured Gold & Green Foods’ plant-based meat – and could be veganized by ditching the cheese and sour cream.

“At Taco Bell, we pride ourselves on being a place where every lifestyle can find exactly what they’re craving,” Jorge Torres, General Manager of Taco Bell Europe, said.

“So, whether you’re a vegetarian or a flexitarian, then you’ll love our new flavorsome meat-free offering.” 

 

 

England: Dolma Perfumes – Feel and Smell Great Without a Conscience !

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WAV Comment – we fully support Dolma products and use them every day ! – Vegan, animal welfare supportive, cruelty free produce; and yet you can still smell wonderful !

We have given the link to the products below – take a trip and support these wonderful products.

 

Hello Mark

Ever wondered why we are called Dolma? We would
like to share the story…

The Dolma brand founder Jim Payne was a devout buddhist and decided to call his
fragrance after a Goddess called Jetsun Dolma or also known as Tara.

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This Goddess evokes all that Dolma as a brand wants to represent:

​Compassion.

 

Dolma Fragrances

are vegan and cruelty free. Compassion towards animals and nature is our central value and we aim to make all our decisions in mind of all other sentient creatures. We are always reviewing our products and packaging to reflect our commitment to do no harm.

We hope that you have a beautiful week and share the message of compassion.

Lots of love

​The Dolma Team

 

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” 

Albert Einstein

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News from Dolma:

 

Surge Launches Major Animal Rights Poster Campaign In London

The new campaign features a poster with a picture of a pig taken in a standard UK pig farm with the question, ‘can we really call ourselves a nation of animal lovers?’

One of the posters in London (Photo: Surge)

Animal rights collective Surge has launched its second poster campaign of 2019 in London.

The new campaign features a poster with a picture of a pig taken in a standard UK pig farm with the question, “can we really call ourselves a nation of animal lovers?”

The posters, which can be found in some of the busiest underground stations in London, including Oxford Circus, will have been seen by more than three quarters of a million people by the end of the campaign.

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The new campaign follows Surge’s previous work, which has sought to highlight animal exploitation.

 

Read about all the work at:

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/surge-major-animal-rights-poster-campaign-london

 

 

 

England: ‘Trucking Hell’ and All That. CIWF’s Agenda for Farm Animal Welfare to the New British PM.

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Compassion In World Farming (CIWF) is based in London, England. They are a very successful farm animal welfare organization who lead the way to help farm animals across the world. They have an extensive network of organisations affiliated with throughout Europe, as well as having an extensive international network covering the USA and China.

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You can visit the CIWF site at: https://www.ciwf.org.uk/

http://philiplymbery.com/about-philip/

https://www.ciwf.org.uk/philip-lymbery/blog/2013/11/moving-forward-in-china

Compassion CEO, Phil, a long time campaigner and friend who fought with Mark (WAV) against live exports from Southern England has written an Agenda for the new Prime Minister, Mr Boris Johnson.

You can read Phil’s agenda to the PM here:

 

Compassion is entirely neutral politically: our agenda is simply to get the very best outcomes for farm animals, regardless of who is in power. But the arrival of a new Prime Minister is an excellent moment to take stock, especially at this time of extraordinary political turbulence. What is our message for Boris Johnson? What can we realistically ask him to do?

This is what we’re writing to him today.

 

Dear Mr Johnson,

Congratulations on your appointment as Prime Minister. We recognise that you are taking over the leadership at a time of exceptional challenge and difficulty and we hope that the outcome of your efforts leads to better lives for us all – people and animals alike.

We should like to highlight four key points which link with your efforts to bring the Brexit issue to a satisfactory conclusion.

First of all, we welcome your longstanding commitment to ending live exports. As you have recognised, the export of live animals for slaughter and fattening causes immense suffering for little economic benefit, with most of the journey and all of the subsequent handling and slaughter entirely outside the scope of British monitoring and control. Under EU rules, successive governments have
argued that it has not been possible to end the trade. After Brexit, this excuse should no longer apply. Please ensure that whatever agreement is reached with the EU, it does not prevent you from implementing the ban, and introduce it as one of the first benefits of post-Brexit life.

Second, in the subsequent trade negotiations, please stand firm for the best of the British farming industry in opposing an opening of the British market to low-quality, low-welfare imports. These would undercut British farmers and destroy much of the industry, as well as the hard-won reputation of Britain as a market where quality and welfare are valued by consumers. Britain’s farmers cannot win a race to the bottom, but they can win a race to be the best in the world.

Third, please develop the “public money for public goods” agenda introduced by Michael Gove in Defra, and ensure that a significant proportion of the new initiatives funded under this approach benefit British farmers moving up the welfare scale – for example, replacing the archaic systems of hen cages and farrowing crates with modern free-range facilities.

Fourth, please deliver the promised “gold standardlabelling of meat and dairy goods, so that consumers can make informed choices in what they buy and contribute to rewarding high-welfare farmers.

More broadly, please support a fundamental review of Britain’s food and farming system, as recommended by the RSA and EAT-Lancet reports. We have had years of reports urging a more sustainable approach to British agriculture. We hope that your Government will take action to turn the recommendations into Britain’s long-term reality.

We wish you every success in including these objectives as part of your agenda for the challenging days ahead.

Yours sincerely,

Philip Lymbery

China / Australia: Chinese Businessman Invites Tourists To His Lodge – $1,000 A Night To Shoot Australian Wildlife.

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Chinese businessman invites tourists to his ‘wombat hunting lodge’ where people pay $1,000 people pay $1,000 a night to shoot Australian wildlife with shotguns and sniper rifles.

  • Tourists invited to a Victorian luxury hunting lodge to hunt and kill native wildlife
  • It has sparked community outrage amid calls to shut down Murrindindi property
  • The property is owned by wealthy Chinese businessman Tom Zhou
  • A Chinese website for the lodge promises visitors an unforgettable hunt
  • Police and local council are investigating reports of illegal hunting on the site

 

Read the full article, with photos, at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7308485/Chinese-businessman-investigated-inviting-tourists-wombat-hunting-lodge.html

Photos from the luxury lodge's website invite guests to 'experience a different life in Australia'

The resort website in Chinese states guests use 'all kinds of hunting weapons, including double-barrelled shotguns, small calibre rifles and large calibre sniper rifles'

Tourists have been invited to the Murrindindi property to shoot Australian native wildlife, including wombats (pictured on the resort's website)

 

Thanks to Anja Hazenkamp

 

The mass grave “Al Shuwaikh” had only negative feelings and thoughts generated lately.
But let’s not forget that there were also a few, who actively tried to prevent it, and one of them was the Dutch MEP Anja Hazenkamp.

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Hazekamp visited the Port of Midia, where she observed horrendous animal abuse during loading.

“Sheep were kicked, beaten and attacked with electric poles, but Romanian authorities refused to intervene. Europe can no longer look the other way. Animal welfare rules are being violated systematically. The Commission must act now.

 

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Before the world’s largest ship transport by ship took off, MEP Anja Hazekamp from the Dutch party “For the Animals” traveled to Midia to protest the departure.

On 10 July, but only from his office, EU Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis had written to the Romanian Minister of Agriculture, Petre Daea, to ban such and especially this unnecessary long-distance transport. Alone these temperatures did not allow the transport, it says in the letter.
The Romanian Minister of Agriculture, Daea, rejected the request as unfounded and sent 70,000 others to the death.
Andiukaitis now announces that there are no grounds for infringement proceedings against Romania.

On the day the Al Shuwaikh took off, Andriukaitis discussed long-distance animal transports at high temperatures with European agriculture ministers.

Hazekamp presented the subject to Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, who then promised to discuss this with Andriukaitis, stating that he was unaware of this transport.

Discussions have not saved a single animal until today.
Only acts!

In the end, no one knew anything, no one could do anything, after all, SHE was the only one who drove to Midia, and showed solidarity with the 70,000 animals!

Anja Hazekamp has done what she is paid for, namely protecting animals and actively trying to stop the transport!

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Thanks Anja Hazenkamp in the name of the animals!!

For this crime, are responsible the hypocritical EU Commissioners, whose work ethic on paper ends.

So we ask ourselves: why can not such EU Commissioners be replaced?
We don`t know how they could get such a responsible post, they got it without our voice, what we know is that they don`t care for the welfare of the animals, but they benefit from the suffering of the animals.

We did not forget the mass grave “Al Shuwaikh”!
And we will do our utmost to ensure that those responsible for this mass grave receive a just punishment.

A nice video from the active fight of the Dutchwoman, as MEP, against animal transports

Anja Hazekamp controls animal transports in Slovenia and Croatia

 

Best regards, Venus

Romanian Sheep Exports on ‘Al Shuwaikh’ – We Have All the Data and Are Now Waiting for the EU to Return From Summer Holidays – Then We Start.

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We have now logged the entire journey of the ‘Al Shuwaikh’ with its ‘cargo’ of 70,000 live Romanian sheep all the way from Midia on 15/7/19 through to the final arrival in Qatar on 3/8/19. This includes the stops at Jeddah and Jebel Ali in Dubai to offload animals.

All this data is now stored in our archive ready for when the EU MEP’s, Commissioners etc return from their Summer breaks; when we will launch an all out campaign, along with other international groups we have contacted; over the barbarity of this consignment.

We will be urging the EU to prosecute the Romanian authorities in the harshest way; just as one example, because of the temperatures in which the sheep were transported. Virtually throughout the entire journey the sheep were travelling in excess of the maximum temperatures allowed by EU Regulation 1/2005; which being an EU member state; Romania should be complying with.

Now we have all the data it is simply a waiting game for the EU to return to Brussels; then we will start.

 

 

 

Japan: 2 Grenade Tipped Harpoons Fired Into Whale Because First Was Not Lethal.

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Here we see 2 harpoons being fired into a whale because the first was non lethal.

A grenade tipped harpoon. This animal is suffering immensely.

This is #Japan whaling #OpWhales

 

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The Mengele`es of Brussels

 

Brutal sterilization of city pigeons in Brussels without anesthesia!

In the capital of the EU Parliament, in the middle of the 21st century animals are sterilized without anesthesia, reminiscent of middle age!

 

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How ice cold and dulled must be “veterinarians” to do something unbelievably painful, even cruel to these peaceful, absolutely defenseless animals! This is also practiced, as can be seen, completely without empathy and routinely coarse, in rows, as if it were any objects.
And without any disinfection, with rubber rings brutally and painfully fixed on feet and wings!

 

Would it bother these people if the cruelly maltreated pigeons could scream?

Do these “doctors / veterinarians” and those responsible for these barbarians want to explain that the pigeons do not suffer any HELL QUALITIES and are not completely traumatized and painfully paralyzed and frightened after this vile “surgery” ???

It’s unbelievable how much rudeness is drilled and poked around in the deep, open wounds of non-anesthetized animals, and fallopian tubes or whatever are simply pulled out and torn.

The fact that the feathers have already been plucked out in the required place before is the most “harmless” part of this clearly conscious, disgusting animal cruelty in this incredibly painful procedure, which is carried out with the utmost ignorance!

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HOW is it possible that such a thing is obviously allowed in Belgium without any contradiction?
WHY will not something be done against the pigeon breeders, who are the perpetrators of the problems, who also demand torments and abnormal “sporting” excellence from the animals?

The so-called “pigeon sport” is one of the most perverted, torturous “sports” that would have to be banned immediately across the EU. (We already reported about it, here is the link: https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2018/05/27/pigeon-races-are-not-romantic-and-not-athletic-they-are-animal-cruelty-death-and-money-making/)

What an impudence to call such a thing “sport!! because the breeders themselves, except for money and premiums for this disgusting “sport” to cash, are absolutely unable to do anything else important for the animals.

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WHAT happens to the tortured pigeons and their deep open wounds afterwards? It is polluted and is operated under bad hygienic conditions, so that subsequent infections in wounds can not be excluded. In these, the pigeons on the street can die painfully. Are the severely abused and suffering animals simply left to their fate ???

Do they get anything against the murderous pain, at least after this martyrdom? Probably not even that!
In Brussels, as the video shows, there seems to be no animal welfare and animal welfare ethics.

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That must not remain uncommented. That can not be without reaction!

Let’s call for an immediate stop to this madness!

We have made a simple but meaningful letter that anyone can send to these addresses:

berlin@diplobel.fed.be, Vienna@diplobel.fed.be, europamanagement@ec.europa.eu, comm-rep-vie@ec.europa.eu, office@eu-umweltbuero.at

Dear Sirs and Madames,

we too are appalled that such a brutal anesthetic sterilization on the city pigeons in Brussels is allowed!
In the capital of the European Parliament, in the 21st century, no medieval practices on animals should be used.
How is something like this possible?! Who is responsible for such barbarism?
Please ensure that the stun-free sterilization of city doves is stopped immediately and that more humane, civilized, contemporary alternatives are used!

With stunned greetings,

Name, Nationality

(The German Version):

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

auch wir sind entsetzt darüber, dass so eine brutale betäubungslose Sterilisation an den Stadttauben in Brüssel erlaubt wird!
In der Hauptstadt des EU-Parlaments, am 21. Jahrhundert, dürfen keine mittelalterlichen Praktiken an Tiere verwendet werden.
Wie ist so etwas möglich?! Wer ist für eine solche Barberei verantwortlich?
Bitte setzen Sie sich dafür ein, dass die betäubungslose Sterilisation der Stadttauben umgehend gestoppt wird und humanere, zivilisierte, zeitgemäße Alternativen praktiziert werden!

Mit fassungslosen Grüßen,

(Name, Nationality)

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My comment: Apparently in Brussels a clear animal cruelty and even in absolutely legal form is operated!
Thousand of pigeons are bred in farms for racing.
Therefore, they are regularly “trained” for the race:
The animals are brought away from their pigeon house for over a thousand kilometers.
Because pigeons have an extremely strong sense of family and are extremely loyal animals, they are desperate to find their way back to their family as soon as possible.

In the pigeons races 50% of the pigeons do not come back. These losses are always factored in for profit!
Those who do not come back to the dovecote die painfully from dehydration, exhaustion, or injury, or are stranded in cities where they lead a sorrowful life and are sterilized by Mengeles without anesthesia.
And all this happens legally, and with the blessing of the Brussel-EU!
Further proof that Brussels is slowly becoming a horror cabinet for animals.

My best regards to all, Venus

South Korea: 2/8 Latest Newsletter from Koreandogs.org – Actions and Petitions.

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Korean Dogs.org

 

To read the full edition of the 2/8 editions of the newsletter, click on the following:

https://koreandogs.org/newsletter-august-2-2019/?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Dogs_are_garbage_disposal__Punish_the_man_bludgeoning_dogs&utm_medium=email

 

Articles include:

Totally ban the feeding of food waste to all animals!
We condemn the Ministry of Environment and
the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
for their inability to propose proper legislation (without loopholes)
on the issue of the feeding of food waste to animals.

SOUTH KOREA – The nation of Samsung, Hyundai, LG, Kia thinks that dogs are nothing more than garbage disposals! South Korea wants to continue feeding dogs decomposed, maggot infested food waste; unfit for any animal to eat. This food waste is contaminated with disease causing germs, toothpicks, hot red peppers and onions – toxic to dogs! Cruel, absurd, insane and disgusting!!

 

 

URGENT! Tongyeong, South Korea:
Punish the dog butcher bludgeoning dogs to death!

Dog butcher in Tongyeong, South Korea is daily bludgeoning dogs to death in front of other terrified dogs and the local government authority is doing nothing about it. This video is not a replay of same clip over and over. Each of these were recorded at different times. This psychopath criminal has 40 to 50 dogs in his farm and the dogs are killed in this horrific way. This is a violation of the Animal Protection Act. We want the city of Tongyeong to punish this criminal and shut down the hellhole dog farm/slaughterhouse immediately. Please sign and share!

Click HERE for our campaign page.

Click on the top link for petitions and further actions.