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General News

Russia: SIGN: Free Bear and Lion Imprisoned in Tiny, Filthy Cages at Russian Restaurant.

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SIGN: Free Bear and Lion Imprisoned in Tiny, Filthy Cages at Russian Restaurant

SIGN: Free Bear and Lion Imprisoned in Tiny, Filthy Cages at Russian Restaurant

 

Petition Link – https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-free-bear-and-lion-held-in-tiny-filthy-cages-next-to-restaurant-in-russia/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

 

PETITION TARGET: Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov

A Russian restaurant in the region of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic is holding a lion and bear captive in miserable conditions. The neglected animals are suffering day in and out in cramped metal enclosures with a hard concrete floor and no space to move, roam, or act naturally.

An eyewitness informed LFT of the sad plight of these helpless animals after visiting Cafe Karavan. The animals are caged directly next to the restaurant for people to look at. They have zero interactions with other animals and live a lonely, dejected life.

In these exclusive eyewitness photos, a skinny lion and bear live side by side in barren cages. A small vat of murky water is visible along with an open crate that is too small to provide adequate shelter from the elements.

 

Lady Freethinker has uncovered a TripAdvisor review from 2017 confirming that the bear and lion were caged at Cafe Karavan at that time. There are also pictures of the bear and lion on the TripAdvisor page dedicated to the restaurant.

It is time to save these poor animals from this life of misery. 

Sign this petition urging Russian Ambassador to the US Antonov to take action by demanding that these beautiful animals be freed from imprisonment and rehomed to a sanctuary to live in peace and freedom.

General News

UK Prime Minister Adopts Little Puppy Thrown Out By Sick (Welsh Puppy Farm) Traders.

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UK Prime Minister and girlfriend adopt a Jack Russell puppy saved from sick dog traders, it was revealed last night.

The Prime Minister and his girlfriend Carrie will own the dog themselves - meaning it will go with them if they leave Downing Street

Boris and Carrie

 

The 15-week-old pup – which faced near-certain death after being abandoned by a Welsh farmer, has moved into No. 10 today, 2/9.

He was cast away by his ruthless breeder for having an undershot and misaligned jaw – meaning he couldn’t be sold, the Mail On Sunday reports.

The Jack Russell puppy believed to have been adopted by Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds

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The as-yet-unnamed pup was then rescued by Eileen Jones of the volunteer group Friends of Animals Wales – which rehabilitates sick and discarded animals.

Unlike Larry the No10 cat, the dog will belong to Boris and Ms Symonds rather than whoever occupies Downing Street.

Children visiting Downing Street pet Larry the No10 Cat

Larry the No 10 Cat is a favourite with children; the Press crews, everyone !

 

 

And he will be trained to get along with chief mouser Larry – who is famously territorial.

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Staff have offered to take the pup on walks after voting overwhelmingly in favour of getting a dog when polled by the PM.

Staff have even offered to take the new pup on walks

It comes as Boris and Ms Symonds hope to raise awareness for strict new anti-puppy farming legislation.

Known as Lucy’s Law, the clampdown will come into force next April and targets third- party puppy sellers who breed dogs often in brutal conditions.

Lucy’s Law is named after tragic pet Lucy – a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who died of her injuries just three years after being rescued from a terrible puppy farm.

The new legislation – backed by celebs Ricky Gervais, Rachel Riley and Brian May – will make it illegal for a puppy or kitten to be sold without seeing it interacting with its mother in the place where it was born.

PupAid founder Marc Abraham, who helped spearhead the legislation, said last night: “I’m absolutely delighted that the Prime Minister and Carrie have chosen to rescue a puppy, which will hugely help to highlight Lucy’s Law.’

He added: “Eileen is an absolute hero who has racked up massive vets’ bills picking up these poorly puppies and breeding dogs.

“I hope this encourages others to adopt and donate to her work.”

Boris and Carrie are both animal welfare supporters – we hope that this sees a bright future for animals during his time in Downing Street.

 

No. 10 Security policeman knocks on door to get Larry the cat into the warm:

General News, Hunting

Japan: Taiji cove hunt: Japan starts controversial dolphin hunt.

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Taiji cove hunt: Japan starts controversial dolphin hunt

2 September 2019

 

Dolphins are rounded up in Taiji, Japan (Jan 2014)

 

Japan has started its controversial annual dolphin hunt in the coastal town of Taiji.

The hunt sees the animals driven into a cove where most are slaughtered for their meat with knives in shallow waters.

Other dolphins are sold to aquariums and marine parks.

The Taiji hunt has been carried out for decades and gained global attention when it was the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove in 2009.

Japan this year also resumed catching whales for profit, in defiance of international criticism.

This year’s Taiji hunt kicked off on Sunday, but according to Japanese media the boats returned without any dolphins.

According to environmentalist group The Dolphin Project, five Risso’s dolphins were killed on Monday.

The overall quota for the season allows for more than 1,700 animals to be killed or captured.

Environmentalists say the drive hunt is extremely cruel and the dolphins can take up to 30 minutes to die by suffocation or drowning.

Yet the fisherman from Taiji say the community’s livelihood is dependent on the trade.

The dolphin hunting season is expected to last for about six month.

Demand for dolphin and whale meat has been on the decline over the past years and both have been found to have unhealthy levels of mercury.

Animals caught alive and sold to marine parks fetch a far higher price than the meat yet there is growing pressure on the parks not to buy dolphins captured in Taiji.

Japan has already come under criticism this year for resuming commercial whaling after it left the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

Commercial whaling ships left port on 1 July this year and the first whales have already been killed and sold.

Under an IWC moratorium, whaling had effectively been banned since 1986.

Japan though had never fully stopped whaling – it has been conducting what it said were research missions killing hundreds of animals each year.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49547400

 

General News

Youtuber Hitting and Sitting on Her Dog Must Be Punished.

 

Link – https://animalpetitions.org/772602/ban-youtuber-for-reportedly-yelling-at-spitting-on-and-pushing-pet-dog/ 

 

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The internet was in shock this past week when video of popular YouTuber Brooke Houts was released that shows her reportedly abusing her pet dog.
Houts is allegedly seen yelling, hitting, and pushing the dog. In addition, the footage suggests that Houts may have spit in the dogs face and abused the dog off camera, as viewers can clearly hear the dog whimpering.

This type of content should not be uploaded to any internet platform. It is violent and perpetuates this harmful behavior toward animals.
I urge you to immediately suspend Houts from using YouTube services.
Sincerely,

[Your Name Here]

 

 

Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

Australia: The gruesome history of the Bader III live export ship.

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I just came across this article today when looking around. As you know live animal exports is our biggest ‘hate’. With the recent issues we have covered re the 70,000 Romanian sheep to Iran, and the very recent troubles with the livestock ship carrying cattle from Brazil to Turkey not being allowed to dock in Spain, it seemed appropriate to get more facts. Here they are; with thanks to the RSPCA (Australia):

Regards Mark.

The gruesome history of the Bader III live export ship – which docks at Port Adelaide this week

https://www.rspcasa.org.au/live-export-bader-ship/ 

April 19, 2018

As Australians reel at sickening images taken by a whistleblower onboard several routine live export shipments, another vessel is due to dock in Port Adelaide this week to begin loading more sheep for the Middle East market.

Like most live export carriers, the Bader III has an appalling record of extreme animal suffering and mass deaths. The phase-out of this cruel trade must start now.

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The Bader III’s latest victims of this trade are also headed to the Middle East. Livestock Shipping Services knows and presumably accepts that a percentage of its cargo will not survive.

Questions are now being raised about the role of insurance in the live export trade. Just how much live exporters like Livestock Shipping Services receive per dead sheep from their insurers is unknown.

But if mortality rates are any indication, there appears to be little commercial incentive to achieve what is surely the main aim of this trade, to deliver sheep that – by journey’s end – are still alive.

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RSPCA South Australia believes it’s high time our state’s reputation-damaging involvement in this inhumane and unnecessary trade ends. Please join us in demanding a phase-out of long-haul sheep shipments from SA. Add your voice here.

The Bader III’s latest victims of this trade are also headed to the Middle East. Livestock Shipping Services knows and presumably accepts that a percentage of its cargo will not survive.

Questions are now being raised about the role of insurance in the live export trade. Just how much live exporters like Livestock Shipping Services receive per dead sheep from their insurers is unknown.

But if mortality rates are any indication, there appears to be little commercial incentive to achieve what is surely the main aim of this trade, to deliver sheep that – by journey’s end – are still alive.

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RSPCA South Australia believes it’s high time our state’s reputation-damaging involvement in this inhumane and unnecessary trade ends. Please join us in demanding a phase-out of long-haul sheep shipments from SA. Add your voice here.

Sobering reading: official reports of mass sheep deaths

When large numbers of Australian animals die on live export ships, Australia’s Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) is required to investigate and produce a report. These reports make for sobering reading.

Ships belonging to one of the largest live export companies operating from Australia, the Perth-based Livestock Shipping Services, frequently feature in AQIS reports. The Livestock Shipping Services ship Bader III, due to dock in Port Adelaide on Thursday April 19, is no exception.

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The Bader III is one of just three live export vessels that are two-tiered. This means animals are packed into two levels of pens on each deck, making welfare checks during the long sea crossings difficult if not impossible. This design also restricts the crucial ventilation needed to prevent heat stress.

AQIS’ Mortality Report Number 46 tells us that on August 17, 2013, nearly 45,000 sheep walked up the ramps on to the Bader III at Port Adelaide, along with an unknown number of camels.

The ship travelled on to Fremantle, where a further 30,795 sheep and some cattle were packed into pens onboard. The stocking density was in accordance with the Australian Standards for the Export of Livestock.

Bader III ship holds awful record for highest sheep deaths

The hottest time in the Middle East are the middle months of the year. Data shows that sheep deaths spike on board live export carriers entering the region at this time. The mercury climbed as the Bader III crossed the equator bound for its first Middle Eastern destination, Qatar.

Something went terribly wrong on Day 21 of this shipment, when the Bader III finally arrived in Qatar’s port city of Doha. The temperature in Doha on this day – 7 September 2013 – hovered around 38C. As the crew began offloading sheep, a staggering 4050 died – one of the largest numbers of exported Australian sheep to die onboard a ship in a single day.

Almost 80% of the sheep that died were from the Adelaide consignment. Unsurprisingly, the live export vet reported that most died from heat stress.

Thousands of sheep deaths legally sanctioned every live export journey

Under Australian regulations, live exporters must report to the Federal Agriculture Department if the mortality rate of sheep onboard ships exceeds 2%. The official end of journey death toll of 4,179 sheep on this 2013 shipment of 75,508 sheep represents a mortality rate of 5.53%. For the sheep loaded in Port Adelaide, the mortality rate was 7.28%.

Under our Federal Government’s 2% rule, more than 1,500 sheep had to die onboard this particular shipment before Livestock Shipping Services were required to make a report that would trigger an investigation by the regulator, Australia’s Federal Department of Agriculture.

 

That is a lot of dead sheep.

If less than 2% of sheep had died – say, 1400 on this 2013 shipment – that would have been considered an ordinary part of the live export business.

Even sheep that don’t die suffer terribly on live export ships

However, the number of dead animals on its own is not a good indicator of animal welfare. The ones that don’t die equally suffer.

The latest images aired on 60 Minutes give a shocking insight of what mass death and extreme animal suffering on board a routine live export shipment during the Middle East’s summer looks like.

Sheep unable to reach food and water. Sheep unable to lie down for the entire three to four week journey. Sheep panting and frothing at the mouth from heat stress and collapsing on decks belly-deep in excrement.

Yet still our Federal Government keeps issuing export permits to companies that routinely breach regulations, and the animals keep being loaded in full knowledge of the suffering that inevitably awaits them.

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Help end the cruel and unnecessary live export trade

The Bader III’s latest victims of this trade are also headed to the Middle East. Livestock Shipping Services knows and presumably accepts that a percentage of its cargo will not survive.

Questions are now being raised about the role of insurance in the live export trade. Just how much live exporters like Livestock Shipping Services receive per dead sheep from their insurers is unknown.

But if mortality rates are any indication, there appears to be little commercial incentive to achieve what is surely the main aim of this trade, to deliver sheep that – by journey’s end – are still alive.

RSPCA South Australia believes it’s high time our state’s reputation-damaging involvement in this inhumane and unnecessary trade ends. Please join us in demanding a phase-out of long-haul sheep shipments from SA. Add your voice here.

General News

China: Zoo’s Visitor Sees (Obviously Bored Stiff) Monkey Sharpening A Rock, Later It Uses It To Shatter Its Glass Enclosure -Wants the Right Thing; to Get Away From the Terribly Sparse Conditions.

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WAV Comment – Looking at the desolation of this facility; no wonder the primate is trying to escape ! – anyone would in his position – where are the trees and climbing facilities to allow it to keep sane ? – obviously the primate has a bigger brain than the zoo management.

 

Zoo’s Visitor Sees Monkey Sharpening A Rock, Later It Uses It To Shatter Its Glass Enclosure

They said that Planet of the Apes was fiction. They were wrong! Some of us have always had an inkling that monkeys are far smarter than they let on. And now they’ve figured out what they have to do to escape zoos! Well, at least one monkey has that information. But I’m pretty sure others will soon follow suit.

Visitors at Zhengzhou Zoo in Central China were witnesses to an amazing sight: a cute monkey used a stone to break the glass wall of its enclosure. However, zoo visitors weren’t the only ones surprised — the Columbian white-faced Capuchin scarpered once it realized what it had done.

The Daily Mail writes that one tourist, Mr. Wang, said that “the monkey was sharpening the stone, then it started hitting it on the glass. The monkey scared itself away, but it came back to take another look and even touched it.” Was what the monkey did simply an accident? Or was the Capuchin only pretending to be scared at first, so we wouldn’t suspect it had other nefarious plans?

Meanwhile, one of the zoo’s staff Tian Shuliao told the media that “this monkey is unlike other monkeys. This one knows how to use tools to break walnuts. When we feed walnuts to other monkeys, they only know to bite it. But it had never hit the glass before though. This is the first time. It’s toughened glass, so it would never have got out. After it happened, we picked up all the rocks and took away all its ‘weapons’.”

As surprising as it sounds, quite a few members of the animal kingdom know how to use tools, and not all of them are monkeys. According to Live Science, chimpanzees use stone tools and even make spears for hunting other primates. While crows use a wide range of tools, from twigs to their own feathers.

Sea animals are crafty as well. Everyone’s beloved sea otters (the incredibly fuzzy ones) use rocks to hit abalone shells off of stones and crack them open. Octopuses, on the other hand, go for a more defensive application of tools: they use coconut shells as portable armour.

Just in case there’s a monkey uprising in the near future, I’m going to rewatch all the Planet of the Apes films. There might be some good tips on what to do there. What do you think of animals who can use tools proficiently? Do you think tool-wielding monkeys will build their own empire and take over the planet?

Source – https://www.boredpanda.com/monkey-breaking-glass-zhengzhou-zoo-china/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter .

Environmental, General News, Hunting

Denmark: The Mass Slaughter of Whales Goes on Today (2019). We Campaigned to Stop It In 1991. The EU Does Its Best As With All Animal Abuse Issues – It Simply Ignores the Evidence and Fails to Act.

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THE bodies of dead whale calves and their murdered mothers lined the beaches of the Faroe Islands following a torturous five-hour hunt.

This poor creature is still inside its birth sack as it lies on the pavement

Above – a baby calf whale still inside its mothers sack dies with the mother.

 

The killing spree took the lives of 94 innocent creatures, with distressing images of the babies being shared by a charity to raise awareness.

 

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Click on this link to watch the disturbing video:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9825199/dead-whale-calves-slaughtered-faroe-islands/

A whale calf, not yet fully formed, lies beside its mum's organs

 

This is the eleventh hunt this year – with over 600 pilot whales slaughtered in so far in 2019.

The brutal tradition attracts spectators who stand at the edge of the crimson water and watch the mass slaughter

Sea Shepherd, a non-profit sea conservation charity, were there to document the slaughter in the islands in between Iceland and Norway.

The hunt, also known as ‘the grind’ lasted for more than 5 hours with the Faroese boats harassing and chasing the pod of whales.

The killing of the creatures, who are not yet identified as endangered due to the lack of documentation, took 12 minutes.

 

OVER 600 KILLED THIS YEAR

Other pictures captured by the charity show the dumping of the remains of the whales back into the sea with some people questioning why it happens in the first place.

One Instagrammer said: “Such a waste, they literally died for nothing.”

The whales are allegedly slaughtered for their meat and blubber and often tourists will watch as the sea turns red with blood.

This centuries-old tradition helps feed the population of the remote Atlantic island over winter with the Faroese locals claiming it is sustainable and regulated by law.

But campaign groups say it is inhumane and want the hunts banned.

The whales' meat and blubber is harvested

 

THE grind, or grindadrap, is a yearly whale hunt that takes place on the Faroe Islands.

During a grind, a flotilla of small boats drives whales or dolphins into a shallow bay where they can be easily killed with knives.

Grinds are the longest continuously practiced and relatively unchanged whaling tradition in the world, says Russell Fielding, a geographer from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

He has studied the Faroe Island grinds since 2005.

“They do feel a real cultural attachment to [the grinds],” notes Fielding. “However, the Faroese are quick to point out that it is for food primarily.”

The meat can be boiled, broiled as a steak, or air-dried, says Bjarki Dalsgarŏ, a 28-year-old Faroese who has participated in grinds.

“Air-dried whale meat is quite common and is considered a bit of a delicacy,” he notes.

It is usually eaten raw in thin slices. In his family, the blubber is eaten as a side, along with potatoes.

Speaking earlier this year, a spokesperson for the campaign group said:  “Over the course of the lengthy drive more and more members of the public and tourists could be seen stopping along the coastline to watch the family of pilot whales struggle and resist.

“As is often the case, the grind was swiftly becoming a social event with parents laughing and chatting as children played on the killing beach.

“The level of excitement was clearly growing as anticipation of the brutality came closer, epitomising the social aspect of the grind was the sight of a youth group – possibly a guides or scout group – sat eagerly watching and waiting.”

“Grind participants ran cheering into the pod to start attaching ropes and pulling individuals out to begin slaughtering.

They added:  “Though, as usual, the ‘humane’ process of killing the pilot whales was far from it, with multiple unsuccessful attempts to paralyse the with the lance were observed on a number of the pod.

“Having previously observed other pilot whale drives our crew noted that this pod had clearly been worn out or resigned to their fate as little to no cries were heard from the pod.

“As the family were laid out on the docks the all too familiar and disturbing images of children jumping on and playing with the dead could be seen.

In September 2018, the charity offered the Faroe Islands 1 million Euros for 10 consecutive years with no whale hunts but were rejected.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9825199/dead-whale-calves-slaughtered-faroe-islands/

 

 

WAV Comment – Back around 1991 Jo, I and Trev were out on the streets campaigning about this slaughter – trying to get supermarkets to boycott fish from the Faroe Islands.  You can see us in the picture below.  Today, what some 30 years later, this blood lust is still going on.  As usual, the EU SAY NOTHING AT ALL about this – which just proves how crap they are.

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/ 

 

Below – Myself, Joanne and Trev on the streets in 1991 campaigning about this.

Well to date there is no victory, but in the end the Danes will be ashamed about they are being portrayed the world over – then they will do something about it.  I just wish our actions in 91 had done something – a lot of beautiful, innocent whales have died ever since.

Regards Mark.

Farm Animals, General News

Urgency for vaccine grows as virus ravages China’s pigs.

 In this May 8, 2019, photo, pigs eat feed at a pig farm in Panggezhuang village in northern Chinas Hebei province. As a deadly virus ravages pig herds across Asia, scientists are accelerating efforts to develop a vaccine to help guard the worlds po

May 2019 -pigs endure a pitiful ‘life’ in a Chinese intensive system.

Urgency for vaccine grows as virus ravages China’s pigs

Scientists are working to develop a vaccine to help guard the world’s pork supply as a deadly virus ravages Asia’s pig herds.

Farmers have long contained its spread by quarantining and killing infected animals, but the disease’s devastating march into East Asia is intensifying the search for another solution.

The virus hadn’t been considered as high a priority for researchers until it turned up last year in China, home to half the world’s pig population, likely by way of Eastern Europe and Russia. Since then, it has spread to other Asian countries including Vietnam, killing millions of pigs along the way. Though it does not sicken people, the disease is highly contagious and deadly to pigs.

“Today’s situation, where you have this global threat, puts a lot more emphasis on this research,” said Dr. Luis Rodriguez, who leads the U.S. government lab on foreign animal diseases at Plum Island, New York.

One way to develop a vaccine is to kill a virus before injecting it into an animal. The disabled virus doesn’t make the animal sick, but it prompts the immune system to identify the virus and produce antibodies against it. This approach, however, isn’t consistently effective with all viruses, including the one that causes African swine fever.

It’s why scientists have been working on another type of vaccine, made from a weakened virus rather than a dead one. With African swine fever, the puzzle has been figuring out exactly how to tweak the virus.

In Vietnam, where the virus has killed 4 million pigs in six months, the government said this summer it was testing vaccines but provided few details of its program. In China, the government indicated scientists are working on a vaccine that genetically alters the virus, an approach U.S. scientists have been pursuing as well.

Taiwan last week imposed new security screenings for arriving air passengers carrying pork products in efforts to stave off an outbreak, according to the Taiwan News newspaper. Infected pig carcasses have been found washed ashore on Taiwan’s beaches, but there has been no outbreak on the island.

Myanmar reported its first outbreak in early August and North Korea reported an outbreak in May, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it recently signed a confidential agreement with a vaccine manufacturer to further research and develop one of Plum Island’s three vaccine candidates. The candidates were made by genetically modifying the virus to delete certain genes.

But before a vaccine becomes available, it needs to be tested in large numbers of pigs in secure facilities with isolation pens, waste and carcass incinerators and decontamination showers for staff, said Linda Dixon, a biologist at London’s Pirbright Institute, which studies viral diseases in livestock. The process takes two to five years, she said.

The extensive testing is necessary to ensure vaccines made by weakened viruses don’t have unintended side effects.

In the 1960s, for instance, Spain and Portugal tested such a vaccine after outbreaks of African swine fever. The treated pigs seemed fine at first, but then lesions broke out on their skin, arthritis locked up their joints and the animals failed to fatten up, said Jose Manuel Sanchez-Vizcaino Rodriguez, who leads a lab focused on African swine fever at the University in Madrid.

The two countries eventually eradicated the disease by enforcing strict sanitary protocols, quarantining and killing infected and carrier pigs.

Even if vaccines become available, they might not work across the globe. Vaccines developed for the virus in China and Europe, for example, might do nothing in sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease has been around longer.

A vaccine might be most desirable in places where the disease is widespread, said Daniel Rock, who previously headed Plum Island’s African swine fever program. Other countries might prefer the quarantine-and-kill method.

That could be the case in the U.S., where health officials have been training pork producers how to spot and report potential symptoms, which can include bleeding, lethargy and loss of appetite.

Still, Rock said the disease’s global spread has made the option of a vaccine a high priority in the U.S.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/urgency-vaccine-grows-virus-ravages-chinas-pigs-65068779 

 

WAV Comment – with intensive systems you eventually reap what you sow.  Intensification obviously contributes a lot to the rapid spread of this disease.  Do we feel sorry for the farmers who are losing animals through running intensive systems ? – NO.  When they analyse after all their animals dying; they may realise that there are better ways to raise animals.

 

 

 

 

General News

USA: Kittens Thrown From Car to Their Deaths Deserve Justice.

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Kittens Thrown From Car to Their Deaths Deserve Justice

Posted by Jennifer McCue

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Petition Link: https://forcechange.com/540928/kittens-thrown-to-their-deaths-deserve-justice/ 

Target: Rusty E. McGuire, Commonwealth’s Attorney for Louisa County, Virginia

Goal: Punish the person who threw kittens out of a moving vehicle, killing both.

Two young kittens were thrown from a moving vehicle in a horrific case of animal cruelty. They each died from their injuries. Demand justice for these innocent animals.

“There was no need to toss them out of the window when you’re that close to the animal shelter. You could have easily just stopped and surrendered them there,” stated Louisa County Animal Control Officer Alyssa Ellison. A witness spotted the driver of a truck painted with gray primer driving on Route 33 near the Louisa Reservoir and throwing the approximately 6-week-old kittens from the window. One died on impact with the road, the other sustained several cuts to the head and died on the way to the animal hospital.

The Louisa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating this case as animal cruelty. They have not yet identified any suspects. Sign below and demand that the person responsible for this horrific act is prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

 

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Commonwealth’s Attorney McGuire,

Two kittens perished in a cruel and heartless act of animal cruelty. Thrown from a moving vehicle, one died on impact with the road. The second kitten, thought to be about six weeks old, suffered severe cuts to the head and trauma from the impact that eventually took his or her life. This cruelty happened only four miles from the county’s animal shelter, where the seemingly unwanted kittens could have been taken in and cared for without question. This indicates an act of deliberate cruelty and malice against innocent animals.

The person behind this act of cruelty is still out there and likely a danger to local animals. I demand that you prosecute and punish this person to the fullest extent of the law.

Sincerely

[Your Name Here]