In GAZA’s only zoo, destitute Palestinian families have been camping by the cages where starving animals have been crying out for food.
The scarcity of food across Gaza and increase in feed prices has led to a dire situation for animals and humans alike Credit: Getty
Several animals have already died, some animals are so weak that they cannot feed themselves whenever food becomes available, and dozens of displaced Palestinians have become forced onlookers.
“Living among the animals is more merciful than what we get from the war planes in the sky.”
It has been estimated that at least 22,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7.
Some of the animals in the zoo have already died from starvationCredit: Getty
Di has forwarded me some info relating to cat abusers in China, and an organisation which is attempting to expose them and what they do to authority.
I have seen a few of the images and it is disgusting. Your help will be required to take action.
This will take a while to complete but I hope to post in the next fewdays.
Through this site I am going to try and help expose these abusers, as well as trying to get authorities to act – it wont be easy, but ………
Regards Mark
For example:
XU ZHIHUI / “JACK
LATIAO” 徐志辉
Location:Funan, Anhui, CN
Status: HIDING
Conviction: Guilty, detained for 14 Days (August, 2023), Currently in Hiding.
CRIMINAL PROFILE
Location:Funan, Anhui, China. (Currently in Hiding)
Cats Abused:Xu has reportedly tortured and murdered thousands of cats.
Status: ACTIVE (Xu is currently still engaged in cat abusive acts and is an active member/administrator of online cat abuse groups.)
Conviction: Detained for 14 Days in August, 2023 for the illegal capturing of property (cat). No charges for the abuse of cats.
On March 14th 2023, Xu captured a cow-patterned stray cat and mercilessly tortured it for 36 hours until the cat died. He recorded the event and shared it to “Cat Abuse Groups” on QQ – a Chinese social media app. During official investigations, his phone was found with hundreds of other gruesome videos of cats being tortured. Xu’s wife is aware of his torture acts.
Camille Labchuk’s journey toward veganism began at 12 and was motivated by a desire to distance herself from the cruelty associated with dairy and egg production. Photo by Abdul Matin Sarfraz for Canada’s National Observer
Defending animal rights means never eating your clients
Growing up on Prince Edward Island, Camille Labchuk lived with a coterie of domestic animals, including cats, hamsters, rabbits, and ducks. But at age nine, she became aware of the darker side of human-animal relationships. Television footage of the commercial seal kill near her home profoundly impacted her, sparking a lifelong commitment to animal welfare.
“I couldn’t believe that people were clubbing baby seals over the head and then skinning them for their fur,” said Labchuk. “My experience with animals until that day had mostly been that people were kind and loving toward their companion animals. That was when I first … realized that sometimes animals suffered at our hands.”
A Florida man is accused of animal torture after deputies said he intentionally drove over a deer for a TikTok video, according to an arrest report seen by Business Insider.
Clay Neil Kinney, 27, of Geneva, Florida, is facing one felony charge and five misdemeanor counts following his arrest on December 28, court records show.
Per the arrest report from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, Kinney was under investigation, suspected of “running over deer and posting the video on TikTok.” He was pulled over by a detective who had knowledge that his license had been suspended, according to the report.
This is not Kinney’s first run-in with the law. In May 2021, Kinney was found guilty of illegally hunting on protected land and given six years probation. Two months later, he was charged with illegal taking of a deer after a captured fawn was found in his possession and was fined $758, Law & Crime reported.
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.
I hope that you stick with me and together we can try and do better for the animals.
I am starting the new year with some beautiful pictures of a Kingfisher which have been sent to me by Pauline. I am sure you agree that they are wonderful.
World Animals Voice 