The mass grave “Al Shuwaikh” had only negative feelings and thoughts generated lately.
But let’s not forget that there were also a few, who actively tried to prevent it, and one of them was the Dutch MEP Anja Hazenkamp.

Hazekamp visited the Port of Midia, where she observed horrendous animal abuse during loading.

“Sheep were kicked, beaten and attacked with electric poles, but Romanian authorities refused to intervene. Europe can no longer look the other way. Animal welfare rules are being violated systematically. The Commission must act now.

 

Before the world’s largest ship transport by ship took off, MEP Anja Hazekamp from the Dutch party “For the Animals” traveled to Midia to protest the departure.

On 10 July, but only from his office, EU Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis had written to the Romanian Minister of Agriculture, Petre Daea, to ban such and especially this unnecessary long-distance transport. Alone these temperatures did not allow the transport, it says in the letter.
The Romanian Minister of Agriculture, Daea, rejected the request as unfounded and sent 70,000 others to the death.
Andiukaitis now announces that there are no grounds for infringement proceedings against Romania.

On the day the Al Shuwaikh took off, Andriukaitis discussed long-distance animal transports at high temperatures with European agriculture ministers.

Hazekamp presented the subject to Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, who then promised to discuss this with Andriukaitis, stating that he was unaware of this transport.

Discussions have not saved a single animal until today.
Only acts!

In the end, no one knew anything, no one could do anything, after all, SHE was the only one who drove to Midia, and showed solidarity with the 70,000 animals!

Anja Hazekamp has done what she is paid for, namely protecting animals and actively trying to stop the transport!

Thanks Anja Hazenkamp in the name of the animals!!

For this crime, are responsible the hypocritical EU Commissioners, whose work ethic on paper ends.

So we ask ourselves: why can not such EU Commissioners be replaced?
We don`t know how they could get such a responsible post, they got it without our voice, what we know is that they don`t care for the welfare of the animals, but they benefit from the suffering of the animals.

We did not forget the mass grave “Al Shuwaikh”!
And we will do our utmost to ensure that those responsible for this mass grave receive a just punishment.

A nice video from the active fight of the Dutchwoman, as MEP, against animal transports

Anja Hazekamp controls animal transports in Slovenia and Croatia

 

Best regards, Venus

 

 

Surely we all have already noticed by the media that these days again and again animal transporters are stopped by the police and depict dramatic scenes.

Image: deutsches Tierschutzbüro e.V

 

Last Friday, for example, the motorway police in the Nuremberg area (Germany) stopped an overheated animal transport with about 800 piglets. The officers had been alerted by a committed animal rights activist from the Nuremberg area.

He observed while driving on the A3 that many of the animals gasped and were in poor general condition.

Locally, the officials found that the temperature in the transporter was about 41 degrees Celsius. The outside temperature during the day was 38 degrees Celsius!

Image: deutsches Tierschutzbüro e.V

 

The stench was appalling, as the eyewitness sketched. The parking lot in an industrial area ( where the driver had parked) was flooded with excrement and dirt –
these were the legacies of a transport that was already hundreds of miles across Europe.

The networked animal rights activist observed and told us that the drinking system was only turned on, when the driver of the transporter was asked to do so. Already after a short time this was already empty. It did not really work.

“There’s a bit of criminal energy behind it” the police spokesman said. “At such temperatures, it’s like a death sentence.”

Image: deutsches Tierschutzbüro e.V

 

The truck was on its way from the Netherlands to Croatia – a distance of over 1000 kilometers. Only in Austria a new stop was planned.

Until at least the animals would have remained without water.

Image: deutsches Tierschutzbüro e.V

 

Due to the prevailing high temperature and acute water shortage many of the animals were found in a very dehydrated state, at least two piglets were already dead.
The police called then the responsible fire department and the veterinary office, which arrived a short time later and provided the animals with water first. The animals were then transported to the slaughterhouse in Erlangen (Bavaria) to be unloaded and cared for overnight.

Although in the meantime a few more animal rights activists turned on and already gave life courts places for some animals, unfortunately none of the piglets could be rescued.

Image: deutsches Tierschutzbüro e.V

 

After the animals were supplied with water and food in the premises of the slaughterhouse, the responsible VET doctor unfortunately released the truck and was allowed to resume its journey to Croatia.

Some of the piglets were previously found in such poor condition that they were killed on the spot.

We immediately filed a complaint against the drivers and the freight forwarding company and very much hope that it will be punished accordingly.

Safety measures in the five-digit range were imposed on the two drivers of the animal transporter.

But what happened in Nuremberg is  not an isolated case.
As long as  Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner (the friend-girl of the slaughterhouses) not finally and consistently intervenes international and national animal transports in the summer months, in principle, it will come to such disasters at the expense of animals.

Therefore, we ask everyone to be vigilant. If you are traveling in the next few days and weeks ( and we all have to fight again with temperatures of over 30 degrees Celsius)  please also be active. Watch the animal transporters exactly.

Image: deutsches Tierschutzbüro e.V

 

Should you notice something like very heavily panting or injured animals gasping for air, please alert the police immediately.

 

https://www.change.org/p/unterschreibe-jetzt-tiertransporte-endlich-abschaffen/u/24893519

 

My comment: (From the official information center for agriculture, Germany):

“Objective consideration of long-distance transport from Germany shows that German companies are complying with existing regulations.” (see above the case Nuremberg)

The protection of the animals is the focus of transport. After inspections in several EU Member States, the EU Commission emphasized that the additional transnational procedures for official animal welfare controls in Germany are excellent (see also above).

In this country, each long-distance transport in non-EU countries is monitored and checked by veterinary officials (as the vans waitfor  days at the Bulgarian-Turkish border crossing Kapıkule , at 40 degrees Celsius heat.)

We know very well that from the European ports European law is systematically broken, from here on every possibility of control ends.

In February 2017, two years ago, the public was shocked by the fall of a ship that sailed from a Croatian port to Alexandria in Egypt for six days. Three pregnant cows died already in the first four days. In the end, the number of dead animals increased to nine.

But according to EU law it is forbidden to transport pregnant animals!

In addition, the export of live slaughter and breeding animals is booming. Germany alone exported animals worth € 1.34 billion in 2017, almost eight percent more than in the previous year.

France, the Netherlands, Hungary and Germany are high on the list of EU suppliers. According to the Statistical Office of the EU, Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt are among the major importers.

One wonders, for how stupid keeps us the EU – Kommission and its business partners, the animal transport mafia!

 

My best regards to all, Venus

 

 

 

 

We tried, and we believed until the last day that we would make it at least to a fair punishment.
When 70,000 beings are dragged to Kuwait for 18 days under murderous temperatures with minimal livelihoods, the question arises automatically:

who bears the responsibility for this crime? what could be a just punishment?

We accompanied this coffin from the satellite every day, and that gave us the feeling of being with the sufferer.
In their last, agonizing days.

We did not have the right to file a complaint against the Romanian Ministry or the transport company as it should.
We only do an investigative work on the rights of animals from this blog, we are not an association nor an organization.
This would be justified by other organizations or Eurogroups, who have very quickly lost the interest in this death procession of the 70,000 sheep to Kuwait.

We were the first to report on Romania’s violation oagains the EU Animal Transport Act.
And leave this vile battlefield last.
Sad as never before.
For two reasons.

Because we could not stop this death journey from the beginning, in the port of Midia.
This was the fate of animals already sealed.
And on the other hand, because we could not count on the help of any organization, Eurogroup or association; all these had given up these 70.000 beings, the case “Midia” made for the media and animal rights sides only on the first day a headline, for all others was the transport to Kuwait a hopeless case, just like any animal transport.

Nobody can imagine what the 70,000 sheep on a sea coffin under the Kuwaiti flag has suffered.

And while we believe that our day-to-day experiences of suffering animals harden us, in this particular case we reach the limit of emotional explosion, hate those who caused the tragedy, and those who ignored this tragedy .

At the latest since the case of “Midia” we know that the EU is not there for the animals, but for those who do business with animals.
But we have learned something else, too:
Those who fight alone in animal welfare, has no chance to achieve even minimal benefit for the animals.
The fight against corrupt politicians and the criminal animal industry is a collective struggle.

So we can call the tragedy of “Midia” a collective failure!

 

My best regards to all, Venus