❄️ It was -21 degrees that day. Then suddenly, a passerby saw a goose stuck to a post.
Troubling, the passerby wanted to help him but a detail irritated him.
As he approaches, he notices that the goose was covering a puppy under its wings to keep him warm 🐶
A pretty scene full of love and tenderness 😍
Again, we have a lot to learn from our animal friends.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Below – Romanian Live Export Protesters
From our campaigner friends at Animals Australia.
People power stops new live export business in its tracks
A plan to begin exporting live animals from Namibia to Kuwait has been quashed thanks to a united, global effort drawing attention to the suffering caused by the trade.
The idea that when one door closes another opens, is mostly reassuring. But when it comes to the global live export trade, this universal truth is the reason we need to remain ever vigilant. You see, as countries have become clued-up to the cruelty inherent to live export — and widespread opposition to it — live exporters have found it harder to shore up business.
When Australia restricted sheep exports during the dangerous northern summer months, exporters knocked on Romania’s door. And Animals Australia was there. When Romania began questioning the trade, they went to South Africa. Again, we were already there. When South Africa’s NSPCA took the battle to stop the trade all the way to the High Court, it was abundantly clear: this global trade in animal cruelty is well and truly matched by a global effort to stop it.
From Australia to New Zealand to Brazil to South Africa and to dozens of countries throughout Europe — there is a powerful, international collaboration of groups and individuals working together to save animals from this ruthless industry.
And it’s a compassionate effort that has just paid off in Namibia, with new plans to begin live export from the Southern African nation put on hold indefinitely.
The business plan put forward by Tradeport Namibia proposed to import 70,000 live sheep, 50,000 goats and 5,000 cattle from South Africa and Botswana for live export from Namibia to Kuwait.
As exposé after exposé has revealed — it’s a sea journey fraught with risk for the animals who would be confined in cramped and stressful conditions for weeks before facing terrifying fully conscious slaughter upon arrival.
A rapid-fire public and media education campaign was launched in Namibia to highlight the reality of live export for the animals. In its submission objecting to the business plan, Namibia’s SPCA noted that the trade undermines Namibian laws and standards and that allowing live export would:
And the warnings have been heeded. In announcing that plans to export live animals would be ‘put on ice’, Tradeport Namibia noted the strong opposition, locally and internationally, to the export of live animals and that the company did not want to be involved in a business that will attract widespread outrage.
A united global front is turning the tide on live export. We don’t always win, but we are always there. And every action you take to support these efforts takes us another step towards shutting the door on this industry, for good.
Check it out in full via:
People power stops new live export business in its tracks | Animals Australia
Power to the people !
Regards Mark
Again it is the “death trap” Farewell Spit in New Zealand, where several pilot whales ran aground within one day. Volunteers formed a human chain to drive the whales into deeper water.
More than 20 pilot whales have been returned to deeper waters after a second stranding off New Zealand.
“The whales are currently swimming freely off the coast and are monitored by a boat from the nature conservation authority,” said the organization Project Jonah on Tuesday.
Project Jonah volunteers tried to pull the pilot whales back into the water on Monday Source: AFP / HANDOUT
Volunteers formed a human chain to drive the whales into deeper water.
On Monday, February 22nd, around 50 animals were stranded on the Farewell Spit headland. Many of them died, but about 28 survived the night.
Numerous helpers were on duty to cool the whales until the tide set in, as the broadcaster Radio New Zealand reported.
Why the marine mammals were stranded was still unclear. For the group it seemed to be the first time, the animals showed no abrasions, the station quoted the ranger Amanda Harvey
The scientists suspect that the animals have orientation problems as a reason for stranding or that animals want to come to the aid of their previously stranded conspecifics. Source: dpa / New Zealand Doc, Matt Nalder
Scientists are still trying to find out why such incidents are more common at Farewell Spit, it said.
In February 2017 alone, between 600 and 700 whales were stranded there, 250 of them died.
Whales are repeatedly stranded on the coasts of New Zealand.
Why marine mammals lose their bearings is unclear.
Presumably, they follow a stray or sick animal into shallow water. The animals may have responded to calls from their conspecifics who were stranded on Friday, as Daren Grover of the animal welfare group Project Jonah involved in the rescue said.
The largest mass stranding of pilot whales in New Zealand occurred in 1918 when a thousand mammals landed on the remote island of Chatham.
In 1985, 450 pilot whales stranded in Auckland.
At the Farewell Spit headland, which is around 150 kilometers west of the tourist town of Nelson, there have been at least nine mass strandings in the past ten years.
https://kurier.at/politik/ausland/neuseeland-wieder-200-wale-gestrandet/246.012.472
And I mean … Scientists don’t know, nor do we know why the animals were stranded.
We can only be happy about the survivors and would like to thank the people from the bottom of our hearts who have contributed with all their might to the rescue
My best regards to all, Venus
Watch the video below:
South Korean Meat Dogs.
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Regards Mark
Promises, Promises, from the man who does nothing.
Those who have such prejudices are not mature enough…
regards and good night, Venus
“Stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” French minister says after major city removes meat from school lunches
French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie has argued against injecting “ideology” into school lunches after the city of Lyon removed the meat from the menus.
Local officials said it would help them follow Covid-19 protocols.
“Let’s stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” Denormandie tweeted on Sunday.
“Let’s just give them what they need to grow well. Meat is part of it,” he wrote, adding that he had asked the region’s perfect, a state-appointed official, to overrule the move.
Officials in Lyon, France’s third-largest city, said schools would have a meat-free menu starting on Monday.
They argued that the change would help to “streamline” the work of cafeterias while they followed the requirements on social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Stephanie Leger, the city’s top education official, told AFP the new menu “will allow us to speed up the service and, thus, allow us to cater to all children.”
“To match the tastes of the largest number [of students], we have decided to remove meat,” Leger said. She added that the menu could not be considered vegan because the cafeterias would continue to serve fish and eggs, and that meat would return once the “sanitary situation allows it.”
Nevertheless, the idea to exclude meat from school lunches immediately caused a backlash from right-wing politicians. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin labeled it an “unacceptable insult to French farmers and butchers.” (!!!)
“We can see that the moralizing and elitist policy of the Greens excludes the popular classes. Many children often only get to eat meat at the school canteen,” he tweeted, calling it a “scandalous ideology.” (!!!)
Lyon Mayor Gregory Doucet, a member of the Green Party, responded that the meat-free menu was a “one-time” measure introduced for sanitary reasons. He tweeted on Sunday that the city authorities were “guaranteeing a balanced meal for all school students.”
Doucet also pointed out that the government had not complained when his predecessor, from President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party, “introduced exactly the same measure during the first wave” of the pandemic.
https://www.rt.com/news/516259-france-school-lunches-meat/
And I mean...For God’s sake, Monsieur Denormandie! those are adventurous arguments that you bring!
Animal fats are the leading cause of diabetes, obesity, and heart attacks. More and more children are suffering from it!
And do you recommend that?
Is it really an “extreme ideology” for you to refuse to actively participate in an ecological catastrophe?
When one refuses to ignore the barely comprehensible suffering of pigs, chickens, and cattle, etc.?
You should know that veganism is a very promising way to soon be able to feed 10 billion people adequately without completely destroying the earth.
If you are interested in saving our planet, of course.
To dismiss that as “scandalous ideology” is cheap, belittling, and simply idiotic!
And by the way: Meat eaters are really militant, there are a lot more of them than militant vegans, and they are also much more aggressive: because they have no argument against non-meat eaters, except that they want to support their “French farmers and butchers”!
My best regards to all, Venus
Update from German: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLovdoYiU-1/?igshid=1uez95eiy3m84-(Video)
On Monday, a number of farmers in #Lyon demonstrated against the abolition of #meat dishes in the city’s school canteens. #Farmers drove their tractors through the streets of Lyon, dumping old tires and manure in front of the # government building to express their anger.
In protest, they set up a mini-farm with cows and goats on the square in front of the town hall.
“We are now in front of the town hall because they cannot enforce their ideas by force, especially the ban on meat in schools, allegedly because of the #corona virus,” said one farmer.
YES!! That’s how the farmers are, they always complain.
The farmers are also protesting against the anesthesia during piglet castration, they are jointly responsible for the groundwater contamination, the death of insects, and the resistance to antibiotics.
They keep thousands of animals in stables, crowded together, that have to live on their shit, without movement, employment, or daylight.
The farmers think it is completely okay to put pigs in cages for 4 months in which they cannot turn around, mothers take their children away, kill surplus piglets and when they have exploited cows enough, they let them kill the last money close.
The farmers claim that they do not torture their animals, but if I am not an animal torturer, then I do not use them for my economic interests either.
Well, the “farmers” are not forced into their profession and they could just as easily work as accountants, postmen, hairdressers, bakers, waiters, etc.
So yes! obviously they enjoy it. Or at least they don’t find it cruel enough to relax and maybe change jobs.
Venus
Still working on this; but here is the start;
Regards Mark
23/2/21
Link – Vegan / Recipes – Plant Based Food. – World Animals Voice
We are trying to promote a Vegan plant based lifestyle on this site; and to show you the realities of what goes on with ‘the other side’ – meat production, involving live animal transport; the dairy industry etc.
WAV is not a cookery site, but given the chance; we will give links to other sites and areas where you can delve deeper into the easy world of going Vegan.
So; now we are established a bit more, its time for a change, and a change which we hope will be of benefit.
On the site from today there will be a new section called ‘Vegan / Recipes’. Here we will be giving you all further insight into the way forward to making veganism very easy; and cutting out meat and dairy. It should be a cool place for new, aspiring, and ready to be vegans.
So if you are a foodie, or are looking for new ideas to broaden your already existing vegan diet, we hope this section will be of use to you. Recipes and links will continue to be included in general news for a time, but gradually we hope to place all vegan diet related posts into this area. Check it out; we will be transferring existing posts to the new area over the coming days as a starter anyway.
Link – Vegan / Recipes – Plant Based Food. – World Animals Voice
Enjoy – one of my fav tracks – Top man Vegan and animal rights advocate, Morrissey, and fab Kent girl Siouxsie Sioux – all Kent girls are the best !
A walker sent PETA images showing numerous foxes hung up on the Doimahof in Alxing, Bavaria.
The dead animals were tied to wooden pegs there.
PETA filed a complaint about harassment of the general public under Section 118 of the Administrative Offenses Act.
In addition, PETA calls on the people in charge of the Doimahof – which also runs a hotel and restaurant trade – to stop making their property available for such life-threatening activities.
And I mean…The German hunters, the best of all people, show the stupid world once again how to properly do and show mass murder.
A law always helps because the worst part is that it is legal.
Willingness to use violence and the protection of the law, that is all that hunters need for an animal massacre
The village society is obviously outraged by the “indecent” souvenirs on the tree, which give the village a bad reputation, but not for the annual mass murder of 500,000 foxes in Germany by hunters
These are unbearable images for a civilized country
regards and good night, Venus
Report- Committee Against Bird Murder (CABS)
Employees of the Committee against Bird Murder (CABS) and a special unit of the Italian police have jointly taken action against illegal hunting and the trade on migratory birds in the Veneto region over the past 10 days.
The main focus of the controls was the lagoons south of Venice, in which hundreds of thousands of waterbirds from northern and central Europe are currently wintering.
As reported by the Committee against Bird Murder, 22 hunters were caught red-handed shooting down protected species or hunting with prohibited bait systems.
In addition, 21 shotguns, 6,400 rounds of ammunition, nine prohibited electronic decoys, and three professional poultry plucking machines were seized.
In a butcher’s shop in Padua supplied by the poachers, 961 frozen wild birds were seized during a search, including gadfly, pochard, teal pintail, shoveler, and white-fronted geese.
Criminal proceedings were initiated against the suspects for poaching, possession of unregistered firearms, and violating the marketing bans.
In the weeks leading up to the action, experts from the committee (CABS) had spent days collecting evidence against poachers from rubber dinghies, and then leading Carabinieri officials to their shooting huts.
The action is the largest campaign to date against poaching in the difficult-to-access lagoon landscape, which is of international importance for nature conservation as a resting and wintering area.
Committee chairman Heinz Schwarze thanked the authorities involved for the good cooperation and announced further assignments in Venice.
https://wildbeimwild.com/law-order/schlag-gegen-illegale-vogeljagd-in-venezien/43074/2021/02/09/
And I mean…Many of the animals were freshly shot, says the committee, and had just been handed in by hunters, while others were already plucked and frozen in sacks.
All species are strictly prohibited from marketing in Italy.
The birds – almost all of them endangered throughout Europe – were intended for restaurants in Venice.
Excellent job in all respects!
We thank and congratulate the courageous activists of the CABS
My best regards to all, Venus
World Animals Voice 