Month: December 2021

Brazil: the dirty champion of meat export

Beef from Brazil and other South American countries has been criticized for some time, as deforested areas are often converted into pastureland in a timely manner!

Now the first supermarket chains are listing beef from deforestation regions!

Brazil is the world’s largest beef exporter.
The South American country exports around 2 million t of beef annually, including to the European Union.
But export success is in jeopardy because Brazil has a problem, an image problem.
His agricultural exports are repeatedly associated with the illegal slash and burn in the #Amazonas and in other rainforest areas.
Some large retail chains from the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Great Britain, including Albert Heijn and #Lidl Netherlands, have now pulled the emergency brake.
They are deleting beef and beef products from Brazil in whole or in part.

The “Reporter Brasil”, a network of investigative journalists, and the environmental organizationMighty Earth” got the ball rolling.
Together they have traced the origins of beef steaks, corned beef and dried meat on the shelves of Albert Heijn, Lidl, Carrefour and Sainsbury’s back to the farms in Brazil.

The reporters uncovered a system they call Cattle washing ,” based on laundering money, for example, from drug trafficking revenues.
When washing cattle, the animals are briefly kept on farms in regions where there is little or no deforestation in two JBS*plants in São Paulo before they are slaughtered.
This gives them a “clean” origin.

Vale do Jamari settlement, Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia. There are more cattle than people in the state of Rondônia.

However, these cattle had previously been raised on farms created by illegal slash and burn.
Some of the operators of these farms have been convicted under Brazilian law for illegal logging of rainforests and the destruction of protected areas.

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38509 From Stacey. Disturbing but True.

Thanks as always to Stacey at ‘Out Compass’ for sharing.

Regards Mark

38509 by Stacey
https://vimeo.com/583906391
DontWatch.org

Source Pathless Pilgrim, Medium

I don’t normally do this, but I need to start this post with a WARNING.

The shocking viral video I’m about to share is harrowing to watch. It shows upsetting scenes of violence, cruelty and abuse towards vulnerable animals.

However, I believe it must be watched. I believe it must be shared and viewed by as many people as possible in order to expose the horrific cruelty which is inherent within the animal agriculture industry all over the world. Because, as terrible as this footage is, what is most upsetting is that these are not isolated incidents. Thousands of hours of undercover footage from hundreds of random farms and abattoirs in dozens of countries show that this kind of abuse is inherent throughout the industry. Animal agriculture is rotten to its core and this video shows why. I know how hard it is to watch but I beg you to watch it if you can and to share it with as many people as possible, because we can only tackle this abuse if we are aware of it.

After the video, I’ll drop a link so you can take action to help stop this abuse. For the animals in this footage it is too late, but with your help we can prevent millions more from suffering the same fate. So for now, please set aside a few minutes, brace yourself, and prepare to expose these horrors to the world… Once you’ve watched the video, there are three things I want you to do: Share this page like crazy with everyone you can think of — this cruelty needs to be exposedIf you’re not already vegan, take the 22 Day Vegan Challenge — this horror show will only stop when we stop paying for it.

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Sea Shepherd clean up garbage from human animals

4.4 tons- 8 people- 5 days

Australia: During the Cocos Keeling Island clean-up on Home Island, our “Trash Bash Crew” ventured beyond Pulu Gangsa and tackled new stretches of beach towards Kampong Atas.
During the three-day cleaning of this stretch of beach, the team removed 2,719 kilograms of plastic waste.

Most of the time, styrofoam, flip-flops, plastic bottles, threads, hard plastic pieces and large discarded suspension lines were removed.

When the team walked along the cleaned beaches at the end, they were all proud of their successful work: they had collected a total of 4.4 tons of rubbish on Home Island within 5 days.

4.4 tons of garbage that no longer poses a threat to the turtles, hermit crabs, rays, sharks and fish that the team observed during their time on this special island.

An indescribable reward for those tough days, carrying heavy trash (376 bags plus ropes and nets), and some of the harshest weather conditions we’ve encountered while doing a cleanup.

https://www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdDeutschland/

And my neighbor grumbles about the dog shit that can sometimes be found on the trail.
As if humans weren’t the most harmful animal on the planet, but the dogs!

We sincerely thank the Sea Shepherd activists

My best regards to all, Venus

Germany: the hunting association is angry …

The troops around the President of the German Hunting Association (DJV) have filed a criminal complaint against a hunting opponent.

It has recently been known that hobby hunters are not the brightest candles on the Christmas tree.
The violent perpetrator – Volker Böhning – has been President of the German Hunting Association since June 7, 2019.

Volker Böhning

This hunting association (DJV), which is afflicted with complexes, has now, on behalf of all hobby hunters, filed criminal charges in Germany against “a self-proclaimed animal rights activist and radical opponent of hunting from the state of Hesse.
On his Facebook page he compares hunters with psychopaths and child molesters, among other things, ”says the website of the German Hunting Association.

… This has now also been scientifically proven: hunters suffer from the same psychosis as child molesters and rapists … is the stumbling block of science.

Since when have scientific findings, psychological studies, facts and case studies been hate speech?

“According to the media lawyer Dr. Heiko Granzin is in this specific case a collective insult – but it also affects each hunter individually.
In addition, the hunted opponent is threatened with persecution for sedition, ”continues the German Hunting Association.

Hunting associations primarily cultivate disrespect and a culture of violence – exactly the opposite of what a cultivated person in our society should strive for.

Because of hobby hunters, wild animals also suffer in Germany.
No effort is too great for these people from the dark world of the hunter’s milieu to manipulate democracy, freedom of the press and freedom of expression, justice, etc.

The hunting president Volker Böhning is not interested in any ethics, animal welfare, nature conservation, etc. when hunting.
Hobby hunters still kill at least four out of six million wild animals in Germany for the garbage can, which is actually highly criminal.

Who eats a fox, raccoon, cat, swans or carrion crows?
97 out of 100 foxes are thrown away or hung in the hedge as sluts at their shooting seats.

This is still practiced although for decades countless studies and case studies have proven the nonsense – not just fox hunting.

Hobby hunting has a long tradition of mistreating and damaging our cultural landscape. Today’s hobby hunters are becoming more and more involved in various ways for animal cruelty and the disturbance of fauna.
Hobby hunting ensures again and again that the diversity of species and biodiversity manifest themselves in a manipulative and unnatural way.
Hunting statistics speak for themselves.

Hunting usually does not mean less game, but more births.

Hobby hunting is the No 2 species enemy, along with agriculture.
The whole country is blighted with the negatively contaminated shooting seats.

Every year amateur hunters leave millions of euros in damage to agriculture and forestry.
This should rightly change in the future, also to the benefit of taxpayers.

More and more people are realizing that hunting is an unculture and cruelty to animals. In many countries, hunting bans, hunting restrictions, hunting abolitions, etc. are in development or have already been implemented.

The demand of many animal and nature conservation associations for a general ban on hunting for hobby hunters and the call for professional wildlife management corresponds to the spirit of the times.

The ethical hunter-lies as well as the garbage biology of the hobby hunters are based on a risky half-knowledge about the affliction of the flora and fauna.

The hunt failed.
For decades, hobby hunters have tried to regulate the wild animal population, which they have not succeeded in a civilized way to this day.
Wild animals have virtually no right to natural mortality or disease recovery under the yoke of hobby hunters.

Hunting brings psychological suffering to wild animals.
Fear, horror and terror of being shot down are her companions for a lifetime.
Hobby hunters notoriously disrupt wildlife habitats.

Wild animals do not like hobby hunters.
Wild animals recognize good people and avoid bad people – flee from hobby hunters.

https://wildbeimwild.com/naturschutz/deutscher-jagdverand-zeigt-jagdgegner-an/55974/2021/12/24/

And I mean…The hunter enjoys killing animals while hunting.
Inhibition then no longer bothered him.
The personality disordered does not mind that HE is personality disordered.
He is at peace with himself and thinks that the others are actually the disturbed ones

The researcher Chris Darimont says: “Of course killing an animal makes a hunter very happy, but they are even happier if they have killed a really large animal of a species rather than a small one.”

Criminalist Xanthe Mallett also studied people for whom hunting is a hobby and came to the conclusion that they had a ‘dark triad’ of personality traits.

These include Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy – the same traits found in people who murder people.
And there are even more similarities: Hobby hunters plan their hunt very carefully – and they joyfully wipe out life after life in order to fulfill their own abnormal desires.

In every act of violence, something manifests itself that is already present in the personality but has no place in everyday life.
Killing may have a power component, and hunting is the stage on which that power is exercised.
Animals are victims who are readily available.
Often the species only plays a subordinate role.
Wild animals, domestic animals, “farm animals” ….

When hobby hunters encounter opposition, they quickly come up with terms such as “regulate stocks”, “environmental protection”, “hobby”, or “species protection”.

But anyone who loves animals as such and wants them to be left alone instead of dismembering them does not believe that.
These people are murderers, they collect corpses for trophies.
All that they “gain” with this is the disgust of other people when they see how the hobby hunters admire themselves for the joyful killing of animals.

“With all due understanding for freedom of expression, hate speech is punishable,” the President of the Hunting Association tells us.
This is not about opinions, Mr. Böhning! it is about facts.

My best regards to all, Venus

England: Live Export Memories.

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Mine was witnessing the suffering of the live animal export trade from Southern England.

England: Memories – a personal experience. By Mark. – World Animals Voice

Sorry all you innocent sentients – I and the others would have saved you all if it had been possible.

Your numbers were in the hundreds; there were just a few of us. All these years later I don’t (ever) forget your suffering.

So, it was time to take the export campaign to Europe.  Very soon I will write again on the roadshow in the Netherlands; education is the real thing about all this – and educate we did.

On the road in the Netherlands – photo Mark

A transporter loaded with sheep arrives at Dover – photo Mark

Sheep going for export (and death) – photo Mark

British calves being exported out of Dover – photo Mark

He used to stay awake to drive the dreams he had away …..

The drive home in the early morning hours was always bad – you always felt you had failed them.

Regards Mark

Merry Killmas

In the spirit of Christmas, these bars are righteous.
Courtesy of Entyce/Ashley Wallace

Click on the picture

And I mean…This time of year is traditionally associated with eating meat, and the suppressed, tortured and brutally murdered animals around us have surely paid for our “loyalty to tradition” with their lives.

Only … the spirit of Christmas is not to be understood as a massacre of non-human animals, nor can it be justified with the guise of religion.
That is the message of this video!

This year, give the gift of love!
Help animals in the most meaningful way possible – don’t eat them.

Regards, Venus

Spain- Madrid: More than 100 Crickets liberated

North American Animal Liberation Press Office: Received anonymously:

We were bored in a winter afternoon thinking about our miserable lives, but we thought “fuck depression, lets do direct action”.

We started to think about all the people who lives in prison and the different types of prisons.

We realised that near us were people locked up in little plastic cages; a lot of crickets. They were in a pet shop called Petiberia with more species locked up inside, so we made a plan and we went there.

We entered the shop and while a person was distracting the security people, the other took as much as possible of the plastic prisons with the people inside and went out of the shop.

The workers were thinking in their dumb lives so they didn’t realise about was was happening.

After, we looked for a safe place for the crickets, and we ended up in a field.

We opened the cages there and they jumped out. But some of them were dead, so we estimate that the number of people that escaped that day was 125.

This is a simple and easy action and you can help a lot of people with it.

Kisses for the workers ❤ we’ll see each other again :P”

https://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/2021/12/23/more-than-100-crickets-liberated-madrid-spain-2/

And I mean…Why are insects sold in plastic bags in pet stores?
Because some, mindless human animals want to keep exotic animals and reptiles in their living room as pets.

So-called feeder insects are mainly insect species such as grasshoppers, but also mealworms, wax maggots, crickets, moths and cockroaches.

These insects are grown in large breeding facilities and then shipped to pet stores.
Pet stores have large stocks of these so-called feeder insects.
They are usually offered for sale in plastic boxes, often without food, water or any kind of temperature control.
If the animals are not bought and fed, they often die in agony after a few days in the low-oxygen boxes.

Many people do not want to admit that insects are living beings with a complex nervous system.
They have a brain and have strong sensory perception.
It is not for nothing that insects are the most successful and most species-rich animal group in terms of evolution and at home all over the world.

It doesn’t matter whether an animal has two, four or eight legs: we are all sensitive and want to live.

Reptiles and amphibians have no business in our living rooms; keeping them must be prohibited.
Then the moral question with the ‘live food‘ would be resolved by itself.

In the name of the animals, our heartfelt thanks to the activists

My best regards to all, Venus