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Environmental, General News, Stray Animals

USA: Petition – Ban the Brutal Slaughter of America’s Wild Horses.

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SIGN: Ban the Brutal Slaughter of America’s Wild Horses

SIGN: Ban the Brutal Slaughter of America’s Wild Horses

Posted by Carly Day

Petition target: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

A new bill introduced in the US House of Representatives would not only prevent horse slaughterhouses from operating in the United States but also outlaw the sale, transport, import or export of horses or horse parts for human consumption.

Horses sent to slaughter suffer horrendously, packed into crowded trucks and shipped for hours or even days without food and water. The transport alone is so stressful, many horses are injured or killed before they even arrive at their destination.

When the horses finally reach the slaughterhouse, workers attempt to stun them before killing by shooting them with a bolt gun. But the animals may need to be shot multiple times before they’re stunned, and are often still conscious when violently slaughtered.

Horse meat is also unsafe for humans. Because horses in the United States are not bred to be eaten, they are treated with drugs that can be toxic to people, rendering the meat dangerous for human consumption.

The Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) bill, sponsored by Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., aims to amend the existing Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to prevent any and all slaughter of America’s horses.

Sign this petition urging House leaders to strongly support this bill and do everything in their power to see it is passed, protecting America’s precious equines.

 

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Petition Link – https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-pass-ban-slaughter-americas-wild-horses/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

 

 

Farm Animals, General News

The doomsday clock is ticking for African donkeys -China wants them all for ‘traditional’ medicine.

 

https://networkforanimals.org/newsletter-page/we-are-saving-donkeys-the-chinese-are-trying-to-kill-them-all/ 

Donkeys are being wiped out in Africa by insatiable demand for their skins. African people use donkeys as transport in tasks such as water carrying. Uneducated rural people are easily persuaded to sell their animals by Chinese buyers who offer hard cash. They don’t realize that in Africa, donkeys are worth more alive than dead because in places of poor roads and poverty, donkeys offer tremendous support to local communities.
If people won’t sell their donkeys, the Chinese arrange for them to be stolen. Then the poor creatures are led into the bush where men, often drunk, wait to slaughter them. First, they are clubbed and when they fall to the ground, they are skinned alive. Yes, that’s the level of barbarism we are dealing with here.
The DOOMSDAY CLOCK is still ticking… …for 22 gentle donkeys who could have ended up skinned alive without our help!
Farm Animals, General News

EU: M6NTHS – A short film about the short lives of pigs in the EU.

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Dear Mark,

“As we enter the Year of the Pig, could we resolve to get to know this intelligent animal a little better?” – Eline Helena Schellekens

Today is Chinese New Year and 2019 is the Year of the Pig – a powerful opportunity for us to give pigs a voice. You can speak up for all pigs suffering in intensive conditions right now: just watch and share this compelling, award-winning short film about the life of a factory-farmed piglet, premiering online today.

Every year, across the UK and EU, around 10 million sows and their piglets are locked up for weeks at a time in farrowing crates. Trapped in these cages, the mothers can barely take care of their young. The cramped conditions prevent them from turning round, restrict their natural behaviours and cause intense suffering.

‘M6NTHS’ is a short film showing life through the eyes of piglets growing up on an industrial farm, having never experienced the joy of being outside. Filmed on farms in the UK, France and Belgium, it gives a unique perspective into how factory farming treats life as a commodity and fails to recognise that animals are smart, sensitive beings.

For two weeks only, Compassion in World Farming is screening ‘M6NTHS’ on our website, in support of the campaign to End the Cage Age. Catch it while you can – it’s available from 5-18 Feb only!

Produced and directed by the award-winning, Bristol-based filmmaker Eline Helena Schellekens, this powerful film has already won the Panda Award for Best Short – the most prestigious wildlife film award.

All over Europe, people are joining together to free more than 300 million farm animals from a life in a cage. You too can take action to support one of the biggest ever animal welfare campaigns. Watch and share ‘M6NTHS’ today!

‘M6NTHS’ PREMIERE: LIFE AS A FACTORY-FARMED PIG

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https://action.ciwf.org.uk/page/37485/action/1?ea.tracking.id=7774353c&utm_campaign=cageage&utm_source=actionemail&utm_medium=email

 

Every year, across the UK and EU, around 10 million sows and their piglets are locked up in cages for weeks at a time.

‘M6NTHS’, an award-winning documentary by Eline Helena Schellekens, reveals the suffering that these animals endure by following the life of piglets on factory farms. The film has already won a Panda Award – the most prestigious award for wildlife films.

Compassion in World Farming is sharing this powerful film here for two weeks only, in support of the End the Cage Age campaign. Watch and share it now to show your support – and remember to sign the petition too!

If you think animals deserve a life worth living, please join the movement to End the Cage Age:

 

The following are not associated with this campaign, but do show the reality of industrialised pig farming in the EU.

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General News

350,000 signatures against overfishing!

 

We arrived in 2019 … the year in which the EU promised to end the overfishing of our seas.

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We at Our Fish will do our utmost to ensure that the fisheries ministers stop overfishing. Because ending the overfishing will be a legacy for which they will be celebrated for many more years! Thanks to your support, the European Commission and the EU Fisheries Ministers in December received an impression of our resolve when we handed them over 350,000 signatures in Brussels. In addition, they received a total of 20,000 emails from you! The god of the sea Poseidon was on our side, and made sure that your voices and those of the oceans were heard. And the global media have also listened.

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Although ministers have not agreed on sufficient measures to put an end to overfishing in the EU, we have put them under enormous pressure. And they are responding to this pressure – at a time when we know that the conservation of our seas is critical in combating climate change. The end of overfishing is the simplest, fastest and most important means.

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That’s why this year is so incredibly important. We are ready to call on ministers to take urgent action to put an end to many years of destructive overfishing and wasteful discards. But that will not be easy, and we need your support to set as ambitious goals as possible!

Bec [Our Fish Manager] has ushered in the New Year with an interview (English), which marked the final entry into force of the discard ban (the wasteful practice of throwing dead or dying fish overboard).

This week, some of the world’s leading video surveillance experts will be on board in Brussels to educate decision makers on how cameras work.

And that is just the beginning!!

Last week, the Our Fish team met in Berlin to discuss the way forward for this, hopefully historic, year – and there were some great ideas!

January was already a significant month for ending overfishing. We have many more plans for the next few months, which we would like to share with you!

https://our.fish/

My comment: Not only Poseidon, but we are also on your side, dear friends of Our Fish.  With full respect for your work!!

We all hope for a better world for our animal roommates on this earth, and do everything to make this world a reality someday.

My best regards to all, Venus

Environmental, General News

A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report.

 

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Melting ice on Khumbu glacier in the Everest-Khumbu region. Himalayan glaciers are a water source for 250 millions people. Photograph: Alex Treadway/ICIMOD

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/04/a-third-of-himalayan-ice-cap-doomed-finds-shocking-report

 

A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report

Even radical climate change action won’t save glaciers, endangering 2 billion people

At least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt due to climate change, according to a landmark report, with serious consequences for almost 2 billion people.

Even if carbon emissions are dramatically and rapidly cut and succeed in limiting global warming to 1.5C, 36% of the glaciers along in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya range will have gone by 2100. If emissions are not cut, the loss soars to two-thirds, the report found.

The glaciers are a critical water store for the 250 million people who live in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region, and 1.65 billion people rely on the great rivers that flow from the peaks into India, Pakistan, China and other nations.

Click on the above link to read the full disturbing article.

 

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General News

Don`t be Horst!

Sei kein Horst Pelz Satyren

That`s Horst

 

Horst finds furs cool,
because he does not care about animals.

 

If you tell Horst that his fur did not die in the forest, it does not interest him.

 

That’s why Horst always looks like the butt of a hairy dog in winter … and he talks like that.

 

Horst has no heart
… and no taste.

 

Don`t be a Horst.

 

(Image: B.Jost -Translation from Venus, with best regards)