We are not getting mush through about Yulin this year – but here are a few links we have found mainly from the Press sources – Warning GRAPHIC videos and images.
“Today is a bad day for animals – it is shocking that the Federal Council has rejected the initiatives of its own committees for a third country animal transport ban and an extended wild animal ban.
We are dismayed that Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner and the Union-led countries were able to assert their anti-animal interests”. “Peter Höffken, PETA Germany)
On June 25, 2021, the Federal Council voted on an expansion of the Animal Welfare Ordinance – with no good result for the animals.
A ban on long-distance animal transports in 17 non-EU countries was rejected.
The Federal Council also rejected the Animal Welfare Circus Ordinance for a ban on certain wild animals in the circus.
Animal transporters are allowed to continue driving to third countries
Animal transport to non-EU countries means enormous animal suffering.
In many countries there are not enough supply points.
The animals often have to endure horror journeys of days and weeks without rest or food.
Cattle, sheep, pigs and other animal species suffer enormously from heat, cold, hunger, thirst, tightness, stress and exhaustion in their own excrement during transports.
When they arrive at their destination, they die in agony, because even when they are killed, EU standards are often not complied with.
No wildlife ban in the circus
Germany, Hanover | 2018 09 05 | animal show with wild animals in the circus Krone in Hanover.
Although the Federal Council’s agricultural and environmental committees initially requested an amendment to the new circus ordinance, this has now been rejected.
It was planned to ban the further acquisition of certain animal species such as elephants, big cats or giraffes for circuses.
The requirements for animal husbandry, accommodation and transport should also be specified.
However, the ordinance submitted by Federal Minister Julia Klöckner was so bad that it would not have brought any significant improvements.
Wildlife dressage is often associated with violence and beatings. Many countries have therefore banned at least certain animal species for circuses – Germany is one of the few EU countries where circuses can still do what they want with animals.
And I mean...We live in a country where animal ethics do not matter, because those responsible either do business with animals or are indifferent to animals.
One scandal follows the other: illegal conditions in slaughterhouses, illegal animal transports to third countries, criminal animal researchers ensure Germany’s reputation as the “world’s animal testing laboratory” ….
We are ruled by a pack of lobbyists in this banana republic
Dec 2020 Update: The New York Times published a story featuring our investigation, asking “Is Dairy Farming Cruel to Cows?” Our answer: Unequivocally, yes. “Some farms might be less cruel than others, but there is no such thing as cruelty-free milk.” – Erica Meier, President of Animal Outlook
VICTORY: Shortly after we released our hard-hitting footage inside Dick Van Dam Dairy, Dairy Farmers of America dropped this facility as a supplier. While this is a big step in the right direction, we’re not letting DFA off that easily. Join us in urging the dairy giant to shift 20% of its supply chain to plant-based alternatives.
After a two-year career working undercover inside several factory farms, Animal Outlook investigator Erin Wing now reveals her identity, stepping out of the shadows to shine a light on the stomach-churning horrors she witnessed at her most recent — and last — investigation at Dick Van Dam Dairy, a factory farm in Southern California.
Investigations
Dairy: Dead On Arrival
Animal Outlook investigator reveals her identity and exposes the truth behind the closed doors of the dairy industry.
Dec 2020 Update: The New York Times published a story featuring our investigation, asking “Is Dairy Farming Cruel to Cows?” Our answer: Unequivocally, yes. “Some farms might be less cruel than others, but there is no such thing as cruelty-free milk.” – Erica Meier, President of Animal Outlook
VICTORY: Shortly after we released our hard-hitting footage inside Dick Van Dam Dairy, Dairy Farmers of America dropped this facility as a supplier. While this is a big step in the right direction, we’re not letting DFA off that easily. Join us in urging the dairy giant to shift 20% of its supply chain to plant-based alternatives.
After a two-year career working undercover inside several factory farms, Animal Outlook investigator Erin Wing now reveals her identity, stepping out of the shadows to shine a light on the stomach-churning horrors she witnessed at her most recent — and last — investigation at Dick Van Dam Dairy, a factory farm in Southern California.
What Erin witnessed was one of many dairy farms in its death throes with innocent cows caught in the middle of a battle between a world progressing and an industry fighting tooth and nail to keep us entrenched in the past.
This shocking footage underscores the urgency to end this inherently cruel industry once and for all. It’s time for consumers to ditch dairy, and for companies like Dean Foods to pivot to vegan products.
Animal Outlook’s undercover footage revealed:
• Cows so sick or injured they are unable to walk subjected to extremely cruel treatment by workers who sprayed them in the face with high powered water hoses; kicked, jabbed and shocked them; and closed metal gates on them.
• Workers routinely lifting these so-called “downer” cows with a tractor and dragging them with a metal device called a “hip clamp.” They lifted one suffering cow this way and dangled her almost 20 feet in the air to move her over a wall, and then dragged her backward over a cement slab.
• Sick cows left to suffer without medication, veterinary care or euthanasia. They languished for days until they died on their own, with no access to food or water while they were unable to stand.
• Workers and a manager hitting cows with wooden canes and metal pipes in daily acts of extreme aggression and violence, sometimes as a form of retaliation against the animals.
• Workers and managers punching and kicking cows, and twisting their tails.
• Squalid and filthy conditions – cows forced to walk through thick feces and newborn calves unable to escape thousands of flies covering their fragile bodies.
• Shocking mortality rates of cows and calves, as well as high rates of injuries and illnesses – likely resulting from the putrid conditions and lack of care and treatment. One calf was born dead, and was pulled roughly from his or her mother. The mother cow didn’t have the benefit of pain management during this incredibly painful and rough incident.
• Cows repeatedly shocked with an electric prod as they were taken away to slaughter.
• Workers cruelly using automated gates to try to force cows to move in tightly packed spaces.
Excellent news for animals: Yesterday, Parliament approved a ban on keeping dogs on a chain !!!
Congratulations to the activists of the animal rights organization Animal Freedom, which is behind the ‘No to Chains’ initiative 👏💙.
They won a ban on chains for dogs in Slovakia, for which they deserve one huge thank you 🐾!
96 of the 117 deputies present voted in favor of the ban, saying NO to the chains! The petition was signed by up to 97,000 Slovaks who so clearly expressed their disagreement with the injustice committed on dogs in Slovakia ✊.
👉 The amendment to the Veterinary Care Act prohibits the breeding and keeping of a dog tethered in a breeding facility, except for the breeding or keeping of a dangerous dog, tethering a service dog and a special purpose dog during guarding or work for which the dog is intended, or during training , and short – term tethering of the dog under supervision during the cleaning of the breeding area, feeding or during the treatment of the dog.
The law applies to newborn dogs from January 1, 2022, to dogs born before this date from January 1, 2024.
We from Humane Progress, we look forward to being one step closer to better animal welfare in Slovakia!
Source: TS Sloboda zvířat
And I mean…As in many other areas, Germany is lagging behind in this area.
If you see this photo it is assumed that it was taken in Poland, Hungary or any other country without a large animal welfare lobby.
But that’s the way it is here in Germany, this type of dog keeping still exists.
On farms (“that’s how we always kept our dogs like this”) or in small villages where no one would dare to “blacken” their neighbors, unfortunately, chain dogs can still be found. But this type of dog keeping is not only a thorn in the side of animal lovers, it is also prohibited by law
One doesn’t own dogs like a collection of art or books.
Dogs cannot be switched on or off depending on what you want at the moment, and then ignore them and lock them away the rest of the time.
There will never be a real human-dog relationship on this basis.
If you keep your dog on a chain, your animal will suffer!
Chaining – social isolation – is the worst thing a person can do to his friend, his dog.
“whoever keeps his dog on a chain is an asshole!!!”
We condemn chain binding for ALL animals as cruelty to animals, and loathe people who do it.
We fight against them, and therefore the decision of Slovenia is a small success to our fight
“whoever keeps his dog on a chain is an asshole!!!”
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