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Category: General News
Regarding our very recent post re live animals being illegally transported with the EU in extreme heat; https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2018/08/24/netherlands-summer-heat-by-margreet-eyes-on-animals-amsterdam/ – some people may argue that what we say is incorrect when we talk of regulations not being enforced by the EU.
Here is the link to the EU Regulation 1/2005 of 22nd December 2004 on the ‘protection’ of animals during transport. Here you can check out maximum transport temperatures for yourselves. This is the ‘bible’ document that all animal transporters throughout the EU should be compliant with.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32005R0001
As we declared in our previous post, the EU is NOT enforcing its own regulations regarding the protection of animals during transport.
We can prove this by showing you some examples of videos made relating to live EU animals being transported to non EU Turkey. There are graphic scenes; but this is the reality; the reality which Junker, Tusk and Van Goethem do not want you to know about. They declare that the EU has rules as detailed in the 1/2005 links given above; so why do we raise questions ?
See for yourself and decide; who is right and who is wrong ?
In the following you can see investigator Margreet –
Necessary to have the fortitude and conscience to end this fowl activity.
Please stay on it with your photos and devotion.
– Thanks Dawn – Regards Mark.
Margreet is a good personal friend to us and an excellent investigator.
Europe has been hit by huge hot weather issues for up to 7 or 8 weeks without rain. Things have eventually changed and the past week or so has seen the rains return.
During the hot spell across Europe, animals were transported to slaughter regardless of the conditions. Was the EU really interested in enforcing Reg 1/2005 which states that animals must not be transported above specific temperatures ? – of course not; they are much more concerned with UK Brexit bashing to punish the UK because it dare leave the almighty EU; – dreaming up everything possible to make it hard for the UK whilst animals across the EU literally bake in the steel livestock trailers taking them to have their throats slit.
We have always had a real gripe with Bernard Van Goethem – one of the key players in animal transport issues and the man with his head in the sand who says ‘I can do nothing’ when presented with clear and obvious animal abuses to EU animals when being transported to Turkey and other such destinations. Margreet has been deeply involved with the investigations into EU animals being hauled out to non EU Turkey. Over the years EoA have video recorded and documented all the suffering at the Turkish / EU border – for what ? – the almighty EU to just ignore them and instead worry more about female hairdressers being allowed to wear high heeled shoes at work.
The EU is dying gradually and we really look forward to the day when it takes its final breath. Self imposed, un elected importants named Junker and Tusk and Van Goethem who talk the talk but in reality, do very little to make the EU a better place. They cannot even enforce their own EU legislation ! – that shows how bad they are. But they are really good at UK bashing because it voted to get out of the happy house and go it alone.
This is just the start of the demise of the EU institution. A no good, non enforceable system of regulations and laws which they in the Commissions hope will blindly lead the ‘normal’ EU citizen to the path of the righteous. Things will change for the better when this fossil of jokes called the EU is thrown into the unmarked grave with lots of quicklime.
Here below is Margreets own words on a typical transport day in the EU during extreme heat. Yet another reasons why EU member states need to take back control and stop the abuse.
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Use Brexit to end fur imports, celebrities including Judi Dench, Ricky Gervais and Andy Murray urge Theresa May
‘Britain’s responsibility to animals does not end at our borders’
Above – Rabbits on a Chinese Fur Farm.
Dame Judi Dench, Paloma Faith and Andy Murray are among more than 30 celebrities urging Theresa May to introduce a UK ban on animal fur imports after Brexit.
Fur farming has been illegal in the UK since 2000, but fur from animals such as foxes, rabbits and minks continues to be imported.
According to Humane Society International (HSI), Britain has imported over £650m-worth of fur since the ban on farming.
A letter delivered to the Prime Minister on Monday and signed by 31 high-profile British figures argues “this makes no sense”.
“If fur is too cruel to produce in this country, it’s too cruel to sell in this country.
“We believe that Britain’s responsibility to animals does not end at our borders, but extends globally, to those animals killed to be traded into our country.”
A total ban on imports of animal fur is impossible as long as the UK is a member of the European Single Market, as fur products are still produced in several European countries.
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But HSI hopes that Brexit will provide the chance for the government to “close our borders fully to this cruel and archaic trade”.
According to HSI, more than 100 million animals die each year for the fur trade, many of them reared in tiny barren cages, electrocuted, gassed or even skinned alive.
Monday’s letter was written to support the #FurFreeBritain campaign, which calls on the government to extend a current ban on imports of dog and cat fur to all species and is backed by animal welfare charities including HSI, PETA, the RSPCA and Animal Aid.
Signatories include Bill Bailey, Fearne Cotton, Joanna Lumley, Ricky Gervais and Simon Amstell.
An inquiry into the fur trade was launched last week by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, which will examine “how the industry can be made more transparent” and look at post-Brexit possibilities for altering legislation around the import of fur.
The inquiry follows revelations last year that a number of major retailers including Amazon, TK Maxx, Boohoo and Groupon were selling products containing animal fur, despite advertising them as synthetic.
| Dear Mark,
Suppose you’re a senior member of the Trump administration responsible for wildlife conservation. Tell me, what on Earth would possess you to open National Park lands to brutal and vicious killing of wolves, bears and other predators? That’s exactly what’s being considered. And Mark, that’s just the beginning of the death and destruction this administration is unleashing. But please hurry, the match offer ends Friday, August 31st. This heinous proposal would open National Park Service lands in Alaska to a brutal array of killing efforts. In the crosshairs are bears, wolves and other predators. The proposal would allow for new, cruel hunting practices on national preserves, like baiting bears with doughnuts or bacon or shooting mother wolves and their pups in their dens to artificially boost moose and other game animal numbers. I wish I could say that was the only appalling proposal we’re facing right now, but sadly it’s the tip of the iceberg. Just consider: Red wolves. Recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposals would confine these wolves to a tiny patch of habitat and permit landowners to shoot any wolf that happens to wander onto their property. Mexican gray wolves. This smaller cousin of the gray wolf continues to hang by a thread, and FWS seems uninterested in mounting a serious recovery effort. A so-called ‘recovery plan’ submitted in 2017 is basically a recipe for extinction. It disregards the best available science, limits the species’ population, and cuts off access to vital recovery habitat. Polar bears. Global warming’s effect on the Arctic is especially dramatic. With sea ice melting, polar bears in the U.S. are increasingly dependent on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But instead of protecting this critical habitat, the administration is opening the region to oil exploration. That’s really bad news if you happen to be a polar bear. The list goes on and on. When you combine all of these cruel proposals, you can appreciate the scope of danger facing our precious wildlife. When you support Defenders, you’re a part of our community of wildlife activists. You’re supporting wildlife lawyers who, right this minute, are in court fighting for the wildlife you love. You’re supporting organizers to engage every voice in America to protect wildlife. And you’re supporting a team of advocates who work every day in Washington, D.C. and in statehouses across the country to save wildlife from destructive policy proposals. Mark, I continue to have hope because most Americans favor strong wildlife protections and because people like you refuse to give up the fight. From the bottom of my heart, my deepest thanks for your commitment, compassion and generosity. Sincerely,
P.S. These attacks are stretching our resources to the limit. Your gift, along with the matching dollars, will help keep us in the fight!
ADDITIONAL PETITION TO SUPPORT – NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS.
Save the Animals from Sacrifice in Religious RitualsPetition created on Jun 22, 2016 Petition link – https://www.sosvox.org/en/petition/save-the-animals-from-sacrifice-in-religious-rituals.html?utm_source=highlight&utm_medium=title&utm_campaign=campaign-p230818&uid=fd376f375efd72ffbb9b53f8573be892Animals are creatures of God and have the right to live. We cannot allow any kind of animals used for religious rituals of any religion.
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I have had several of these over the years.
Beautiful; so intelligent dogs – enjoy watching them play. Mark.
Below – My ‘Golda’. Miss her like crazy !
Pet Shop Ban Plan for Puppy, Kitten Sales in England
The government believes that third-party sales mean animals are too often separated early from their mothers, undertake multiple journeys and are introduced to several new and unfamiliar environments, harming their welfare.
Pet shops in England should be banned from selling puppies and kittens, the government proposed Wednesday, in a bid to put the squeeze on unscrupulous puppy farms. Puppies or kittens less than six months old will have to be bought directly from the breeder or adopted from a rescue centre, under the proposed new law.
The government is concerned that third-party sales lead to poorer welfare conditions.
“We are proposing to ban commercial third-party sales of puppies and kittens in England,” the environment ministry said, as it launched a one-month public consultation on their plans. “This will prevent pet shops, pet dealers, and other outlets from selling these animals in England unless they themselves had bred them.”
The government believes that third-party sales mean animals are too often separated early from their mothers, undertake multiple journeys and are introduced to several new and unfamiliar environments, harming their welfare.
Estimates for the numbers of puppies sold via third parties in Britain range between 40,000 and 80,000. The Kennel Club, which registers newborn puppies, said it was “a vital step forward to tackling the cruel puppy farming industry”.
“It will stop the suffering of many dogs and send a very strong message to puppy buyers that it is never OK to see a puppy in any environment other than the one it was born and raised in, and with its mum,” said the club’s secretary Caroline Kisko.
A petition calling for such a ban was signed by nearly 150,000 people and was debated in parliament in May. Television vet Marc Abraham, who kickstarted the campaign, said the plan would make all breeders and puppy farms “completely transparent and accountable” which “completely raises the stakes for animal welfare”. “There’s nowhere to hide: a pet shop can’t blame the breeder and the breeder can’t blame the pet shop,” he told BBC radio.
Hi again Mark,
Today we awoke to some truly great news in our ongoing campaign to save sheep from the horror of live export.
Emanuel Exports has had their licence permanently cancelled by the regulator.
One of the world’s largest exporters of animals will no longer be able to operate.
This company (and its directors) has been responsible for shipping the majority of the 200 million sheep that have been sent to the Middle East over the past forty years. Over 1.5 million defenceless animals have died on their vessels – and through the courage and compassion of a crewman Fazal Ullah – the world now knows the egregious suffering that this company was willing to accept for decades.
My own journey with this company started shortly after joining CEO, Glenys Oogjes at Animals Australia in 2003. It is Emanuel Exports that was responsible for the Cormo Express disaster where over 5,000 sheep perished, and it was their shipment that I met in Kuwait City in November that year, on which over 1,000 sheep had died. While in Kuwait, I witnessed firsthand the brutal treatment that this company was prepared to expose millions of sheep to, for decades.
The directors of Emanuel Exports have been responsible for some of the worst mass death events in the trade and the associated suffering that we now understand so fully. In 2006 we had them found guilty of cruelty in the WA Magistrates Court. We lodged legal complaint after legal complaint against them and generated media exposé after media exposé. And this year, we took this export giant to the Federal Court on behalf of animals.
Animals Australia has battled this company for the past 15 years, and on each occasion that we revealed the suffering they were responsible for, we took them ever closer to the brink.
So today, Emanuel’s day of reckoning, has been a long time coming. It has been a David and Goliath battle throughout many years — and ‘David’ today has won. They may have had the ‘power’ and millions of dollars at their disposal. But we have been ‘armed’ by the glorious kind hearts of our generous supporters who have been prepared to back every courageous and compassionate action we have taken over those years.
Today, as we remember all of those who’ve suffered, we breathe a sigh of relief for the countless animals who will be spared a horror journey
As you well know, this is a journey that asks so much of us. It’s one that is only for the strong-hearted because the ark of justice is truly long. But I have never lost faith that justice would prevail. That’s because every day I am surrounded by the strong-hearted. People like you who share our vision and whose faith in us never wavers — and a team of resilient, committed advocates who I am so proud to call my colleagues.
The fight to end live export continues, and today we are one big step closer.
But for now, here’s to the strong-hearted. Here’s to you in heartfelt gratitude for sharing our vision for a kinder world.
For the animals,
Lyn – Animals Australia
Read more here –
https://www.animalsaustralia.org/media/in_the_news.php?article=6641
Forced castration!
For rapists
For abusers of children and animals!
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Regards, Venus
