WAV Comment – I have seen quite a bit of animal suffering over the years, and this is basically downright disgusting !

This is Italy 2023 and does nothing more than justify why the EU Commission needs to wake up now and get things such as this stored into the history books.  Open the cages now and set them free !

Investigative work is dangerous and expensive.  Please give anything you can to support the work of Essere Animali;

Thank you – Mark

Mark, I did, I heard the rabbits’ “screams”. Even though their suffering is actually silent, it came to me intensely, loudly and clearly.

I saw this terrible suffering of rabbits locked in cages for the first time two years ago, when I participated in a survey in 7 different farms. And then again last March, when – you may remember – we placed cameras with the aim of shooting a 24-hour live broadcast and documenting the life of these animals in cages.

Can you imagine what it must be like to live in a cage a little bigger than your body, which doesn’t allow you to stand up and move freely? This is everyday life for a rabbit who is born and lives on a farm and does not know what it means to jump outdoors on a lawn as his instinct would push him to do.

I chose to show you the rabbit above that I met during my last investigation, because I was struck by its exhausted gaze, devoid of light and for the total absence of vital stimuli that it communicated to me. And like him, unfortunately, there are millions of them on Italian farms.

You only see him, but there are also 6-7 rabbits living in those cages. And they suffer, even if they don’t scream and we often suffer,

Help me to put an end to the silent screams of rabbits in cages.

Carrying out investigations is always very difficult and risky. But it’s a risk worth taking. The videos and images we have collected, in fact, have helped to strengthen the End the Cage Age campaign, for the abolition of cages in Europe.

These images show harrowing situations. Caged rabbits live in the space of a printer’s sheet, are stressed and apathetic because they have to repress their nature, and become aggressive, hurting themselves or their mates. They are also often sick: stress, in fact, compromises their immune system, so much so that I have seen many with malformations, dermatitis and other obvious pathologies. In addition, the cages are made of wire mesh that causes wounds due to continuous rubbing. And the most chilling thing is that dead rabbits are sometimes left for days next to live ones.

In the video below you will find a brief summary of a survey we carried out.

It contains strong images, but they are necessary to get an idea of the real condition of a rabbit in a cage

Investigations like these are very demanding from a physical and psychological point of view, but also expensive from an economic point of view , because they require days and days of work, travel, food, accommodation, fuel, cameras, suits and appropriate clothing and much more.

Until January 6, we will collect the necessary resources for the 2024 investigations. Many of our supporters have taken up our appeal but we have not yet reached the goal. Today you too can do something very important!

Millions of animals suffer in factory farms.
Our investigations, the most broadcast in Italy, allow us to denounce it.

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Regards Mark