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South Africa: The NSPCA and Gerrie Nel head to the High Court against Live Export by Sea.

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‘dangerously high ammonia levels on some of the enclosed decks, widespread diarrhoea, with much of it falling into the feed and water troughs’

26/2/20.

The NSPCA and Gerrie Nel head to the High Court against Live Export by Sea

https://nspca.co.za/ 

Dear Animal Warrior

 

The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) confirms that an urgent application to the High Court has been launched to interdict the impending export by sea of live sheep to Kuwait. The matter is set to be heard in the Grahamstown High Court on Friday, 28 February 2020. This, following the live export by sea horror that took place in October 2019 where sheep were transported to the Middle East in horrendous conditions.

Since the shipment in October 2019, the NSPCA has attempted to gain information from both the exporters and the government, of when the next shipment is scheduled, to no avail. The NSPCA was recently made aware that the sheep are mounting in the feedlot owned by the Page Farming Trust and leased by Al Mawashi in Berlin, Eastern Cape, and there were in excess of 30 000 sheep in the first week of February 2020. This number has increased by another 40 000 since 13 February 2020 – totalling 70 000 sheep. It is clear that an imminent shipment is planned.

Afriforum agreed to assist the NSPCA with this High Court case. Advocate Gerrie Nel leading the team, along with advocates Phyllis Vorster and Gustav Weich. The attorneys for the NSPCA case are Matthew Klein and Justin Powers. The NSPCA is indebted to Gerrie Nel and Afriforum for taking this important case on. The NSPCA has a bevy of esteemed experts, including Australian Veterinarian Dr Lynn Simpson who has first-hand experience on these ships, Professor Gareth Bath, Dr Shaun Morris, as well as our own veterinarian, Dr Bryce Marock. The papers will be served to the following respondents:

  1. Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
  2. The Director General, Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
  3. The Director, Veterinary – Public Health, Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform, Eastern Cape
  4. The Provincial Executive Officer, Rural Development and Agrarian Reform, Eastern Cape
  5. The MEC for Rural Development and Agrarian Reform, Eastern Cape
  6. The Chief Veterinary Officer Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
  7. The Director for Veterinary Public Health and Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
  8. The Harbour Master, National Ports Authority
  9. The Director, National Ports Authority
  10. Al Mawashi Reg K2018520686
  11. Dave Muller T/A The Meat Men
  12. John Page
  13. Bruce Page
  14. Glen Page

 

It has come to light that other exporters wish to export live cattle by sea to the likes of Cambodia. The voyage is even longer than that of the Kuwait exports, it exceeds 21 days.

“This case is not only important for this shipment of sheep, but for all the animals that are destined for this harrowing journey to various countries around the globe – we simply cannot allow the perpetuation and growth of this cruel and brutal trade” explained Senior Inspector Grace De Lange, manager of the NSPCA’s Farm Animal Protection Unit.

Afriforum’s CEO Kallie Kriel emphasises that the action is not intended to stop the trade in animals, but rather the way it is done, bringing about cruelty to the animals involved.

In November 2019, the NSPCA laid criminal charges in terms of the Animals Protection Act No 71 of 1962 against the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD), as well as Eastern Cape Rural Development and Agrarian Reform, Al Mawashi – the owners of the Al Shuwaikh vessel, who have a company in South Africa, the captain of the Al Shuwaikh, the Page Farming Trust, and individuals from the Page Farming Trust following the harrowing days spent at the East London harbour by Inspectors of the NSPCA in October 2019, when approximately 57 000 sheep were loaded for shipment to the Middle East. The matter is with the South African Police Services (SAPS) and the investigation is still ongoing.

Conditions on board the Al Shuwaikh in October 2019, included dangerously high ammonia levels on some of the enclosed decks, widespread diarrhoea, with much of it falling into the feed and water troughs, sheep in respiratory distress, together with other serious welfare concerns. On the dock and feedlot, animals were treated in an inhumane manner, and attempts were made to load sick, injured and lame animals onto the vessel. These sentient beings meant nothing to the handlers and exporters.

The costs incurred thus far have been exorbitant and the matter is far from over. The motion will be heard in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, so travelling costs, as well as legal costs are placing huge pressure on the NSPCA’s resources. We appeal to caring citizens to assist the NSPCA with this landmark case.

Let us stand together against this abhorrent suffering.

 

Account Name: SPCA National Council of SA

Bank: Standard Bank

Account No.: 220 639 744

Branch Code: 051 001

Reference: Sheep

 

Kind regards

The NSPCA Team

 

 

 

Environmental, Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

EU: EU spending tens of millions of euros a year to promote meat eating; despite all the evidence against it !

Pro-Brexit supporters burn an EU flag during a UKIP demonstration in central London

 

WAV Comment – we have always called the pro-meat industry; the lobbyists at the EU, the ‘meat mafia’; and in this article by the very respected ‘Guardian’ newspaper in the UK; which we ask you all to read; our labelling is not far from the truth.

 

“The EU has been accused of an “indefensible” approach to human health and the climate crisis in spending tens of millions of euros each year on campaigns to reverse the decline in meat eating”

“About €60m has been spent in the last three years on 21 meat marketing campaigns …”

“A campaign by the Association of Poultry Processors and Poultry Trade which will be run in six member states at a cost to EU taxpayers of €4.4m aims over the next two years to “contradict myths and fake news” about the rearing and slaughter of chickens for meat”.

 

We wait with interest to see if the EU bans the intensive cage animal rearing systems of the EU members states; if Germany takes action about the intensive farming of its pigs, and if the EU will ever get any closer to reducing or stopping the transport of live animals. In all cases, we very much question / doubt that there will be any positive progress; especially when all this pro meat eating campaigns are funded by the european taxpayer; who from all accounts; is actually eating less meat now !

And EU citizens are supposed to have faith in the Parliament that represents ‘them’ in Brussels ?

Regards Mark.

 

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EU spending tens of millions of euros a year to promote meat eating

 

The Guardian is an English newspaper – WAV

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/14/eu-spending-tens-of-millions-of-euros-a-year-to-promote-meat-eating

 

Campaigns to promote consumption of pork and veal labelled ‘indefensible’ in light of health and climate concerns

The EU has been accused of an “indefensible” approach to human health and the climate crisis in spending tens of millions of euros each year on campaigns to reverse the decline in meat eating and trying to rebut so-called “fake news” on the mistreatment of animals bred for food.

Campaigns range from those designed to counter official warnings about the risk of cancer from eating red meat, to improving the public image of veal products said to be crucial in “deriving value from young male calves” superfluous to the dairy industry.

The EU provides an annual €200m (£166m) subsidy for the “promotion of agricultural products” each year. About €60m has been spent in the last three years on 21 meat marketing campaigns, including in the UK, according to research by the Dutch animal welfare organisation Wakker Dier.

 

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The stated ambition of many of the projects has been to halt a decline in meat consumption amid a growing trend to vegetarianism among Europe’s young people.

The livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5% of total human-derived greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists have provided evidence of a link between cancer and diets involving pork, beef and lamb products.

The description on the European commission website of one recent campaign entitled Pork Lovers Europe, which secured €1.4m for marketing, including a “road-show” with a pink bus painted to look like a pig, noted “that the consumption of pork meat in Europe has decreased in recent years”

 

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It continued: “Therefore, it is very important to promote pork meat to restore the confidence of the consumer, which was shaken by news such as the last IARC [International Agency for Research on Cancer] report.”

Scientists at the IARC, a UN agency, reported in 2015 that the consumption of bacon, red meat and glyphosate weedkiller increased the risk of developing cancer. The Pork Lovers Europe adverts targeted consumers in the UK, Spain, Germany, France and Portugal.

A campaign by the Association of Poultry Processors and Poultry Trade which will be run in six member states at a cost to EU taxpayers of €4.4m aims over the next two years to “contradict myths and fake news” about the rearing and slaughter of chickens for meat.

 

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“EU poultry consumption in the European Union is still increasing but at a slower pace, as more and more consumers are mistrustful regarding the poultry meat production,” the European commission’s website says. The campaign, targeting a 1.22% growth in chicken consumption in 2020 and 2021, is aimed at “young children, professionals, media and opinion leaders”.

A second pork campaign received a €2.5m subsidy for an initiative aimed at Danes and Swedes. “Pork is no longer a natural part of the diet of young Scandinavians,” the commission website says. “They tend to eat less meat in general and to avoid pork in particular. The aim is to increase consumer demand and thus halt any otherwise expected fall.”

A campaign in favour of the Dutch veal sector to promote the meat of calves in the Belgian, Italian and French markets received a €6m subsidy.

“The veal market has been declining since the 2000s,” says a description of the project on the commission website. “There are various reasons for this: the economic crisis, changes in consumption behaviour and above all a lack of top-of-mind awareness. France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy are minded to fight this fall in consumption by boosting the image consumers have of European veal.”

 

End the Cage Age

 

Sjoerd van de Wouw, a researcher at Wakker Dier foundation, said the funding policy was outdated indefensible. “We understand that you need to consider the interests of producers but not by completing ignoring the interests of consumers and the climate,” he said.

In response, a European commission spokesman said: “The selection of projects is based on a strict and defined procedure involving external evaluators. The producers’ organisations send proposals regarding their campaign ideas and also participate in the funding of the campaigns.

“In an effort to constantly evaluate and adjust its existing policy, the commission will soon launch a public consultation on the EU promotion policy for agricultural products.”

 

anja

Farm Animals, General News, Stray Animals

South Korea: Korean Dogs – 24th February Newsletter. Take Actions.

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koreandogs.org

Korean Dogs – 24th February Newsletter:

 

https://koreandogs.org/newsletter-february-24-2020/?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Will_Copenhagen_and_Sintra_speak_for_the_Korean_dogs&utm_medium=email

 

A couple of the issues in this newsletter:

 

New Friendship City Campaigns 
Will Copenhagen and Sintra Speak for the Korean Dogs?

Sister and Friendship City Agreements are formed between two cities with the aim of being mutually beneficial (for trade, cultural exchanges, business links etc., and to foster friendship), and many cities throughout the United States and around the world have such ‘twin cities’ all over South Korea. We can bring the unacceptable practices of South Korea’s dog meat trades to the attention of the relevant City Mayors and their Offices, and to urge them, in the spirit of friendship and for the good of the Korean people, to reach out to their counterparts in South Korea, asking them to enforce their laws and to put an end to the cruel dog and cat meat trades. Click below buttons to take actions today.

Click HERE for Sister City Campaign Center (US).

Click HERE for Sister City Campaign Center (Non-US).

 

 

“Visit Korea” Facebook Campaign

Money is a major motivator for change. If we impact Korea’s tourism industry, it will help put the pressure on the Korean government to bring an end to their cruel and vile dog and cat meat industry.

We have set up “Visit Korea” sites to help prospective visitors to learn more about Korea to help them make the right decisions. Please visit and “Like”. Feel free to post and comment on the pages. Thank you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Farm Animals, General News

Ditch Dairy -‘Natural’; ‘Humane’ – Don’t Think So !

Why you need to ditch dairy – is this ‘natural’ ? – don’t think so – simply the abuse of man over the animals once again.  Watch the second video for more.

 

 

 

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Regards to you all – Mark.

Farm Animals

Victim and perpetrator

 

 

Many people buy sheep and goat milk products without worrying about where this milk comes from.
Dairy companies often produce ads where happy lambs and goats graze in beautiful green fields.

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But the reality of how that milk ended up on your supermarket shelf is cruel.
Cruel and deliberately kept in the dark.
Just like the cows, sheep and goats are forcibly impregnated and their babies are taken away from them within hours after birth.
Because the milk they produce is for a few billion consumers who don’t care about animal suffering.

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The mothers are treated like milking machines and their babies are locked away as if they were objects, like uncomfortable by-products, thrown away to be killed at a later date.

Their life is hell on earth.
WE, human beings have made animal life hell.

We act with our own judiciary.
Equipped with perfidious, ice-cold, cynical morality, we still remain barbarians towards the animal.

We value a high culture at every opportunity, and thereby commit the most hideous atrocities on millions of defenseless creatures every day.

“Only when this simple and undoubtedly valid truth has reached the people’s consciousness that the animals are mainly and essentially the same as we are, will the animals no longer stand as lawless beings”.
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

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My best regards to all, Venus

Farm Animals, General News

Thailand: Screaming pig is clubbed to death in shocking images from Thai slaughterhouse.

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A pig is pictured dying in a pool of its own blood on the floor of a Thai slaughterhouse in this undated photograph

 

Read the full article via this link – WARNING – Very distressing images.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8012293/Screaming-pig-clubbed-death-shocking-images-Thai-slaughterhouse.html

An undated photo shows a sow screaming as the butcher swings his club down towards her head to stun her before slaughter in Thailand

 

Screaming pig is clubbed to death in shocking images from Thai slaughterhouse where animals are sliced with iron nails to force them into pens

  • WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES
  • Jo-Anne McArthur, 43, took the photos at a slaughterhouse just a few hours from the Thai capital, Bangkok
  • She founded We Animals Media and uses storytelling and journalism to try to put an end to animal cruelty  
  • The Thai owner of the slaughterhouse routinely invites people to see how the animals are killed, she said
  • She said a group of veterinary students had been there earlier and they vomited after seeing the slaughter 

 

Men can be seen butchering a truck-full of pig carcasses at an outdoor market near the Thai capital of Bangkok, Thailand

A man with a stun gun (left) immobilises the pig, while a butcher prepares to slit the animals' throats at the Thai slaughterhouse

A man holds a metal bowl to collect the blood of the pig after it's dispatched by the butcher in the Thai slaughterhouse

 

Farm Animals, General News

Austria: This Bull was chained to a wall for his entire life. This is his touching reaction to freedom.

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Bull was chained to wall his entire life.

This is his touching reaction to freedom

 

Imagine being chained your entire life, never able to move freely, or run in the fresh, clean air. That was the fate of Bandit, the bull, one of the millions of animals who are locked up and confined to chains and narrow stalls. But for Bandit, life changed for the better.

Gut Aiderbichl Sanctuary, an Austrian rescue group, freed Bandit from his bondage. Despite his confines, Bandit shows nothing but pure enjoyment as Christian, his rescuer, scratches his face and head. Then, when he is released from his chain, Bandit seems genuinely surprised to be free.

He moves tentatively at first, as if unable to believe any of this is actually happening. Suddenly, he leaps up and begins to dance around, celebrating his freedom. He jumps around and rolls in the mound of clean hay before him. This large bull thinks he has hit pay dirt, but he has no idea what is coming next!

Bandit is loaded onto a comfortable trailer and taken to the Gut Aiderbichl Sanctuary, home to hundreds of rescued cows, donkeys, horses, geese, and other animals. There, Bandit is given a large pen with fresh straw to stay in, and this gentle giant can’t help but express his happiness and joy! He jumps and bucks and trots through the straw, shaking his chain-free head with exuberance.

Toward the end of the video, Bandit nuzzles against Christian, thanking this young man for giving him a life of freedom. It is an incredibly heartwarming moment, and proof that animals have feelings, too!

At Gut Aiderbichl Sanctuary, Bandit now lives the life he was meant to live, grazing outside on the green grass and sleeping under the stars. Watch Bandit’s amazing rescue video below. Be sure to share his dance of freedom with your friends and family on Facebook!

https://land.worldofanimals.org/2017/05/26/bull-was-chained-to-wall-his-entire-life-this-is-his-touching-reaction-to-freedom/?src=fbfan_60113&t=fbsub_pawpulouscom&rp=20200216&fbclid=IwAR3ZqvO0txNzWQcXqnIFglQlI8bWpg3eatSUmmcaGmmjVIR3tT0bxKxZUcE

 

Farm Animals, General News

Joaquin Phoenix and the liberation of Liberty and Indigo

 

 

BREAKING: A day after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor—and subsequently making a headlining acceptance speech in which he spoke to the plight of mother cows and their babies used in animal agriculture—Joaquin Phoenix helped to liberate a cow and her newborn calf from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse and bring them to Farm Sanctuary, where they will live out the rest of their lives in peace. Phoenix named the mother Liberty and her daughter Indigo.

Phoenix said, “I never thought I’d find friendship in a slaughterhouse, but meeting Anthony [President/CEO of the slaughterhouse] and opening my heart to him, I realize we might have more in common than we do differences. Without his act of kindness, Liberty and her baby calf, Indigo, would have met a terrible demise.”

Phoenix was joined at the slaughterhouse by his fiancée and fellow activist Rooney Mara, both his and Mara’s mothers, Earthlings Director Shaun Monson, Los Angeles Animal Save Founder Amy Jean Davis, and Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur. The group worked with employees onsite to rescue Liberty—who had recently given birth at the slaughterhouse—and her newborn calf Indigo.

Phoenix added, “My hope is, as we watch baby Indigo grow up with her mom Liberty at Farm Sanctuary, that we’ll always remember that friendships can emerge in the most unexpected places; and no matter our differences, kindness and compassion should rule everything around us.”

It’s hard to imagine an experience more terrifying for a mother—or for her baby—than to give birth at a slaughterhouse. Witnessing the birth tugged at the heartstrings of the slaughterhouse owner—and not for the first time. This is the fifth mother-child bovine rescue secured by Los Angeles Animal Save from Manning Beef.

Phoenix concluded by saying, “Although we will continue to fight for the liberation of all animals who suffer in these oppressive systems, we must take pause to acknowledge and celebrate the victories, and the people who helped achieve them. Shaun Monson, Amy Jean Davis, and the entire LA Animal Save community, have taken their pain of bearing witness and turned it into effective, diplomatic advocacy for the voiceless. As a result, Liberty and Indigo will never experience cruelty or the touch of a rough hand.”

Special thanks to documentary filmmaker Shaun Monson for producing and directing this beautiful video.

https://vegnews.com/2020/2/joaquin-phoenix-rescues-cow-and-her-week-old-calf-from-slaughterhouse

And we want to give Joaquin Phoenix an other Oscar for his support and active participation in the fight for animal rights.

 

My best regards to all, Venus

Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

England: Remembering Jill.

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JILL

 

Sticking a little with some Brits who have been killed in their belief for the rights of animals, this year on 1st February we did not publish anything on Jill as we were heavily involved with the German pig campaign. We know would have wanted us to do something current for the animals.  But now we have a bit more time; here is information on Jill who was killed at a live animal export protest in 1995.  Some of you will know about here; some overseas visitors may not.

Recent post:

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/02/19/in-loving-memory-of-mike-hill/

 

I remember the ‘Jill’ incident well; as I was personally involved with live calf exports around that time from the port of Dover, Kent, SE England.

 

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Top – me at Dover shaking a crated John Major warmly by the neck; bottom: 

the then Prime Minister John Major is shoved in a veal crate. Alongside – a liberated calf !

 

Jill was aged just 31; was a British animal rights activist who was crushed to death during an animal rights protest in Baginton, Warwickshire, England, while she was trying to slow down a lorry transporting live veal calves heading for continental Europe via Coventry Airport.

On 1 February 1995, Phipps was one of 35 protesters at Coventry Airport in Baginton, protesting at the export of live calves to Amsterdam for distribution across Europe. Ten protesters broke through police lines and were trying to bring the lorry to a halt by sitting in the road or chaining themselves to it when Phipps was crushed beneath the lorry’s wheels; her fatal injuries included a broken spine. Phipps’ death received a large amount of publicity, being brought up at Prime Minister’s question time in the House of Commons.

The Crown Prosecution Service decided there was no evidence to bring any charges against the truck driver. Phipps’ family blamed the police for her death, because the police appeared determined to keep the convoy of calf carrying lorries moving despite the protest. The inquest heard that the driver may have been distracted by a protester running into the road ahead of him, who was being removed by a policeman. A verdict of accidental death was returned and Phipps’ father insisted that she did not want to die as she had a young son to live for.

Veal calf exports from Coventry Airport ended months later, when the aviation firm belonging to the pilot responsible for the veal flights, one Christopher Barrett-Jolly, went bankrupt following accusations of running guns from Slovakia to Sudan in breach of EU rules. One of the planes used to transport the calves also crashed in the UK, when returning empty from a calf delivery flight. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-news-plane-crash-1994-12346964

 

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In 2002 Barrett-Jolly was charged with smuggling 271 kg of cocaine worth £22 Million from Jamaica into Southend airport which is located in the South East of England. He was later sentenced to twenty years in prison. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/dec/06/theairlineindustry.drugs

The continuing level of protest was such that several local councils and a harbour board banned live animal exports from their localities. All live exports of calves later stopped due to fears of BSE infection. In 2006 this ban was lifted, but Coventry Airport pledged that it would refuse requests to fly veal calves.

Jill paid the ultimate for her belief in saving animals. On 1st February every year since her death 25 years ago, grassroots animal rights remembrance services in the name of Jill are held all over England and the UK.

She was much to young to die the way she did in the defense of animals – she still had so many years to give to the movement. Sadly, her life was cut short on that fateful day in 95. Jill’s day will always be marled as a day of unity for animal rights campaigners across the UK.

 

Regards; for Jill

It still hurts and upsets me; a beautiful girl; 25 years on; all she wanted was a world of compassion;

Mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=78o0Uh9J_aQ&feature=emb_logo

 

 

Other Links:

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/04/19/some-questions-about-the-case-jill-phipps/

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/04/18/england-there-is-more-to-the-jill-story-when-you-have-the-facts/

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/02/01/england-1st-february-remembering-jill-warrior-of-the-rainbow/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFeKx_M-EJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UifagfLMoY