Month: May 2021

Environmental, Farm Animals, Fur and Fur Farming, General News

EU: European Commission introduces mandatory SARS-CoV-2 screening in all European mink fur farms.

 

 

 

 

 

WAV Comment – yes, we still have never heard back from the Danish murdered regarding the mass slaughter of minks for fur:

 

England: WAV Writes to the Danish Ambassador In London re Denmark’s Mass Mink Murders. – World Animals Voice

 

The Year of the Zombie Mink – See latest:

Denmark: year of the Zombie-Minks – World Animals Voice

 

So much for the EU being in control of things !

Regards Mark

 

 

European Commission introduces mandatory SARS-CoV-2 screening in all European mink fur farms

19 May 2021

LAV

On 12 May, the European Commission adopted the Implementing Decision 788 which sets standards for the surveillance and reporting of SARS-CoV-2 infections in mink (and raccoon dogs) bred for fur production.

This decision means that, for the first time, there is a mandatory and harmonised diagnostic screening and reporting system in place for all Member States, after more than 400 fur farms saw outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 in 2020.

The Commission has deemed it necessary to initiate this monitoring in all Member States “without delay”, demonstrating the considerable risks to public health connected to fur farming.

The EU Commission has recognised the risk to public health connected to the presence of mink (and raccoon dog) farms for the production of fur and now, finally, it has adopted a system of control of these farms with active surveillance (diagnostic tests). In Italy we have already had outbreaks on 2 farms out of 8; the time has come for the Minister of Health to assume political responsibility to permanently ban fur farming.

Simone Pavesi, Campaigner, LAV

Diagnostic surveillance involves carrying out virological tests on a weekly basis, on live or dead animals, for a number equal to at least 5% of the population of any single farm. This sampling level can be adjusted from 5% to 20% in the case of positive results for SARS-CoV-2. 

However, there are possible loopholes in Implementing Decision 788. Competent authorities can decide to switch from active surveillance to passive surveillance on farms that adopt risk reduction measures. Farms under passive surveillance will only be required to test animals if mortality is increased or farm workers test positive for SARS-CoV-2.

This creates the risk of reversing monitoring systems to those of 2020 where surveillance protocol was based on mere clinical observation, in clear contrast with scientific evidence which suggests mink are in most cases asymptomatic. This would increase the risk of creating SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs, with serious public health implications.

In Italy, a country which, while having suspended mink fur farming for 2021, still has operational farms, 77% of the adult population are in favour of the adoption of emergency measures to end fur farming and breeding. This illustrates that by allowing fur production to continue, the European Commission is more concerned with protecting the economic interests of a small group of stakeholders at the expense of the health of all European citizens. 

Eurogroup for Animals urges the Commission to act decisively to protect public health by closing fur farms.

Read more at source

LAV

Regards Mark

 

Environmental, General News, Uncategorized

England: ‘WasteMinster’ – The British PM Drowns Under A Tidal Wave of Plastic Bottles. Please Give A Shit !

WAV Comment: The UK is working very hard against environmental pollution; credit where it is due. But this very excellent and completely effective animation shows just how much of a global environmental issue plastic has become. Below is also another video which shows the reality – this is not ‘fantasy land’; so get a grip and make every effort to speak out against the over use of plastics globally. These realistic videos show the reality of the global plastic crisis.

Regards Mark

Heartbreaking Photos Show What Your Trash Does To Animals | HuffPost

For Animals, Plastic Is Turning the Ocean Into a Minefield

Prime Minister Boris Johnson Drowns In Plastic In New Satirical Animation Highlighting Pollution Crisis

‘Wasteminster’ sheds light on the ‘shocking truth about what happens to plastic the government tells us is being recycled’…

A new satirical animation shedding light on the pollution crisis shows UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson drowning in plastic.

Wasteminster is directed by Jorik Dozy and Sil van der Woerd for environmental organization Greenpeace. It is voiced by acclaimed impressionists Jon Culshaw and Matt Forde and produced by Studio Birthplace.

A Plastic Ocean” Event Reflection | by Hannah Sherwindt | hannahsgip | Medium

Boris Johnson satirical animation

The animation begins with Johnson at 10 Downing Street speaking to press about being a ‘global leader in tackling plastic pollution’.

Directors Sil and Jorik purposely used direct quotes from the politician and his government, as they didn’t want to ‘put words in the Prime Minister’s mouth’.

During Johnson’s speech, a barrage of plastic starts pouring down from above. Eventually, this causes a surge that floods Downing Street.

The film then cuts to real-life footage of plastic waste that has been discarded overseas. 

Greenpeace says the piece aims ‘to put into stark contrast the bold promises the government has made about reducing the environmental impact of plastic, with the reality that plastic production has been rising while the government’.

A Plague of Plastics

‘The shocking truth’

Nina Schrank is a Senior Campaigner at Greenpeace. In a statement sent to PBN, she said: “This powerful film will show people the shocking truth about what happens to plastic the government tells us is being recycled.

“And, who better to enlist for the voiceovers than impressionists from the legendary Spitting Image… The impeccable voice talents of Culshaw and Forde.”“We need a complete ban on all plastic waste exports and legislation to make companies reduce the amount of plastic they produce…”

Sam Chetan-Welsh, Political Campaigner at Greenpeace UKMoreover, Sam Chetan-Welsh is a Political Campaigner from Greenpeace UK. He added: “The plastic we carefully wash and sort for recycling is being shipped off to other countries… It overwhelms their waste systems. And, much of it ends up illegally dumped or burnt, poisoning local people and polluting oceans and rivers. 

“The government could put a stop to this but so far Boris Johnson is only offering half measures. “We need a complete ban on all plastic waste exports and legislation to make UK companies reduce the amount of plastic they produce in the first place.”

sea life trapped by plastic – Google Search

Shocking images of animals are used to highlight pollution damage | Plastic pollution, Animals images, Animals

Plastic pollution

Studio Birthplace has also published an animated series and augmented reality app.

The animation aims to help ‘visualize the incredible data related to our abuse of the planet’. 

Humanity’s Impact is also written and directed by Sil and Jorik. Sean Lin produces. 

It illustrates how a staggering 100,000,000,000 plastic bags are used globally, every year. And, that 1,000,000 plastic bottles are produced every single minute – by showing a town that gets flooded with plastic.

Boris Johnson Drowns In Plastic In New Satirical Animation On Pollution | Plant Based News

Please give a shit !

Regards Mark

Farm Animals, General News, Uncategorized

Australia: Heads Smashed With A Metal Pole In Front of Their Mothers; Because They Are Male and Cannot Produce Milk. The Reality Of Dairy Farm Abuse; What Happens For Supermarket Milk Production.

ALL Photos – Animal Liberation Victoria.

WAV Comment – I have witnessed a lot of animal suffering in my time; but I found this video footage articularly disturbing.  It is from Victoria, Australia.  A farmer kills male goat kids with a metal pole in front of their mothers because they cannot produce milk; and they cannot produce mil because they are males, no other reason.  It happens with milk producing animals the world over; the males are always considered a ‘by product’ of the business; because they do not supply milk and keep the herd numbers up.  Thus, males are usually killed within hours of birth, exported live overseas to be killed for their meat, or sent to slaughterhouses serving more local ‘burger producing’ organisations.  Whatever, the males never win.  This footage is even more disturbing as it shows the male kid goats being yanked away from their mothers ; and then in full sight of their mothers, being hit in the head region by the farmer using a metal pole.  Like useless vegetation, their bodies are simple thrown into a tractor bucket to be disposed of.  If this does not stop everyone from consuming animal dairy, then I do not know what will.  A complete and utter abuse and killing of baby animals who have done nothing wrong apart from being born male.  This is common the world over; watch it and repent.

Regards Mark

Dairy Farm Footage Shows 'Baby Goats Bludgeoned To Death In Front Of Their Mothers'

Link, including disturbing video: WATCH THE VIDEO FOOTAGE HERE

Disturbing moment dairy farmer beats baby goats to death with a metal pole – before dragging their convulsing bodies away in front of their mothers | Animal Liberation Victoria | Fighting for Animal Rights (alv.org.au)

Disturbing moment dairy farmer beats baby goats to death with a metal pole – before dragging their convulsing bodies away in front of their mothers

This is the disturbing moment a farmer killed male goat kids with a metal pole in front of their mothers because they cannot produce milk.

  • Secret footage was allegedly taken on a dairy farm in Bannockburn, Victoria 
  • It shows a farmer drive up to a goat pen and pull the male kids from mothers
  • The farmer smashes them on head with metal pole and leaves them squirming
  • The confronting footage was put online by Animal Liberation Victoria on Friday

This is the disturbing moment a farmer killed male goat kids with a metal pole in front of their mothers because they cannot produce milk.

Secret footage said to be taken on a dairy farm in Bannockburn, Victoria shows a farmer drive up to a goat pen and pull out the male kids.

One by one he smashed them on the head with the pole, leaving them frantically squirming on the ground before they died from traumatic head injuries.

The video shows the farmer putting male goat kids into a blue container before he takes them out and kills them

After killing around a dozen, the farmer loaded the corpses on to his tractor and drove away.

The confronting two minutes of undercover footage is said to have been taken between mid-September and mid-October this year.

It was posted online by Animal Liberation Victoria on Friday.

The group told Daily Mail Australia they were supplied the footage by anonymous activists who planted cameras on the farm.

‘These newborns males are killed because they will never produce milk, and are therefore considered useless to the dairy industry,’ ALV president Noah Hannibal said in a statement.

‘This brutal slaughter takes place as part of an inherently cruel industry.’

The video captures the farmer hit the goats on the head for the squirm as a result of the trauma

The confronting two minutes of undercover footage (pictured) was taken between mid-September and mid-October

Nothing in the video was illegal because farm animals are not covered by the same animal cruelty laws as domestic pets.

Killing newborn goats is a normal practice across the industry.

Animal welfare guidelines, which are not legally binding, state that goats can be killed using a variety of methods including shooting and blunt force trauma.

‘A single blow should be delivered to the centre of the forehead and should only be used on kids that are less than 24 hours old,’ the guidelines state.

The Victorian Farmers Federation said the footage was confronting.

President David Jochinke told Daily Mail Australia: ‘As an industry, we do not condone the mistreatment of animals. Any producer who falls outside the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, as well as the standards and guidelines of the industry should be investigated and managed appropriately’

He added: ‘It is difficult to comment on the specific details of this circumstance, but we would encourage farmers to stun animals with a captive bolt wherever possible.

‘Any person who has stewardship of an animal should take their responsibilities seriously. I am supportive of Agriculture Victoria undertaking an investigation into this matter should they feel it to be necessary.’

original article > dailymail.co.uk by Charlie Moore

Regards Mark

Hunting

Lombardy and its right-wing populist hunters!

Report of the “Committee against Bird Murder”-19.05.

Right-wing populists in Lombardy kneel in front of the poacher lobby:
The right-wing “Lega”, which is in government in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, wants to soften the already hunting-friendly regulations for the protection of migratory birds with a draft law that has now been presented.

The main point of the amendment to the law is the abolition of controls on live decoys.
In migratory bird hunting – thrushes and skylarks can still be shot in Italy today – hunters are dependent on the use of live decoys.

Since bird trapping has been banned, hunters have theoretically had to resort to bred birds.
But the decoy traders often do not breed the animals, but instead catch them with nets or rob them from nests as chicks.

Tens of thousands of these birds then end up on the market with forged “breeding rings” – a mafia-like, well-organized fraud.

So far, committee staff and police officers have spent a lot of time checking these rings.
According to the will of the “Lega”, these controls are now to be prohibited – a free ticket for bird trapping and poaching!
The Italian nature conservation associations – in addition to the Committee against Bird Murder, LAC, LAV and the WWF – announced yesterday 18.5.

Protest actions started calling on the Lombard MPs to reject the change in the law.

https://www.facebook.com/Komitee.CABS/

A few more things on this subject: In Italy, hunting is still a firmly rooted tradition, especially in the countryside.
A total of around 600,000 hunters are registered. Italy has a licensing system, which means that hunters can hunt almost anywhere in their region.
The hunters mainly hunt birds and primarily target migratory birds.

Brescia – a city in Lombardy – is the heart of the Italian hunting arms industry.
Here there is one arms and ammunition factory after the other.

The right-wing populist “Lega” – avowedly hunting-friendly – has provided the mayor in almost every municipality for decades. Making politics here means, above all, standing up for hunters and the arms industry.

According to the organization “caccia il cacciatore”, there are 10,000 of these permanent huts for bird hunting for every 30,000 hunters in Lombardy.

“The decoys are caught and kept permanently in tiny cages. Their feathers are torn out to start a spring change that is not appropriate for the season. When the feathers grow back, the bird, which is kept in a dark cellar during the summer, says it is spring and sends appropriate signals to its conspecifics.
A caught chaffinch can cost up to 100 euros on the black market. “(Source: caccia il cacciatore).

Of course, it is legally stipulated which species may be shot, how many birds the hunter can kill per day of the hunt and how many decoys he may use. But who really wants to rigorously control that with the enormous number of hunters?

Poaching has an ancient tradition in Italy and, although officially forbidden, is tolerated especially if the prey is “only” birds.
In accordance with local customs, slings, nets, stone traps or bows are used.
But the big problem in Italy is traditional silence.
Everyone knows that neighbor A is laying traps with live decoys, but nobody would report him for it, because if you let him poach in peace today, he will let you “dispose” of the old refrigerator in the creek on the edge of the field tomorrow.

One hand washes the other is the motto, and the authorities – and above all the police – have to fight against this mentality.

My best regards to all, Venus

Fur and Fur Farming

Valentino says goodbye to the use of fur

The last Valentino collection to incorporate fur into its garments will be for the 2021-2022 autumn-winter season, and with this change in the firm’s policy, the Milan-based company Valentino Polar will close.

The Italian firm synonymous with luxury and the best “made in Italy” has just announced in a statement that it will eliminate the use of fur from 2022, which is also preparing to reorganize and concentrate all its collections on a single label in 2024.
“We are working on finding different materials to achieve greater attention to the environment,” the firm has announced, according to Ara

“The concept of not using leather is perfectly aligned with the values of our company,” said the firm in a statement released by the Italian media.

The decision is unanimous and surgical, since the information note specifies that his fur company, called Valentino Polar, based in Milan, owned by the Roman brand since 2018, will cease all production at the end of 2021.
It also specifies that the latest leather garments and accessories of the Italian house will be those that appear in the autumn / winter 2021-22 work.

The Italian firm, one of the few in the fashion world based in Rome, was founded in 1959 by designer Valentino Garavani with capital from his father and an investor.
After 45 years, Garavani left the company, which was creatively headed by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Picciolo. Currently, only Picciolo continues to work for the group, which has focused very directly on connecting with Gen Z.

Valentino Chief Executive Jacopo Venturini, who joined the Italian group last year when the luxury goods industry was hard hit by the pandemic, decided also to stop collections for its younger label RED Valentino.

“The concentration on one, and only one brand, will better support a more organic growth of the Maison”, the former Gucci executive said in a statement. –

Valentino is already working with the syndicates to address the organizational changes within the company caused by these decisions.

Bravo for Valentino!

https://www.animanaturalis.org/n/valentino-dice-adios-al-uso-de-pieles

And I mean...Martina Pluda, Director of Humane Society International, added: “Valentino dropping fur is a major nail in the coffin for the cruel fur trade. Like so many other designers, Valentino knows that using fur makes brands look outdated and out of touch, and fur industry certification schemes are little more that the hollow PR spin of an industry that kills 100 million animals for fur a year.

Compassion and sustainability are the new luxury in a world where dressing in the fur of factory farmed foxes or gassed mink is tasteless and cruel.”

We agree with HSI’s comment.
If the fashion world continues to decide against fur at this pace, soon NO designer will buy fur anymore.
And what the buyer does not find on the shelves, does not buy.

My best regards to all, Venus

Fur and Fur Farming

Denmark: year of the Zombie-Minks

Millions of minks have been killed in Denmark due to a mutation in the coronavirus. Now the animal carcasses are causing a lot of trouble for the authorities.

Millions of furry animals hurriedly buried break out of their graves: What looks like a scene from a horror film is real in Denmark – and forces the government to act

For animal rights activists, it is one of the scariest side effects of the corona pandemic: by order of the Danish government, all 17 million farm minks in the country were killed within a very short time in November 2020.
Previously, more than 200 of a total of 289 mink farms had Sars-CoV-2 infections; Experts feared mutations that could act as a fire accelerator for the pandemic.

13 million animals ended up in incinerators, four million were hastily buried in mass graves in the west of the country.

Morten Stricker/Dagbladet Holstebro Struer/Jysk Fynske Medier/Ritzau Scanpix.

According to media reports, this is now taking revenge!

Because … Shortly after the animals were buried, the problems emerged – literally. Although the carcasses were at least three feet underground, putrefactive gases in some places caused them to come back to the surface.
The sandy bottom couldn’t prevent it.

The mass graves, which were criticized for their proximity to bathing lakes and groundwater reservoirs, have now become places of horror.

The Danish government has therefore ordered that the buried carcasses also be exhumed and cremated.

13,000 tons of decaying meat are exhumed

As the Danish news agency Ritzau reported, they should be burned in several stages.
In total, it is an estimated 13,000 tons of meat and bones.

The actual work should only start at the end of the month and drag on until mid-July. Only a test phase began on Thursday because none of the 13 waste incineration plants involved had experience with the mixture of mink carcasses, lime, earth and salt, according to the Ritzau report.
Authorities ask residents to keep the windows closed

The soil under the mink graves must also be removed and replaced, it said.
Only then can an end to the odor nuisance for residents be expected.

According to the Danish radio station DR, an employee of the Danish environmental authority advised people in neighboring towns not to have garden parties until the work was completed.
Leaving the windows open or hanging laundry outside is not recommended.

https://www.geo.de/natur/tierwelt/daenemark-exhumiert-millionen-nerz-kadaver-30532246.html

And I mean…For the mink-genocide in November 2020 of 17 Millions animals, it was said that the Danes had no other choice.
And of them, 4 million innocent, uninfected animals went underground in mass graves.

Now it turns out that this crime has contaminated the groundwater, although supposedly experts were at work!

Yes …apparently experts are steering this pandemic! Back to the ground again, a good signal for the destroyer and exploiter – the human animal!
The mink vampires climb out of the graves and will take revenge on us for everything we did to them.

Good thing.

My best regards to all, Venus

General News, Uncategorized

England: The Kingdom Is Safe ! – New Baby Ravens Named At the Tower of London Today.

tower of london
Photo – Getty

raven
One of the Towers Ravens – Photo – Gettyimages

For our overseas visitors: Legend has it that when the day comes that the Ravens leave the tower (of London); then the tower will collapse.  Hence, the ravens of the tower are very special birds, and even have their own keeper – the Raven master.

So today, 19/5; there was a lot of pomp at the tower as the the female raven was officially named; to go with her new brother Edgar, named after Edgar Allen Poe, the famous Poet. She is called Branwen.

The British public had been invited to vote for the name of the raven chick at the Tower of London with five names on the shortlist- Branwen, Matilda, Winifred, Florence and Bronte.

Yeoman Warder Chris Skaife said: ‘We’re delighted to have two new chicks joining the raven community here at the Tower.  I hope that people around the world will help us to name our newest addition, and come and see them in person as they settle into their new home.’

Chris Skaife with Merlina
Ravenmaster Chris with resident raven Merlina – Chris Skaife photo

They were born to the Tower’s resident breeding couple, Huginn and Muninn.

The name Branwen refers to the deity from Celtic mythology, whose name translates as ‘blessed raven’. 

The new arrivals take the number of resident ravens to nine alongside, Jubilee, Harris, Gripp, Rocky, Erin, Poppy and Georgie.

The famous ravens are known as the guardians of the Tower and legend says the British kingdom and the Tower of London will fall if the six resident ravens leave the fortress.

Given there are currently nine ravens in residence, means there are plenty spare and the kingdom is safe.

Superstition dictates: ‘If the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.’

Charles II is thought to have been the first to insist that the ravens of the Tower be protected sometime during his reign between 1660 – 1685 after he was warned that the crown and the Tower itself would fall if they left. The King’s order was given against the wishes of his astronomer, John Flamsteed, who complained the ravens impeded the business of his observatory in the White Tower.

Protocol states there must be at least six ravens within the Tower grounds at all times, as well as one spare – an order that came from Winston Churchill after numbers fell to just one in the 1940s. With the two new baby birds, that makes nine – the required six, plus three spares.

The ravens | Tower of London | Historic Royal Palaces

A Beefeater and Merlin the raven at the Tower | Tower of london, Jackdaw, England and scotland

THE RAVENS OF THE TOWER OF LONDON – A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI

Tower of London Facts | Mental Floss

Above – the tower of London

Phew ! – I can sleep safe tonight !

Regards Mark

Oh England, my Lionheart!
Peter Pan steals the kids in Kensington Park.
You read me Shakespeare on the rolling Thames–
That old river poet that never, ever ends.
Our thumping hearts hold the ravens in,
And keep the tower from tumbling.

Kate Bush – Oh England my Lionheart

Environmental, General News, Uncategorized

England: Dr. JANE GOODALL TO RECEIVE MFA (USA) AWARD FOR 60 YEARS OF ANIMAL SERVICE. HERE’S WHAT SHE’S DONE.

WAV Comment – A wonderful lady who has literally changed the world. Congratulations to her with this award from MFA – so very much deserved.

JANE GOODALL TO RECEIVE AWARD FOR 60 YEARS OF ANIMAL SERVICE. HERE’S WHAT SHE’S DONE

Animal-protection organization Mercy For Animals will honor primatologist Jane Goodall with a Hope Award for her decades of animal activism.

On June 10, primatologist and animal activist Jane Goodall will receive the Hope Award from nonprofit animal-protection organization Mercy For Animals (MFA) at its annual Hope Gala hosted by vegan influencer Tabitha Brown. The virtual event will celebrate MFA’s 22nd anniversary by honoring leaders in animal welfare and the plant-based food industry. MFA will also award animal activist Erik Hastings with the Hidden Hero Award and Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner with the Global Impact Award. 

The Hope Award recognizes Goodall’s 60 years of animal service that focuses on protecting chimpanzees and their habitat. Her work has inspired other animal advocates and everyone who cares about the planet and its inhabitants. “We are thrilled to honor the work of Dr. Jane Goodall, whose groundbreaking research has inspired people around the world to examine their relationship with animals,” MFA President Leah Garcés said. “Her dedication to animal protection and conservation inspires Mercy For Animals’ work to reduce suffering and build a compassionate food system.”

VegNews.JaneGoodall

Goodall’s history of animal activism

In July 1960, at the age of 26, Goodall began her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior in what is now Tanzania. Her work at Gombe Stream National Park would become the foundation of future primatological research and redefine the relationship between humans and animals. Her unorthodox approach to research was to immerse herself in the habitat and lives of chimpanzees, allowing her to see them as individuals with emotions and long-term bonds. Goodall’s discovery at that time that chimpanzees make and use tools is considered one of the greatest achievements of 20th-century scholarship. 

In 1977, Goodall established wildlife conservation organization the Jane Goodall Institute to support the research in Gombe and focus on protecting chimpanzees from extinction. When she discovered that the survival of chimpanzees was threatened by habitat destruction and illegal trafficking, she developed a breakthrough approach to species conservation that includes the needs of local people, the environment, and the connection between humans and animals. In 1991, Goodall also founded global environmental and humanitarian youth program Roots & Shoots with a group of Tanzanian students to teach youth about wildlife conservation. Today, Roots & Shoots is active in more than 60 countries. 

Roots and Shoots – https://www.rootsnshoots.org.uk/

At 87 years old, Goodall now focuses on traveling around the world, writing, speaking, and spreading hope through action. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lifelong activist created a video message to encourage people to rethink their “too close” relationships with wild animals. “We have amazing brains.

We’re capable of love and compassion for each other,” Goodall said. “Let us also show love and compassion for the animals who are with us on this planet. Let us all live in peace and harmony together.”

Jane Goodall to Receive Award for 60 Years of Animal Service. Here’s What She’s Done | VegNews

Regards Mark

Jane: Why Archival Footage of Goodall and the Chimps Looks So Good | IndieWire

New Jane Goodall documentary offers beautiful look back at how it all started | National Post

How a Dream Came True: Young Jane Goodall's Exuberant Letters and Diary Entries from Africa – Brain Pickings

Earth Day 2020: 'We desperately need hope now,' Jane Goodall says
General News

“THE GINGER PIG” Butcher shop redecorated again.

13th May, London UK-received anonymously over email:

” ‘The Ginger Pig’ have many stores across the city.

Last night, we made our way to their branch near Clapham Common. This area has recently had a lot of attention on it after the murder of Sarah Everard * at the hands of a police officer. Naturally, they swore more would plague the streets. Last night, their presence was definitely felt, we were feeling stubborn though.

After a series of close encounters, our target windows were in sight. And so was a delivery truck. Doors wide open, proudly displaying the cruelty that compelled us to be there. The additional delay wasn’t ideal but this came as a heavy reminder of what we were there to do and why we were there to do it.

No matter how many blue lights and sirens ripped through the sky, we weren’t going to be deterred. The slim possibility of being thrown into a van handcuffed felt very minimal in comparison to the animals’ certainty of being thrown into one bloody and dismembered.

Once the truck had fucked off and a comfortable amount of time had passed, we attacked.

Cops protect property not people but turns out they couldn’t even do that.”

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/category/hit-report/

And I mean…The 33-year-old * Sarah Everhard walked home on March 3 at around 9 p.m. after visiting a friend.
Days later, her body was found in a forest in Kent, and a police officer was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and murder.
The alleged perpetrator in the Everard case is a senior police officer.

Everard’s case may be a special one, but it highlights a structural problem: instead of protecting women, police officers cover their colleagues.

We thank the brave actors

My best regards to all, Venus

Farm Animals

EU-Kommission: end the cages of shame

The short film “Motherhood” by the Dutchwoman Eline Helena Schelleken shows how most of the sows in the EU have to spend their motherhood.
In the crate in the service center and then in the so-called “piglet protection cage” in the farrowing area.

Imprisoned, immobile and extradited.
Pigs are sentient, intelligent beings.
The meat industry exploits them efficiently as production machines. You can read the seven most important facts below.

At the beginning, the film shows what loving, feeling and tender animals pigs are. But after a few minutes it becomes clear how cruel it is to be locked in a cage for weeks.

Cage farming is a practice that is in stark contrast to the trend towards more sustainable agriculture, as outlined in the “Green Deal”.
We, as part of the” End the Cage Age” initiative, call on EU Executive Vice-President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis to support the EU-wide ban on cage farming.

1. Number of sows
There are around 11 million sows in the EU. The majority of them spend almost half of the year in a cage where they cannot even turn around.
Only fewer than 2 million sows live in alternative systems without a cage.

2. Days in the cage
Most sows are caged at the beginning of their gestation for around five weeks. About a week before the birth of their piglets, they are restrained again and remain in the so-called piglet protection cage for another five weeks.
Because a “production cycle” takes about 21 weeks, the sow spends a total of up to half of the year fixed in a cage.

3. Natural behavior
Locked up in crates and “piglet protection cages”, they are more or less tied up.
They can no longer exercise even basic behavior. During the labor process and the weeks of lactation, the sow cannot even walk a few steps or turn and flip over.
It is degraded from a feeling, intelligent living being to a mere unit of production.

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