Take your pick of the F&M news –
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eu-meat-dairy-ban-foot-and-mouth-disease-enforcement-smuggling/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/terrifying-virus-shuts-europe-borders-35037628
https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/on-footandmouth-disease-in-kzn–john-steenhuisen
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-confirms-fifth-foot-and-mouth-outbreak-as-virus-persists/
https://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/ferry-routes
Please use the following CIWF link to take protest action and get this trade stopped immediately.
Thanks and regards – Mark / Diana
https://www.animaljusticeproject.com/
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Well worth a Visit.
And .. to move directly to their most current Investigation and Campaign – after today’s post about similar abuse on a farm in Wales in 2022 investigated by “Animal Equality” …
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https://www.animaljusticeproject.com/campaigns/lowfields
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Continue reading on page …..
https://animalequality.org.uk/campaign/cruelty-to-cows/
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Covert filming by an Animal Equality investigator has revealed disturbing undercover footage of deliberate violence and neglect on Madox Farm, a large dairy farm in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. The troubling scenes include workers kicking and punching cows in the face and stomach, and hitting them with metal shovels. The footage was broadcast to millions of people on BBC One’s Panorama. Milk from the farm is supplied to Freshways, the UK’s largest independent dairy processor and wholesaler. Freshways distributes dairy products to established retailers and businesses including Costa Coffee, British Airways, Londis, Budgens and P&O Cruises.
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https://animalequality.org.uk/blog/our-footage-on-bbc-panorama/
15/02/2022
Animal Equality’s investigator worked undercover on Madox Farm for several months and documented troubling scenes of abuse and neglect, including a number of serious legal violations.
The footage reveals workers punching and kicking cows in the face and stomach, as well as hitting them with sharp, metal shovels. It also shows cows unable to stand being hoisted by their hips with a lift and dragged against the cold concrete floor.
But that’s not all that our cameras documented. Listed below are the main problems we found on the farm, which unfortunately are widespread in the dairy industry. …….
https://animalequality.in/campaign/cruel-goat-meat-production/
A groundbreaking investigation by Animal Equality has exposed widespread cruelty and blatant illegalities in the goat meat industry across Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar. The organization documented horrific conditions in 7 farms, 5 markets, and 4 slaughter facilities, revealing the appalling suffering inflicted on goats at every stage of their lives.
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Every year again we witness the impossible, in Christian countries, the result of a Faith gone utterly wrong. The lamb, the very symbol of Innocence and of Jesus Christ, being subjected to a level of cruelty, and in huge numbers, that defies understanding.
After all …
So much for wishful thinking, and quite possibly the Lord’s own thoughts on the issue, and man’s relationship with these defenceless creatures, and indeed all of the Animal Kingdom.
And THIS is the reality … year after year after year.
https://animalequality.org/news/2019/11/04/investigation-sheep-brutally-killed-in-uk-slaughterhouse/
November 4, 2019 Updated: January 20, 2025
Animal Equality UK has released a new investigation filmed inside a sheep slaughterhouse. The disturbing recordings, filmed during July and August 2019 at Farmers Fresh Wales slaughterhouse in Wrexham, North Wales, detail unimaginable cruelty and immense suffering. Farmers Fresh Wales supplies customers in London and across the Midlands, as well as continental Europe. …..
https://animalequality.org/blog/the-long-road-to-the-slaughterhouse/
January 28, 2022 Updated: February 1, 2022
Instead of sitting down to a family dinner over the holidays, Animal Equality investigators were on the road, documenting the suffering of lambs transported from Eastern Europe to Italy for slaughter.
Every Christmas and Easter, Animal Equality documents the long and difficult journeys that lambs undergo from Eastern Europe to Italian slaughterhouses. These lambs, many only weeks old, end up on the tables of millions of Italians during the holidays.
Although the transport trucks tend to follow predictable routes, it’s not always easy to map their movements. We located and followed some trucks, being careful not to lose them while we gathered as much information as possible.
https://animalequality.org/news/2015/03/23/shocking-cruelty-in-lamb-industry-revealed-once-again/
Animal Equality launches it’s ‘Save a Lamb’ campaign with a video that shows the cruelty lambs suffer in modern farms and slaughterhouses.
March 23, 2015 Updated: February 24, 2025
International – Through the release of a new video showing the life of a lamb in 60 seconds, Animal Equality launched on Saturday, March 22nd it’s 2015 ‘Save a Lamb’ campaign.
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The video was filmed entirely by Animal Equality undercover investigators in farms and slaughterhouses in Italy. The practices shown in the footage are standard and common practice in the meat industry. ….
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Underwater factory farms are one of the biggest causes of suffering on the planet. Forcing billions of fishes to spend their lives swimming in endless circles in cages before suffering inhumane and painful deaths. We call on the European Commission to include the protection of fish welfare among the priority objectives of the revision of the EU legislation on animal welfare.
A new investigation by Essere Animali reveals the shortcomings of the current European Union legislation on animal welfare, which clearly fails to guarantee the protection of farmed fish. The shocking images filmed during the investigation — which was conducted at several trout farms as well as a few sea bass and sea bream farms — reveal farming, transport and slaughter practices that cause enormous suffering to the animals.
By releasing this investigation, Essere Animali joins and relaunches the Compassion in World Farming campaign, aimed at asking the European Commission to include the protection of fish welfare among the priority objectives of the revision of the EU legislation on animal welfare.
17 February 2025
From cage to fur farming and fish welfare, key animal welfare concerns are being addressed very differently across the EU’s 27 Member States.
In this report, we break down the steps that different countries in the EU are taking on a range of animal welfare issues – or lack thereof. The stark differences in their approaches highlights the critical need for the EU to publish its long-awaited revision to the animal welfare legislation, which has not been updated for decades, and which is not sufficiently protecting the wellbeing of animals across Europe.
Only by modernising and strengthening these laws will the EU be able to effectively harmonise the approaches of all Member States to animal welfare: improving the lives of billions of sentient beings, easing compliance for farmers, ensuring fair competition, and aligning agriculture with its sustainability and resilience goals.
and this is what it looks like …
A site well worth the visit, and proof – if that were needed – that NOT EVERYONE in Israel supports this practice!
Translation of above text:
An excerpt from a biased article in late 2016 about the adequacy of the conditions in the live transports (since then, countless horrors have been documented, all of which turn out to be adequate):
“The issue of animal cruelty is very important to the Ministry of Agriculture and to me personally,” Uri Ariel clarified. “We decided to conduct a surprise inspection of a shipment of calves arriving in Israel, in order to see the reality up close. The conditions on the ship were adequate.”
According to him, the professionals in veterinary services are doing a sacred job to reduce harm to animals, “We are constantly examining new ways to see what else can be done to reduce harm to animals imported into Israel.”
“Animal cruelty is a well-known prohibition in Judaism, an example of which is the rule ‘You shall not muzzle an ox,’ which was already written in the Torah thousands of years ago. Judaism taught humanity not to harm animals, and we as a country see this as a moral and professional obligation,” emphasized the Minister of Agriculture.
World Animals Voice 