The city of New York has now banned the sale of foie gras. We are happy, very happy and hope that other states and countries will follow the example of New York!

The City Council of the US metropolis voted on Wednesday to pass a bill banning the sale of foie gras from October 2022 onwards. In case of violations penalties should threaten between 500 and 2000 dollars per offense.
The bill still has to be signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“This is a historic day for the rights of animals in New York City,” said Matthew Dominguez of the animal rights group “Voters for the Rights of Animals”.
On the other hand, foie gras producers announced legal action against the ban.

“We’ll give them a kick in the butt in court,” said producer Hudson Valley founder Foie Gras Izzy Yanay. “I have 400 people who have been working for me for 30 years, and these people are suffering a tragedy.”(!!!)

It was not until January that the US Supreme Court upheld a ban on foie gras in the state of California following a 15-year lawsuit.

While foie gras is regarded as a delicacy by gourmets, animal rights activists criticize the fact that ducks and geese have to suffer during fattening: Before slaughtering, the animals are forcibly fed on grain for several weeks until their livers are completely fat-choked to multiples.

In France, the stuffing mast has been protected from prohibitions since 2006: foie gras was then declared a “part of the cultural and gastronomic heritage”. The foie gras is a traditional Christmas meal for many Frenchmen. The production of foie gras is already banned in some countries, including Denmark, the United Kingdom and Australia.

The video shows farms with force feeding in China but mainly in France. And the final station for the animals in Hungary`s slaughterhouses.

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/delikatessen-new-york-verbannt-foie-gras-a-1294218.html#js-article-comments-box-pager

My comment: Forced feeding is prohibited in Germany. However, the sale and purchase of goose liver pate is allowed. Also works in every delicatessen and even in the best supermarkets.
We import the animal cruelty from next door, from our neighbors French, and criticize them, why they torture geese in that awful way!

I don`t know if every “gourmand” knows about the brutal force-feeding process:
Torture takes three weeks for geese and fifteen days for ducks.
The feeding lasts three seconds and is fed up to 400 animals per hour.
Injuries in the esophagus are very common.
The amount of food increases from time to time, the liver thus reaches ten times the size.
Many animals die violently.

The animals are pumped several times a day with 1.5 – 2.0 kg porridge into the stomach and try desperately and painfully snap to air.
Their eyeballs are swollen because of the physical pressure.
Even for us humans 1.5 to 2 kg of food are too much, most of us would rather surrender than tolerate, let alone a comparatively small animal.

If the “gourmands” still don`t understand how sadistic and barbaric this feeding is, they can throw their foie gras heritage into their stomach in the same way.

For a highly civilized country like France, it is a shame to declare foie gras as part of its cultural and gastronomic heritage.
Sadistic animal cruelty, that is!
No more and no less!

My best regards to all, Venus

Switzerland is serious: From 1 January 2020, the shredding of male day old chicks in the Alpine republic is prohibited.

It stands to reason that the shredding of a live animal is not in line with Article 1 of the Animal Welfare Act, the Commission notes.
According to the article, the purpose of the law is to protect the dignity and well-being of the animal.
Chicks are shredded with the “wrong” sex. This is – regardless of the shredding – controversial. The commission notes that it is questionable whether it is ethically acceptable to kill a chick for the sole reason that it is a male from a laying hen line.

The trend to breed breeds only for egg laying or for meat production makes the animal a simple subject of production and leads to absurdities such as the shredding of live male chicks. With this ethical intention, the Kommission received a petition from the Vegan Society Switzerland.
The suffocation caused by carbon dioxide, however, remains allowed. Research is currently in a sex determination already in the breed egg.

https://www.dnn.de/Nachrichten/Panorama/Ab-kommendem-Jahr-Schweiz-verbietet-Schreddern-von-Kueken

My comment: Every little step that enhances the chicken’s KZ`s is welcome.
In Germany, the maltreatment of the day chicks is allowed.
Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner, the girlfriend and lobbyist of slaughterhouses, sees no use for the chickens children and currently no alternative to shredding at the moment, as well as to the piglet castration without anesthesia wich she has prolonged for another two years, ie until 2020.

Fortunately, we have here in Germany a humorous so-called “Animal Protection Law” and it says:
“Nobody is allowed to cause pain, suffering or harm to an animal for no good reason . “
Ethically and morally, we are well ahead in the paper.

My best regards to all, Venus

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian …”
Do we really don’t know the truth about meat production?!

We know it!
Today, on a broad scale, we know how the meat and dairy industry works.
We know very well that farms and slaughterhouses is a bloody business.
Modern meat production is, for a few, one of the most inhumane practices in human history, a Dachau that has even surpassed the Third Reich in brutality and sadism.

But most people who consume animals and their products, do not even think about the subject, and keep unpleasant truth away from them.They soothe their conscience with the lies that the meat mafia sells, that means: the organic livestock, or the happy cows of the Farmer`s next door who live in the meadow.
This makes it much easier for them and their morality to justify a crime, and helps them turn feelings of empathy into apathy.

It is well known and even the public media very often report that 3.8 million animals per day are transported worldwide under unbelievable suffering. We know that 1.4 billion animals a year are transported like potato sacks on highways or ships for three weeks, without food, water, without protection from cold and heat, hurt, emaciated, to land half dead on the slaughterhouses of the world, where they are massacred under the hands of beastly workers.

This is a legalized crime that the meat consumer does not want to know about, and thus it makes it easier for the meat mafia to continue its criminal work with lies and dirty untruths.

Of course, the meat industry uses every means to keep the suffering of animals secret, and deceives us animal welfare and respect for the law.
But today, in the century of information and technological progress that we live in, everyone can find out what is hidden behind the animals’ concentration camp.
If he wants …
And here’s the tragic reason why Paul McCartney’s saying is not true:
We know it, but we do not want to take responsibility, and therefore we repress it.

We chose the path of denial, justification, not to make an important, binding decision: not eat animals because they are sentient beings who were not born to serve us as slaves, being abused and exploited.

Then we come to the conclusion that the reason why we eat animals is not the lack of information and knowledge about the function of this system.

It is the indifference, the mutilation of our conscience, it is our system-controlled mental and moral disability that prevents us from recognizing animals als beings with the right to freedom, life, and joy, and finally drives us to cooperate with this fascist system of flesh mafia.
Fact that ultimately makes us collaborators in a political crime.

My best regards to all, Venus

The man in the pigsty looks at the animal. For days, the fattening pig had hardly moved in the bay, the hind legs can not use it anymore, it is pushed by its conspecifics, annoyed and nibbled.
After a while, the man brings a wooden club, opens the gate and presses on the skull of the animal. Again and again until it stops moving.

But it is not dead! after a while – the man is long gone – it raises his head, trying to get up. Only half an hour later, the employee comes back and sets a bolt gun on the head of the animal – after several minutes of agony, in which the pig crawling through the whole grid box, the animal finally dies.
All this is on video, filmed for a week by a hidden camera in the pig farm of Woosmerhofer Land Producer in Vielank in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany).

When veterinarian Diana Plange sees the footage, she yells “Oh dear!” Her professional judgment: “This is clearly a criminal offense.”

In Germany, every fifth pig born for the meat industry does not reach the age of slaughter because it is ill or injured. In numbers, this means that 13.6 million pigs in German breeding and fattening systems die each year before reaching the planned age of slaughter.

There has been evidence for some time that sick or injured pigs in intensive animal husbandry are not killed professionally. The current pictures show the cruelty: Obviously suffering, sick pigs are poorly stunned and die slowly and painfully.

A worker hits the pig on the head with a piece of wood to kill it. After ten strokes it is still alive and conscious: it moves and raises its head.

More than half an hour later, the worker stuns the suffering pig with a bolt shot. The prescribed immediate killing by a throat cut – before it wakes up again – is omitted. The pig dies only after several minutes of agony.
The fact that pigs are regularly killed in this farm shows shots from a different area of the facility. There, blood-spattered young pigs, so-called runners, are thrown into the cadaver barrels.

Animals are only turned off

In the pig fattening in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern it can be seen that three sick pigs are separated in a sickbay, but their severe wounds and inflammations are not treated – more than a week. One of the pigs has huge open wounds on the legs, which are painfully inflamed by the dirt. Another pig can only move crawling with his swollen joints.
The prescribed soft pad or litter for sick animals is missing.
In sick bays like this, animals are only detectably ‘turned off’ and left to themselves. A consequence: The pigs eat each other for several days unhindered each other ears and legs.

Kills are everyday work!

In the pig fattening in Brandenburg with about 20,000 animals regularly also animals are unlawfully killed or let die. This can be found in operating lists in the malls. Hidden cameras show that even here, sick pigs are not treated for a long time.
The brutal killing of six pigs was also documented in this farm.

The animals are stunned with a bolt shot, but the effect is never checked.
The subsequent killing by a throat cut occurs either not at all or only so late that extends the death struggle and the pigs are more likely to regain consciousness.
More animals are dragged dead or fidgeting in the corridor. In the agony they are left to themselves. The indifferent reactions of the workers make it clear that this procedure must be everyday practice here.

This is the logical consequence of an ideology that considers animals as goods: the life and death of these animals is decided on their own economic benefit. Their millions of suffering and even clear legal prohibitions play no role in the animal industry.

https://www.ariwa.org/horror-schweinemast/

Please sign the Petition of ARIWA: https://www.ariwa.org/petition/

My comment: It is an organized crime that sees the light of the public only thanks to the undercover investigations by animal rights activists.
The photographs were filmed with hidden cameras installed in the two pigsties of the livestock farms from the end of January and the beginning of February to May 2019, and a team shot with a mobile camera.
And nevertheless! Even if they come to light, the maximum impact is that the slaughterhouse employee, the “black sheep”, will be fired without notice, and the prosecutor closes the case for lack of evidence.
Everyone returns to their everyday lives and the case is forgotten.
Obviously, this crime in animal welfare is not rated as economic crime as in any other industry, and therefore remains without punishable consequences in Germany.
The ARIWA organization calls the animal industry a “lawless area”!

Several times a year activists publish new photos or videos from mass animal husbandry. Every time bad pictures that no one can bear.
For two days it gets excited, the slaughterhouse operators assert that there are isolated cases, then continue as before. The German citizens are simply not interested in animals being tormented. It is only important that you buy meat for less than 2, – € / kg to put it on the 900, – € grill.
For years, the “stinginess is cool” mentality maintained, and every meal must be made of meat, which calls the German “life standard” and then one wonders if our planet is destroyed, and why the production conditions are so catastrophic. Our species is shit ..

My best regards to all, Venus