Every human born vegan, with heart full of compassion and love, but sadly customs, traditions and teaching of the family and society misguide us .
We learn violence, hatred and greed from society.
In a few years, this little person may be someone who orders a dead animal from McDonalds at the counter. Or someone who fights wholeheartedly for animal rights.
Teaching children respect and love for animals is our responsibility.
Regards and a good night from Venus
And we do not forget the animal victims of the country.
And the mass murder of the farm animals, which the psychotic president finances because of Corona.
It is always the psychopaths and political criminals around the world who support the meat industry and feed it with billions from our tax money..
We ALL must finally stop eating animals and be miserable accomplices of this fascist system of animal exploitation.
My best regards to all, Venus
Fruits come in countless varieties, offer solid nutrition, and can make an important contribution to a vegan diet. There are so many delicious varieties of fruit that there is always something new to discover. So let’s take a look at all the delicious possibilities, in order to acquaint you with the most delicious types of fruit in existence.
The first thing you should know about fruits is that the variety grown in the tropics is entirely different than what you can find in colder climates.
Here are the most common fruits grown in temperate climates, in roughly the order they come into season:
And here are some of the most popular tropical fruits:
If you love fruit, the tropics are an incomparable place to live. The above list of tropical fruits only scratches the surface of what’s available, since several of the most delicious tropical fruits can’t stand up to shipping and are rarely exported. These include starfruit, soursops, egg fruit, and jackfruit. What’s more, the bananas, pineapples, and mangoes sold in the tropics are far tastier than the exported varieties.
A good mango has my vote as being the tastiest of all tropical fruits, but the flavor totally depends on the variety—of which there are dozens. Smaller long and thin orange or yellow mangoes like the Ataulfo are among the most consistently delicious mangoes. Be sure to avoid Tommy Atkins mangoes, which are justifiably compared to the godawful Red Delicious apple.
While most tree-grown fruits are sweet, two notable and delicious exceptions are avocados and breadfruit.
Avocados thrive in both tropical and warmer temperate climates. They come in numerous varieties. Hass avocados are widely available and I think by far the tastiest variety. You can find avocados almost everywhere, since they are exported from Mexico to every part of the world.
Breadfruit has a flavor and texture like potatoes and it is magnificent sliced and sauteed with some garlic. Unfortunately, breadfruit bruises easily and rots quickly, so it’s rarely exported. In many parts of the tropics, breadfruit is among the very cheapest foods since the trees yield a massive amount of fruit.
Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant are all nightshades. This family of fruits is widely cultivated in Italy, and all varieties grow on poisonous vines. Nightshades are planted in the spring, as soon after the first frost as possible, and they die in autumn with the first frost. Every sort of nightshade is delicious when combined into an Italian sauce.
Eggplant is also a staple of Middle Eastern cooking, and is the key ingredient for a classic dish called baba ghanouj. Made traditionally, the eggplant for baba ghanouj is baked in a wood-fired oven, where it gains a smoky flavor and a wonderfully rich texture.
Since every fruit starts out as a flower, it’s no surprise that many fruits are naturally fragrant. In fact, often the best way to judge the ripeness of your fruit is not by sight but by smell. You’ll often encounter gorgeous, flawless-looking fruits that are practically tasteless. Giving your fruit a sniff before purchasing is often the only way to determine whether it has good flavor.
When shopping for produce, remember that smaller fruits tend to have more complex and intense flavors. That goes for bananas, tomatoes, blueberries, and especially strawberries. Larger fruits may seem more eye-catching, but often their size seems to dilute their flavor.
You’ll get the most delicious and the cheapest fruit if you buy at peak of season. You’ll get strawberries in the spring. In early summer cherries are the first tree fruit to ripen. By mid-summer, peaches, plums, and nectarines reach peak of season, along with raspberries and blackberries.
In early autumn, blueberries start coming in. The further north (or south, in the southern hemisphere), the later the blueberries ripen and the better they’ll taste. The fruit season closes out in late autumn with apples and persimmons. Persimmons may be the most delicious fruit of all—when perfectly ripe their flesh has a texture like pudding.
No fruit comes into season during the winter, but you can get freshly-picked apples and persimmons through late fall. Since apples can hold up well in cold storage for a couple months, they’re probably the best fresh fruit to eat over the winter. By the time spring rolls around, you should switch from apples to freshly-harvested spring produce.
Every supermarket and natural foods store sells inexpensive frozen fruit year-round. The most common varieties include peaches, strawberries, blueberries, and mangoes. All of these fruits are especially good for vegan smoothies. Just use the vegan milk of your choice—it makes sense to choose an unsweetened variety for smoothies since your fruit will add plenty of natural sugars.
Frozen fruits provide a wonderful boost for eating well during the winter. And nutritionally speaking, they’re a much better option than canned fruits, since there’s no sugar-sweetened syrup. Plus, since frozen fruits haven’t undergone the cooking that’s part of the canning practice, you are eating something that’s much closer to tasting freshly-picked.
You should also consider washing, slicing, bagging, and freezing your own fruit during peak of season. The best produce you can buy locally is likely to be far superior than bagged frozen produce, and quite possibly less expensive. Any market will sell double-sealed freezer bags in sizes ranging from quarts to gallons.
When freezing most fruit, arrange your berries or sliced fruit on a single layer of a tray, then freeze until solid. Once the fruit is frozen hard, transfer it to freezer bags. This method is called “individual quick freeze” (IQF) and keeps your fruit from clumping together into an unappetizing frozen brick.
Dried fruit are a wonderful option during the cold months. Raisins are probably the most widely-eaten dried fruit, but that’s just the start of your options. No matter what kind of dried fruit you buy, sulfites whenever possible.
Nearly every fruit is wonderful dried. Just like frozen fruit, dried fruit can easily last through the winter. If you have an abundance of fruit in the summer—especially if you have your own fruit trees—why not consider purchasing a food dehydrator? That’ll enable you to feast on delicious dried fruit during the lean months of autumn and winter. Dehydrators were once outrageously expensive, but today you can buy a good one for less than the price of a rice cooker or bread machine.
My favorite dried fruit is apricots, but not just any apricot. They’ve got to be unsulfured Blenheim “slab” apricots. If you seek this variety of dried apricot out, I can’t imagine you’ll be disappointed.
Finally, don’t forget about figs and dates. Much of the world’s fig and date crops are grown in Turkey, Greece, and other Mediterranean countries. Both these foods are commonly dried, especially for export. I think the most delicious varieties are medjool dates and calimyrna figs. I actually prefer dried figs to fresh, since the texture improves and the flavors are much more concentrated. But avoid black mission figs. They’re terrible, and should be summarily rejected by anyone of discriminating tastes, just like red delicious apples and Tommy Atkins mangoes.
Wild animal trafficker is jailed for smuggling 107 endangered turtles by freezing them in his refrigerated van
Shen was arrested by police who found his lorry packed with 107 frozen turtles
The wildlife trafficker was given a nearly 13-year sentence for his illegal trade
Officials said the seized animals were estimated to be worth over £345,000
The case was reported by local court to raise awareness for wildlife protection
A Chinese wildlife trafficker has been jailed after being caught by police transporting 107 protected sea turtles with his refrigerated truck.
The resident, known by his surname Shen, was tracked down by police after the officers seized found his lorry packed with frozen turtles in the woods in Zhoushan city, Zhejiang province of eastern China.
Mr Shen was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison and handed a fine of 150,000 yuan (£17,287). Two other residents who sold four of the sea turtles to Mr Shen were also imprisoned.
The crime case took place in 2018 and was revealed this week by a local court in Zhejiang to warn the public against wild animal trafficking.
Read the rest of the story by clicking on the above link.
Deserves a humanity, that tortures billions of animals not exactly what she does to the animals?
Regards and good night from Venus
The Farmers Weekly is exactly what it says – and is familiar to us (England) in the old days of live animal exports, which they naturally supported.
Here is their latest article on 8 reasons why becoming a vegan is in their opinion, ‘the wrong choice’. Could the reality be that many people are now being much better informed on how meat and dairy is produced ?; and as a result of not liking what they see and hear; people are turning veggie and vegan in their droves.
These pictures do not reflect British farming – but GLOBAL farming issues.
The farming industry is in crisis; and they have to turn and put down anything that goes against ‘their’ business; and that includes meat and dairy production.
So lets look at what they are saying: here is the link, which we show in full below.
We simply say, browse through our posts relating to ‘farm animals’ alone – https://worldanimalsvoice.com/category/farm-animals/ to see what the farmers are doing to animals. Sure, it is not just British farmers against British vegans only; it is a global issue; and with many of the current situations involving farming in the USA; or German intensive pig farming; or China; well yes China !! – at this present time; ‘farmers’, from wherever, are all being put under the same umbrella.
You could well say that the farming community views vegans and veggies in the same way; grouping the whole lot together whilst not really listening to the different arguments made by the many regarding piglet castration, tail docking, battery everything, cows never seeing a grass filed, let alone walk on it,
There are no ‘winners’ in this game; each side has its own specific views of the ‘other side’; but we let the market speak for itself; and the current market says veganism is way out in front.
So here it is; 8 reasons why being vegan is so ‘bad’ for us all:
Source:
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/fw-opinion-8-reasons-why-becoming-vegan-is-the-wrong-choice
Opinion: 8 reasons why becoming vegan is the wrong choice
If the current global crisis has been a time to think about food and those who produce it, it should also be a time for some of us to rethink how we can really help.
For some, changing to a vegan diet may seem like an obvious choice to save the planet or animals. But it’s the wrong choice – and here are eight reasons why.
If we feel better for being vegan, fine. But we’re not saving the world. We have no right to preach. And no justification for doing atrocious things to people who have just proved their worth to us in this crisis.
Animal Equality, May 13, 2020
The “HEROES” Act disregards animal welfare groups’ asks regarding depopulation and slaughter line speeds.
Two weeks after President Trump moved to protect meat industry profits by designating meat processing facilities as “critical infrastructure,” apparently it is now Congress’s turn to do the industry’s bidding.
In the latest coronavirus relief package, introduced in the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday, lawmakers have disregarded both of the major issues animal protection groups have been bringing to their attention: increased slaughter line-speeds, and the mass killing (“depopulation”) of millions of pigs and chickens across the country.
WASTE, BUT WANT NOT: The latest relief bill – the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solution (“HEROES”) Act – would reimburse meat producers for 85 percent of the financial losses they incur as a result of killing whole barnfuls of chickens, pigs, or other farmed animals.
These mass killings are the result of supply-chain disruptions, as slaughterhouses across the U.S. have temporarily halted operations due to widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 among workers. Without anywhere to send “market-ready” pigs and chickens, producers are simply killing their herds and flocks to make room for the next batch of animals already in the pipeline.
The bodies of these culled animals are not sold for human consumption. Most will simply be composted (also at taxpayer expense).
EVEN WORSE THAN SLAUGHTER: The methods producers use to carry out these mass killings are exceptionally cruel, ranging from suffocating the animals with foam or gas, to manually slamming them against the ground, to simply turning off the ventilation system in the barns and allowing the animals packed inside to slowly die of overheating.
At a certain point, it simply becomes less expensive for producers to kill off their herds than to continue feeding the animals past market weight. And now, under the latest relief bill, producers will be compensated for those mass-killing costs as well.
Those who choose to keep their animals alive will not receive the relief funds (!!!)
FULL SPEED AHEAD: One would think that, at a time when millions of farmed animals are literally being thrown in the trash and workers are getting sick due to crowded conditions at slaughterhouses, it would be wise to slow down the speeds at which these plants can operate.
This is precisely what Animal Equality and other groups asked legislators to do by including a provision in the 1,815-page-long HEROES Act (!!)
In our May 4th letter to congressional leaders, we stated: “We urge you to include language in the fourth coronavirus relief package directing FSIS to retract approvals for all plants currently operating at higher line speeds, cease issuing new approvals, and take additional steps to ensure social distancing. … The suspension of these dangerous systems will help protect workers from further injury, as well as protect animal welfare and food safety.”
These industrial systems of animal exploitation should be stopped (as several federal lawmakers, including Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren, have recently proposed)—not propped up by taxpayer money.
And not only is protecting this harmful industry unethical and irresponsible (both fiscally and from a public health standpoint), some of the government’s attempts to do so are unlawful as well.
This unlawfulness is the basis of our ongoing lawsuit against USDA for its new rule allowing slaughter plants to kill pigs at unlimited speeds.
WHAT YOU CAN DO: To quote Jonathan Safran Foer, “Your next meal is the moment to withdraw your support from the most cruel and destructive industry in America.”
Foer’s recent article in the Washington Post reiterates all the reasons the HEROES Act’s support of the industry is so backwards.
You can let your federal representatives know you feel the same, by sending them a message expressing your frustration with Section 60102 of the bill (H.R. 6800). Unlike meat production, your participation is essential.
URGE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO OPPOSE THE HEROES ACT AS WRITTEN
https://animalequality.org/blog/2020/05/13/heroes-act-meat-industry/
And I mean…We are experiencing a renaissance of fascist practices in the animal sector … As in the Nazi era.
In 1941 Hitler’s will was to implement a final solution to the “Jewish question”.
This has caused the mass murder of millions of Jews and other people.
Today, every corrupt government wants to mass murder animals who are in no way to blame for the pandemic and the economic corona bankruptcy. They call it ” depopulation” .
We remember…
everything Hitler did back then was legal, and he had even come to power with democratic elections. Like Trump.
My best regards to all, Venus
What is the fate of a petition if that petition reaches 1 million signatures in Europe?
We can find the answer in the EU statute, as part of the “European Citizens’ Initiative” which was introduced with the Lisbon Treaty, and came into force in April 2012:
“For initiatives that have collected at least one million signatures, achieving the minimum number required in at least seven Member States, the EU – Commission will have three months to examine the initiative and decide how to act on it. It will meet the organizers so they can explain the issues raised in their initiative in more depth.
The organizers also want to have the opportunity to present their initiative at a public hearing organized at the European Parliament.
The Commission will then adopt a Communication explaining its conclusions on the initiative, what action it intends to take, if any, and its reasoning.
Conclusion: Within three months, the Commission will inform the organizers about its legal and political conclusions on the initiative, as well as what to do next, or not to do so, and the reasons why.
This information is made available to the public.
The “End The Cage Age” campaign had 1,5 million votes and was closed on September 11th 2019.
Since then we are waiting for an answer, and we have received no information on how to proceed.
Instead, we get a “Green Deal” in double packaging to “farm-to-fork”, where the massive overproduction of meat in industrial livestock farming with catastrophic effects on animals, humans and the climate is not addressed in the “Green Deal”.
Although the strategy commits to considering options for animal welfare labelling, there is no mention of method-of-production labelling.
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/05/21/eu-green-deal-puts-animal-welfare-back-on-the-eus-agenda/
Nevertheless: Reineke Hameleers, CEO of the Eurogroup for Animals, speaks of a “historical document that opens the door to a potentially better world for farm animals in the EU and other parts of the world” (!)
And he is firmly convinced that the EU’s green plans “also open up the possibility to meet the latest ECI ” End The Cage Age “, which calls for an end to the use of cages in animal husbandry systems, and to include specific animal welfare regulations for species such as cattle” .
He seems to have forgotten the 1.5 million votes, who have already decided against it.
We have not.
He does not seem to be concerned that the abolition of factory farming does not fall within the “green plans” of his employers.
We will never tire of complaining about the fraud and disrespect of the EU Commission, we cannot accept that in this way our civil right to participation is trampled on.
Obviously, The Eurogroup for Animals has understood that the “End the Cage Age” campaign will not work.
Therefore they ask for help at the end.
“The finalised strategies will now be rolled out, with the European Parliament adopting a resolution on the content later this year. At Eurogroup for Animals, our next opportunity will be to influence the European Parliament’s response to the two strategies, so our members will start to mobilise citizens in the days ahead to contact their MEPs and make their voices – and our recommendations – heard”.
No, dear people from the Eurogroup!
I will no longer sign anything, nor will I send any letters to the MEPs.
Until I get an answer about the state of the “End the Cage Age” campaign.
My best regards to all, Venus
“Thank God! everything is as beautiful as before!”
Regards and a good night from Venus
🐶 Around 300,000 animals end up in German animal shelters every year and are urgently looking for a loving home.
We translated what they would tell us. 👇
(Video is in English)
An animal comes to German animal shelters every 65 minutes.
They are the product of human indifference.
They are either abandoned, given away, or come to the home through official animal trapping and the veterinary office.
The shelters are full, the volunteers work overtime to provide the animals with adequate care, but unfortunately more animals are accepted than mediated.
Many leave their cat or dog in the forest and hope that a merciful hiker will find and save them.
For these animals it means that they are lucky when they end up in the shelter, where most of them stay until the end of their lonely life.
In Germany the abandoneded animals are piling up.
We used to think that this only happens in southern countries, now it is exactly the same here.
The only difference is that we don’t see the abandoneded animals on the street because the shelters have more money to take them in.
Give a home to an abandoned animal.
It will be thankful and loyal to you forever, and you will have a dear friend in happy and sad moments of life.
My best regards to all, Venus
World Animals Voice 