Category: Farm Animals

Farm Animals, General News

How could 130 x 300lbs pigs go missing over a matter of weeks without anyone noticing ?

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Jessica Scott Reid asks:

 

How could 130 x 300lbs pigs go missing over a matter of weeks without anyone noticing?

Where is the farmer?

Where is the high quality care for each animal?

 

130 pigs stolen in southern Ontario hog heist: OPP

Provincial police received the call about the stolen pigs, which weigh 300 pounds each, on Boxing Day.

 

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Police say a grinch, or grinches, made off with 130 pigs from a southern Ontario farm in November.

According to an OPP release, police received a report about 130 pigs stolen from a farm in South-West Oxford Township on Thursday at 7:30 a.m.

The six-month old pigs weigh approximately 300 pounds each.

Police believe that the thefts took place between Nov. 9, 2019 and Nov. 29, 2019.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Oxford County OPP at 1-888-310-1122. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or www.oxfordcrimestoppers.com, through which you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.

Farm Animals, General News

USA: Dunkin’ Launches the Beyond Sausage Sandwich Nationwide.

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Dunkin’ Launches the Beyond Sausage Sandwich Nationwide

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Multinational coffee company Dunkin’ just announced a rollout of the Beyond Sausage Sandwich to more than 9,000 U.S. locations on November 6! Hungry patrons will be able to veganize the sandwich by ordering the sausage on an English muffin without cheese or egg.

The company made history in July as the first U.S. chain to add Beyond Meat sausage to its menu, initially debuting sandwiches made with Beyond Breakfast Sausage exclusively at Dunkin’ locations in Manhattan.

 

Dunkin’ U.S. president Dave Hoffmann stated:

We are extremely proud of our partnership with Beyond Meat and thrilled to be the first U.S. quick-service restaurant to offer Beyond Breakfast Sausage nationwide. Dunkin’ is the brand that democratizes trends for America, and this latest addition to our menu gives consumers more choice to meet their evolving needs. As we continue to transform our brand, we’re proud to use our platform to give everyone the opportunity to enjoy the great taste and benefits of plant-based protein.

Beyond Meat seemed equally thrilled with the partnership. Founder and CEO Ethan Brown said in a statement:

We’re excited to introduce the Beyond Sausage Sandwich nationwide and in doing so, offer an option with fewer calories, less total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium, while delivering more protein and iron than a comparable pork sausage sandwich. We are excited that everyone who runs on Dunkin’ now has the option to make a delicious plant-based sausage sandwich part of their day.

As the world’s appetite for plant-based meat grows, huge companies like Dunkin’ are taking notice. McDonald’s, the largest restaurant company in the United States by sales, just partnered with Beyond Meat to start testing a plant-based burger in 28 restaurants in Ontario, Canada. In August, Kentucky Fried Chicken tested Beyond Meat fried chicken in Atlanta, even painting the restaurant green in honor of the launch.

With more and more companies adopting plant-based meals, it’s never been a better time for you to do the same. For delicious meal ideas and recipes, order a FREE Vegetarian Starter Guide today.

Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

Netherlands: A Christmas Message From Lesley Re Progress In Turkey.

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Lesley is a personal friend and we have worked together on live export issues in the past.

Here is her Christmas message about the great work she has been doing (at Eyes on Animals – Netherlands) for animal welfare in Turkey;

Regards Mark (WAV)

 

 

Dear donors and friends,

I am writing from the airport in Istanbul, about to fly back home. I hope you don’t mind that I will only write in English.

Five years ago we started our project in Turkey to change the way animals were being treated inside slaughterhouses. Since then we have visited many slaughterhouses and witnessed unspeakable horrors. I am often asked how we do this work, facing such animal suffering. The answer is that we care too much to be able to now look away. Focusing on achieving results keeps us driven.

In 2019 we achieved a major breakthrough in Turkey. Who could have thought that two cattle slaughterhouses would now be stunning animals before slaughter? Who could have thought that we could now import captive bolt stunning pistols into Turkey? Putting stunning into practice in Turkey was a major step, and the most challenging one.

It took dozens of meetings with religious authorities, giving numerous talks at Turkish universities and to officials of the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture, editing hours of film material, visiting and inspecting Turkish slaughterhouses and educating their employees as well as organizing conferences for Turkish veterinarians and butchers. Now that the first major step has been taken, we just have to keep the ball rolling. In 2020, this will be one of our top priorities.

 

 

When I think back to the horrors of my first visit of a cattle slaughterhouse in Turkey in 2014, where French cattle were being chained by one leg, hoisted fully off the floor and left hanging like that for up to 2 minutes before having their throats cut open, I am so relieved to now know that change is possible.

 

 

 

Looking back at 2019

This year was a busy and intense year. Aside from Turkey, we were active in many other places to improve animal welfare and decrease suffering.

In Ghana, together with WACPAW, we improved conditions inside 5 slaughterhouses by teaching the butchers how to use a captive bolt pistol and giving them one. In Poland we trained over 80 Official Road Inspectors and stopped and fined dozens of animals trucks together.

In the Netherlands several major pig slaughterhouses invested in new equipment (industrial fans and roofed parking areas with shade) to help tackle heat stress in the summer. Two major egg companies in The Netherlands have fully abandoned the brutal commercial way of catching “spent” laying hens and switched over to the EonA upright method and now a UK company is also interested in it (we will be meeting with them in January).

Together with the French organization L214 we exposed the horrible cruelty in the trade of unweaned calves from Ireland via French control posts to veal farms in the Netherlands. One of the employees in France was prosecuted and the story got in major international press. Our inspections were reported in Le Monde, Le Parisien, Het Parool, de Volkskrant, BBC World, The Guardian, the Irish Times, NPO Radio 1 and more.

 

 

 

THANK YOU!

Dear donor, your generous support have made the improvements for all these animals possible. Thank you for believing in our efforts and for being patient with us. Your support gives me and my team the opportunity to spend our time and energy into what we all hold as being so important – to make this world a gentler place for animals.

We still do hope for a day when society peacefully switches over to an agricultural system not dependent on killing animals, but as long as there are animals inside barren barns, overcrowded trucks or frightening slaughterhouses, we will do our very best to make sure animal-suffering is noticed and decreased.

On behalf of everyone at Eyes on Animals, I wish you a joyous and peaceful winter holiday season.

On behalf of myself, I wish all of the hard-working volunteers and freelancers of Eyes on Animals a time to rest and look back on the achievements.

With warm wishes from us all at the Eyes on Animals office in Amsterdam,

 

 

Thank you for your support!

EoA Xmas
Lesley Moffat
director of Eyes on Animals

Farm Animals, Fur and Fur Farming, General News

England: One Will Not Wear Fur – Her Majesty The Queen of England Goes Fur Free In Future Clothing Lines.

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Well better late than never – the UK Royal Family are watched and followed across the world; especially in the USA; so any progress to stop the wearing of fur is good news as far as we are concerned.  Hopefully will influence many others around the globe that Fur Is Out !

 

For all the great news from Respect for Animals, please visit their web site by clicking on:

http://www.respectforanimals.org/category/news/

One will not wear fur

The Queen of England Goes Fur Free In Future Clothing Lines.

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–Queen’s new outfits will now be fur free Respect for Animals has welcomed the news that the Queen will no longer be wearing fur in her new outfits. Her personal adviser and senior dresser Angela Kelly wrote in her new memoir that Her Majesty will only wear fur-free new items for engagements due to changing attitudes in the country. Any outfits designed for the Queen now will use fake fur

 

–Queen’s new outfits will now be fur free

Respect for Animals has welcomed the news that the Queen will no longer be wearing fur in her new outfits.

Her personal adviser and senior dresser Angela Kelly wrote in her new memoir that Her Majesty will only wear fur-free new items for engagements due to changing attitudes in the country.

Any outfits designed for the Queen now will use fake fur instead.

In her book, titled The Other Side Of The Coin: The Queen, The Dresser And The Wardrobe, Ms Kelly says a coat worn by the Queen in Slovakia in 2008 has since been altered.

The coat’s trim, which originally used mink fur, has been replaced with fake fur.

However, this is likely to be an exception, as reports now suggest that fur on current clothing will not be replaced, and the Queen will continue to re-wear existing outfits in her wardrobe.

LISTEN: Respect for Animals Campaigns Director, Mark Glover, discusses the Queen’s shift away from real fur on Talk Radio’s Breakfast Show with Julia Hartley-Brewer: https://talkradio.co.uk/radio/listen-again/1573021800# (from around 20:00 in the 09:30-10:00

 

 

For all the great news from Respect for Animals, please visit their web site by clicking on:

http://www.respectforanimals.org/category/news/

 

Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

USA: Protect turkeys in trucks from frigid temps.

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Thanks Stacey (WAV) – https://our-compass.org/2019/12/23/i-feel-so-badly-for-those-turkeys-hauled-on-freezing-nights/

 

… has so many churches and so many Christmas decorations and so many people that claim to be Christians, and yet so much unnecessary horrific animal cruelty and no complaint of it, or effort to do anything to stop it …

 

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Photo – Animals Angels

 

Source United Poultry Concerns (UPC)

The Letter to the Editor that follows this Introduction was written by Shane Zoglman and published Nov. 20, 2019 by The Dubois County Herald in Indiana, a mid-Western state with a large poultry and egg industry. In granting permission to UPC to share his letter with our readers, Shane added some information about his own evolution:

Howdy, sure, post away. For some history, back when I was a teenager, and didn’t have any good examples or guidance in the form of grownups, I worked for about 4 years on a chicken farm, that is, an egg farm, gathering eggs from the mega-sized houses, taking out the dead and crippled chickens and also taking out the old ones, loading them on semis and putting the new young birds in the cages.

I also did a few part-time jobs of working for a farm where I helped load turkeys into the semis. I have to say I didn’t think about the animals’ suffering, it just didn’t enter my mind. So I am someone who has seen both sides and has changed a lot over the years. The thing I do not understand is people that never wake up. I think a big help in my waking up to animal cruelty was stumbling onto the Shark Online YouTube channel years ago. I had been to a couple rodeos as a kid, but again, never was aware of the cruelty as I see it now after seeing their videos of rodeo cruelty.

These days I do not buy guns and ammo to kill animals with. I buy binoculars to enjoy watching them with, and instead of putting effort into killing, I put effort and money into taking in animals (who) need a home as well as trying to spread some of the message in my own way that things need to change.
– Shane Zoglman

 

The following is Shane’s letter in The Dubois County Herald, Nov. 20, 2019:

Protect turkeys in trucks from frigid temps

Dubois County Herald

November 20, 2019

To the editor:

Well, it is wintertime in Dubois County again, and once again the turkey manufacturing industry has done nothing to alleviate the suffering of turkeys being trucked down the highways at night in open cages, going 60-mph with no protection from the horrific freezing cold.

The profiteers of the turkey manufacturing industry cannot be bothered to spend a few bucks to lessen the cruelty they inflict on their product. After all, a healthy profit margin is what life is all about, right?

After their freezing cold, 18-wheeled torture trip, many of the turkeys are thrown still alive into boiling hot water. Then they are sold and shipped to China, where most turkeys “manufactured” in America end up. It’s so great that China gets the food and people in Dubois County get the pollution, the stink and the humanity-degrading, low-paying jobs of inflicting cruelty on animals while a few rich people at the top get the money.

What does it say that Dubois County has so many churches and so many Christmas decorations and so many people that claim to be Christians and yet so much unnecessary horrific animal cruelty and no complaint of it, or effort to do anything to stop it?

You cannot look at humans in middle America and convince me that monsters do not exist. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Shane Zoglman, Jasper

 

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Farm Animals, General News

England: Everything we’ve achieved in 2019 – SPANA (London). Free Medical Treatment To Help Working Animals and Their Owners; Paid for By Members and Supporters.

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WAV Comment – I have been more than pleased to be a member / supporter / donator to SPANA over many years, because they really are the FREE TO PEOPLE THAT NEED A lifeline to helping sick, badly treated and ill working animals in places where ‘normal’ vets would not go.  Free service to people with the working animals paid for by members and supporters. Combined with their education programme to teach young kids about animal welfare; they really are making strides in some of the most remote and underprivileged places on the planet.  Please watch the uplifting videos of their work and become a member / supporter if you can.

Regards Mark

 

 

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This year we’ve been able to treat over 300,000 animals, train more than 50,000 animal owners and teach over 92,000 children about animal welfare. None of this would have been possible without your incredible and generous support. Thank you!

We’re incredibly proud of everything we’ve achieved this year and we’d love for you to click the button below to watch our latest video highlighting our work.

Thanks to you, we’ve had a fantastic 2019 helping working animals all over the world, and we’re determined to make a huge difference in 2020. From everyone at SPANA, we hope you have a lovely Christmas, and a happy New Year!

Farm Animals, General News

England: Petition – Tell Sainsbury To Immediately Cut Ties With Gravel Farms Who Kill Turkeys By Neck Crushing With Pliers !

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Stop Crushing Turkeys’ Necks With Pliers

Petition Link: https://forcechange.com/548958/stop-selling-animal-cruelty-to-the-public/

Target: Mike Coupe, CEO of Sainsbury’s

Goal: Drop farm with alleged history of animal cruelty from turkey supply chain.

This year’s Christmas dinners in Britain are allegedly coming at the expense of countless turkeys suffering inhumane, barbaric deaths. A three-month-long investigation by an animal advocacy group yielded some horrific accusations against one of the country’s most expansive turkey producers, Gravel Farms.

In deeply disturbing footage, a worker can reportedly be seen snapping two distressed turkeys’ necks with a pair of pliers. This outrageous action could represent just a small sampling of the cruelty these vulnerable birds may endure at the farm.

The use of such “neck crushing devices” is strongly discouraged by the RSPCA and the Humane Slaughter Association. Even turkeys that did not suffer this indignity still seemingly received horrid treatment, according to the investigation.

Many birds apparently died from untreated injuries and wounds. While the country’s most prominent food standards agency has dropped Gravel Farms from its supply chain, the large supermarket chain that sustains much of this farm’s business has not taken similar steps.

Sign this petition to demand the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain stop enabling and paying for allegedly widespread animal cruelty.

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Mr. Coupe,

The recent footage unearthed from Gravel Farms depicting seemingly grotesque animal cruelty should be a moment of awakening. Have you witnessed the horrific conditions and treatment the turkeys that this farm supplies to you reportedly endure? If you by some chance have not, let’s elaborate.

At least two distressed, innocent living beings allegedly had their necks brutally broken by a worker with crushing pliers. Several more birds reportedly lived for days and weeks with open, increasingly severe wounds to which many eventually succumbed. Is this inhumanity the welfare and hygiene standard that your respected organization desires to present to the public?

If not, make the right decision and act against this alleged cruelty. Don’t support such barbaric atrocities with your money or your silence.

Sincerely,

[Your Name Here.]

Photo Credit: SWNS

Farm Animals, General News, Stray Animals

India: Latest December Videos From ‘Animal Aid Unlimited’.

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Dear Mark,

 

Our brand new Puppytown is officially open!

 

With a capacity to hold 80 delightful squigglers, 

puppies with fractures, wounds and illnesses now have a bright, warm-in-winter, cool-in-summer area where they are treated and comfortably housed in double-decker kennels suitable for three to five puppies together, on easy-to-clean tiles.

We are so proud of this important facilities upgrade: the previous puppy area was built in 2012 and was in need of a re-model.

We thank you deeply for giving us the means to serve all the lives we can–including our tiniest rescues who, being especially vulnerable, need extra care.

We continue to need your help with medicine and on-going care while the pups recover.

Please donate! 

AAU Indian founders

Trusting Vishwas nearly lost his hoof when his owner tied his legs together

 

This courageous donkey gave human beings the chance to help him after nearly losing his hoof and his life. His owner, perhaps to keep him from running away, had tied his front and hind legs together to ensure that the pain kept him from trotting and getting away. We don’t know who the owner is or how this sweetheart escaped, but the plastic packing tape that bound him hock to hock almost killed him.

In the course of our rescues, we see painfully often that animal abuse is the norm whenever animals are owned for a financial purpose, whether it’s for their meat, eggs or milk or in this case, for Vishwas’s labour.

 

Please donate to show animals like Vishwas the compassionate side of humanity.

Gorgeous Zarin’s happy new start…

 

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Beautiful Zarin must have been a puppy when someone tied a rope around her neck, but no one removed it as she grew. Slowly it became tighter, then so tight that it cut right through the skin. But the constricted neck and massive flesh wound was partially hidden by her fur, until it had become so deep and the abraded tissue so bright that, finally, someone noticed her huge problem. We hurried her back to our hospital, removed the rope, thoroughly flushed the wound, treated her for infection and began the beautiful process of her healing. You'll definitely see why we say Zarin is one of the sweetest girls we've ever met. Please donate for street animal rescue: link in bio. #love #compassion #care #compassionrevolution #kindness #streetanimalrescue #joy #healed #rescue

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Beautiful Zarin must have been a puppy when someone tied a rope around her neck, but no one removed it as she grew. Slowly it became tighter, then so tight that it cut right through the skin. But the constricted neck and massive flesh wound was partially hidden by her fur, until it had become so deep and the abraded tissue so bright that, finally, someone noticed her huge problem.

We hurried her back to our hospital, removed the rope, thoroughly flushed the wound, treated her for infection and began the beautiful process of her healing.
You’ll definitely see why we say Zarin is one of the sweetest girls we’ve ever met.  Please donate.

Celebrate the Caregivers: Kamlesh!

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It’s easy to under-estimate the complexity of what it means to drive one of Animal Aid’s ambulances. The driver, who also serves as a rescuer, helps safely rescue injured animals, provides first aid, navigates down narrow and busy lanes, and is the face of Animal Aid to the community. We’re proud to have Kamlesh Sharma as one of our stalwart ambulance drivers and rescuers. He has served with us for 2 years so far, but despite that relatively short time, his wonderful work reflects our deepest philosophy: help the vulnerable and treat them gently