Unwanted chicks for the egg industry being burnt alive.
Category: Farm Animals
Actions Here are Really only for UK citizens.
Pester the Pig is at it again; taking revenge on a couple that are ordering factory farmed bacon sarnies:
Click on this link to see another video showing Pester getting revenge:
Where does your local high street café get their pork from? 5 of the 6 high street café chains we surveyed get their pork from factory farms. Pester Pig takes revenge on a heartless couple who order factory-farmed bacon sarnies! You can help free pigs from chains by liking and sharing this video.
Tell DEFRA to ban low welfare imports
We’re calling on the UK government to ban the importation of pork produced in conditions that would be illegal in the UK. Sign the petition today:
Petition:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ban-factory-farm-imports-to-the-uk
The Problem
UK supermarkets & high street chains source from the very cheapest pork producers across the EU and perhaps in future from the USA, forcing our farmers out of the industry or to get bigger with ever more intensive and cruel conditions. Pigs reared in UK factory farms (an intensive farming system that is permitted under the Red Tractor labelling scheme) have to endure permanent indoor confinement in barren, overcrowded pens for their entire lives. Mother pigs are kept in narrow metal cages so small they cannot even turn around for five weeks in each pregnancy.
The Solution
To enable our farmers to improve their pig standards and survive, the government needs to ban the importation of pork produced in cruel conditions that are illegal in the UK. This would stop supermarkets & food chains competing to source the cheapest pork raised in the lowest standards of welfare and give UK farmers the freedom to increase their welfare conditions in accordance with UK consumers’ demands.
Pork labelled RSPCA Assured, Free Range and Organic has been raised in significantly better standards than the UK Red Tractor labelling scheme and minimum UK,EU and US standards. Pigs on high welfare farms, either outdoors or indoors with plenty of straw, are less stressed so more contented and healthy . They have enough room to roam and express natural instinctive behaviours such as rooting, nesting and playing.
The Pig Welfare Survey
Three-quarters of the 60 high street supermarkets & food chains surveyed by Farms Not Factories sell pork from factory farms. The vast majority of these don’t offer a single high welfare alternative.
Please sign our petition telling DEFRA MPs to enable our farmers to improve their pig standards and survive.
We’ve prepared an email for you, however it’s much more powerful to write in your own words. A personalised salutation (Dear + MPs name) and a sign-off (Sincerely, + your name) are automatically added.
Click on this link to see another video showing Pester getting revenge:
Where does your local high street café get their pork from? 5 of the 6 high street café chains we surveyed get their pork from factory farms. Pester Pig takes revenge on a heartless couple who order factory-farmed bacon sarnies! You can help free pigs from chains by liking and sharing this video.
Tell DEFRA to ban low welfare imports
We’re calling on the UK government to ban the importation of pork produced in conditions that would be illegal in the UK. Sign the petition today:
Petition:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ban-factory-farm-imports-to-the-uk
The Problem
UK supermarkets & high street chains source from the very cheapest pork producers across the EU and perhaps in future from the USA, forcing our farmers out of the industry or to get bigger with ever more intensive and cruel conditions. Pigs reared in UK factory farms (an intensive farming system that is permitted under the Red Tractor labelling scheme) have to endure permanent indoor confinement in barren, overcrowded pens for their entire lives. Mother pigs are kept in narrow metal cages so small they cannot even turn around for five weeks in each pregnancy.
The Solution
To enable our farmers to improve their pig standards and survive, the government needs to ban the importation of pork produced in cruel conditions that are illegal in the UK. This would stop supermarkets & food chains competing to source the cheapest pork raised in the lowest standards of welfare and give UK farmers the freedom to increase their welfare conditions in accordance with UK consumers’ demands.
Pork labelled RSPCA Assured, Free Range and Organic has been raised in significantly better standards than the UK Red Tractor labelling scheme and minimum UK,EU and US standards. Pigs on high welfare farms, either outdoors or indoors with plenty of straw, are less stressed so more contented and healthy . They have enough room to roam and express natural instinctive behaviours such as rooting, nesting and playing.
The Pig Welfare Survey
Three-quarters of the 60 high street supermarkets & food chains surveyed by Farms Not Factories sell pork from factory farms. The vast majority of these don’t offer a single high welfare alternative.
Please sign our petition telling DEFRA MPs to enable our farmers to improve their pig standards and survive.
We’ve prepared an email for you, however it’s much more powerful to write in your own words. A personalised salutation (Dear + MPs name) and a sign-off (Sincerely, + your name) are automatically added.
Painful mutilation, such as dehorning, is common practice in the dairy industry. The horn systems of the calves, which are only a few weeks old, are burned out – mostly without anesthesia.
At least two burns are inflicted on the animals with full pain sensation. Burns, we know from personal experience, are still painful even after days. That is why we can speak of cruelty to animals here.
Dehorning is a practice that is carried out in the meat and dairy industry and can be very traumatic for small calves due to the immense pain it causes.
This process is usually carried out with a hot iron rod.
There are two kinds:
One is powered by the rod, which is heated with electricity (240 volts), and the other is heated by a gas burner.
Each of them destroys the horn that creates the skin at its base and completely denatures the animal.
The farmer uses disposable gloves when performing this gruesome exercise, keeping the calf’s ear out of the reach of the stick, but heating the stick to unscrew the animal until it gets scorching hot.
Then they put the burner tip under pressure on the horn.
When the burnt hair starts to smoke, then they twist the bar with a twist of their wrist. The application of heat continues, the heat can be transmitted through the thin bones of the skull and the calfs of the calves are damaged.
The worst? Many farmers are not “experts” and practice this practice without experience, especially in villages.
The dehorning process ends when the farmer sees a copper-colored ring around the base of the horn.
The pictures in the video show how cows are fixed with their heads between bars and their horns are cut off with huge pliers. Blood runs over their head.
Don’t be a participant. Find out more about veganism at http://www.animanaturalis.org
My comment: The Animal Protection Law in Germany actually provides for a ban on amputations, including a ban on dehorning, but of course there are “exceptions”. If it is stated that dehorning is necessary to avoid the risk of accidents or injury, the farmer “must” intervene.
There are already breeds that are born genetically without horns.
Nice!! you might think, but in the end it is absurd that humans breed animals so that they are efficient, square, practical and good. Because the milk and meat mafia wants it that way.
It has nothing to do with nature anymore.
Pigs should all be the same size so that the bolt gun can be put on better and chickens should be of a uniform size so that they can be better placed in the holders upside down and their heads can be separated at the same place.
The animals are adapted to factory farming instead of accepting that animals were created to be free and not to serve us as captives.
If we don’t want to eat and have everything, we wouldn’t have to solve the problems we create ourselves. Our perverse, criminal relationship to animals proves every day of the new how underdeveloped we, human animals are on our moral.
My best regards to all, Venus
Utmost respect and thanks to Jill for hitting the trench despite all the current issues and problems around the Far East area.
Here she reports from the plane on her way to the Chengdu Bear Rescue Centre.
If the world was full of ‘Jills’ then it would be a massively better place !
Animals Asia Founder and CEO @moonbearJill is on her way to the Chengdu Bear Rescue Centre while transport links are still open to join the team there during the coronavirus crisis to ensure our facilities are prepared for any eventuality. animalsasia.org/donate #BraveryInAction
A great site – check it out !
Quote – For the animals.
“Many animals are exploited for both meat and dairy production. By going vegan you can prevent this from happening. Although some people may say that ethical meat is a thing, all animals experience the same fear when it comes to being slaughtered. Is that something you want on your conscious?”
https://beccabynature.com/veganuary-should-we-live-life-on-the-veg/
Grow Up !!
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/08/25/a-mother-fights-for-the-life-of-her-baby-calf/
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/07/04/england-the-price-of-your-pint/
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/11/17/germany-calves-cheaper-than-canary-birds/
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/05/12/france-torture-of-calves-in-tollevast/
There are concerns for some people wishing to adopt a vegan diet because of their opposition to animal abuse and suffering which is common in all meat and dairy production.
The concern is normally if they are going to be ok health wise regarding a change to veganism.
We are giving a link here to the Viva! Site from England, which works to prevent animal abuse whilst at the same time also giving out lots of info re changing to a vegan diet.
Here is the link,
https://www.vivahealth.org.uk/resources/b12-and-vegan-diet-fact-sheet
Just go to the header of ‘Vegan Health’; and you will be given a large series of responses to issues that may concern you if you are thinking of going vegan; or provide more info if you are already vegan and wish to know more.
Here is the link from the very top of the pile, which gives multiple reasons why your body, animals and the environment will thrive by you undertaking the change:
https://www.vivahealth.org.uk/veganhealth
Learn more about it all and use the above links to increase your personal databank, so that you have valid responses when (as they always do), meat eaters come back at you in pathetic attempts to justify their way of eating.
I personally had it the other day, from someone in the medical profession actually; who told me, not asked; that the dinosaurs only had teeth because they ate a lot of meat !
Well; ask the Sauropodas;
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Sauropods evolved to walk on four legs and typically grew to enormous sizes. They were herbivores (plant eaters) and included classic dinosaurs such as the Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus
If you look at dinosaur genera, roughly 65 percent of the dinosaurs were plant eaters and 35 percent were meat-eaters (or omnivores).
I can sense another meat eater comment coming on – like “but they all died out”. Well yes, but I think that was very much due to a massive catastrophe on Earth such as a major meteorite impact or something similar. And what about the meat eating dinosaurs, did they survive? – No. I think this kind of kills the argument that to survive, you have to eat meat.
It is an issue that divides many; and they probably wont change much in their opinions of what is good or bad eating for you. All I know is that not having touched a slice of dead animal for over 30 years; I am still here and I think my brain still works a bit – though some visitors to WAV may question that ! – only joking; we do what we can.
Be good and stay healthy; go Vegan.
Regards Mark
Well she looks good on it !
The following is a repeat of an article in the latest OIPA newsletter relating to the Coronavirus. For pictures, please click on the link given at the end.
THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK AND ANIMAL WELFARE IN CHINA
With the escalation of the coronavirus, China banned the transport and sale of wild animals, prohibiting trading to markets, supermarkets, restaurants and online platforms.
It is believed that the source of the infection is the wild animal section of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, which is known for selling live animals and slaughtering them on the spot. Here hygiene levels are extremely poor: wild and domesticated animals, along with their urine, faeces, and bodily fluids, come in contact with sales clerks and customers, with the animals being butchered on the floor, blood splashing everywhere and flies feasting on the carcasses.
To date, there are very few laws in China that protect animals from abuse and mistreatment but, hopefully, with the growing number of activists, especially among young people, along with increasing knowledge about health hazards, there will be more consideration regarding animal welfare in the near future.
The coronavirus infection has already spread across half a dozen nations, including Thailand, Japan, Australia, France, Canada and the United States, causing over 420 deaths and the lockdown of at least 13 Chinese cities.
Scientist have confirmed that the disease, as 70% of human pathogens, has been transmitted from an animal. It is believed that the source of the infection is the wild animal section of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, in China, which is well known for selling unusual live animals and slaughtering them on the spot.
Among these, wolf pups, scorpions, squirrels, porcupines, turtles, crocodiles, monkeys, dogs, cats and other live animals are sold for human consumption. These type of markets are common across China, Vietnam and other areas of south-eastern Asia, and are called “wet-markets” because of the large quantities of water that are used to slop the floors. Here, sanitations standards hardly exist and hygiene levels are extremely poor: wild and domesticated animals, along with their urine, faeces, and bodily fluids, come in contact with sales clerks and customers, with the animals being butchered on the floor, blood splashing everywhere and flies feasting on the carcasses.
This is the ideal place for contamination to occur and for virus and bacteria to spread. It seems that the outbreak of both the avian flu and SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) originated in these wet markets as a consequence of keeping live animals.
The consumption of wild animal meat is common and considered a luxury in China, especially among the older generations. Moreover, wild and exotic animals and their parts are still used in traditional medicine to cure ailments or as aphrodisiacs. It is part of the Chinese culture, although consumers do not seem to be aware of the public health treat, especially when it is impossible to know the provenience of the animals and, therefore, to be sure if they are free of disease.
After the SARS outbreak in 2003, which killed over 750 people, there was a temporary ban on the wild animal markets. Experts feel like the Chinese government should then have learned that diseases can easily spread from animals to humans in markets where wild, farmed and domestic animals are clumped together in unhygienic conditions, but the ban was withdrawn. With the escalation of the coronavirus, China again banned the transport and sale of wild animals, prohibiting trading to markets, supermarkets, restaurants and online platforms. Unfortunately, the ban will only be in force until the epidemic will be eliminated across the country, leading to think that wildlife trade will be allowed again, as it did after the SARS crisis.
This is a vicious circle: the permanent ban on the sale of wildlife, in China and in other countries, is necessary to reduce the risk of new viruses to emerge, potentially even more dangerous than the past ones.
To date, there are very few laws in China that protect animals from abuse and mistreatment, although there is growing awareness regarding the concepts of animal welfare in some contexts, such as in research and in zoos. Livestock farming has incredibly increased in recent years and China is now one of the world’s main producer of animal-sourced food, but there is no requirement for humane slaughter.
Half of the global pig population and over 60% of farmed fish comes from this country. About 10,000 Asiatic black bears are kept it tiny cages for bile production and other animals, including endangered species, are exploited so their parts can be used for traditional medicine. China is also the biggest producer of fur, which has shocking farming and skinning practices.
Animal cruelty is not a punishable offence in China and it also threatens people’s health and the ecosystem. The political environment does not seem interested in protecting animals, but, hopefully, with the growing number of activists, especially among young people, along with increasing knowledge about health hazards, there will be more consideration regarding animal welfare in the near future.
https://www.oipa.org/international/chinese-markets-and-coronavirus/
Germany 2020
These recordings are no exception they come from a typical German pig breeding. The video was shot by the ARIWA organization.
Animals are treated like objects.
The pig mothers are always locked up.
In metal cages or in agonizing, barren concrete bays
They can never take care of their children
The newborn piglets are sorted into mutant mothers, mutilated and killed
In the animal industry, only the “product” counts, not the living, unique living being
Live vegan and campaign for an end to animal production.
Excerpts from this video are reported on February 3 in the television program SPIEGEL.TV , Germany, which is actually a very popular program.
And I mean...In the middle of Europe, in a country where the Animal Welfare Act is enshrined in the Basic Law such crimes are still legal !! Legal!
And our humorous animal welfare law says: “Nobody should cause pain, suffering or damage to an animal without a reasonable reason.”
The meat and milk mafia have invented and even legalized their reasonable reasons for decades: because it’s so cheap, because the politicians are behind our backs, and because we can make good money from animal suffering.
And last but not least because the consumer wants it that way: Cheap.
The EU’s silence about “end the cage age” is gradually becoming very suspect.
What do we actually expect from the EU?
The EU is the biggest agricultural lobby, we know it.
The farmers in Germany protest against the anesthetic during piglet castration, the farmers are jointly responsible for groundwater contamination, for insect death and antibiotic resistance.
Farmers find it completely ok to put pigs in cages for 4 months, in which they cannot turn around, mothers take away their children, kill excess piglets and if they have exploited cows enough, they let them kill the last money close.
They keep thousands of animals in stalls, densely crowded, with no activity or daylight.
The animals stand on slatted floors in their own shit, which then accumulates as manure, and poisons the environment.
The Agriculture Minister of Germany thinks it is OK if all of this is extended for 17 years.
And the EU also thinks it’s OK.
Only 1.5 EU citizens do not find it ok.
But luckily we live in a “democracy” where animals are tortured because an oligarchy defines the “reasonable” reasons for it.
My best regards to all, Venus
Here is a link to the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture:
At the top left you can read in either German or English – just select.
https://www.bmel.de/EN/Homepage/homepage_node.html;jsessionid=0EBA7248A085CC0E8DBB7490BAFEA764.2_cid288
On the site it tells us that:
Link – https://www.bmel.de/EN/Animals/AnimalWelfare/animal-welfare_node.html
Animal welfare is enshrined as a State goal in the German Basic Law and regulated in the Animal Welfare Act. Under the latter, animal keepers are obliged, in order to promote the welfare of their animals, to comply with the applicable regulations.
Animal welfare is an important issue for the BMEL. The ministry works on developing the existing regulations to support animal welfare. Other examples of ways in which the BMEL promotes animal welfare include sup-porting research projects, investments in livestock husbandry systems that conform to animal welfare principles, and the development of alternatives to animal testing. The ministry also supports and promotes better animal welfare standards – including for animal transportation – at EU and international level.
Why then we ask are they attempting to downgrade the methods for keeping intensive pigs ?
You can decide this. We think you will agree with us rather than them !
If you wish to write to the Ministry about their pig keeping proposals, or anything else, then write directly to them at:
poststelle@bmel.bund.de
SAMPLE LETTER
We have put sample letter together which you could copy, modify and send to the German ministry at https://www.bmel.de/DE/Servicemenue/Kontakt/kontakt_node.html
Send by E-Mail: poststelle@bmel.bund.de
You can change the letter to meet your requirements; but please ensure you do not miss the main points.
Please add your name, nationality and address (if you wish).
Here is the sample letter which you can copy and send; modified if you wish:
Date:
Sir / Madam;
On your official site you inform us that:
Animal welfare is an important issue for the BMEL. The ministry works on developing the existing regulations to support animal welfare. Other examples of ways in which the BMEL promotes animal welfare include sup-porting research projects, investments in livestock husbandry systems that conform to animal welfare principles, and the development of alternatives to animal testing. The ministry also supports and promotes better animal welfare standards – including for animal transportation – at EU and international level.
Decent animal welfare stops the cages; this is what over 1.5 million EU citizens want, which (so far) are despised by the EU, because they (the citizens) don’t even get any information about the development of this debate about what they voted for.
Ex-EU parliamentarian Stefan.B.Eck, independent, initiated the abolition of the painful rabbit breeding and petitioned against it, EU Commissioner Andriukaitis (then responsible) told him: “Stefan, I`m sorry, I can’t do anything for it “.
Then Stefan Eck said in his speech to the Commission:
“The EU Commission must never put the word “morality” in its mouth; never!!”
So, as a ‘Ministry’ responsible for alleged ‘animal welfare’; can you please then explain to me – why them are you attempting to change the regulations relating to intensive pig welfare on 14/2/20 to make things worse for pigs ? – where is your morality, or are you just a legislator for the farming industry and nothing else; regardless of the negative impact your decisions have on animal welfare ? – your proposals will mean to even deprive pigs of space to stretch their legs ! – there is nothing ‘moral’ from you.
Your proposed approach which will be decided on 14/2 will neither develop existing regulations to IMPROVE animal welfare – in fact it will do quite the opposite; and by attempting to undertake changes to the regulations you are NOT promoting better animal welfare standards !
I would be very keen to hear your reasoning as to why you are attempting to downgrade animal welfare for intensive pig systems; when in fact you should be working to make intensive cage systems a thing of the past.
I request that for anything near to decent welfare standards, you work urgently to move away from intensive cage systems and instead promote free range – Cage Free Systems.
Clearly from your proposals, animal welfare improvements are NOT one of your priorities.
Please do not pretend to me and others that you are working to improve animal welfare when we know that your proposed changes for intensive pig keeping will result in the opposite of that.
Do not lie to us – break the cages and set the pigs and others free into a world of free range.
Yours;
Name
Nationality:
You have until BEFORE 14/2/20 to send a mail to the Ministry – please do not delay.
Regards WAV – 5/2/20.
World Animals Voice 