…We can’t imagine a world without birdsong, can we?
Never cage them, then you’re on the right side.
Regards and good night, Venus
Day: October 22, 2020
Cruelty to animals, the destruction of nature, and climate change will continue in the EU for the next seven years!
In total, there are almost two thousand amendments to the European Commission’s draft for agrarian reform.
This shows how little agreements could be made in advance. There is pure chaos, so to speak, and ideological battles are waged, regardless of democracy or ethics.
And of course, the excruciating slaughter of animals is also involved because the minimal changes to the new seven-year agricultural budget do not provide for any improvements in animal welfare. Everything goes on as before!
It is possible that bullfighting subsidies will continue to be granted and instead of promoting plant-based agriculture, terms such as “veggie burger” or “with cheese flavor” will be banned.
The EU’s agricultural policy has no concept, is lobby-sensitive, anti-democratic, and despises people, animals, and nature. Not even the official climate targets are taken into account, but rather simulated arithmetically.
Abolition of factory farming, reduction of methane gas, prevention of animal diseases, a ban on arable toxins?
Nothing!
EU agricultural subsidies are renegotiated every seven years.
However, it is not an ordinary part of the budget, but rather the largest block in the European budget, with an annual volume of 60 billion euros. So it is practically about an essential core of the European Union.
However, this year’s negotiations are one unbelievable anti-democratic scandal. The three “ruling” parliamentary groups push through their agenda and tried all kinds of tricks to secure their majorities.
Attempts were made to give priority to agendas for which no translations or voting overviews existed.
Nevertheless, our thanks go to the few upright fighters for justice – in particular to Anja Hazekamp from the Dutch Animal Welfare Party, who campaigned for animal rights in the agricultural committee and in the plenary chamber – and to the left European parliamentary group, which has always stood up for our interests.
And I mean… The direction is clear: there will be no fundamental realignment of EU agricultural policy in the 2021-2027 budget period.
According to the decision of the heads of state and government, 345 billion euros are to flow into agricultural policy from July 2021 to 2027. That is almost a third of the total budget.
The basic principle for the distribution of the funds remains unchanged after the resolutions: a large part of the money, around three quarters, goes directly to the farmers.
But not to the little farmers.
WWF, BUND, and Greenpeace, like the Greens, have called for a completely new agricultural policy from the start.
One approach would have been to decouple the allocation of subsidies from the area. Farmers in Germany receive around 300 euros per hectare.
The suggestion was that the money should no longer be linked to the size of the farms, but to the award of eco-points.
Then farmers who ignore environmental protection would no longer receive any money.
But that was never on the agenda.
Factory farming with up to 80,000 pigs on a single farm and the constant demand from consumers for their cheap schnitzel have created an agricultural mafia that lives on completely nonsensical subsidies and cheap workers.
This agrarian mafia will continue to exist as before.
Agricultural companies do an incredible amount of lobbying. They have a massive presence in Brussels and millions are used to exert influence.
EUROPE needs politicians who will liberate us from the EU.
My best regards to everyone, Venus
From Greenpeace UK.
Please read this from Venus today (22/10/20) and try to understand why the UK people voted to get out !
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/10/22/eu-agricultural-reform-greenwashing-of-the-worst-kind/
Regards Mark
Be there or be square !
ADELAIDE • SOUTH AUSTRALIA
VEGAN FESTIVAL ADELAIDE
31 Oct and 1 Nov
Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka, East Terrace
2 massive days packed with information, food, and live music
https://www.veganfestival.info/welcome
Sounds Brill !
Regards Mark
Do you remember the sudden deaths of these two circus elephants, Mambo and Betty?
Our previous report: https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/10/18/germany-circus-elephant-mambo-and-his-companion-die-painfully-in-the-truck/
We didn’t know Betty’s name yet, now we know what her name was.
And we don’t just know that! we also know a lot of other things about the cause of death for both of them.
A report from an informant from Hungary (where both animals died) shows that circuses that make money with animals work according to Mafia methods.
Like every industry that makes money with animal exploitation.
Here is the report from the Facebook page of the organization “Action Alliance – Animals do not belong to the circus”
“Obviously, the Cassellys managed to hide the death of their two elephants from the public for weeks.
Betty and Mambo died on the night of August 17th, reports an informant on the Hungarian online platform “Allatierdekessegek”, which means: “The Cassellys had transported their five elephants – spread over two trucks – within Hungary.
After arriving at Szada Safari Park, they were left in the van overnight in stormy weather; an insufficient air supply in the larger container is said to have led to the disaster. “
Unbearable to imagine the scenery. 💔
Three elephants were pulled out lifeless the next morning, according to the report.
Mambo and Betty were dead, Tonga could still be rescued by a veterinarian who was called in.
Severely beaten and traumatized, she survived.
The two other elephants of the Cassellys, Kimba and Nanda, spent the unlucky night in a separate van and are also alive.
An official government agency has also confirmed this version of the events including the date via a comment on social media.
The veterinarian could not determine anything about an infection.
The rumor that a virus caused the death of the elephants is obviously a lie so that the Cassellys wanted to protect themselves.
According to the informant’s report, Mambo and Betty were immediately buried!
It was only on October 21st today that René Casselly jr. the death of the two elephants announced on social media – more than 9 weeks after the tragedy.
Apparently the processes are being investigated by the Ministry of Agriculture – with how much honesty it remains to be seen. We stay tuned”!
Aktionsbündnis – Tiere gehören nicht zum Circus
Please sign the petition, it goes to Hungary’s Minister for Rural Development, Dr. Fazekas Sándor, and has until now 28,000 votes!
Mambo and Betty will at least get justice after their death if we manage to get the Casselly Gang a fair punishment.
And maybe that will be a reason, with the help of the second corona wave too, to shut down the Casselly business.
My best regards to all, Venus
London shares the way for Vegans with the Netherlands.
What a brilliant concept which will obviously attract so many people, and hopefully turn more towards ditching meat – the first permanent Vegan ‘butcher’ shop – Rudy’s Vegan Butcher is set to open its doors on ‘World Vegan Day’, November 1.
With this, even if people still currently eat some meat; just out of pure interest, they will investigate what is on offer here and hopefully try it; maybe finding out that meat free is even better for them.
Here is the link:
You can only just make it out in one of the photos of the shop; but there is tiling (on the left) showing a pig – and underneath the words ‘friends not food’. – how great and true is that ?
The store, which is decked out and looks just like a traditional butcher, is completely different as all its items are entirely plant-based.
On sale will be homemade pastrami, dirty burger patties, cheeze sauce & chilli-non-carne, as well as a rack of jack, lobstah salad, meatballs, chick’n lover pate and shredded BBQ pulled porc. We (WAV) note that all the foods have variations in names (cheeze, lobstah, porc) which is obviously to get round all the junk that is put out by the EU etc declaring that you cant call milk by name etc if it is not from a cow. See more on our past posts relating to all that at:
Additional – for information – In the USA:
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/10/17/usa-the-meat-mafia-sabotages-proposition-12/
For those outside of London who want to get their hands on some vegan meat, Rudy’s will be delivering nationwide – with all orders on World Vegan Day coming with a free pack of baycon.
The shop – which also has its own restaurant in Camden – already sell DIY kits at home.
For opening day, the shop will also be giving away 100 lbs of free baycon to the first 200 customers through the door.
Sounds great and progressive for plant based eating;
Regards Mark
World Animals Voice 