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14/6/21 – Today is International Awareness Day to Ban Live Exports. 

14/6/21

Today is International Awareness Day to Ban Live Exports. 

Just have a think about that statement; an ‘Awareness day to BAN live exports’.

As you know, the export of live animals has been one of, if not, our primary issue since its creation.  No doubt many of you all over the world are today joining up with fellow activists who are hell bent on stopping this disgusting business of treating live, sentient beings as just simple goods; putting them basically into the same category as a tin of beans, packet of rice; packed up to be traded anywhere without a single thought for their wellbeing.

Did we not witness the ‘concerns’ of those involved in this trade recently when we witnessed the farce of live animals being shipped from pillar to post around the Med Sea for months on end.

From here in the UK (England)  –  On 8 June 2021 the UK Government introduced the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill to parliament, which introduces a ban on the live export of farmed animals for fattening or slaughter, from or through Great Britain.  This is a huge victory for all the dedicated campaigners, some no longer with us, who fought so hard for the rights of animals in this specific environment.  We now look forward to the Bill being passed in both houses and the live export trade being stopped from the UK, or the UK being used as a ‘land bridge’ (for animals travelling from Ireland to mainland EU.  Irish animals will no longer be able to suffer on English roads as part of their journey to their deaths.

The Bill still needs to work its way through Parliament before it becomes law. We hope this will be completed before end 2021.

Also, despite this positive movement regarding live animal transport in the UK; we MUST NOT forget all the animals that are suffering at this very moment whilst undergoing live transport; be it on the roads of Europe, or on ships travelling from South America to the EU, or from the EU (places such as Romania) to the Middle East; where they will be slaughtered without even the ‘basics’ such as stunning.

It is our job as activists never to forget the suffering of live transport – yesterday, today and tomorrow.  So, the fight is anything but over; and as such we will give you some links in the following to allow you to continue with your fight.

By pure coincidence, this day, the bBan Live Exports Day, we will have some great (live export campaign based) news to share with you all.  We will be publishing a special post on this in the next few hours.

Regards from Mark and Venus.

Above – Anti export campaigners in NEPAL

Below – SLOVAKIA

Links:

Animals Australia – for a kinder woeld:

https://www.animalsaustralia.org/

PeTA – Help end the hideously cruel live export trade:

https://secure.peta.org.uk/page/34699/action/1

 

EU trade and transport of live animals:

Click to access EPRS_ATA(2020)646170_EN.pdf

Animal Welfare Foundation – We demand an end for cruel live transports by road and sea

https://www.animal-welfare-foundation.org/en/projects/animal-transport/live-exports-by-road

Animals Angels – Stop Live Transport:

https://www.animals-angels.de/en/

Eyes on Animals – watching out for their welfare:

https://www.eyesonanimals.com/

Urge the Scottish Government to work with the UK Government and the Welsh Government to deliver a ban across the whole of Great Britain at the same time, and as soon as possible.

Petition – Ban live exports (e-activist.com)

On 14 June 2021, campaigners all over the world will unite for the sixth annual International Awareness Day to Ban Live Exports. Please join us online, and speak out against the cruel, global live exports trade. Find out more, and register to take part

Please join us online, and speak out against the cruel, global live exports trade. Find out more, and register to take part.

Last year’s story

In June 2020, for the first time, Ban Live Exports: International Awareness Day went completely ‘virtual’, and thousands of campaigners reached out across countries and continents, making their voices heard despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

Here’s what we achieved, together:

  • Over 103,000 #BanLiveExports tweets in 36 countries, viewed 31 million times.
  • Over 32,600 emails to the Scottish Government demanding #JusticeForCalves – all sent in just two weeks.
  • Almost 9,000 tweets demanding #JusticeForCalves, including 3,100 to the Scottish Government and thousands more from campaigners spreading the word.
  • Selfies with the calf filter on Facebook and Instagram were viewed nearly 40,000 times.
  • High profile support from a whole host of Compassion heroes, including Peter Egan, Emma Milne, Deborah Meaden, Joanna Lumley, James Greenwood, Marc Abraham, Jerome Flynn, Kate Ford, Mike Beckingham, Carley Stenson and Liz Earle.
  • National media coverage of our Judicial Review in The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, Closer magazine, The London Economic and more, taking our message to millions of readers.

For more information and resources, please visit stoplivetransport.org.

SAFE, New Zealand:

Ban Live Exports International Awareness Day Marred As Live Export Ships Make Their Way To Aotearoa

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2106/S00112/ban-live-exports-international-awareness-day-marred-as-live-export-ships-make-their-way-to-aotearoa.htm

Ban Live Exports International Awareness Day

https://stoplivetransport.org/

Viva ! England – International Live Export Awareness Day:

Ban Live Exports: International Awareness Day

Animal Aid England – Ban Live Exports 2021 – International Awareness Day:

Ban Live Exports 2021 – International Awareness Day

From our friends at OIPA in Italy:

BAN LIVE EXPORTS INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS DAY. THIS CRUEL PRACTISE MUST END: ANIMALS ARE SENTIENT BEINGS

https://www.oipa.org/international/ban-live-exports-awareness-day-2021/

How to stop live animal export:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=How+to+Stop+live+animal+export&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1luWWh5fxAhWUAmMBHT9MA0cQ1QIwGXoECA0QAQ&biw=1228&bih=553#spf=1623672205849

What countries have, or are, banning live exports:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=What+countries+have+banned+live+animal+export&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1luWWh5fxAhWUAmMBHT9MA0cQ1QIwGHoECA4QAQ&biw=1228&bih=553#spf=1623672247745

A few photos of SOME pof the recent global demos calling for an end to live animal transport:

Above – ROMANIA

Above – SOUTH KOREA

Above – SPAIN

Above – ITALY

Above – AUSTRIA

Above – PORTUGAL

Live Transport

Hunland promises improvements in animal transport

Hunland is not waiting for a change in the EU regulations but is developing, in its own competence and in cooperation with animal welfare NGOs, much stricter animal welfare rules for the transport of farm animals than the current regulations, said a Board member after an EU hearing.

As a first step, the long-term transport of unweaned calves will be banned from August, but professionally trained animal welfare officers and body cameras can also come later.

Hunland is implementing a new animal welfare practice in the field of animal transport after the company, which is also active in Hungary, took part in an E hearing on the subject.

The event organised by the European Parliament’s ANIT Committee of Inquiry, a body for the protection of animals during transport, and held in early March was attended by the EU decision-makers, by animal welfare NGOs and by companies active in the sector.
At the constructive event, despite seemingly contradictory points of view, the parties agreed on the need to further improve the EU’s animal welfare situation during transport and to call for even more humane methods in this area.

Photo, video, body camera

The expert added that the situation of animals as well as companies and workers in the sector will be better if those involved do not look for faults but actively work to ensure that animal welfare considerations are met during transportation.

To this end, the corporate group proposes to introduce an image and video documentation obligation during certain phases of transport, such as loading, unloading and resting.

The company will also begin training animal welfare officers to oversee the process during transportation, and would also inspect drivers.
In addition, the company manager suggested that the body cameras and webcams of the participants in transport could be used to transparently monitor the transport of the animals so that their treatment could be checked.

Following the event, Péter Hencz stated:

“It is clear to Hunland that it will not wait for changes in regulations at national and EU level, but it will introduce significantly stricter rules than the official animal welfare standards in its own area, which it strictly observes during transportation and also shares its experience with animal welfare organisations that express their interest”.

Long-term transport of calves is discontinued

As one of the first steps, the company group will not transport unweaned calves, i.e. calves younger than 90 days, in a long term from 1 August this year, i.e. Hunland will ban the transport of calves that are not yet able to live independently for more than 8 hours.

By doing so, the company is embarking on a more lenient practice than the animal welfare regulations which are quite strict internationally.
The current regulations allow the long-term transport of calves as early as from the age of 14 days.
In the months leading up to the introduction, all Hunland partners will be able to prepare for a practice that will change significantly from August, which will be a decisive step in animal trading.

They do not follow but shape the rules

Péter Hencz said about the decision: Hunland’s goal is to actively bring to life a humane and transparent animal transport practice, not by following the rules but by shaping them, in cooperation with the animal welfare organisations.

The ban on long-term transport of unweaned calves is only the first step in this regard.
The Hunland Group will take further pioneering steps in the field of animal welfare in consultation with experts, animal welfarists and partners.

The Hunland Group, which started as a small family business in Dutch ownership, is now one of the most important agricultural players in Hungary.

Originally limited to the livestock trade, the company is now also regarded as a serious agricultural producer, with large capacities in beef cattle, milk production and feed production.

However, the company’s main activity is still the export of livestock: in this field Hunland is a significant player in the Mediterranean region, in the Middle East, in Russia and in the surrounding countries.

https://novekedes.hu/english/livestock-transport-in-a-gentle-and-transparent-way-hunland-will-be-even-stricter-than-the-regulations

And I mean…As early as 2017, the company commissioned the organization Eyes on Animals to hold an animal welfare seminar for 15 employees.

EoA activist reports about it:
“Hunland Transport tries to introduce standards within the company that go beyond the basic minimum requirements of the often vague EU legislation.
They were an open-minded and committed training group. We thank Hunland Transport for their serious efforts.

It will not be possible to stop the transport of farm animals, but every opportunity should be used to significantly improve the conditions for transporting the animals in cooperation with good transport companies”.

On April 20, 2019, Hunland announced its willingness to cooperate in livestock with Egypt via the media:

Egypt, Hungary explore partnerships in the livestock sector


“Egypt, Hungary explore partnerships in the animal husbandry sector” !!

“The two parties also agreed to import goats, especially in light of high demands from breeders of this strain, which is known with their high production of meat and milk, the statement read.

For their part, the Hunland representatives expressed their willingness to export Holstein calves to Egypt, in addition to providing the technical assistance to the country with regard to artificial insemination and the improvement of Egyptian breeds of cattle to increase their production of milk and meat”, the statement noted.”

Who controls the animal transport when Hunland transports animals in the Mediterranean or the Middle East?

Even the minimum European animal transport regulations stop at the EU borders, as we have seen very often.

Goodwill alone does not help here, we need laws, pressure, demonstrations in front of the EU Commission in Brussels or the EU Parliament.

Therefore: Even the small improvements in the form of Hunland must not give us illusions that the meat industry will take care of the suffering of animals in animal transports, farms and slaughterhouses.
Because that’s part of their business

We welcome Hunland’s decision. And we hope the company keeps its promises.
But our struggle goes much deeper and aims at the end of animal transports.

My best regards to all, Venus

Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

UK: New Animal Welfare Bill Launched With Positives For Animals. What Leaving the EU Can Do.

New Animal Welfare Bill launched to protect pets, livestock and wild animals – Defra in the media (blog.gov.uk)

New Animal Welfare Bill launched to protect pets, livestock and wild animals

There is positive coverage today following the launch of our Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill to improve welfare standards across Great Britain. The story was covered by the Mirror, Evening Standard and Daily Express. The UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss was also interviewed by the Daily Mail about our new measures to tackle puppy smuggling.

The UK has long history of leading the way on animal welfare and now that we have left the EU, the Government is committed to improving our already world-leading standards by delivering a series of ambitious reforms, outlined in the Action Plan for Animal Welfare.

The Bill will raise animal welfare standards in five key areas:

  • Puppy smuggling: The Government will introduce new powers to tackle the unethical trade of puppy smuggling by reducing the number of pets (dogs, cats and ferrets) that can travel under pet travel rules. It will also include powers for the Government to bring in further restrictions on the movement of pets on welfare grounds, for example by increasing the minimum age of imported puppies and restricting the import of pregnant dogs and dogs with mutilations such as cropped ears and tails.
  • Live exports: Live animals can endure excessively long journeys during export, causing distress and injury. EU rules prevented any changes to these journeys, but the UK Government is now free to pursue plans which would see a ban on the export of live animals for slaughter and fattening. We will become the first European country to end this practice.
  • Banning keeping primates as pets: Primates are highly intelligent animals with complex needs and require specialist care. The Government will deliver on its manifesto commitment to introduce a ban on keeping them as pets, ensuring that all primates being kept privately in England are being kept at zoo-level standards and that those unable to meet the standards are phased out.
  • Livestock worrying: The Bill will give new powers to the police to provide greater protection to livestock from dangerous and out of control dogs. The Bill will also extend this protection to other species such as llamas, ostriches and game birds.
  • Zoos: The Zoo Licensing Act will be amended to improve zoo regulations and ensure that zoos are doing more to contribute to conservation.

Environment Secretary George Eustice said:

The Kept Animals Bill will bring in some of the world’s highest and strongest protections for pets, livestock and kept wild animals.

As an independent nation outside the EU we are now able to go further than ever on animal welfare by banning the export of live animal exports for slaughter and fattening, prohibiting keeping primates as pets and bringing in new powers to tackle puppy smuggling.

This builds on the launch of our Action Plan for Animal Welfare and Animal Sentience Bill last month as part of our work to build on our status as a world leader on animal welfare.

The Bill is the second piece of legislation introduced in the last month aimed at driving better standards of animal welfare, after the Government’s decision to formally recognise animals as sentient beings in domestic law through the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. The Government will also announce a series of further reforms this year related to microchipping, pet theft, farm animal welfare and tackling wildlife crime.

Follow Defra on Twitter, and sign up for email alerts here.

Regards Mark

Happy Animals Make for Tastier Meat—or at Least We Like to Think They Do
Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

England: More Dairy.

We have been involved with live calf export work and report writing to the EU in the past; check it out at About Us. | Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) and scroll down until ypou come to the photos of the export calves.

You can also read one of the investigation report by going to Microsoft Word – JH.04.03.2010_REPORT on NON-COMPLIANCE with RESTING TIMES in relation to CONTROL POST at F-HEAUVILLE.doc (wordpress.com) – read more about the investigation work via the above link.

A couple of our recent posts relating to dairy:

World Milk Day – we think of the cow – World Animals Voice

The Sexual Violation of Dairy Cows in 14 Steps. – World Animals Voice

And you can read all of our live export posts by visiting:

Live Transport – World Animals Voice

TRANSLATOR – Please remember we have one on the site, so you can read everthing we produce in a multitude of languages.  On the left of the page is a heading called ‘TRANSLATE’ – just click here, select your language, and all we be converted.  Simple !

Photo – We Animals Media

Staying with the abuses in dairy:

We Animals Media | Dairy Cows and Veal Calves

We Animals Media (WAM) brings visibility to hidden animals through compelling photo and videojournalism. As the world’s leading animal photojournalism agency, it is our mission to document the stories of animals in the human environment — those used for food, fashion, entertainment, and experimentation — and to connect those stories to the individuals and organizations who can amplify their reach.

Our growing network of award-winning photographers and videographers extends throughout the world, capturing images from a broad and diverse spectrum of animal industries. Together, we have created the world’s most comprehensive collection of animal photojournalism. This globally accessible resource is made available for free to anyone working to inspire compassion, conversation and change.

About – We Animals Media

Regards Mark

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Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

Netherlands: A Short Video On the Work of ‘Eyes On Animals’. Please Share.

WAV Comment – Lesley is an old friend, and we ave worked together on a few live export issues in the past.

Please watch the video and see the fantastic work they are doing at Eyes on Animals.

Regards Mark

Dear friends,

We just finished making a short video about some of the work that we do and why we do it. It shows the changes we have made and continue to work on so that animals suffer less and are better respected.

We are hoping to raise more awareness and draw new donors to join Eyes on Animals so that we can intensify our efforts on the ground.

This film will touch you and we want to thank you for being a part of Eyes on Animals. Without us all playing our part, we could not do such a work.

Please share this video with your loved ones and show them the organization you are supporting! With warm regards,    

Lesley Moffat
director Eyes on Animals  


https://www.eyesonanimals.com/            

Hunland, Europes’ largest animal transport and trading company, stops transport of unweaned calves

MAY 27, 2021

Hunland Group has publically announced it will go beyond the ambiguous EU rules and completely stop transporting unweaned calves under the age of 3 months. The reason for their decision is that calves cannot be given the proper care and feeding they need while cooped up on a truck.  Calves of this age are dependent on milk for nutrition, and cannot yet ruminate and eat roughage. It is impossible to place milk in the trucks’  watering system, or to offer it at the right temperature for safe digestion or to verify that each calf gets enough. To read about Hunlands’ decision, see HERE.

Eyes on Animals has a long history of working with Hunland and sensitizing their company to animal-welfare. We have worked together on improving the design of livestock trucks and on-board water systems (see HERE), we train their animal-truck drivers in Hungary regularly ( see : https://www.eyesonanimals.com/training-course-to-truck-drivers-from-hunland-trans-company-hungary/ and https://www.eyesonanimals.com/training-course-given-to-hunland-livestock-drivers/ and https://www.eyesonanimals.com/training-course-given-to-hunland-livestock-drivers-2/ and worked on EU welfare projects together (https://www.eyesonanimals.com/eu-project-on-good-and-aspiring-practices-to-reduce-stress-of-poultry-transport/)  Hunland has proved to be an open-minded animal transport company always striving to be on top of animal behaviour and welfare issues and adopting their company policies to them. We are grateful for their decision and for paving a new road for better welfare for unweaned calves. We hope other transport companies will follow their lead, and veterinarian and EU authorities too, at phasing out the long-distance transport of unweaned calves.

Environmental, Farm Animals, General News, Hunting, Live Transport, Uncategorized

England (UK): Who’s Pulling the Green (Animal Welfare and Environmental) Strings in Number 10 ? – Possibly These for Sure.

No. 10 mouser Larry celebrates 10 years of being most influential cat in politics

Above – Larry the Cat Belongs to No. 10 Downing Street – Government Residence.

WAV Comment – As an Englishman and animal activist, I (Mark) can remember for many years the fact that the Conservative Party viewed the animal welfare movement as the lowest of the low.  We; ‘the low’, always said in response; ‘do you not realise what additional votes there are from the animal / environmental movement if only you undertook some serious animal welfare issues’.  Our advice never worked; until recently that is; with Carrie Symonds doing her bit for welfare, and good others like Zak; Theresa Villiers, Sir Roger Gale and Sir David Amess; there is a realisation in the Conservatives that animals and the environment ARE actual issues that get them additional votes.  The following is an interesting article (link referenced at end) – I have included photos of thos described so that you ascertain who people are; and who ‘may be pulling green strings at No. 10’ (Downing Street.

Regards Mark

Who’s pulling the green strings in Number 10 ?

There are two – or possibly three – interpretations of the Government’s sudden conversion to the cause of animal welfare. The inclusion of a range of measures in the Queen’s Speech, including recognising animal sentience, ending the export of live animals and taking steps to stop people keeping primates as pets, is a far cry from a Conservative Party that only four years ago was promising its MPs a free vote on bringing back fox hunting.

Many people have, of course, pointed the finger at the prime minister’s fiancée Carrie Symonds, known for her work in the field of marine conservation, now employed by the conservation charity the John Aspinall Foundation. 

Boris's girlfriend Carrie Symonds blasts 'sick and cowardly' trophy hunters who shoot puffins as she wears £225 sustainable eco-dress and wellies in first solo speech
Above – Carrie Symonds – Fiancee to the Prime Minister.

Gossip about her influence over Boris Johnson and his seemingly new-found passion for green issues goes back to 2019, when environment secretary Theresa Villiers told Natural England to scrap the planned badger cull in Derbyshire. 

Theresa Villiers MP appointed as the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs | Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation
Above – Theresa Villiers (Yellow Jacket) – Politician and anti live animal export campaigner.

Symonds had been briefed by Dominic Dyer, until last December the chief executive of the Badger Trust, and – so the story goes – she pleaded with Johnson to intervene.

“I gave her information to give to Boris and he brought it up in Cabinet,” Dyer confirmed to ENDS. “Her intervention was significant because she understood the issue, her views were clear and she was a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF), a group that had worked hard to build a platform against badger culling.”

The NFU later took out a Judicial Review against Villiers’ decision, and the High Court judgment – though it rejected the farmers’ claim – found considerable evidence for Johnson putting pressure on DEFRA ministers to halt culling in Derbyshire.

In fact, Dyer believes it would have been easy to persuade Johnson that stopping the cull was the smart thing to do. The county was in the middle of the so-called ‘Red Wall’ that the Conservatives would target in the looming (though yet to be announced) General Election. “She told him you could be shooting badgers that have been vaccinated, and there’s no public support for that – that’s why he intervened,” Dyer said. “He didn’t want this issue coming up on the doorstep.”

Below – Lorraine Platt at badger cull demo.

Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation at No10 on the important implications of Brexit and animal welfare | Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation

But there’s another view. CAWF founder Lorraine Platt has been working for more than a decade with sympathetic MPs to fundamentally change the party’s approach to all manner of animal welfare issues. “It’s important to remember that patrons have had key influential roles in promoting animal welfare for many years, sometimes decades,” Platt told ENDS. “Sir Roger Gale and Sir David Amess have both been in Parliament for 37 years.”

Tory MP Sir Roger Gale: I don't need to justify paying my wife with taxpayers' money
Sir Roger with pet dog.

Below – Sir David Amess

Sir David Amess MP awarded Cruelty Free International MP of the month | Cruelty Free International

And, indeed, Platt argues, Johnson wrote a piece in the Daily Telegraph in 2018 arguing for an end to live animal exports. “He used his first speech on the steps of Downing Street as prime minister to talk about animal welfare, the first PM to have done that,” she said.

But if the animal welfare and broader environmental issues are really genuine passions for Johnson, then he appears to have a mixed record in advocating them. True, he’s written pieces about elephants and pangolins, but go back a decade or more and you can find articles questioning the science of climate change and rejecting recommendations from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

“If they seriously believe that I am going to give up eating meat – in the hope of reducing the temperature of the planet – then they must be totally barmy,” he wrote. Does this suggest that his embrace of green issues is superficial or that it has come later, raising once again the influence of his new partner?

CAWF patron Sir David Amess suggested to ENDS that giving Symonds all the credit for the government’s commitment to animal welfare would be to ignore the work of many other people.

“I can’t pretend to know the lady, I’ve met her once at the Conservative Party conference,” he said, “but I’ve got no evidence for her influence over these issues. I know that [environment secretary] George Eustice and [environment minister] Zac Goldsmith were talking positively about these things way before she came on the scene.” Dyer also acknowledges the considerable influence of Goldsmith in Number 10. 

UK to ban import of trophy hunting souvenirs to help rare animals | Metro News
Zac Goldsmith (right) – key person in stopping UK trophy hunt imports.

So, Johnson’s new-found commitment to animal welfare could be down to Symonds, but it could also – or equally – be down to the fact that the Conservative Party, and the people who vote for it, have changed. Changing tack makes political sense. 

And the third possibility? That it is intended to distract from other other measures, such as the proposed reforms to the planning system, that will have adverse impacts on the environment. Throw the blue-green voters a bone so they look away from potentially less palatable actions elsewhere, could be the thinking. 

Dyer agrees there are contradictions within the Conservative agenda, whether it’s HS2 or airport expansions. “These are big issues and there are vested interests that will push back the other way,” he said.

Symonds, in other words, may have influence, but so do plenty of other people.

Environmental, Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport, Uncategorized

UK: Breaking 22/5/21 – McDonald’s depots blockaded by up to 50,000 animal activists demanding chain goes vegan. Mc Unhappy !

*There’s no McCafe on a dead planet.*

Breaking – 22/5/21

McDonald’s depots blockaded by animal activists demanding chain goes vegan


McDonald’s distribution centres which supply around 1,300 restaurants have been blockaded by animal rights protestors demanding the chain goes vegan.

Around 50,000 members of Animal Rebellion have descended on four of the fast food giant’s major sites in a bid to persuade it to introduce a fully plant-based menu by 2025.


Read the latest and see photos at:

McDonald’s depots blockaded by activists demanding chain goes vegan | Metro News

Photos – Metro, London.

Animal Rebellion activists blockade McDonald's
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GRABS:Animal Rebellion activists blockade McDonald's
Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport, Uncategorized, Vegan Recipes

Please Read – ‘WAV’ or not ‘WAV’, that is the question !

Hi all;

This is important in a way; but will have no real effect on you as visitors to this site.

I (Mark) will try to explain;

A ‘domain’ is a internet ‘address’ which can be used for global access by anyone.  Here at WAV, our domain is ‘worldanimalsvoice.com’; we pay each year to have and retain this domain.

We have recently been informed by domain registrars in China that applications have been made for at least 4 domains for ‘World Animals Voice’ and that they will vary from our address – as far as we know, they are worldanimalsvoice.cn/   worldanimalsvoice.com.cn/   worldanimalsvoice.net.cn/  and worldanimalsvoice.org.cn

We have informed the registrar in China that these addresses applications are nothing to do with us (as we are UK and Germany controlled) or are they associated with us and that if they are taken out, then we will have no control over the content of same.

Our real ‘concern’ is that the name ‘worldanimalsvoice’; which we set up and use for this site, is / could be used (in China) when it has nothing to with us; having originated and been registered via the domain controller in China. 

Our domain is only ‘worldanimalsvoice.com’

We hope that if these new domains are used, taking the name ‘world animals voice’; then they will be supportive of animal welfare / rights issues; and that their content will be positive towards animals.  But we cannot guarantee this, or any of the content on any of these sites.

So you, as supporters to our site, can visit us you always do; but please just be wary that there may be other ‘world animals voice’ sites, namely (worldanimalsvoice.cn/   worldanimalsvoice.com.cn/   worldanimalsvoice.net.cn/  and worldanimalsvoice.org.cn) possibly being used.  The info on them is not associated with us; has nothing to do with us and never will be controlled in any way by us.

There is no way to combat this and we have to accept the situation of world (computer) domains as it is.

Please put ‘worldanimalsvoice.com’ somewhere safe on your system so that you know this is the only way to access us.  Any other address is outside of our control.

We trust you understand the situation and we will carry on with this site as always.

Thanks and regards

Mark and Venus;

Founders – WAV.

Environmental, Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

UK: Historic Progress For Animals Announced – A View From Phil; CEO ‘Compassion In World Farming’.

WAV Comment – Good animal friend; long time live exports campaigner, and environmentalist / farm animal campaigner, Philip, CEO at Compassion In World Farming, shares his feelings about progress for animals and their welfare in the UK last week; re the Queens Speech on upcoming government actions to change legislation.

CIWF

Historic Progress For Animals Announced

This week has been an historic moment for animal welfare in the UK with plans for key reforms announced by government, including legal recognition of animal sentience and a ban on live exports. These, and a suite of other measures, were outlined first in the Queen’s Speech and then in a Defra Action Plan. In total, 40 measures have been unveiled covering farmed, wild and companion animals, which together add up to the biggest welfare shake-up in a generation.

Plans are only as good as the implementation, of course, and Compassion will press hard to ensure government intentions become law. The reforms will be introduced as a series of Bills, with the one recognising animal sentience already having been introduced to the House of Lords.

The Bill provides legal recognition that vertebrate animals are sentient beings and intends assurance that their ability to suffer pain and experience joy, if we let them, will be taken into account in future government policies. Legal recognition of animals as sentient creatures has long been a cornerstone of our work at Compassion. Indeed, it was our founder, Peter Roberts, who first launched the idea in the 1980s. The battle was first won in the European Union in 1997 when legal recognition was attached as a protocol and then later an article in the EU treaty. As the recognition was in the EU treaty rather than a specific law, it wasn’t transposed into British legislation post-Brexit. The government’s new Bill proposes to rectify the situation.

Our story | Compassion in World Farming
All those years ago – Peter Roberts (foreground), Founder CIWF protests about intensive animal farming.

Another of our longstanding campaigns has been for a ban on the live export trade for slaughter and fattening. Always cruel and unnecessary, this trade has continued down the decades despite overwhelming public opposition. Quite why is a mystery, given the trade’s insignificance to the farming industry when set against overall meat exports.

It is a hugely welcome moment then that the UK government now proposes to end this indefensible trade once and for all. The proposal, of course, comes soon after our own Judicial Review of the Scottish Government over calf exports.

It is also tremendously important that these reforms are quickly followed with bans on other indefensible factory farm practices, including the keeping of mother pigs and chickens in cages.

Factory farming is finally being recognised more widely for what it is — a cruel and deeply damaging form of farming that only makes worse the climate, nature and pandemic emergencies now facing society.

What is crucial now is that Parliament and the UK government takes this opportunity to not only make these key reforms, but also to push on and end all forms of factory farming.

Thank you to everyone who has marched through the streets, written letters, signed petitions, switched their eating habits and got stories in the media calling for these reforms. It is testimony to your efforts over decades.

Whilst celebrating these hugely welcome plans, it is more important than ever before that we keep up the pressure until every last animal is free from the suffering of factory farming.

Philip Lymbery

Historic Progress For Animals Announced | by Philip Lymbery | May, 2021 | Medium

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Sweden: Djurskyddet Sverige publishes their guide to help consumers to make animal welfare conscious choices.

 

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Djurskyddet Sverige publishes their guide to help consumers to make animal welfare conscious choices

Djurskyddet Sverige, published their own consumer guide, Handla Djurschysst. It is intended for Swedish citizens who want to make animal welfare-conscious food purchasing decisions.

The majority of Sweden’s adult population consumes animal-derived products. However, animal welfare remains an important consideration for Swedish consumers when purchasing meat, eggs, or milk. Yet, it is not always clear what distinguishes the rules of one label from another when it comes to how the animals were treated. 

The goal of Handla Djurschysst is to help Swedish consumers make more animal welfare-conscious decisions, so Djurskyddet Sverige investigated labeling regulations to understand which animal welfare criteria each one covers. The guide also explains which standards are important for farm animals in terms of welfare, from the growing environment to the slaughter.

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Djurskyddet Sverige : Consumer guide Handla Djurschysst

Sounds really positive for animal welfare

Regards Mark