From the Vatican there is sharp criticism that many couples keep dogs and cats instead of children
– “So many couples don’t have children because they don’t want one,” said Pope Francis.
– He criticized the fact that in many families pets would take the place of children.

At his first general audience in 2022, Pope Francis found clear words about the falling birth rate in Italy and general childlessness.
The decision to adopt is a commitment to the highest form of love, he said.

In his first general audience in 2022 on Boxing Day, the head of the Roman Catholic Church had already spoken of a “demographic winter” when the Italian birth rate, which had fallen again, was published.
According to media reports, the number of births in Italy has fallen by 29.8 percent since 2009.

Civilization is getting older and older and it lacks humanity because one loses the wealth of parenting, warned Francis on Wednesday.
A country without children suffers.

He is quoted as saying:
“Many couples don’t have children because they don’t want to, or they only have one because they don’t want to anymore, but they have two dogs, two cats … Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children.”

“Civilization is getting older and older and it lacks humanity because one loses the wealth of parenting”, warned Francis on Wednesday.

He understands that this would make people laugh, but “that’s the reality,” said Pope Francis.
In this context also belongs the social criticism in connection with animals, “which are received like real ‘children’ and are often treated as such”.
He also stated: “The denial of motherhood and fatherhood makes us small, it takes away humanity.”
The Catholic leader emphasized: “Having children is the fullness of a person’s life.”

“A country without children suffers”, emphasized the pontiff in his general audience: “Whoever lives and marries in the world must remember to have children”.

https://de.rt.com/europa/129403-papst-franziskus-kritisiert-kinderlose-und/

And I mean…The representative of God on earth has to define exactly in which corner of the world the population should grow.
Because a child in Europe is, because of its high consumption, much more harmful to the climate than a child who is now growing up in Kenya or Tanzania.

But … If Dad is interested in children, then we would know a better field of activity.

My best regards to all, Venus

British woman finds fried chicken head in her meal

The head of a chicken is usually not part of the offer at KFC.

An English woman still finds one in her meal and is shocked. The fast food company apologizes – and justifies itself.

She certainly hadn’t ordered that: when an English woman reached into her fast food order from KFC at the beginning of December, she pulled out a fried chicken head in horror.
Dinner is a mess.
This literally applies to most KFC orders, but when it comes to this find, the customer actually lost her appetite.

Shortly before Christmas the Twitter handle @TakeawayTrauma shared a screenshot of the woman’s review, along with the repelling picture of the chicken head.

The woman had written in her review, “I found a fried chicken head in my hot wing meal, put me off the rest, ugh.”
The photo of her meal clearly shows the head, beak and eyes of the chicken.

The explorer Gabrielle left her rating on a delivery service.
What stands out: Despite her horror at the chicken head, which “spoiled her lust for the rest of the meal”, Gabrielle even gave the order two out of five stars.
This surprises the Twitter community and quickly reaches those responsible.

“We serve real chicken”

The British KFC representative then expressed a detailed apology under the tweet entitled “Probably the kindest two-star rating of all time”.

“We are really surprised and shocked by this photo and have this incident investigated immediately.”However, the company does not want to be ashamed:
“To be clear: We serve real chicken – and we are proud of it.” (!!)
Something like this can and will occur in rare cases despite strict controls.

For Gabrielle, the story seems to have a happy ending after all: The company contacted her and offered her one free KFC food – she agreed. While she is certainly hoping for a headless order, according to her own statement, KFC never wants to cause a “takeaway trauma” again and will soon receive top ratings from her loyal customer again.

Bon appetit then!

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/britin-findet-frittierten-huehnerkopf-im-essen-17701671.html

And I mean… Yes the chicken you eat has a head…. was even alive at some point.

And here the corpse showed his face!

“To be clear: We serve real chicken” –
And what exactly would be a fake?

KFC – we ask for clarification.

My best regards to all, Venus

Animals have no voice. They can’t ask for help.
They cannot ask for their right to freedom and self-determination.
They can’t ask for protection.
We have to be their voice.

All animals feel and think.
They feel fear and pain, joy and hope, lead a conscious life and want to grow old with their feelings and thoughts.
They have a natural right to their life and to protection from exploitation

Because Animal welfare laws determine human rights to animals, not animal rights….
…therefore, we have decided to be loyal advocates for the other animals and with the best of our knowledge and belief to stand up for their interests and only for their interests.

regards, Venus

What did we achieve for animals in 2021?

31 December 2021

2021 was a BIG year for animal protection, seeing significant progress made in Europe and further afield.

To celebrate the year coming to a close, we are looking back on the top moments for animals in the past 12 months.

Together, we are advancing the conversation on animal protection in Europe and creating a better world for all – pet, farm, wild and animals used in science.

We saw many breakthroughs, let’s look back to some of the top moments:

• The European Commission promised to phase out caged farming for animals following the successful ‘End the Cage Age’ European Citizens Initiative.
• The No Animal Left Behind campaign closed with almost 200,000 supporters standing up for a better future for all farm animals in Europe.
• The European Parliament voted in favour of a comprehensive plan to phase-out experiments on animals.
• The UK Government introduced the Animal Welfare Bill to parliament, which bans the  export of live animals for fattening or slaughter, from or through Great Britain AND which recognises the sentience of decapods and cephalopods.
• Major steps have been taken to improve animal welfare in France.

1 million citizens asked the European Commission to ban the use of wild animals in circuses.

Ritual slaughter was banned in Greece.

The European Parliament adopted an ambitious report on the EU Biodiversity Strategy.

During a Council meeting in June 2021, twelve Member States called on the European Commission to investigate the possibility for an EU ban on fur farming based on animal welfare, public health and ethical considerations.

The European Commission took a major leap towards the better protection of fish welfare with the publication of the Strategic Guidelines on Sustainable and Competitive Aquaculture and concrete objectives in the legislative review Inception Impact Assessment.

Video surveillance cameras in Spanish slaughterhouses become mandatory

We’d like to thank everyone who visited our website, social media channels, signed our petitions and helped to support this progress. We’d also like to thank our colleagues in Brussels and around Europe, and our network of member organisations, for all their hard work to achieve this momentum for animals.

Stay tuned to see what we can achieve in 2022!

This is from the EU Eurogroup;

Regards Mark