Month: June 2021

Environmental, General News, Uncategorized

England: A Voice For The Silenced People of Tibet.

Self immolation is brning yourself to death in protest.  As of July 2020, 156 monks, nuns, and ordinary people self-immolated in Tibet since 27 February 2009, when Tapey, a young monk from Kirti Monastery, set himself on fire in the marketplace in Ngawa City, Ngawa County, Sichuan.[4] According to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT),[5] “Chinese police have beaten, shot, isolated, and disappeared self-immolators who survived.”[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China

I (Mark) have been a supporter of ‘Free Tibet’ (London) for quite a while now.  I am an animal rights campaigner; but am also a human rights campaigner when I feel it is right, and I feel the need to try and support oppressed peoples.

China invaded Tibet during the 1950’s, and now have total control over what happens there.

The Tibetan people have lost their rights due to the Chinese control; hence the fight, with my support to once again Free Tibet from China and the abusive government that has destroyed its people.

https://freetibet.org/about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet

“Tibet today is one of the most repressed and closed societies in the world.”

– Senator Robert Menendez, Chair of US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 2012

China invaded Tibet in 1950. Inside its borders and across the world, Tibetans have never stopped believing Tibet is a nation.

After more than 70 years of occupation, Tibetans still resist China’s rule and defy its oppression.

https://freetibet.org/about

YULIN – The annual dog meat “festival” in Yulin is scheduled for June 21st and animals need your voice as part of the effort to bring cruelty like this to an end.  China, despite all its supposed chages to animal welfare policies recently, still do not appear to have control over something which causes immense and illegal animal suffering.  China seems to have totalitarian rights in Tibet, but when dog suffering in XChina is invooved, they seem to turn the other way.

You can support the call to end the Yulin dog meat’festival’ by visiting 

 Petition: Stop the Horrific Yulin Dog Meat Festival and End China’s Dog and Cat Meat Trade (ladyfreethinker.org)

Here is a recent post link which I did regarding the situation in Tibet:

England: ‘Free Tibet’ (London) – Support Tibetans standing up for their environment. Petition. – World Animals Voice

Here is the link to take you to ‘Free Tibet’, London:

https://freetibet.org/

You can take actions by visiting  https://freetibet.org/take-action


China’s control of religion in Tibet – https://freetibet.org/religious-freedom

Boycott Beijing – make a stand for human rights.

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The 2022 Winter Olympic Games are going to be held in Beijing, China.

Olympianism is the coming together and celebration of cultures through acceptance.  It has a philosophy of life which places sport in the service of humankind; its vision being to build a better world through sport.  Its values and principles include respect, friendship, diversity and autonomy.  By awarding the games to China for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the IOC – International Olympic Committee has shown that when it comes to China; it is willing to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses.

This is a betrayal of the olmpic movement and especially the people of Tibet; who now live under the crippling rule of the Chinese Communist Party – the CCP.  The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held freely in Beijing; but witout a demonstration of strength by groups and organisations opposing the regime.  With no chance of improving the Chinese stance on human rights; or any prospect of the IOC changing its decision; it is left to groups, organisations and individuals to make a stand; hence the reason for me issuing this post in support of the people of Tibet; people who’s voices have been silenced for so long.

Prior to the 2008 Olympics, the CCP in China made a series of promises that China would become more open, and embrace human rights.  These promises were quickly cast aside with a brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters on the eve of the 2008 games.  Over one hundred Tibetans were KILLED; many mnore were arrested, tortured and forcibly relocated.

For 13 years Beijing has been punishing Tibetans for protesting about the Beijing Olympics 2008.  This year, 2021, Tibet was classified vy the think tank Freedom House as the worst place in the world for civil liberties.  Meanwhile, the CCP is currently committing genocide against the Tibetan Uyghur peoples; with many of the tactics being used against the Uyghur people from contolling tactics developed by China in Tibet.

The IOC let the people of Tibet down by their actions in 2008.  So now I want to kake you aware of the situation and why we say ‘NO Beijing 2022’ until the people of Tibet are free as an independent state (as they were before the Chinese invasion).

Animals rights, human rights; when things are wrong, you have to take action by being a voice.  We are not afraid to take action.

Freedom for the good people of Tibet.

Reagards Mark

Countries involved in Beijing Olympics risk being used by Chinese government, says Uighur activist | CBC Radio

Petition · Revoke Beijing's right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on human rights ground · Change.org

General News

cyclists with dogs-a danger to humans and animals

When the outside temperature is 25 ° C or more, one encounters an astonishing natural phenomenon: cyclists with dogs.


They hide all year round, but from midsummer they crawl out of their holes.
Airily clad people who enjoy the fresh wind blowing around their noses while cycling.
Because when you go on foot you sweat too easily at the temperatures.

The whole thing with a dog, usually on a leash, panting alongside at a gallop, with its tongue hanging out to the asphalt.
Preferably on the collar.

OMBUDSMANN: Hunde dürfen nicht ans Bike gebunden werden! « kleinezeitung.at

What is going on in these people?
Do you think dogs perceive temperature differently?
Are these the people who let their dog roast in the car in the parking lot even in summer?
In your eyes, is that workload, the famous workout at any cost?
Saves the annoyance of moving the dog quickly?
Simply shorten the length of the “walkie-lap” by setting the pace?

Basically, please don’t exhaust a dog.
You work a dog to the full.
Just because we sit 10 hours a day in the office, which is against human nature, and we compensate for this by evening stress jogging or running on the treadmill, we don’t have to transfer this burn-out preparation to our dog.

A dog needs 18-20 hours of sleep a day.
If possible not in solitude, because this is not a restful sleep.

And what then do dogs in freedom, that is, street dogs, feral dogs?
They move leisurely from garbage dump to garbage dump and don’t run through the woods at a gallop.
And especially not when it is hot, but when it has cooled down.
You rarely see animals running voluntarily for more than a few minutes, be it wild animals or domesticated animals.

If you feel the need to “work off” your dog in midsummer temperatures, then please run for half an hour through the blazing sun yourself.
But with a warm jacket, yes?

Action shot of a black female German Shepherd running in the park, connected with a rope to a bicycle behind her.

A dog does not have to be “exhausted”.
Utilizing capacity never has anything to do with km / h, but with experience, using your senses in peace, community, feeling nature, being a dog and letting your mind wander.

Everything else is counterproductive and, through the production of the hormone adrenaline, causes the dog to need more and more and to become more and more jittery instead of calmer and more balanced.

Text: Claudia Obladen

And I mean…It is also about the safety of the dog and the cyclist.
And of course the dangers of road traffic.

Just because it went well 100 times does not mean that the dog is not suddenly distracted the 101st time by another dog, car honking, screeching tires, screaming children, … and it reacts unpredictably.
The dog does not react the way you want, it sprints off, you fall, you injure yourself, a car slams on the brakes because of your dog or tries to evade, it comes to an accident, to a very stupid accident.

None of this is theoretical.
I witnessed such an accident for this reason, and not just once.

Therefore, please share this article

My best regards to all, Venus

Farm Animals

Netherlands: Floating cow stall in Rotterdam

Report from “German Animal Welfare Office”, June 2, 2021

The first floating cowshed was built in the Netherlands. In the middle of the largest deep-sea port in Europe, Rotterdam, almost 40 cows are kept on the two-story building.
Animals keep falling into the water.
We are demanding the closure and have contacted the German embassy in the Netherlands.

Floating Farm – Unique in the world

The operator of the floating cowshed boasts that only two employees are needed to operate the barn, because robots are used to milk and clear the cowshed automatically.
The feed reaches the animals from the lower floor via conveyor belts.
Everything would run independently.
Floating farms are the future of agriculture.

On the company’s website, the animals are advertised with short transport routes, beautiful pictures and great views.
A cow has a completely different eyesight than we humans and perceives the water more as a black hole and thus as a threat.

It’s all about profit

We reject the entire project and don’t see the future in it.
It makes no difference to the cows whether they are exploited in a barn on land or in water.
In addition, it is all about profit here too.

In the “showcase project”, for example, the calves are torn away from their mothers after birth and when the milk yields of the cows they go to the slaughterhouse.
Of course, there is nothing about that on the PR website.

Nor is it mentioned that probably the main reason for this globally unique project is that you can only build a stable in the Netherlands if you own land yourself.
In addition, there is a limitation of fattening houses compared to the number of inhabitants.
This also means that more and more Dutch fattening operators are coming to Germany and building stables.

Again and again criticism

We have made and published drone recordings of the floating stall.
It is the first time that such images have been created.
With the pictures we want to show how absurd this project is.
Nobody needs a floating barn, especially not the animals.


There is always criticism.
So the Dutch party Partij voor de Dieren (PvdD), which also campaigns for animal rights, is trying to get a majority in the city council to close the farm, unfortunately unsuccessfully so far.
But now the situation could change.

Cows fall into the water

This is the second time that a cow has fallen into the water.
The animal, which weighs 600-800 kilograms, had to stay in the cold water for several hours until it was finally rescued by the fire brigade.
The first incident occurred in December 2020, and even then it was difficult to rescue.
In both cases a door or barrier was left open. The operator has repeatedly violated his duty of care here, it is a miracle that both cows survived.

This is how you can help the animals

The German Animal Welfare Office is now hoping for help from the German Embassy in the Netherlands.
“We wrote to the embassy and asked them to ensure that the barn was closed,” said Jan Peifer, chairman of the board of the German Animal Welfare Office.
The animal rights activists also call for a boycott of dairy products from the floating stall.
Nothing should be bought from the “Floating Farm” brand.

“We recommend a plant-based way of life anyway, because this way all animals on land and water can be helped,” concludes Jan Peifer.

https://www.tierschutzbuero.de/floating-farm/

And I mean… Instead of thinking about how we can feed the world without animal suffering and without the destruction of the environment, there are other ways of breeding even more animals and now even on the water.

The little Netherlands, by the way, is the second largest agricultural exporter in the world!
From 2018 to 2020 alone, exports rose from 90 billion to 104 billion euros.

So there is definitely no need for more cattle breeding, whether on the mainland or in the water.
It is not the case that agriculture today is primarily used to feed the local population.
It is an industry that mainly produces for EXPORT.

Seldom has a bad business in animals been sold so professionally as in this case.
But that’s not enough – this is also celebrated by all media as an innovation and funding is demanded, maybe soon the lobby group of the EU will step in with subsidies in the project.
Because the businessmen of the floating farm are planning to build a floating chicken coop with around 6000 hens for the next year.

The last thing we need is more factory farming.
What we urgently need is to reduce the growth of human animals.

My best regards to all, Venus

General News, Vivisection

Biotech giant Amgen has confirmed that it no longer conducts near-drowning experiments on small animals!

Biotech giant Amgen has confirmed that it no longer conducts near-drowning experiments on small animals!

This follows PETA scientists’ outreach to the company about the forced swim test, in which small animals are often dosed with a test substance, put in beakers of water, and forced to paddle desperately out of fear of drowning.

Amgen joins 12 pharmaceutical companies that PETA has persuaded to ban the hideous test, including Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, AbbVie, Roche, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk A/S, Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, and Bristol Myers Squibb.

But David Ricks, the CEO of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, continues to reject modern science by clinging to this ridiculous test.

Please join PETA in calling on Eli Lilly to ban the forced swim test.

Take Action:

Eli Lilly’s CEO Refuses to Ban Near-Drowning of Small Animals | PETA

Thank you for your compassion for animals.

Sincerely,

Kathy Guillermo
Senior Vice President
Laboratory Investigations Department
PETA

Regards Mark

Farm Animals, Fur and Fur Farming, General News

Estonia Becomes 14th European Nation to Ban Fur Farming.

We commented on this recently:

EU: Final vote on the ban of Estonian fur farms in June. – World Animals Voice

Estonia: Survey: Support for Banning Fur Farming in Estonia is Greater Than Ever Before. – World Animals Voice

Now we have the wonderful news we have all been waiting for – Congratulations Estonia.

 

Estonia Becomes 14th European Nation to Ban Fur Farming

Estonia is the latest European nation to ban fur farming, and the first-ever Baltic state to do so. The amendments follow a decade of campaigning by animal welfare groups.

Estonia just became the first Baltic state to ban fur farming.

The Riigikogu (Estonia’s parliament) passed amendments to the existing Animal Protection Act and Nature Conservation Act on Wednesday.

The act will now prohibit the breeding and keeping of animals solely or primarily for the purpose of fur farming, thereby excepting sheep and rabbit breeders. According to ERR News, 56 MPs voted in favor and 19 voted against the amendments.

“It’s a great day for the thousands of animals who will be saved from a life of suffering thanks to Estonia passing this law,” said Connor Jackson, CEO of Open Cages, in a statement sent to LIVEKINDLY.

According to a 2020 survey carried out by data and business insight company Kantar Emor, 75 percent of those living in Estonia are opposed to fur farming.

Why Has Estonia Banned Fur Farming?

According to the Fur Free Alliance, current European fur farming practices are incompatible with even the most basic animal welfare standards, as well as EU law. Animals typically live in cramped, oppressive conditions and often experience both injury and disease.

Within the context of increasing global environmental efforts, the enormous negative impact of factory fur farms is both unnecessary and incongruous. The industry as a whole creates pollution, reduces biodiversity, and emits greenhouse gases.

Estonia has been discussing a potential ban since 2009, and the overall number of fur farms has significantly decreased since then. Today, the number of animals farmed has fallen from around 200,000 to just under 1,000, as per data from Open Cages.

At the beginning of 2021, the largest fur farm in Estonia (with a peak occupancy of 170,000 animals) announced that it is now empty. The government will issue no new permits for keeping mink and raccoon dogs after July 1, 2021, and will completely prohibit this style of fur farming after January 1, 2026.

The new amendments make Estonia the 14th European nation to ban fur farming. This includes the UK, which has prohibited fur farming for over 20 years but is no longer a member of the EU.

Will the UK Finally Update Its Own Legislation?

The UK government has banned farming itself but not yet restricted the import and sale of fur (neither has Estonia). But as an early adopter of fur farm bans, the UK faces pressure to lead the global shift away from fur. Also, Britain has imported £434,817 worth of fur from Estonia in the past five years, bypassing existing restrictions.

However, the current Conservative government recently published a “call for evidence” that could support more comprehensive legislation on import and sales.

Humane Society International/UK (HSI/UK), the founding organization behind the #FurFreeBritian campaign and coalition, recently revealed that 72 percent of Brits would support further restrictions on fur. Just three percent of the public actually wear animal fur.

“The majority of Brits want nothing to do with the cruelty of fur farming and trapping and support a ban on fur being imported and sold here,” said Claire Bass, executive director of HSI/UK, in a statement sent to LIVEKINDLY. “This is an important opportunity for both individual consumers and fashion businesses to let the government know that fur is firmly out of fashion in the UK.”

Open Cages is also a member of the #FurFreeBritian coalition. Jackson added: “As the latest country [Estonia] to rid themselves of this cruel industry, it’s more clear than ever that the UK must ban fur imports and finish what we started two decades ago.”

As fur becomes increasingly unpopular, many mainstream brands have been quick to distance themselves from the industry. Valentino, Saks Fifth Avenue, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, and Adidas are just some of the most recent brands to announce a move away from fur.

Estonia Becomes 14th European Nation to Ban Fur Farming (livekindly.co)

Environmental, Farm Animals, General News

China confirms first human case of H10N3 bird flu strain.
Chicken carcasses at a wholesale poultry market, Shanghai
Chicken carcasses at a wholesale poultry market in Shanghai. Many strains of avian flu are present in China and some sporadically infect people. Photograph: AP

China confirms first human case of H10N3 bird flu strain

Man, 41, in Jiangsu, diagnosed on 28 May but risk of avian virus spread is low, says state health agency

A 41-year-old man in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu, although health officials in China said the risk of large-scale spread remained low.

The man, a resident of the city of Zhenjiang, went to hospital on 28 April after developing a fever and other symptoms, China’s national health commission said.

He was diagnosed as having the H10N3 avian influenza virus on 28 May, the commission said though it did not give details about how the man had been infected with the virus. The man was stable and ready to be discharged from hospital. Medical observation of his close contacts had not found any other cases.

H10N3 is a low pathogenic, or relatively less severe, strain of the virus found in poultry, and the risk of it spreading on a large scale is very low, the commission added.

The strain was “not a very common virus”, said Filip Claes, regional laboratory coordinator of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases, at the Asia and Pacific regional office. Only about 160 isolates of the virus were reported in the 40 years to 2018, mostly in wild birds or waterfowl in Asia and in some limited areas of North America, and none had been detected in chickens so far, Claes said.

Analysing the genetic data of the virus would be necessary to determine whether it resembled older viruses or if it was a novel mix of different viruses, he added.

Many different strains of avian influenza are present in China and some sporadically infect people, usually those working with poultry. There have been no significant numbers of human infections with bird flu since the H7N9 strain killed about 300 people during 2016-2017.

No other cases of human infection with H10N3 have previously been reported globally, the commission said.

China confirms first human case of H10N3 bird flu strain | Bird flu | The Guardian

Regards Mark

General News

JBS- World’s largest meat company affected by cyber attack

The world’s largest meat processing corporation, JBS, was hit by a cyberattack which disrupted meat production in the US, Canada and Australia, and forced many workers to stay home.

The intrusion on Sunday has targeted the company’s servers in North America and Australia, JBS USA said in a statement.

The company clarified that its “backup servers were not affected,” and specialists were working to restore operations as soon as possible.

It added that there was no evidence that any customer, supplier or employee data had been compromised.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported that numerous deliveries of cattle were canceled in the state of Queensland, forcing cow trucks to turn around.

Erpresser-Software: Weltgrößter Fleischkonzern JBS von Hackern lahmgelegt | ZEIT ONLINE

Grazier Colin Baker told the broadcaster he had to send the cattle back because “the meatworks was going to be shutting for an indefinite amount of time.”

ABC cited Andrew Foden, the head of the Australian Meat Industry Employees’ Union in Tasmania, saying that thousands of meat workers across the country were sent home as a result of the hack.

JBS runs 47 facilities and employs around 11,000 people in Australia, according to AP.

JBS Australia CEO Brent Eastwood told Australian beef industry news website Beef Central on Sunday that he could not say how long the stoppage on the company’s operations would last.

Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said on Tuesday that although JBS makes up for around 20% of Australia’s processing production, he was expecting “significant impacts on exports so long as this isn’t a protracted shutdown.”

Littleproud told ABC Radio that the government was working closely with JBS and it is “too early” to say if the meat packing company was hit by a ransomware attack.

Damage was also done to JBS operations in the US and Canada.

A beef plant in Brooks, Alberta, which processes over 4,000 heads of cattle a day, had to be effectively shut down, according to Scott Payne from United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), who speaks for the Local 401 union branch in Canada.

In the US, two shifts at a JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado had been canceled, according to the UFCW Local 7 union.

Cyberattacks on large corporations have become more frequent in recent years.

Last month, the operator of Colonial Pipeline, the largest oil pipeline system in the US, paid a ransom of $4.4 million to hackers who targeted the company.

In exchange for the payment, the criminals provided a decryption tool to unlock the hacked systems.

Colonial Pipeline temporarily shut down operations as a result of the hack, sparking price hikes at gas stations due to the fears of fuel shortages.

And I mean...This is known as “ethical hacking”.
We need more of this ethical hack to stop these wicked murders of innocent animals.
It doesn’t really matter what you think about hacking at the moment and whether you like it, but it is important to realize that any nonviolent means is right against the meat industry which has only one goal:
Make More Money From Animal Suffering!
Everything else are just side effects!

Thank you to the hackers, you guys are great!
I find it legitimate to attack mass extermination camps.

My best regards to all, Venus

General News, Uncategorized

England: Hero Police Dog Kaiser Stabbed 5 Times On Patrol; But Still Holds Criminal Until Officers Arrive.
Kaiser was taken to the vets where he required stitches. Fortunately, the knife only struck bone – narrowly avoiding lasting injury
Kaiser was taken to the vets where he required stitches. Fortunately, the knife only struck bone – narrowly avoiding lasting injury

Hero police dog is STABBED five times in the head as he subdues knife-wielding man

  • Kaiser was on patrol in Orpington, south London with handler, PC Mark Woolcott 
  • After tracking down the suspect, the brave Alsatian was stabbed five times and he was treated at vets where he required stitches for his stab wounds
  • Despite his injuries Kaiser held a man, 43, long enough for officers to detain him 

Read the full story, with pictures, at:

Brave police dog Kaiser ‘lucky to be alive’ after being stabbed five times in south London patrol | Daily Mail Online

PD Kaiser (above) was on patrol with his handler, PC Mark Woolcott, when the pair were called to a report of a back garden intruder in Orpington, south London
PD Kaiser (above) was on patrol with his handler, PC Mark Woolcott, when the pair were called to a report of a back garden intruder in Orpington, south London

Top Dog !

Regards Mark

Farm Animals, General News

England: Please Add Your Voice – Oppose Gruesome Rabbit-Butchering Facility Plans in Derbyshire,

Oppose Gruesome Rabbit-Butchering Facility Plans in Derbyshire

Plans have been submitted to Derbyshire Dales District Council for a gruesome rabbit-“processing” facility in Atlow, Derbyshire. If approved, thousands of rabbits would be slaughtered for their flesh and fur each year before being butchered at the facility and turned into pies, pâté, and other “products”. The applicants already exploit thousands of rabbits on four rabbit farms across the country and are looking to expand their horrific franchise.

Oppose Gruesome Rabbit-Butchering Facility Plans in Derbyshire | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta.org.uk)

Thanks – Mark