Pandemics, environmental destruction, resistant germs …
Massive rainforest destruction for animal feed, factory farming, manure, destruction of the rainforest for palm oil plantations, wild animal markets and and and.
More and more monocultures are being grown and land grabbing, especially rainforests is being sacrificed for this.
The loss of the “green lung” of the Amazon is irrevocable and no government takes action to stop it.
Primarily responsible: Customers of the animal industries of leather, fur, feathers, wool, and the consumers of animal products, i.e. milk/milk product, meat/meat products, eggs…
The farmers deny it again and again, but currently, 85-90% of global soy yields end up in animal husbandry.
The greed for animal products grows every day and carries many risks, not only for animals.
The environmental organization Germanwatch shows very clearly: 35 percent of the chickens examined were contaminated with germs that are resistant to so-called reserve antibiotics.
This, our greed is also the alleged propagator and cause of many pandemics:
Ebola, Spain flu, swine flu, bird flu, Malaria, HIV, SARS-COV-2 SARD-COV (new).
The next pandemics are on the march and will come out of a stable again if we carry on as before.
The latest example: Denmark! where coronavirus mounted on mink farms and passed on to humans.
This is where the topic of multi-resistant germs comes into play, which was mentioned above.
We finally have to see the connections.
But we deny it! Instead, we slaughter millions of animals to protect the disease breeding grounds of the meat/milk/fur industry and in the end, we only fight the symptoms of self-created diseases.
There is only one way to counteract this trend:
An immediate exit from intensive animal husbandry.
Tax incentives for businesses that rely on future-oriented, plant-based agriculture.
Tax relief for vegan products.
The tax burden on animal products.
All of this must be decided immediately.
Einstein said: “You can’t solve a problem if you think the same way you did when you created it”
ALDI to join European Chicken Commitment in Germany and Spain
9 November 2020
Supermarket giant ALDI has taken a far-reaching decision to improve animal welfare. ALDI is the first major food retailer in Germany to join the European Chicken Commitment and thereby increases its commitment to sustainable retail practices by telling suppliers to treat chickens better.
Aldi has pledged to end the worst abuses suffered by tens of millions of chickens in their supply chains. The company will also work toward improving conditions for its locations in the US and elsewhere by continuing negotiations with The Humane League, an international nonprofit based in Philadelphia that advocates against animal abuse.
According to that group, “by 2026, a chicken raised for Aldi in one of these regions will be less likely to struggle to stand and walk, because they won’t be bred to reach market weight at just five weeks old. They won’t live their entire lives suffering in perpetual darkness. And they won’t be violently flipped upside-down and electrocuted, then have their throats slashed while potentially still conscious.”
France’s National Assembly adopts European resolution on animal welfare
9 November 2020
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation reports that France’s National Assembly has adopted a European resolution on the protection of animal welfare within the EU. This grants them a stronger position when negotiating with the European Commission.
On November 1st, in full confinement, France’s National Assembly adopted a European resolution following the fact-finding mission entrusted to deputies Typhanie Degois and Christophe Naegelen.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation, a member of Eurogroup for Animals, was auditioned for this in April 2020. The resolution comes in the form of various recommendations addressed to the European Commission, in fields as varied as agriculture, research, the pet trade, animal transport, etc.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation summarized all 37 recommendations theme by theme. Overall, they are in favour of all the recommendations in this resolution, although they would like to see a ban on certain practices rather than a strengthening of the legal framework (e.g. exploitation of wild animals in circuses, cetaceans in dolphinariums…).
From now on, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation will be able to rely on this resolution in order to intervene with the European Commission, as they feel it remains insufficiently active on the subject of animal welfare within the European Union.
WAV Comment – Naturally as we so often see; animal welfare comes a poor second to the financier driven governments. We now hear that the abusive fur trade and untold suffering of millions of sentient animals plays a second fiddle to the ‘more than’ €1bn in annual exports gained by the fur trade for Denmark.
Now, the price of a fur coat is (fortunately) coming back to hit the Danish government in a multitude of ways – the mink cull has descended into ‘political chaos’ by its actions. We, as a group, have no time for animal abusers; and that includes the Danish government who put their own financial gain up above the welfare of sentient beings suffering in the farms.
To say ‘Karma’ or ‘just desserts’ seems quite an apt statement at present. Denmark is now putting itself on the map as the ‘Second Wuhan’; due to its ignorance of the suffering caused by the fur trade. We have no sympathy for the Danish government who are now reaping what they sowed over many years.
Only with a complete and utter fur ban throughout Denmark which should be permanent; will the Danish government ever gain any respect from civilized people of the world. But then they still kill whales in the Faroe islands don’t they ? – Denmark; out of touch with reality and the wishes of the majority of decent people of this world.
Regards Mark
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Danish mink cull descends into political chaos over legality
Government lacks backing for bill to kill 17m animals to stem coronavirus mutation
Denmark’s plan to cull its entire mink population to stop the spread of a mutated form of coronavirus has sparked political chaos following revelations that the government lacks the legal basis for the order.
The Social Democrat-led minority government in Copenhagen plans to introduce emergency legislation on Tuesday to kill up to 17m mink, including those that are healthy. But it lacks parliamentary backing to pass the measure after the country’s centre-right contingent said it would not vote in favour.
Mette Frederiksen, prime minister, announced last Wednesday that a mutated form of coronavirus had passed from mink to 12 people in Denmark and could threaten the effectiveness of a future vaccine against Covid-19.But some international scientists have questioned that claim, and, with more than 2m mink already culled, opposition politicians and mink farmers are now sounding the alarm.
“The government is gambling with Danish democracy and they must stop,” Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, head of the largest centre-right opposition group the Liberals, told broadcaster TV2 as he said his party would not back the emergency law. The government’s website still calls for all mink in the country to be killed. But Mogens Jensen, minister for food, agriculture and fisheries, apologised late on Monday for the confusion and said the government should have been clearer on which actions had a legal basis and which did not.
Under Danish law, any infected mink and those within an 8km security zone can be killed, but not healthy mink outside these limits. Due to a lack of capacity at incineration plants, mass graves for the animals have been dug on land belonging to the Danish military.
Emergency legislation requires a two-thirds majority in Denmark’s parliament, which the government does not have in support of the measure. The law could still pass with more time for debate or if the government introduces normal legislation, which requires only a simple majority. Mr Jensen insisted that there had been “no time to waste” after health authorities warned of a risk to public health. “We are in a global health crisis, and therefore the government chose to take a resolute decision,” he said.
Troels Mylenberg, political editor of TV2, called the admission that the cull has no legal basis “a tremendous scandal, and quite simply sensational”. The UK has closed its borders to non-British citizens from Denmark, while Norway toughened its quarantine rules for Danish arrivals following news of the virus mutation. Danish health authorities said the mutated virus could already have died out.
Tage Pedersen, head of the Danish mink breeders’ association, said he was “shaken” by the “completely insane handling” of the affair for an industry that accounts for more than €1bn in annual exports for Denmark. Amid reports of mink farmers halting the cull, Mr Pedersen added that they should continue as “it will still eventually result in the closure of the entire industry”.
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