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Category: General News
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WAV Comment – wow is it so sad and dangerous that some nations now appear to want to be continually teaching their young children to go out and kill anything from such an early age; rather than teaching them respect for the environment and all the creatures that inhabit it.
This below is another of those ‘festivals’ which teaches kids all the wrong things from a very early age. Here is another:
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/03/07/next-generation-of-mass-murderers/
A lot of evidence now obtained over many years by crime organisations in including the FBI; show that young kids who are taught to kill, by starting with animals, then move on to ‘human kills’ later in life. Want some evidence ? :
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Fortunately, in the UK and Germany, children are not let loose with deadly weapons to slaughter everything they can for stupid little ‘prizes’. We cannot say much more than we have shown this, and if parents (in these nations) still think that this is the right way to bring up children, then it is a very sad world in some places.
Rattlesnakes Beheaded by the Hundreds…
A sick, cruel festival in Sweetwater, Texas is encouraging children to behead helpless rattlesnakes and paint with their blood. This three-day-event, dubbed the Rattlesnake Roundup, rips innocent animals from their own environment to publicly torture them in front of crowds of people.
The Miss Snake Charmer pageant showcases teenage beauty queen contestants who chop off the pinned-down snakes’ heads. For a small fee, attendees, including children, can decapitate a snake, cover their hands in its blood, and slap a handprint on the white mural.
Animal cruelty should never be encouraged or associated with fun activities for kids. The event will take place in less than two weeks, so we urgently need your support.
Sign the petition to urge the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department to ban this barbaric event and show that the mass execution of Texas’ wildlife will not be tolerated.
Petition link – https://ladyfreethinker.org/petition-rattlesnake-roundup/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
Here are a few more pictures of this event that we (WAV) have found:
Brexit ‘opportunity to ban supertrawlers from UK waters’
Environmental groups fear link between huge ships and spikes in dolphin deaths
Sat 7 Mar 2020 13.31 GMT First published on Sat 7 Mar 2020 11.12 GMT
Brexit offers the perfect opportunity to ban industrial supertrawler fishing boats from UK waters, according to campaigners.
The Margiris supertrawler, pictured, has a deadweight of 6,200 tonnes. Photograph: Saf Suleyman / Greenpeace PA
The factory-sized ships can be hundreds of feet long and have been criticised for indiscriminate fishing as they catch hundreds of thousands of fish in relatively short periods. Environmentalists fear their presence correlates with spikes in numbers of dolphins washing up dead.
Use of the ships is heavily regulated in some countries, as trawling has been criticised for the physical damage it inflicts on seabeds, but under the common fisheries policy, EU-registered vessels are legally entitled to fish in UK waters, subject to licence conditions, quota allocation and relevant fishing restrictions.
Campaigners fear supertrawlers are incompatible with sustainable management of fisheries and argue that the UK’s departure from the EU presents an opportunity for a new approach, as fishing rights to British waters are up for review.
“Our government likes to boast about its credentials as a global oceans champion, but what about protecting our seas here at home?” said Chris Thorne, Greenpeace’s oceans campaigner.
“Ministers should take a long, hard look at whether allowing supertrawlers to operate in UK waters is compatible with sustainable management of our waters, as well as investigating the impact of the UK’s industrial distant-water fleet in other countries’ waters.”
Calls for a ban on supertrawlers were made last year when the Lithuanian-registered Margiris – a 142-metre (465ft) boat with a deadweight of 6,200 tonnes, once considered the second largest in the world and banned from Australian waters – spent time off the south coast of England.
According to analysis by Greenpeace, Margiris was fishing in an area of the Channel designated by the government as a marine conservation zone. However, the government said it was monitored closely and no infringements were found.
The overall number of voyages in UK waters by supertrawlers each year is unclear. One ship, the Kirkella, based in Hull, can catch 2.3 million fish on every two-month voyage but it is far smaller than Margiris.
Conservationists claim that anecdotal evidence suggests the ships wreak havoc on sea life.
“It’s just been a long stream of dolphin deaths, I have never seen anything quite like it,” said John Hourston, from the Blue Planet Society. “We have had several storms but dolphins do not die because of weather, they are great swimmers.”
He believes the evidence points to supertrawlers being responsible for an increase in stranded dolphins off the Sussex coast and the west of Ireland, but that scientific study is needed to incontrovertibly prove the link.
“We have just got mass dolphin die-offs and mass fishing fleets and the two correlate, but we need more evidence.”
At the very least, he said, these ships should fitted with CCTV cameras or have independent observers on board to monitor which fish are being caught.
“I am not talking about the inshore fishermen, I am talking about the industrial supertrawler fleets,” he said. “We should not be allowing supertrawlers in British waters.”
French campaigners have also highlighted how rising numbers of dead dolphins are being washed up on the coast of the Bay of Biscay after becoming caught up in large trawler nets. In 2017, researchers said the number of dead dolphins washing up on British and French shores was at its highest level in more than 14 years, echoing observations from Ireland.
The website of fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas, the owner of the Margiris, says it has an “excellent reputation for sustainable fishing”.
It added: “Our catch quotas are dictated by government and EU regulations, and are based on scientific advice. We fish without causing damage to the seabed, and without disturbing the ecological system.”
A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “As an independent coastal state, we will have the right to decide who fishes in our waters and on what terms.
“This means we can design our own domestic fishing policy, one that supports our coastal communities and lets the UK lead the way on sustainable fishing.”
https://www.capetownetc.com/news/abused-horse-gets-second-chance-at-life/
Cape of Goodhope SPCA chief inspector Jaco Pieterse was in for a major surprise when he was called to Manenberg on the evening of March 2 to find a helpless male horse stuck and terrified in a river.
“We suspect that Thunder has been stolen from his owner and ridden into the ground before being cruelly tied to the side of the river to drown. Thunder was sinking deeper into the clay soil and a rescue strategy was rapidly put in place to free him safely,” the SPCA said in a statement. “Our team struggled for more than an hour to bring Thunder to safety. He was exceptionally weak and almost ready to give up. Chief Inspector Pieterse and his team however, were absolutely not ready to give up on this boy.”
The City of Cape Town’s Fire & Rescue arrived to assist in the rescue efforts and in one last attempt, with help from bystanders, finally managed to free Thunder from the river bank.
Thunder is now safely in the care of the CoGH SPCA where he has received treatment and is being monitored in its Horse Care Unit. “Mannenberg is a highly volatile and dangerous area – normally our Inspectors will avoid this area after dark, however we could not leave this horse to suffer and the decision was clear despite the safety concerns. We never give up on an animal. Thank you to Fire and Rescue and the bystanders for assisting us in this rescue and showing compassion to an animal in need,” the SPCA said.
“Today we can report that Thunder is doing so much better- he has a few bumps and bruises from his ordeal. We have treated him with a course of pain medication to help ease his stiff hind quarters,” it added.
Please report any animal in distress to the CoGH SPCA on 021 7004158/9 or after hours on 083 326 1604. Alternatively email inspectorate@spca-ct.co.za for assistance.
Regards and a good night from Venus
Corona virus, the number of deaths less than four thousand in two months!
Hunger, death toll 24 000 PERSON A DAY!!! more than half of them CHILDREN!!!
Hunger is not covered by the media and humanity is not afraid of it because it does not pose a threat to the rich and their countries, even though it spreads and spreads every hour !!
My best regards to all, Venus
Pester pig is on a campaign to stop intensive farming. Now at the laundry throwing red socks in with a white clothes wash.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pigsinchains?source=direct_link&
Tell high street chains to support high welfare farms!
In the UK, Greggs has made a fortune from their vegan sausage roll, but Pester Pig insists their ethics remain questionable until they source all their pork from high welfare farms.
Vegans and meat eaters alike want to end factory farming, a system that tortures animals, poisons the environment and increases the risk of resistant diseases. Don’t buy from Greggs, or Pester Pig might come for your laundry! Share the video & sign the petition.
Tell Greggs to stop supporting factory farming!
Sign this letter asking the CEOs of Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Greggs and Domino’s to only source high welfare pork.
Sign the petition to all the main UK supermarket COE’s asking them to STOP supporting factory farming and instead to cruelty free systems; sign the petition via this link:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pigsinchains/
Most High Street Chains Source their Pork from Factory Farms
Three-quarters of the 60 high street supermarkets & food chains surveyed by Farms Not Factories sell pork from factory farms. The vast majority of these don’t offer a single high welfare alternative. Pigs reared in factory farms (an intensive farming system that is permitted under the Red Tractor labelling scheme) have to endure permanent indoor confinement in barren, overcrowded pens for their entire lives. Mother pigs are kept in narrow metal cages so small they cannot even turn around for weeks on end.
The Solution
RSPCA Assured, Free Range and Organic all have significantly better standards than the Red Tractor labelling scheme and minimum UK & EU standards. Some well known high street chains have already made the switch to one of these high welfare labels. For example, McDonald’s only sell RSPCA Assured pork across their entire menu and the Co-op only sells Outdoor Bred RSPCA Assured pork throughout their entire own-brand fresh pork range. Pigs on high welfare farms, either outdoors or indoors with plenty of straw, are healthy and more contented. They have enough room to roam and express natural instinctive behaviours such as rooting, nesting and playing.
Farms not Factories !
In Defense of Animals
Tell Congress to End Factory Farming in the United States!
An extraordinary bill to phase out horrifically cruel concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) has been introduced to the U.S. Senate.
There are approximately 15,500 CAFOs in the country that imprison billions of birds, pigs, and cows in harrowing conditions. We must work together to end this national disgrace!
CAFOs crowd animals into dirty warehouses or tiny cages where they have little room to move and are forced to live in their own waste. They quickly become ill and are pumped with drugs and antibiotics to survive and grow until their pre-destined slaughter. Senator Cory Booker’s groundbreaking bill called the Farm System Reform Act, would stop existing CAFOs from expanding, prevent the construction of new ones, and phase them out by 2040.
The Farm System Reform Act will also provide financial assistance to farmers who are transitioning away from CAFOs, and establish that CAFOs’ corporate owners are held legally responsible for the environmental destruction they cause.
CAFOs produce enormous quantities of waste that pollutes neighboring communities’ air and water. According to the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, these waste products can cause “respiratory disease, mental health problems, and… infections” in local communities that are unfortunate enough to host them.
Please join us in urging your two federal senators to sponsor this critical legislation!
What You Can Do
Please contact your two U.S. senators and urge them to sponsor the Farm System Reform Act of 2019.
1) Call your two U.S. senators using the information that appears below.
If you do not see the identities and phone numbers of your two U.S. senators above, then please click on the link below, enter your zip code and click the federal tab, then make two quick calls to their offices.
When the phone is answered, state your name, your town or city, and telephone number.
If you reside in any state except New Jersey, please urge your senators to cosponsor the Farm System Reform Act.
Here’s an example of what you can say:
As the Senator’s constituent, I respectfully urge him/her to cosponsor the Farm System Reform Act of 2019. This legislation will halt the expansion of existing concentrated animal feeding operations and prevent the construction of new ones. These operations cause immense animal suffering and are a public health risk to neighboring communities whose water and air they pollute. It is imperative that the government takes action to stop this cruelty and environmental degradation.
New Jersey residents may also use the above call script when contacting New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, but please also call New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, and use below script or similar:
As a constituent of Senator Booker, I want to thank him for introducing the Farm System Reform Act of 2019 and express my support!
2) Send our letter to your two federal senators by filling out the form on this page.
The hunters are lying in bed with coronavirus … what more do you want?
A good night to all from Venus
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