Stop the Wildlife Trade: The renowned conservationist says we are putting economic growth ahead of environmental protections and destroying our children’s future
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Swing and Doll have not forgotten what happened many years ago. The only 23-year-old Koebner came as a student to the experimental laboratories, where the two were kept together with four other chimpanzees in miserable conditions.
As babies, they had been locked in tight boxes without natural light. Hepatitis medication was tested on them for six years. At that time it was common to kill chimpanzees after their time as experimental animals.
But it was decided to release them into the wild, which they still had to get used to.
That is why Lisa Koebner spent the following years in close community with the monkeys.
Swing and Doll got used to life outside the cage, but Koebner had to leave them at some point so that the animals also learned to become independent.
When she came back, Doll and Swing showed that they remembered their savior very well.
They receive her with a touching greeting.
Unlike humans, feelings like gratitude and loyalty are highly developed in animals.
Regards and a good night from Venus
COVID-19 is thought to have originated at a Wuhan wet market
The Chinese government released a new list of animals that can be farmed for meat as the country begins to reopen to a new normal following the novel coronavirus outbreak that is thought to have originated in a wet market in Wuhan.
The draft list was released Thursday by the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and is available online for a public comment period.
The list of acceptable livestock and poultry includes 18 species of traditional staples such as pig, cow, chicken, sheep, goat and more.
The government document also designates 13 species of “special livestock” such as deer, reindeer, alpaca and others.
It also includes a special category of livestock that can be raised for fur but not for food including mink, foxes and raccoons.
China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs noted in a statement accompanying the list that dogs “have been ‘specialized’ from traditional domestic animals to companion animals” and should not be included as “livestock” for food.
Chinese officials had initially linked the COVID-19 outbreak to large, live animal markets in Wuhan where many of the cases originated.
Ebola, SARS, bird flu and now COVID-19 are all believed to have started as pathogens crossing from animals to humans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about three-quarters of new human diseases originate in animals.
In late February, Chinese lawmakers adopted a decision to prohibit the trading of wildlife and eliminate the trade and consumption of wild animals after the outbreak emerged, according to the nation’s state-run news organization Xinhua.
Imagine if this process happens with human animals…
Today we know, and it’s even scientifically proven, that fish feel stress and pain and therefore should be treated and protected as sensitive beings.
Only they cannot scream.
Fish in aquaculture are crammed together in a confined space and “swim” in the cloudy water of their own excrement. Diseases can only be combated by antibiotics and chemical cocktails.
But we still consume animal corpses here and now, even though we’re locked up at home because of a pandemic caused by factory farming!
970-2.700 billion fish are killed each year.
Some may not be able to write the number, but they have no difficulty in being one of the culprits in this mass crime!
My best regards to all, Venus
…is de facto an excellent vehicle to sell MORE meat, because ‘less meat’ is an ideal hanger for advertising elements for IMPROVING the meat image: ‘eat more consciously’, ‘eat better’, ‘show respect’, ‘ biological ‘,’ ecological ‘,’ sustainable ‘etc. ”
(Helmut F. Kaplan, Austrian philosopher and animal ethicist)
Regards and good night from Venus
The goats normally spend their time on the Great Orme but have been spotted on the streets of Llandudno, north Wales, where the residents are in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic
The Kashmiri goats that came down from the Great Orme into the town were originally a gift to Lord Mostyn from Queen Victoria.
A herd of goats has taken over a deserted town centre, eating hedges and flowers from gardens.
The goats have been pictured in gardens (Image: Andrew Stuart)
The are currently around 110 goats and they are now regarded as wild which means no-one is legally responsible for them, but wardens at the country park do keep an eye.
It is thought that they have come down into the town at this time while they wait for the spring growth of grass on the Orme, and have been wandering the streets because they have been so quiet during the coronavirus lockdown.
Animal invaders: Kashmir goats have occupied the Welsh coastal town of Llandudno. © Photo: Peter Byrne / dpa
A city resident said: “I think most people living in the town appreciate them and take great pleasure seeing them in the town. A few lost flowers in the spring is a fair price to pay to be able to see them closely.
“I know they can make a mess but the council are pretty good at cleaning the streets.
(Image: Lilah Mason)
My best regards to all, Venus
Department of Agriculture experts anticipate a significant increase in US pig production and higher pork exports to Mexico and China this year.
As of March 1, 2020, approximately 4% more pigs were kept in the United States than in the previous year.
In the United States, the signs on the pig market are still pointing to expansion.
The farmers have once again increased their stocks to record levels.
According to recent data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), a total of 77.63 million pigs were held nationwide as of March 1, 2020; that was almost 4.0% more than twelve months earlier and more than ever since the spring census began in 1988.
The survey found growth in all animal categories.
The productivity of sows also goes up.
In the last recorded period from December 2019 to February 2020, with an average of 11.0 piglets per litter, more animals were born alive than ever before in this winter period. Compared to the same period in the previous year, the increase was 2.8%.
In view of the stock development, the USDA experts also anticipate a significant increase in US pork production in 2020; This should increase by around 830,000 t compared to the previous year to a record level of 13.15 million t (!!!)
With domestic consumption growing rather moderately, pork exports are forecast to increase by almost 650,000 tons or 23% to 3.52 million t (!)
Above all, higher sales are expected in Mexico and China.
As part of phase 1 of the trade agreement with the People’s Republic of China, Beijing facilitated access to the US pork market and reduced import duties.
The delivery volume there has already increased significantly in recent months, according to the American meat export organization (USMEF).
https://www.topagrar.com/schwein/news/usa-schweinefarmer-stocken-weiter-auf-12026326.html
And I mean…What can one say?
Is that all we have learned from this pandemic? Should we perhaps wait until 1 billion non-thinking, non-learning, non-understanding human animals die?
We continue to allow slaughterhouses and the animal industry to think for us, produce viruses and work at high speed for mass animal suffering.
We saw this virus bomb as an opportunity to introduce a new animal order that will abolish factory farming in the future.
Not only for the benefit of the animals.
However, learning ability has been shut down in most brainless and fearful people, or so-called good people, through daily propaganda and the lying system.
No virus, not even the corona is stronger than human stupidity and evil.
My best regards to all, Venus
We start the Easter day with good news!
Received anonymously from Unoffensive Animal Apr 05, 2020
Tonight was our second visit to this location in Lincoln. With just two of us tonight, we had put careful planning into how we could take the maximum number of lives we could carry.
We encountered few obstacles upon entry and were able to save 29 lives.
When leaving the area, we sighted a human on their phone, close to the site. This was a strange sight at this time of night. Were they calling the cops? We didn’t hang about to find out!
All 29 chickens are now living life as they should. They are now truly free-range (as opposed to the pathetic excuse for free-range they previously experienced), their eggs are eaten only by themselves, their bare raw skin will start to heal and, most importantly, they will not be exploited and killed.
In the name of the saved creatures, we thank the animal liberators.
Best regards to all, Venus
That is why A.L.F liberated a lamb from Easter battles on April 8, in Veneto, ITALY.
“You want to celebrate your god … Ok, but don’t involve innocent creatures” (A.L.F)
Animal Liberation Press Office
We share this opinion, so we wish everyone one beautiful Easter without animal suffering
Venus
Operation Jairo is Sea Shepherd’s campaign to protect the world’s endangered sea turtles.
Of the seven species of sea turtles that exist, six are currently on the red list of endangered species. Sea Turtles are some of the oldest living creatures on earth and have called our oceans “home,” for over 500 million years. Of the seven species of sea turtles that exist, six are currently on the red list of endangered species.
Photo: © Hoarau Galice / Sea ShepherdThey are threatened by human interactions including pollution, coastal development, fishing gear, and poaching. Due to these threats, there has been an alarming decline in sea turtle populations around the world.
Since 2014, Sea Shepherd has conducted sea turtle protection campaigns at remote beaches around the world, helping defend mother sea turtles and their eggs from poaching.
These locations include Costa Rica, Honduras, Florida, Antigua, Barbuda, and Nicaragua. Our efforts have saved the lives of thousands of turtles from a variety of species including Hawksbill, Green, Olive Ridley, and Leatherback.
Operation Jairo honors the life and work of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a Costa Rican turtle defender. Jairo was brutally murdered on May 31, 2013 while attempting to protect leatherback turtle nests.
Our campaign continues his legacy, as we defend sea turtles in Nicaragua this Summer.
Find out more about our history, campaigns and successes at: https://www.seashepherdglobal.org/
And…We express our heartfelt thanks to the tireless activists of Sea Shepherd for their harf fight to protect our oceans and their inhabitants from unscrupulous criminals.
My best regards to all, Venus
World Animals Voice 