Vegan cheese is taking over:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1274810573713260545
Category: General News
The Promises – but different in reality
WAV Comment:
We reported very recently that we were unsure if the Yulin 2020 ‘festival’ would take place – https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/19/china-19-6-20-yulin-2020-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question/
Our other posts:
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/06/22/yulin-is-eyerywhere/
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/06/03/yulin-a-city-in-blood-orgies/
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/05/08/china-yulin-is-coming-take-action-now/
Well all reports as of today (22/6/20) show that despite all the new legislation and alleged new rules imposed concerning the sale of dog meat and dog meat consumption; the Yulin festival IS STILL CONTINUING.
All we can do at this time is supply you with a few media links relating to this:
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/22/world/asia/22reuters-health-coronavirus-china-dogs.html
https://www.animalsasia.org/uk/our-work/cat-and-dog-welfare/what-we-do/tackling-the-meat-trade.html
We will update more when we have news;
Regards Mark
Wales – Chicken Processing Facility – 158 staff members test positive
Factory has contracts with thousands of UK supermarkets
More than 150 employees at a chicken plant in Anglesey, north Wales, have tested positive for coronavirus.
The 2 Sisters poultry processing factory, which has contracts with thousands of UK supermarkets, announced on Thursday that it would be temporarily suspending production at its Llangefni site for two weeks with immediate effect.
It said the decision was made following guidance from Public Health Wales (PHW), Anglesey Council, the Health & Safety Executive, FSA and the Unite union: “The health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business.”
All 560 staff members were asked to self-isolate for 14 days. On Saturday the food manufacturing company confirmed that 350 people had been tested, and 75 cases were confirmed positive.
A further 83 positive cases were identified over the 24 hours to 3pm on Sunday, bringing the total number of infections to 158.
Testing sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.
PHW said the number of cases “is expected to increase as we continue to process samples taken from employees”.
Dr Christopher Johnson, consultant in health protection for PHW, said: “Since we commenced targeted testing last Thursday, over 400 members of staff have provided samples so far.
“Testing of employees continues, and it is likely that some additional cases will be identified in the coming days.”
He also commended the testing system, saying it was “working as it should be”, and reminded the public that they too have a “vital role” to play in “preventing the spread of coronavirus”.
2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.
In its statement, the company concluded: “We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks – however small – for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.”
Outbreaks of coronavirus have been reported at meat factories around the world, from Germany to the US, with a plant in West Yorkshire becoming the latest epicentre.
Earlier this week, officials in a west German district said the number of new infections linked to a large meatpacking plant had risen to 657 – a higher figure than many recent daily increases for the entire country.
Two meat factories in Wales also reported outbreaks this week.
And meat factories in the US have also shut over Covid-19 and seen hundreds of workers fall ill with the virus.
Staff working in close proximity to each other, poor employment contracts and cold temperatures are some of the theories behind the outbreaks, but industry representatives in the UK insist the reason for them is a “mystery”.
“There is no proof in science that a meat factory is any different to a chilled food factory doing other work,” David Lindars from the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) told The Independent.
“Nothing has been said about our working environment in particular that causes any of these outbreaks that we know of from a science point of view. It is a mystery as to why.”
Mr Lindars, the trade body’s technical operations director, added: “You must not forget we never stopped as an industry. The car industry stopped and lots of other industries stopped.
“We have kept going and, to date, we have been pretty good at feeding the nation and ensuring red meat is on the shelves to retailers without mass closures that has happened in other countries.”
Major processing plants in the US shut their doors during the pandemic, sparking fears of meat shortages, after hundreds of workers at some plants tested positive.
But the Unite union says it has repeatedly warned that outbreaks at meat factories in the UK were likely.
See also:
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/20/tonnies-empire-is-for-14-days-closed/
… and the common link is … ??
Archive photo – not directly associated with this article.
SIGN: Justice for Newborn Swan Kicked to Death by Jogger
Posted by Katie Valentine
Petition Link:
https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-justice-for-newborn-swan-kicked-to-death-by-jogger/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
PETITION TARGET: Metropolitan Police Service, Royal Parks Operational Command Unit
After being “deliberately” kicked in the head and suffering severe brain trauma, a defenseless baby swan has died because a jogger at Richmond Park in southwest London “couldn’t be bothered to run around [him],” according to the Independent.
The Swan Sanctuary tried desperately to save the animal’s life, and the brave swan fought to live in agonizing pain for two days. Then, he sadly surrendered to his injuries.
Witnesses to the appalling act told the Metropolitan Police Service’s Royal Parks
Operational Command Unit that the jogger made no effort to avoid the innocent swan, even kicking a second swan in the head during his run. Fortunately, the second innocent creature escaped into the water.
This baby swan deserves justice. Sign this petition urging the Metropolitan Police Service’s Royal Parks Operational Command Unit to use all available resources to find and charge the perpetrator(s) who ended the life of a helpless bird only shortly after it began.
WAV Comment – we don’t want toss arse shit like this jogger on the streets of London. If the police are not capable of sorting it; then hand him over to us and let us do the job.
Korean Dogs.org – June Newsletter
Loads of news and actions to take – please support.
Despite the fact that dog and cat meat consumption is an everyday occurrence and is being carried out all over South Korea, it is NOT LEGAL in that country.
Their Government does nothing to stop this illegal practice and they seem happy to ignore it; many Korean citizens are just as apathetic and must also be held accountable.
This is the 21st Century, and it is high time that all South Koreans, leaders and general public alike, stand up and take responsibility to enforce their own country’s laws. South Korea and South Koreans cannot continue to ignore these brutal and unethical trades, so let us campaign to urge each of South Korea’s cities to enforce their laws and to put an immediate end to these illegal dog and cat meat trades.
Below are the most populous cities in South Korea.
Please sign our petitions and send postal letters to these cities calling for an end to these illegal trades. Postal addresses for the Mayors are shown in the change.org petition.
You can use our petition as sample letter (just copy and paste) or use your own words.
Please note: We will be adding more petitions so please check back with us often. Thank you!
Please note: We will be adding more petitions so please check back with us often. Thank you!
https://koreandogs.org/petitions-korean-cities/?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=If_you_really_care_would_you_please_be_their_voice_today&utm_medium=email
After the corona outbreak at the meat company Tönnies, 1,029 employees already tested positive for corona, which means that the number of infected people almost doubled within a few days.
The district administrator has closed the company, schools, and daycare centers.
Clemens Tönnies, with a small piece of his wealth in his hand
We recently reported: https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/18/germany-alarm-mood-at-the-meat-baron-tonnies/
And so … the Tönnies meat empire in Rheda-Wiedenbrück is closed for 14 days (!!!) The district decided it, as the head of the crisis team said.
However, some employees can work in the so-called quarantine. This means that they can only switch between their place of work and where they live. This also applies to Clemens Tönnies.
The district of Gütersloh and occupational safety were given access to Tönnies personnel files on Saturday evening.
“The company was unable to provide us with all the addresses. The company has always reacted slowly,” said the head of the crisis team.
By Friday, Tönnies had delivered employee lists in which 30 percent of the addresses were missing (!!)
“The trust that we put in Tönnies is zero. I have to say it so clearly,” said the head of the crisis team.
Vigorous demonstrations are now taking place in front of the Tönnies meat factory.
https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/unternehmen/toennies-falschaussagen-zum-kantinen-video-robert-toennies-schreibt-brandbrief-an-onkel_id_12111523.html
And I mean…The German Minister of Economics tried to calm us down: “The supply of food is a valuable commodity and I want the trust in food and meat ” made in Germany ” to be maintained”!
I assume that the Tönies family has paid enough donations for the government lobbyists. This means that there will be no difficulties for the further existence of the Tönnies Empire when the first excitement is over.
Incidentally, Clemens Tönnies has used this tactic of withdrawing (home office) very often in the past, and thus saved himself from bad consequences due to other scandals. As soon as the situation calms down, the home office is over, and everything continues as before.
Our corporations can afford anything. Here, Eastern European citizens are exploited, farm animals tortured immeasurably, other companies have long relocated their production to Eastern Europe and sell it as German brand quality. Protected by the German government.
Incidentally, the slaughter industry association has already threatened to relocate production to Eastern Europe.
Old friends will meet there again.
My best regards to all, Venus
WAV Comment – Better late than never ! – but we shall see exactly what benefit the animals get from this; or again is it just EU Yukspeak for actually doing nothing ?
- we, along with many others, have been exposing this disgusting abusive business for many years – see more at https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/
EP Committee of Inquiry mandated to deeply investigate animal transports
19 June 2020
News
Today the European (EU) Parliament approved the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry on live transport.
This is the first Inquiry approved by the EU Parliament in this legislative mandate and the third one approved since its establishment. The Committee will examine the responsibilities of the EU Commission and the EU Member States in implementing and enforcing the Union rules. Such a committee will also be an important step towards making the revised Transport Regulation an effective tool to protect the welfare of the animals transported within and outside the EU.
With 605 out of 689 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in favour the EU Parliament approved the formation of a Committee of Inquiry to look into the implementation and enforcement of the Council Regulation 1/2005 (Transport Regulation) across the EU and beyond. This is good news for the millions of animals that every year are transported alive in critical conditions, as revealed by more than 200 investigations since 2007. Also the EU Commission, that in the past three years conducted several audits on animal welfare during transport, revealed major animal welfare problems and low levels of compliance.
The call for this Committee of Inquiry on live transport came from 183 MEPs who were renewing the request already made in 2018. At that time, the Conference of Presidents concluded that an Implementation Report was more appropriate to deal with this matter than a Committee of Inquiry. Voted for by the EU Parliament in February 2019, that Report highlighted key issues to be addressed and, among others issues, it recommended the EU Parliament to establish a Committee of Inquiry on the welfare of animals during transport for a more in-depth analysis.
Today with its favorable vote, the Plenary agreed on the setting up of such a committee to assess the major barriers currently impeding the enforcement of the Transport Regulation, as well as examining the responsibilities of the EU Commission and the EU and Member States in enforcing and implementing the rules.
“Since its foundation, Eurogroup for Animals has been working on live transport with the EU institutions and stakeholders across the EU, and today we welcome this Parliamentary decision – says Reineke Hameleers, CEO of Eurogroup for Animals. This Committee will conduct a long overdue in-depth investigation into the system and it will contribute to making the new Transport Regulation an effective tool to protect the welfare of the animals transported within and outside the EU ”.
Indeed, such a Committee will also be instrumental in the framework of the revision of the Transport Regulation – announced in May by the EU Commission – by highlighting shortcomings of the current legislative framework that should be addressed by a revision.
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With deep sadness for a true, dedicated animal friend.
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