Mulesing is undertaken by Australian sheep farmers. It has now been banned in New Zealand.

Mulesing is when sheep, without any painkillers whatsoever, have huge chunks of skin carved away from the animals’ backsides or attach vice-grip–like clamps.

Mulesing is the removal of strips of wool-bearing skin from around the breech (buttocks) of a sheep to prevent the parasitic infection flystrike (myiasis). … The scar tissue that grows over the wound does not grow wool, so is less likely to attract the flies that cause flystrike.

Mulesing is a very cruel and extremely crude attempt to create smoother skin that won’t collect moisture, but the exposed, bloody wounds often become infected or flystruck. Many sheep who have undergone the mulesing mutilation still suffer slow, agonizing deaths from flystrike. Mutilating sheep is not just cruel; it’s also ineffective.

The Australian Government has no intention of banning mulesing in Australia, with the responsibility for animal welfare resting with state governments, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said.

Most people don’t understand why vegans avoid wool products. The wool industry however, doesn’t only exploit sheep, it’s also very cruel to them.

Non mulesed wool:

http://www.novetex.com/en/social_responsibility/the-practice-of-mulesing.html

We’re less than 2,000 signatures away from reaching a major milestone on our petition to ban foie gras from being imported and sold in the UK.

Foie gras is so extremely cruel that its production is illegal in Britain. Terrified ducks and geese are crammed into filthy cages and violently force-fed until their liver swells to an unnaturally large size.

Will you share our petition today to help us hit 150,000 signatures and show your support for ending this barbaric trade?

Petition link:

https://animalequality.org.uk/foie-gras/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email

Thanks Stacey !

Bigotry begins when categories such as race, age, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or species are used to justify discrimination.

Speciesism—like sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination—is an oppressive belief system in which those with power draw boundaries to justify using or excluding their fellow beings who are less powerful. A human supremacist line of “reasoning” is used to defend treating other living, feeling beings like research tools, fabric, toys, or even food ingredients—even though they share our capacity for pain, hunger, fear, thirst, love, joy, and loneliness and have as much interest in freedom and staying alive as humans do.

From childhood, most humans are conditioned to view certain species as worthy of care and compassion and others as less important or unworthy—based on arbitrary human preferences. This toxic view also leads humans to draw groundless distinctions between animal species based on the worth of those animals to them. Consider the following examples:

• Animals are often referred to as property. Many humans call themselves an animal’s “owner” and refer to the animal as “it,” as if he or she were an inanimate object like a table or a chair.
• Most humans wouldn’t dream of keeping their dog in a cramped, crowded warehouse on a slab of filthy concrete, which is the way pigs are treated in the food industry—even though pigs are able to experience the same pain, joy, fear, and misery that dogs can.
• Some people wear coats trimmed with fur from coyotes or stuffed with feathers pulled from a screaming goose, but most of them would never consider tearing fistfuls of fur out of a crying kitten’s back with their own hands.
• Many people judge other cultures for eating dogs or poaching wildlife while willfully turning a blind eye to their own cruel habits—as if eating other animals or hunting deer were any different.

It’s speciesist to believe that the differences between humans and other animals are enough to warrant torturing and killing those we don’t relate to. It’s speciesist to think that we are superior and are therefore somehow justified in raping, caging, and mutilating animals who don’t look exactly like us. It’s speciesist to exploit others because we don’t understand them fully or at all, to assume that they’re not as intelligent as we are when we measure their intelligence in human terms, and to dismiss their suffering because it benefits us.

Whether we have feathers or fur, skin or scales, we’re all able to experience complex feelings such as love, sadness, pain, and joy and we all have a will to live—these things are not unique to humans. Consider these examples:

• Elephants and chimpanzees will mourn and shed tears if a member of their family dies.
• Mother cows will walk for miles to find their stolen babies.
• Many orcas stay with their families for life in the oceans.
• Rats willingly put themselves in harm’s way to save others.
• Fish like physical contact with other fish and often gently rub against one another—in the same way that a cat weaves in and out of your legs.

Help end speciesism by pledging to recognize that animals are not ours to use or abuse and that all living, feeling beings deserve to be treated with respect and compassion.

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A PETA Asia investigation uncovered horrific abuse in Kenya’s donkey slaughter industry, which exists only to meet China’s demand for ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine.

Workers cruelly beat donkeys before they’re taken to the abattoir to be slaughtered – all so that their skin can be boiled down to make the gelatine used for ejiao.

Many donkeys are transported to these facilities by lorry – forced to endure a gruelling trip that can take several days, during which the animals are deprived of both food and water.

Eyewitnesses found dead donkeys who hadn’t survived the torturous journey abandoned outside an abattoir. One donkey on a lorry appeared to be injured and was unable to stand up. Workers dragged her out, dumped her at the facility’s front gate, and kicked her.

We believe this cruelty must be stopped. Do you agree?

If so, please urge Kenya’s cabinet secretary for agriculture to ban all donkey abattoirs:

https://secure.peta.org.uk/page/38026/action/1?utm_source=PETA%20UK::E-Mail&utm_medium=Alert&utm_campaign=0819::veg::PETA%20UK::E-Mail::ejiao::::aa%20em&ea.url.id=4071845&forwarded=true 

Thank you for your compassion.

Sincerely,

Margarita S
PETA UK

By 2030, food production will undergo radical change. The “RethinkX think tank” anticipates dramatic changes especially in meat production.

The think tank expects that food produced on a herbal and microbiological basis over the next ten years will gain huge market shares – and that traditional meat and milk production will face equally great losses. That’s why the number of cattle in the US will halve by 2030, forecasters predict in their analysis “Major disruption in food and agriculture in the next decade”.

Sales of the beef and dairy sector, amounting to around US $ 400 billion at present, will at least be halved by today’s price levels, according to the forecast.
At the same time, production costs in conventional agriculture will double. The lower demand for agricultural goods will lead to a depreciation of agricultural land by 40 to 80 percent, because the demand for vegetable raw materials is falling.
The other sectors of animal processing will undergo similar changes, the report warns. This would also affect the number of employees, which could decrease by 1.2 million people in the affected industries in the US.

Tony Seba, co-founder of RethinkX and one of the authors of the report, sees several developments that overlap and reinforce each other. Seba sees technological developments such as “precision fermentation” (exact fermentation) and a new production model, which he calls “food-as-software”, as the most important driver.
This would dramatically reduce the cost of protein production and increase quality.

By “precision fermentation” he means processes that allow microorganisms to be programmed to produce almost any complex organic molecule. The costs of these new procedures have fallen exponentially in recent years. By 2025, they could drop to less than $ 10 per kilogram.
By 2035, they would be five times and ten times cheaper by 2035 than classical animal proteins.
The new foods would then be 10 times more efficient in terms of land, water, raw materials and energy consumption. Consumers should benefit from the new technology because the products are more nutritious, healthier, tastier and more varied. This requires open markets and protection through standards.

The study predicts a “creeping death” for classical animal processing. Product for product, which hitherto comes from cows, will be replaced by alternatives that are cheaper and of better quality. The drastic conclusion is that “industrial livestock will collapse long before modern technologies produce the perfect cellular steak at a competitive price.”

The diffusion of the technology of exact fermentation is to use global databases in which food producers find the know-how for the individual building blocks of their products. The study therefore speaks of a “food-as-software system”: processors can use it to select the molecules they need for their product. Finally, the food is to be produced through the use of regionally produced vegetable raw materials.

And here’s the sensation: Nestle starts with veggie hack

Incredible Burger is followed by Incredible Hack. The world’s largest food company Nestlé continues to hunt for Beyond Meat. The pressure of competition is growing. The latest hype on plant-based meat substitutes even Nestlé Professional serves from October 2019 with a new product.
Nestlé therefore wants to expand its meatless meat business. “We have a long list of products that we want to introduce,” said Germany boss Marc-Aurel Boersch at Media Day of the billion-dollar group in Frankfurt.

It starts in October with hack. The product looks like raw minced meat, tastes just as hearty-juicy and can also be shaped and prepared, the company advertises. Nevertheless, no gram of meat was processed in it.

The “Incredible Hack” from Nestlé’s Garden Gourmet brand is made entirely from vegetable ingredients

The success of meatless “Incredible Burgers” seems to support the new strategy. Nestlé has sold almost five million vegan burgers alone in Germany in the last three months – twice as many as the number two on the competitive market.

Nestlé is expanding its range of vegan meat substitutes. Hack follows Hack, as the company believes the trend is more than a hype. Above all, the world’s largest food manufacturer wants to appeal to a target group.

The Manager Hubert Stücke has to think for a long time. “I am now 35 years at Nestlé. Over the years, however, I have rarely experienced such dynamics in a single product, ” says the manager from the board of the German national company of the world’s largest food manufacturer. “Maybe with the 5-minute terrine or the Nescafé cappuccino.”

“The demand is huge. In the short term, we have extended production by one additional shift, ” said Garden Gourmet Marketing Manager Christian Adams.

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article199079019/Nestle-Garden-Gourmet-setzt-jetzt-auf-veganes-Hack.html

https://www.agrarzeitung.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/fleischersatz-nestle-startet-mit-veggie-hack-88434?crefresh=1

My comment: Recently, we mentioned an approach about how to greatly and effectively reduce meat consumption (https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/09/20/all-animals-are-equal-but-some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others/)

If a competition does not take place among giants then it would be hard to very hard to expect this change based on the consumer’s decision.
This argument seems to work.
Capitalism becomes active only where there is profit.
The reason why Nestlé and other companies market the vegan range is not the love of animals.
As in the past, hatred of animals was not the reason for the sale of animal products.
The profit always decides in the caritalistic economic system.

Now Nestlé has to keep up, as Beyond Meat is already making huge profits with its Veggi steak.
Nobody has anything against the fact that the manufacturers make profit with it.
We also win, because this will be a positive result against meat consumption.
This is called a win-win situation.
What is offered on the market, the consumer buys.

However, there is a risk that the giant Nestlè wants only to ruin the – in comparison – small company Beyond Meat, and therefore increases just as invasively to market competition.
And may be, once it’s done, Nestlè returns to selling animal products.
I desided for the purchase of Beyond Meat.
Finally, one can not forget that Nestlé steals the water in Africa and sells it dearly.

Best regards to all, Venus