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Month: July 2020
Vegan Mince Made From Oats – With As Much Protein As Beef – Launches In UK
‘Pulled Oats does not try to mimic anything, it is a real plant-based alternative that stands on its own’
MARIA CHIORANDO
JUL 6, 2020
A new vegan protein made from oats has launched in the U.K.
Pulled Oats®, created by Finnish brand Gold&Green, is available from all Planet Organic stores and planetorganic.com.
The protein comes in the format of mince, and is available in two flavors; Pulled Oats Natural Mince and Pulled Oats Tomato Mince.
Protein alternatives
According to Gold&Green, the product is aimed at vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians, flexitarians, and meat-eaters.
It is made from five ingredients: oats, yellow peas, faba beans, rapeseed oil, and salt, and contains as much protein as beef (approx. 30g/100g), and all nine essential amino acids.
Gold&Green says because of the ‘mechanical process of pulling the oat-fibers with legume proteins’, the product has a ‘unique, fibrous texture which absorbs flavors well’.
The protein comes in two flavours; Pulled Oats Natural Mince and Pulled Oats Tomato Mince.
‘On a mission’
In a statement sent to Plant Based News, Sanna Antola, exploration manager at Gold&Green, said: “We are on a mission to provide people with healthy and sustainable food without compromising taste.
“Since launching in 2015 our products have made a lot of people happy in homes throughout Finland and the Netherlands, they love that Pulled Oats is such a versatile protein that can be used in normal cooking without having to learn new dishes.
“We hope UK consumers will love our product too. Pulled Oats does not try to mimic anything, it is a real plant-based alternative that stands on its own. Oats are a true superfood with many proven health effects and minimal environmental impact.”
https://www.plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/vegan-mince-oats-launches-uk
Thanks Stacey !
Regards Mark
https://our-compass.org/2020/07/06/sign-petition-kelloggs-please-make-it-vegan/
Please sign petition HERE
Or go to https://www.change.org/p/kellogg-s-please-make-it-vegan?use_react=false
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Whilst Kellogg’s does have a number of vegan cereals and products, they could expand this range extensively by simply switching the vitamin D used in their cereals to a plant-based version.
The vitamin D currently used in most of Kellogg’s products is an animal-derived version of vitamin D3. This comes from a substance called lanolin, which is found in sheep’s wool.
Vegans avoid wool and products made from wool for a number of reasons. Firstly, there is an inherent link between the wool industry and the meat industry. Additionally, undercover investigations into the wool industry have shown abuse and horrific treatment of gentle sheep during the sheering process.
Plant-based vitamin D can be in the form of vitamin D2 or a plant-derived D3.
Last year, Animal Aid announced that supermarket giant Asda has swapped the vitamin D in a number of their cereals to a plant-based version, making a number of their own-brand cereals vegan.
This simple swap does nothing to alter the taste or quality of the product, but it does open it up to a huge and ever-growing vegan market.
Please join us in urging Kellogg’s to swap the vitamin D3 in their cereals for a vegan version.
Please sign petition HERE
Or go to https://www.change.org/p/kellogg-s-please-make-it-vegan?use_react=false
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July 1, 2020, Animal Equality
The state becomes fifth in the U.S. to impose minimum space requirements for hens and ban the sale of cage-produced eggs.
DENVER, CO.—Today, Colorado joined the growing ranks of U.S. states to enact legislation ending the cruel practice of caging hens raised for eggs.
In a bill-signing ceremony live-streamed on Facebook earlier today, Colorado Governor Jared Polis inked his name on H.B. 20-1343, making the Centennial State the seventh in the nation to enact such protections.
Five of those states’ laws—including Colorado’s—also ban the sale of eggs from caged hens.
WHAT THE LAW DOES: The new law’s primary feature is its minimum-space guarantees for hens raised in commercial egg operations, as well as banning the use of cages.
Currently, the industry standard is just 0.67 square feet per bird—roughly the size of a piece of notebook paper. At that density, chickens cannot even fully stretch their wings, let alone engage in natural behaviors essential to their welfare. By contrast, Colorado’s new mandates that hens have a minimum of 1.0 to 1.5 square feet per bird, depending on the type of housing system used.
The law will also require egg producers to provide hens with enrichments that allow them to exhibit more natural behaviors, including, at a minimum, “scratch areas, perches, nest boxes, and dust bathing areas.” These features are critical to hens’ psychological well-being, according to chicken welfare experts worldwide.
And chickens aren’t the only birds to benefit from Colorado’s new law. Female turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl raised for the purpose of commercial egg production will receive the same legal protections, though their numbers are far lower than the state’s 5.5 million chickens in commercial egg production.
SALES BAN: In addition to providing hens with minimum space and enrichments, H.B. 20-1343 also bans the sale of eggs in the state that do not conform to these minimum standards. Coloradans have made it clear: They do not want these products of cruel confinement within their borders.
WHAT THE LAW DOES NOT DO: The law does not apply to small egg producers (those with flocks of 3,000 or fewer hens) or too small retailers (those who sell fewer than 750 dozen eggs per week).
It also does not apply to hens during transport, hens used in medical research or hens exhibited at state fairs or in 4-H programs.
This is how we want to see animals and not otherwise!
Is there anything nicer than sharing life with happy animals?
Who love you, are loyal to you and never betray you?
And live with each other in peace and respect?
Maybe we should learn a bit from their dignity, cleverness, loyalty; that would make the life of human animals more valuable and happier.
It is deeply shameful that we, as the only animal species, still do so much violence to the “other” animals.
My best regards to all, Venus
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All pictures courtesy of ‘Fight Dog Meat’.
With thanks to Violette for sending this info to us:
https://fightdogmeat.com/2020/07/03/africa-evala-dog-meat-festival-in-togo/
Africa: Evala Dog Meat Festival In Togo
Evala is a two week festival where thousands of men gorge on dog meat for two weeks. Thousands of dogs are also slaughtered so wrestlers at the festival can rub dog fat on their body before entering the competition arena. For thousands of men eating dog meat is considered their secret weapon to gain the essential attributes of each dog they eat, such as: loyalty, courage, intelligence, endurance, cunning, faithfulness, strength, etc. It is falsely believed eating dog meat will transfer the dog’s attributes to the dog eater, giving them supernatural powers over their opponent.
Evala festival takes place each year from the last week in June to the end of the first week of July. Competing in Evala is a mandatory three year initiation ceremony to prove themselves as fully fledged members of the community. It’s a ritual passage for men over 18 years old to pass from boyhood to manhood.
To refuse participation in initiation ceremonies means being driven out by your family, elders and the entire community at large. It is a crucial step in what forges the young man to take on adult responsibilities.
For the first week thousands of young men go into isolation to gorge on dog meat for seven days. They continue to eat dog for the second week as they compete against each other in mandatory wrestling. Just before each competitor enters the wrestling arena a dog is killed for it’s body fat to be rubbed onto the wrestler to make his body slippery, so his opponent cannot seize him.
Rabies is a serious problem across Africa and dogs at Evala are not health checked prior to slaughter or consumption. [No accurate data is available on the number of people who may have died of rabies in connection to Evala.
Tribes from hundreds of miles come to Evala to compete against each other. As more tribes take part, more dogs are brutally slaughtered for dog meat and dog fat.
Huge crowds gather around the favored wrestlers cheering them on to the tune of drums, flutes and other instruments. The show of strength is to mimic how the man would defend his community if needed. Because Evala is a sport, the loser is also on show to prove his dignity in defeat.
The ultimate winner of Evala receives the equivalent of the keys of the community – Togo style. Showered in admiration his new found privileges are vast. Evala expert Blanzoua says:
“He wins the right to consult a witch doctor about a loved ones sickness. He wins the right to take up arms to protect the community in case of attack. He is allowed to get married and raise a family. When he dies he will be buried in an adult’s tomb instead of a child’s tomb. One is not born an Evalon (the singular for Evala), one becomes it. To do so, one has to go through the initiation process.”
Evala is becoming a lucrative marketing network for businesses and tourism to make money from. It started off in nine Kabye districts quickly spread across Kozah province borders. The Yaka district in the Doufelgou province also practices it and at least 13 other districts: Lama, Pya, Tchitchao, Yad, Bohou, Kouma, Sarakawa, Landa, Djamd, Yaka, Tchar, Soumdina and Lassa.
Video: Evala Festival in Kara, Togo, West Africa. [Not graphic]
https://fightdogmeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Evala-Togo-.mp4?_=1
Fight Dog Meat will keep exposing what is taking place to these animals. Collectively we all have to keep yelling to let the governments know that we KNOW what is happening! Turning away or sitting quietly does not end the trade. We’re helping local volunteers have a louder voice on a world platform. Ultimately it’s the voice of the country’s own people whom their government will eventually be forced to listen to, for positive change for animals. With your help and support Fight Dog Meat will continue to pressure governments from the sidelines. We will not be quiet and will not back down. Animal protection laws are needed!
Fight Dog Meat will continue to bring you reports from dog and cat meat countries and the wonderful work their rescuers are doing despite no animal protection laws.
Thank you for reading,
Michele Brown
Founder,
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She saws open her victims’ skulls then injects toxins to burn brain cells, or suctions out parts of the brain. She sews them back up then places them in a small cage that probably reeks of the previous victim’s fear.
She then deliberately provokes their worst fears, just to see how they’ll react.
When she’s through with them, she kills them.
She’s Elisabeth Murray, and she calls herself a scientist.
Her victims are monkeys. She gets millions of your tax dollars to keep repeating this horror.
PETA has obtained 43 hours of never-before-seen video of Murray’s twisted “emotional responsiveness” tests on dozens of monkeys at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland.
The videos were recorded between February 2016 and November 2017.
Blood money and lots of it, for nothing.
SOKO animal protection-report
A year later – a conclusion
A year ago, the agony of the cattle came to the public in the mega-dairy farm in the Allgäu, Germany.
-Animals that were dragged, beaten, kicked, slowly died with head wounds, thirst, hunger, sight, violence, suffering.
(we had already reported on a similar case: https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/03/11/germany-investigations-are-being-expanded-against-horror-slaughterhouses/)
The operation “Allgäu” is unchanged 12 months later.
-The tons of milk a day go into cheese, drinking milk, or yogurt.
-The animals are still handed over to the same perpetrators.
-Factory farming continues successfully.
-The new state-owned Bavarian Food Safety and Veterinary Control Authority act under the guise of secrecy and there are considerable doubts about its effectiveness.
-The responsible veterinarians were able to successfully evade prosecution.
Small farms with dire conditions were partly taken over by the mega farmers after the celebrated closure and their cattle empires were growing.
The structural area-wide problems of exploitation for cow’s milk which lead to massive animal suffering have remained untouched.
Problems such as slatted floors, claw problems, mastitis (udder inflammation), calf disposal, tethering, consideration, spatial confinement, mutilation of the cows, animal transport, long-distance animal transport and dealing with decay and Downer cows caused by husbandry remain.
It is a good thing that the police actions have deterred and the authorities have been sensitized, and there is still hope for a public trial.
But it is also clear that our joint action will only work if the authorities are unable to master this gruesome system.
This is only possible if we finally stop consuming the milk of a different animal type as an adult, weaned people.
Otherwise, the cycle of exploitation, violence, illness, and death simply continues forever.
https://www.facebook.com/sokotierschutz.ev
And I mean…Here in Germany, we have a humorous so-called “animal protection law”. It says:
“Nobody should cause pain, suffering, or harm to an animal for no reasonable reason.”
For no reasonable reason !!
But because the meat industry wants to make millions with it, then is pain and suffering considered as a reasonable reason.
And we claim that we are a lot further, in terms of animal welfare than the Chinese.
No public trials against the animal torturers from the meat mafia.
Termination of proceedings against officials and civil servants.
Criminal charges are filed, unscrupulous veterinarians join the business.
Trust zero.
My best regards to all, Venus
On the Greek island of Santorini, donkeys and mules are used as taxis to carry tourists up and down more than 600 steps to the old town of Firá several times a day.
Despite international outrage when an eyewitness report published by PETA in 2018 revealed that the animals were denied water and shade and many had painful wounds, a new PETA video exposé reveals that the suffering and abuse continue.
Santorini officials refused to run adverts from PETA which highlight the suffering of donkeys and mules used as “taxis” on the Greek island.
Image: PETA
PETA Germany has refused to be silenced and has bombarded neighboring ports, ferries, taxis, buses, billboards, and cargo bikes with a powerful campaign.
Over 100 adverts reading “Help stop cruelty: please don’t ride the donkeys and mules!” are now visible in the popular Greek coastal towns of Rafina and Piraeus.
The campaign follows a recent PETA eyewitness exposé revealing that handlers drag animals down steps and whip and hit them with sticks to make them continue walking.
Open Sores and Bloody Injuries
Donkeys and mules were observed suffering from open sores, raw skin, and bloody injuries caused by their ill-fitting and makeshift saddles. Some animals were forced to wear tight muzzles with sharp wire ends that could easily injure them as well as humans.
Under these laws, animals must have access to water and protection from the weather, but many of those used for rides are tied to a wall or rail for hours in the blistering summer sun with no access to water whatsoever. Some try desperately to find shade.
These conditions are illegal but apparently tolerated by the authorities.
Continue reading “Greece: the misery of Santorini’s donkeys”
Click on the following link to see a disturbing video of a reporter flying over the devastation:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-53262565
Amazon fires at 13-year high for June
Fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose by almost 20% in June – a 13-year high for the month, according to government data.
With such an increase at the start of the dry season, there are concerns that this year’s fires could surpass 2019’s disastrous blazes.
Activists say the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating the problem.
They believe arson is likely to be even less monitored while authorities are stretched.
Many forest fires in the country are started deliberately by illegal loggers and farmers wanting to quickly clear ground.
Brazil has the world’s second-highest coronavirus death toll, after the US, and there are also concerns that increased smoke could have a damaging effect on the breathing of virus patients.
- Amazon under threat: Fires, loggers and now virus
- Deforested Amazon areas ‘net emitters of CO2’
- ‘Football pitch’ of Amazon forest lost every minute
In June, the country’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) recorded 2,248 fires using satellite imagery, as opposed to 1,880 fires in June 2019.
The burning usually increases throughout July, August and September.
“We cannot allow the 2019 situation to repeat itself,” Mauricio Voivodic, executive director of the World Wildlife Fund NGO in Brazil, told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, accusing the government of inaction.
Last year’s fires peaked in August, with 30,901 – threefold the number for the same period the previous year.
The 2019 fires led to protests domestically and internationally, with threats of financial penalties from foreign governments, and broad condemnation of President Jair Bolsonaro’s environmental policies.
The president has been criticised for slashing the Ministry of the Environment’s funding, and encouraging business over conservation.
BBC analysis in 2019 showed that a sharp drop in fines for environmental violations during his administration had coincided with the increase in fires.
However, the president has consistently rejected criticism from abroad. “Certain countries, instead of helping … behaved in a disrespectful manner and with a colonialist spirit,” he said in September, rejecting the “misconception” that the Amazon is the lungs of the world.
The Amazon – which spans multiple South American countries but is 60% in Brazil – is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming.
It is home to about three million species of plants and animals, as well as some one million indigenous people.
Last year, the BBC reported how an area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being lost every single minute, according to satellite data.
Scientists say it could be close to “the tipping point“, when its nature completely changes.
This will happen when total deforestation reaches between 20% and 25% – which could be in the next 20 or 30 years.
World Animals Voice 