In Mexico City, animal rights activists are protesting against the return of bullfighting, years after it was outlawed.
The Mexican Supreme Court repealed its decision last month, citing a lack of sufficient reasoning to ban the events.
Read and listen to full article at:
Animal rights activists in Mexico protest return of bullfighting | RNZ
Read our WAV recent on this:
Regards Mark
Tiny Georgia town in uproar at plans to build a huge $400 MILLION breeding farm for 30,000 long-tailed macaques that will be sold off for animal testing
A tiny Georgia town is in uproar amid plans for a huge $400million breeding farm for 30,000 monkeys who will be sold off for animal testing.
Safer Human Medicine sparked fury in Bainbridge, in the south west of the state, by proposing the sprawling site for the long-tailed macaques.
It filed plans earlier this month to erect huge sheds across a 200-acre estate near the town of 14,000 people, which will hold the doomed primates.
Read the ful article here:
Regards Mark
Here be Believers in the Laws given in the Old Testament. Justice will be done. You know who you are …
Our recent post re Iditarod:
NOW 33 DAYS UNTIL THE START
Dear Mark,
Let’s send Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach a demand: STOP exploiting dogs in the deadly Iditarod race!
Please urge Urbach to end the Iditarod’s dog abuse by replacing dogs with willing human athletes, such as cross-county skiers, or even snowmobilers:
Thank you for speaking up for dogs suffering in the Iditarod. Please help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to everyone you know.
Take Action Now !
E mail Rob Urbach Now with this message below:
To – rob.urbach@iditarod.com
Being new to the Iditarod, you had a great opportunity to build something modern, exciting, and humane. Instead you’ve maintained the status quo for the dogs who suffer chained up in the freezing cold and then are forced to run to exhaustion, injury, or even death in this cruel race.
As long as the race continues in its present format, dogs will continue to suffer from stress fractures, bleeding ulcers, and illnesses like intestinal viruses. They’ll continue to die after being buried in snow and of heart attacks, excessive fluid in the lungs, and acute aspiration pneumonia—a lung infection caused by inhaling their own vomit—which, as you know, is the leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod.
These dogs are just like those we share our homes with. They don’t want to have a “career”—they’re just unlucky enough to have been bred by mushers who push them past their limits and then leave them out in the cold. Please replace dogs with willing human endurance athletes, cross-country skiers, or even snowmobilers. The Iditarod would attract a new and growing audience—and spare dogs a life of pain and misery.
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Regards Mark / PETA
Stuff from https://www.instagram.com/cats_protection_china
These posts/images are solely intended to show you what is happening, and we apologize for the graphic nature. However, to understand why this issue is so close to our hearts, and to all of those cooperating globally to end it, there must needs be an understanding of the “nature of the beast” we are facing. So bear with us. Thank you.
Together we’re strong.
For The Animals!
Regards Diana and Mark
Hi all;
Great news – another Chinese cat torturer / abuser is exposed.
Here are our previous posts associated with Chinese cat torture, and Crush video sites. Be warned, there are some graphic images there; but animal abuse is animal abuse, and we will not hold back from showing anything that gets the issue across. You don’t dress up immense suffering with flowers; what you see is what you get – REALITY.
Past WAV Posts:
China: ‘Crush’ Information. – World Animals Voice
EXPOSING AND COMBATING CAT TORTURE NETWORKS. 6/1/24. – World Animals Voice
China: Cat Torture Actions Follow Up – No. 1 – World Animals Voice
China – Cat Torture – Major Information and Actions – Follow Up No. 2 – World Animals Voice
New – A new Chinese cat torturer is identified and exposed:
This #catabuser made the news! ! !
Another cat abuser in China exposed. The cats were adopted online through fraud, then tortured and killed!
A man from Henan, Zhumadian, Feng Xiang, cheated multiple cats (estimates from 20 up to 200) into adoption through Xianyu app.
Now many foster carers have come forward to testify. The man’s employer also stated in the interview that he will actively set up an investigation team to conduct a follow-up investigation!
This matter is so bad, and so many people have been deceived. If the situation is true, hopefully there will not be only criticism and education for the abuser, but also some justice to all deceived owners and cats! ! !
The action:
The Chinese activists are reporting Feng Xiang to many local authorities. We can send an email to his workplace, Zhumadian Science and Technology Association, and ask them to fire him.
➡️ The subject:
举报诉求：要求开除冯翔工作，开除党籍！
➡️ The letter:
驻马店市科学技术协会,
河南驻马店出现比杰克辣条更残忍的变态！！
冯翔，男，自2023年5月至今领养过至少两百只猫进行大屠杀式虐杀！
身份证号：412826198711010339
工作单位：驻马店市科学技术协会
冯翔属于公职人员却德不配位，冯翔的妻子是天中实验小学的教师，作为一个老师却极端漠视生命，协助包庇冯翔虐杀。此二人是有着很大社会影响力的人物，本该是驻马店的骄傲，但却干出屠杀生命的事情！冯翔这种心理阴暗扭曲的人不适合为人民服务！
举报诉求：要求开除冯翔工作，开除党籍！
➡️ To: zmdkexie@sina.com
Please attach at least the picture with a red cloth.
#catabuse #catabuserschina #blendercat #cowcat #stopanimalcruelty #stopanimalabuse
There is a lot going on with this issue; but due to a lack of general animal welfare legislation within China, this type of abuse is very common and is spread via the dark web; and very often linked to Porn and Vice – i.e. “Girls (female activists); send us some photos of yourself in the nude and save a cat !!” As said before in our previous post on the matter, and as a warning: DO NOT do that. It never works, and never saves an animal.
All those involved are sick, demented perverts who get a kick out of torturing and killing animals – and promoting it via their dark web links – a cancer growth within the internet that MUST BE exterminated. While it is true that there are literally MILLIONS of followers (of similar ilk) and (paying) consumers that, when combined with the lack of action from the Chinese authorities, make it difficult to achieve positive results – it cannot be stressed enough that “difficult” doesn’t mean impossible. Real change never comes overnight, and while many more animals will sadly suffer the unspeakable before these individuals face the consequences, we are committed – as we hope, you are – to do our part to end this.
Combined as we are – a global animal rights community – we can and will hit, and hit hard. In the end, the Chinese authorities will have to take action, in the interest of global save-face. Where degraded conduct like this is tolerated, no successful business can and must exist with a global community of countries that have zero tolerance for the abuse and murder of the Helpless – make NO mistake.
There is more to come, exposing more abusers and those complicit in their crimes very soon – we are working on it right now, and will publish very soon. So stay tuned.
Regards Mark and Diana
Please, if you have cats to be rehomed, DO NOT offer them in ads as ‘free to a good home’; as this is the source of supply to many of these abusers torturers – and not in China only of course. No matter how genuine they may appear to you; there could be a supply to the torture world. So, get animals sterilised and stop the abuse.
25 January 2024
Last week the European Parliament issued a resounding call to the European Commission, urging the Common Fisheries Policy to improve the welfare of aquatic animals.
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) encompasses both the aquaculture and fisheries sectors and is pivotal in establishing the foundational objectives for the management of fisheries and fish populations in the EU’s waters, along with the market and financial aspects of aquaculture. It ensures both sectors are ecologically, economically and socially sustainable.
On 18 January, the European Parliament (EP) voted on what the next steps of CFP implementation should include, adopting a new report laying out the achievements and shortcomings of the CFP since its last reform, over a decade ago.
However, the report calls for updated legislation, ignoring the fact that the key reason that the CFP is not resulting in sustainable fishing in the EU is because Member States consistently set fishing quotas above scientific advice. The priority should be better implementation and enforcement of the CFP, in line with the latest science.
A critical flaw in the policy is the absence of any consideration of aquatic animals’ welfare, despite billions of them being farmed or fished and ultimately slaughtered every year in the European Union. Although Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union requires fishery policies – among others – to “pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals”, the CFP is the only EU policy which deals with living animals but contains no animal welfare provisions.
Last Thursday, the Members of the European Parliament asserted the need to change this, calling on the European Commission (EC) to take into account the welfare of farmed and wild-caught fish in the CFP. This move aligns with the sentiment expressed by European citizens, as over 90% of respondents in the 2023 Eurobarometer indicated a demand for farming and breeding practices to adhere to basic ethical requirements..
This vote follows-up on scientific recognition of the sentience of fish, as confirmed by the European Food Safety Authority) and the European Commission, and aligns the EP with the Council of the European Union which, in June, also urged the Commission to enhance aquatic animals’ welfare through the CFP.
In the same vein, Commissioner Sinkevicius also made a promising statement during the debate – “I (…) recognise that future research and innovation is required, in particular on species-specific welfare parameters (…)” – gives us hope that the European citizens’ demand for better animal welfare conditions – including for aquatic animals – will be heard.”
Regards Mark
Will be publishing at least 2 new posts on this within next 24 hours.
Mark and Diana.
23 January 2024
Under no circumstances can the welfare of animals in fur farms be protected, and a full ban is the only way forward, Eurogroup for Animals argued in the first stakeholder meeting of the European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA) to evaluate current practices on fur farms.
EFSA hosted the first stakeholder meeting to evaluate the current practices on fur farms, after it was asked by the European Commission (EC) to put forward a scientific opinion in reply to the Fur Free Europe European Citizens Initiative (ECI), in which 1.5 million citizens asked for a ban on fur farms and placement of fur products in Europe.
In its official reply to the ECI in December, the EC mentioned a possible prohibition of fur farming and placement of farmed fur products on the European market, following EFSA’s opinion, which is to be put forward by March 2025. The technical meeting involved participation of representatives of animal protection NGOs, academics and the fur industry.
Scientists representing the fur industry openly admitted that the ‘Welfur’ certification system has evident shortcomings and questioned the fact that it has failed to identify inadequate conditions on fur farms in Europe.
While the EC asked EFSA to “assess whether these welfare consequences can be prevented or substantially mitigated under current farming conditions”, animal protection NGOs stressed, once again, that EFSA’s opinion should start from the animals’ specific needs, as opposed to the infrastructure of the system, as scientific studies have consistently concluded that no level of cage enrichment can maintain animal welfare.
It is difficult to assess positive welfare in a system which removes the agency of animals to act on their natural behavioural urges, such as foraging, seeking shelter or other natural motivations.
If we genuinely intend to discuss animal welfare, the species-specific needs of animals should be the only starting point to determine if and how we should continue keeping and killing sentient beings for commercial purposes.
Nicholas Clark, Wildlife Programme Leader, Eurogroup for Animals
There are inherent problems in fur farming that simply cannot be resolved. The fur industry’s so called ‘certification schemes’ mislead consumers, and are designed to reward the status quo. There are no changes that can be made – the welfare of wild animals on fur farms is severely compromised across all five domains, resulting in a life not worth living.
Mark Glover, Director, Respect for Animals
Around 7.7 million animals are currently kept and killed for fur production in the European Union. 20 Member States have already totally or partially banned fur farming, or implemented stricter measures on grounds of animal welfare, environment and public health.
While the fur industry has made an open invite to the European Commission to visit fur farms, Eurogroup for Animals stresses that any visits must be unannounced and randomly selected.
Regards Mark
World Animals Voice 