“how do we manage to feed 60 billion “farm animals” but not 7.8 billion people?”

The global grain harvest is around 2 billion tons per year.
Over 500,000 are fed to the cattle of the rich nations – while in the 122 countries of the Third World 43,000 children die of hunger every day, according to UN statistics.
The poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms.
So that we can enjoy our steak

A child who dies of hunger today is murdered.

good night, Venus

A marine aquarium is to be built by an Israeli investor in Berlin Lichtenberg the Rummelsburger Bucht: Coral World.

According to media reports, the exhibition of marine animals, corals, and tropical fish – including probable sharks – is planned. Together with other organizations, we at PETA Germany call on the responsible politicians to remove the project from the development plan.
Environmental destruction, overfishing and animal suffering:

In addition to office and administrative buildings and luxury apartments, a giant aquarium called Coral World is also to be built in Rummelsburger Bucht in Berlin.
Instead of native fish, tropical fish and probably also sharks are said to swim in an aquarium in the bay.

7 reasons against building the marine aquarium in Rummelsburg Bay:

1) The construction of Coral World is driving coral reef destruction. Around 99 percent of the marine ornamental fish in large European aquariums are caught in the wild.

Numerous sea creatures die while being caught and transported: around four out of five coral fish caught in the reef die before they reach the aquarium. Dead animals are then promptly replaced by further wild-caught animals – every new large aquarium built thus contributes massively to the looting of the oceans.

2) In addition, species-appropriate keeping in the aquarium is not possible: Many marine animals cover great distances in the ocean and dive into the depths of the sea. Many ocean dwellers live in symbioses with one another, avoid each other or live in shoals.

All of these natural behaviors cannot be performed in captivity; In the aquarium, these animals therefore often develop behavior disorders, depression, and aggression.

3) In addition, the construction of a new marine aquarium is extremely harmful to the climate: the operation of such an aquarium alone wastes as much energy as hundreds of private households. In times when climate and environmental protection are increasingly in the public eye, building a tropical aquarium is provocatively damaging to the environment.

4) Visitors and especially children learn nothing about the natural behavior of these animals or about marine and nature conservation through the display of animals in captivity. Visitors are falsely conveyed that it is natural to wrest living beings from their homes and imprison them for human entertainment.

5) In the area in which the aquarium is to be built, there are strictly protected animal species that are endangered if the planned construction project is carried out. In addition, the area is important for the urban climate. The planned, legally permissible compensatory measures are questionable from the point of view of nature conservation.

6) Aquariums are being phased out: This is not only shown by falling visitor numbers, for example in the Haus des Meeres in Vienna or in Sea Life in Munich but also the vote against the large Basel project Ozeanium.

7) The implementation of the project would be a waste of taxpayers’ money. In Lichtenberg, there are more important climate protection projects or social projects in which investing tax money would be much more sensible.

Together with the organization ElasmOcean e.V. and the Fondation Franz Weber, we turned to the district mayor of Berlin Lichtenberg, his deputy, and the head of the Berlin district administration in December 2020 and demanded that they distance themselves from the planned construction of the Coral World marine aquarium.

As early as 2017, we asked the politicians in charge to designate the Rummelsburger Bucht as a water protection area.

https://www.peta.de/themen/coral-world-berlin/

And I mean…Water zoos are an outdated concept and isolation torture on the captive animals. Here, too, is a kind of mass animal husbandry
Animals that naturally have thousands of kilometers to choose from (even if they are perhaps more territorial) is criminal to keep this way.

In addition, 80 percent of marine animals die on the way to the aquarium, the stocks of wild-caught fish are damaged and this leads to the destruction of coral reefs.

The behavior of animals in captivity does not help anyone to develop a real ecological awareness, and at most, it gives the children the wrong idea that it is okay to cage an animal or to keep an exotic animal in the water basin.
Exotic fish, and actually all animals, can now be observed better in excellent documentation.

No creature has to be locked up for this!

My best regards to all, Venus

Teach your children that chickens are individuals, not “nuggets.”

regards and good night, Venus

After an intense campaign by PETA USA, ExxonMobil – one of the last major sponsors of the brutal Iditarod dog sled race – has announced that it will sponsor the race for the last time in 2021.
ExxonMobil has supported animal cruelty in the Iditarod dog race for years

ExxonMobil has sponsored Alaska’s sled dog race Iditarod since 1978 – most recently with around $ 250,000 a year.
The company helped finance the mistreatment, suffering, and death of numerous dogs; a total of over 150 animals died. With numerous demos in front of gas stations, posters, and an online petition, the oil giant was convinced not to sponsor the race in the future.

We at PETA Germany emphasized the campaign with an online petition to the European headquarters in Hamburg and a demo in front of the building and would like to thank the around 15,000 supporters of the petition.

The Iditarod has claimed hundreds of injured, exhausted, sick, and dead dogs

In March 2020, over 220 dogs were withdrawn from the Iditarod race because they were completely exhausted, sick, or injured.
That meant that the remaining dogs had to work even harder.
Over 150 dogs have died in the past few years – most of them from aspiration pneumonia caused by inhaling their own vomit.

A PETA USA investigator was working in two kennels owned by former successful Iditarod participants where he encountered daily dog ​​suffering and gross neglect.
Dogs received no medical care, were chained to shabby boxes and plastic barrels in the freezing cold, and had to run even after they were completely exhausted and dehydrated.
A dog was dragged to death when a group of dogs managed to break free from a sled.

We applaud ExxonMobil’s decision to stop supporting the brutal cruelty of animals at Alaska’s annual dog sled race.
Because no dog wants to be chased to death voluntarily in the arctic cold.
No sponsor would co-finance an event in which people would be driven to their death in this way.

Corporations that continue to sponsor the Iditarod are speciesists; So they pursue a human-centered ideology that sees humans as superior to other species.

https://www.peta.org/blog/victory-exxonmobil-iditarod-sponsorship/

And I mean…Iditarod was founded in 1973.
The race is held in memory of a dog sledding expedition in 1925 that brought a vaccine to Nome to control a diphtheria outbreak.

There are several explanations for the name Iditarod.
One of them is that it refers to an ancient path that connected gold rush locations and port locations in northern Alaska.

Iditarod ‘stands for animal suffering and greed for profit.

The participants are only motivated by the cash prize and do almost everything to get it. The animals run about 160 kilometers a day and are only allowed to rest for almost 40 hours over a period of two weeks.

The race takes place in the dead of winter and demands everything from the dogs.
Many injure themselves, fall into ice water, collapse, or get sick.

Their paws get sore from running and often your muscles give up at some point.
Most of the mushers come from the USA, Canada, and Norway.

Now! slowly the faucet of this money pit, which exists at the expense of the animals, is turned off!
There has recently been a doping scandal involving the four-time winner and young star Dallas Seavey, which means there are also image problems.
And then, one after the other, important sponsors drop out, so the Iditarod budget and prize money had to be cut significantly.

For example, carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has announced that Chrysler car dealer “Anchorage Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Center” in Alaska has endorsed the race.

Just a week before the start of the 2020 race, Alaska Airlines ended its decade-long partnership with Iditarod.
Two days after this announcement, Baird Private Wealth Management also responded and confirmed that it would no longer support the brutal race.

Most recently, the weighty financier Wells Fargo jumped out – now it is financially tight. We may only see the last race in Iditarod this year because now there are serious fears that the days of this bloody sport are really numbered.

But we have to keep pushing: here is the new petition to the Millennium Hotels- they have to withdraw their support to Iditarod, too.

https://headlines.peta.org/iditarod-race-will-leave-you-outraged/#takeaction

My best regards to all, Venus

Judge in Oklahoma Rules ‘Tiger King’ Zoo Must Give Up Big Cats Due to Violations

Judge in Oklahoma Rules ‘Tiger King’ Zoo Must Give Up Big Cats Due to Violations (yahoo.com)

The new owners of the Tiger King zoo have been directed to surrender all the lion and tiger cubs in their possession, as well as the mothers of the animals, to the federal government.

The Associated Press reports that the orders came from Oklahoma U.S. District Judge John F. Heil III last week, in a case against Jeffrey and Lauren Lowe and the G.W. Zoo due to alleged violations of the Endangered Species Act and the Animal Welfare Act.

“The Lowes have showed [sic] a shocking disregard for both the health and welfare of their animals, as well as the law,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Jonathan D. Brightbill of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, per AP.

Before the Lowes began managing the zoo, Joseph Maldonado-Passage—or Joe Exotic—was running the exotic animal park, and was the subject of Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness docuseries that aired last year. Exotic is currently serving a 22-year federal prison sentence in Fort Worth, Texas for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. He’s been pushing for a pardon from Donald Trump—and on Jan. 6, Exotic’s legal team was gearing up for a reportedly “high level” meeting “in connection with” his pardon. However, with 24 hours left in Trump’s presidency, it’s unclear if Exotic will receive a pardon.

22/1/21 – WAV Comment – Don’t think he got it !

WAV Comment – Mondays are a start, but why not the whole week if he ‘cares’ about the environment ?

Come on Macca; lay down something stronger.

Argentina’s President Says He’ll Ditch Meat If Paul McCartney Plays For Him

Alberto Fernández has reportedly said: ‘If Paul McCartney plays Blackbird in my office, I’ll stop eating meat’

Argentina’s President says he will ditch meat on Mondays if Beatles star Paul McCartney plays for him. 

Alberto Fernández reportedly made the comment in a recent meeting with Argentine Vegan Union.

UVA set up a meeting with the politician to discuss a petition against the construction of factory farms across Argentina. So far, it had managed to garner more than 500,000 signatures. 

‘I’ll stop eating meat’

According to Buenos Aires Times, Fernández told the union: “If Paul McCartney plays Blackbird in my office… I’ll stop eating meat.”

However, UVA president Manuel Martí said in a later interview that Fernández showed ‘concern’ about how meat consumption impacts the planet.

Moreover, Martí says he’s contacted McCartney, and that the musician will send the President a letter asking him to implement no-meat Mondays.

“I hope Paul has the power to make him understand the necessity and importance of this,” he added.

Meat-free Mondays

Musician Paul McCartney and his daughters Mary and Stella created Meat-free Mondays back in 2009.The campaign encourages people to ‘help slow climate change, conserve precious natural resources, and improve their health by having at least one plant-based day each week’.

It has received praise from a slew of celebs such as Billie Eilish and Ringo Starr.

Argentina’s President Will Ditch Meat If Paul McCartney Plays For Him (plantbasednews.org)