Fur and Fur Farming

Armani says NO to Angora-we think it’s great!

We have some exciting news for rabbits!

Following talks with PETA, the Armani Group – whose iconic brands include Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, EA7, and Armani Exchange – has confirmed that it has banned the use of angora in future collections.
The company implemented a ban on fur in 2016.

Today’s socially conscious fashion consumers want nothing to do with an industry that rips the hair out of fully conscious rabbits.

As more and more Italian designers and fashion houses are saying no to fur, angora, and other materials stolen from animals, it’s time for Italian legislators to catch up with the changing times and ban fur farms.

take action to make it happen: https://secure.peta.org.uk/page/64561/action/1

A few things about it: Around 7,000 minks a year are still imprisoned on Italy’s six remaining fur farms. It’s time to shut these facilities down.

Investigations into Italian mink farms have found that animals spend their short, miserable lives inside wire cages, with no access to grass or water to swim in.
Many are left with severe injuries, and some are driven to self-mutilation or cannibalisation of their cagemates by the stress of captivity.

The minks are killed when they’re only about 6 months old – crammed into a box and gassed to death.

These fur farms are putting public health in jeopardy, too. When it comes to the risk of spreading disease, they’re no different from the live-animal market in which the novel coronavirus is believed to have originated.
It’s very easy for infectious diseases to spread on fur farms through the exchange of urine, excrement, pus, and blood.
Minks with infections, sores, and festering, open wounds are a common sight.
Fur farmers and handlers are among those who most commonly suffer from the zoonotic bacterial disease tularaemia.

Following reports that minks tested positive for COVID-19 on fur farms in the Netherlands and that workers are believed to have contracted a strain of the virus from the animals, the Dutch parliament voted by an overwhelming majority to bring forward the implementation of a fur-farming ban in the Netherlands.

Such bans are already in place in Austria, the Czech Republic, Israel, the UK, and several other countries.

A meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council was held in June 2021, and the European Commission was called on to end the breeding of animals for the production of fur in the European Union.

Italy’s Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies Stefano Patuanelli showed support for the ban, declaring that “the breeding of animals for fur is no longer justifiable and Italy will give its maximum support to reach the European ban on this form of breeding”.

PETA is celebrating this progress and has written to Italian government officials, thanking them for taking the right steps forward.

Italians know that fur belongs in the history books, not in our wardrobes.

Over 90% of the country’s population is against fur farming; iconic Italian designer brands such as Armani, Gucci, Elisabetta Franchi, Prada, and Versace are all fur-free; and over the past 30 years, the number of fur farms in Italy decreased from 125 to six.

We must urge the Italian government to stay true to its word by ending all fur farming in Italy now – minks can’t wait any longer.

take action to make it happen: https://secure.peta.org.uk/page/64561/action/1

Amd I mean…The rabbit with the lush, delicate white fur is fixed on a rack.
The front legs are tied up and stretched far forward, the hind legs backwards.

A worker sits down over the rabbit and begins to tear out the fur from the small animal.
The rabbit screams, louder and louder, until his voice cracks in pain … Later the angora rabbit – with fleshy skin, the body covered with wounds – is put back in a narrow lattice cage.
(That immediately reminds me of the down “production”)

Up to 60 percent of the animals that are plucked die in the first two years. Also from hypothermia, because pneumonia can occur without fur
This is the reality behind angora wool.

90% of the angora fur comes from China, even if the finished product was made elsewhere.
Right now at Christmas time we appeal to all people not to buy an angora.

Leave Angora products in the closet and use herbal and synthetic alternatives.
Small things that you don’t pay much attention to can cause a lot of suffering.

My best regards to all, Venus

General News, Uncategorized, Vegan Recipes

This Vegan Chicken Factory Has Glass Walls For A Reason.
This Vegan Chicken Factory Has Glass Walls For A Reason
Planted recreates the textures, tastes, appearances, and nutritional value of chicken, pork, and beef. Credit: Planted Foods

This Vegan Chicken Factory Has Glass Walls For A Reason

Seeking to revolutionize how meat is perceived and consumed globally, Planted aims to trigger a fundamental rethink about the food we eat

by Leigh Venus26th November 2021

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.”

In 2010, Sir. Paul McCartney lent his face and this famous quote to a PETA film that took viewers behind the opaque walls of slaughterhouses and factory farms.

Although one of the most well-known quotes in the animal rights movement, it took the team behind Planted Foods—a Swiss food tech company dedicated to ending animal suffering through tasty plant-based alternatives to meat—to run with the idea.

Convinced the food industry needed to be more transparent about ingredients and processes, Planted made this literal by building an enormous glasshouse around their production in the heart of their Switzerland-based factory.

Slaughterhouses are often miles away from urban centers, guarded by impenetrable walls and perplexing laws. To date, the primary means of drawing attention to the non-transparency1 of the industry has been through activists sneaking out footage of terrible conditions and practices. 

“We built our production under a greenhouse with glass walls and glass ceiling because we want to be transparent in the way we make meat today,” said Planted’s Co-Founder Pascal Bieri. “Unlike the animal meat industry, we have nothing to hide.”

Open, airy, and entirely transparent, the factory and ethos is a sharp contrast to the efforts of meat manufacturers to hide the horrors of their production processes from consumers. 

As Planted goes from strength to strength, the team invites everyone to visit their glass-walled factory to take a closer look at what they do. 

Beginnings and success

While working in the USA in 2017, Bieri became excited by the potential of plant-based meat replacement products coming to market and ​​saw an opportunity to challenge the status quo of the animal meat industry.

Initially collaborating with his cousin Lukas Böni who was completing a doctorate in food process engineering, financial specialist Christoph Jenny and Lukas’ fellow Ph.D. student Eric Stirnemann later rounded off the founding team of Planted Foods. 

United by a love of food, environment, and science, the co-founders spent 2018 deep in research and development at Lukas’ research university, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Their goal was clear from the beginning: create plant-based options that could win over carnivores and vegans alike with clean, 100 percent natural ingredients and transparent processes.

In 2019, Planted received a Pioneer Fellowship, awarding access to infrastructure to fast-track small-scale production and create an early prototype of their first product, planted.chicken.  

Fuelled by new technology and a drive to provide ecologically friendly alternatives that could satisfy the cultural desire for meat, the team was thrilled by how close their plant-based product came to replicating the taste and texture of chicken.

Off the back of their initial success, Bieri and the team founded Planted in July 2019. The same year, dozens of restaurants across Zurich, Lucerne, and Geneva put Planted’s chicken on their menus. 

An injection of seven million Swiss francs powered construction of a production plant and offices in Kemptthal, Switzerland, and in 2020 Planted launched at one of Switzerland’s largest retail and wholesale companies.

Bieri believes the rise of Planted Foods is thanks to strict adherence to four core principles—natural ingredients, animal welfare, taste, and sustainability—nurtured by a team with complementary skill sets and a drive to change the world for the better.

Recently winning the top prize at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup annual awards2, Planted employs over 140 people and welcomes scores of consumers, schools, and groups to their production facility every month. 

Planted is now available at restaurants and retailers across Germany, Austria, France, and Switzerland. 

In the UK, products are available from the Planted webshop, and the company is rolling out its products at a range of venues, including the Elite family of pubs in Kent and Sussex. 

In October, Planted received the Best Artificial Chicken Product award at the Plant-Based World Europe Expo in London. 

“We’re super-excited about our launch into the UK market; consumer feedback has been fantastic,” Bieri enthused, “and winning the Award at the Expo makes our whole team proud too. We know that we’re on the right track and developing great-tasting products.” 

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Environmental, General News

Scotland: Shell Pull Out of Cambo Oilfield Project – Breaking News 3/12/21.

This is a very quick post, with links, to inform you of the current situation with Shell.

WAV Comment:  We have covered articles recently on the site regarding Shell.  Here are some inks:

NL / UK: Shell; Eco Destroyers, Pull the Plug on the NL and Ready Instead for the UK. Watch the Environmentalist Girl Do Her Bit With the CEO On Video – Welcome Mr CEO to the UK ! – World Animals Voice

UK: Trick, Or Treat ? – On The Halloween Eve of COP26; Some New Revelations. Shell and BP Paid ZERO TAX On North Sea Gas and Oil for Three Years. – World Animals Voice

UK; Twas The Night Before COP26 – British Comedian Joe Lycett Holds ‘Shell’ (Oil Giant) To Account For Their Green Sales Techniques. He Literally Talks Shit ! – World Animals Voice

Today, 3/12/1; news has come through that Shell ae pulling out of their involvement with the Cambo filed off of Scotland.  Here are some news links just through to verify thia:

 

Shell pulls out of Cambo oilfield project | Oil | The Guardian

Shell pulls out of Cambo oil field development – BBC News

Shell shuns Cambo (theecologist.org)

But, regarding Shell operations in South Africa, we have had the following news:

 

Shell plans underwater explosions during peak whale mating season

Shell is planning to search for oil and gas on the South African coastline, a move that will threaten whales during mating season.

The oil giant is going to conduct underwater explosions to locate deep-sea oil and gas reserves, with vessels at sea for five months starting 1 December. They will travel between Morgan Bay in the south and Port St Johns – an area known as the Wild Coast.

These explosions generate loud shock wave emissions which penetrate through three km of water and 40 km into the Earth’s crust below the seabed, harming marine life in the process.

Although the survey will not involve drilling at this stage, it raises broader concerns around sea pollution, climate change and South Africa’s national energy policy. As well as fears about the future development of the region if Shell were to discover commercial quantities of oil or gas off this coast.

Kickback from activists on the ground

But the exploration plans are being met by fierce opposition by environmental activists in South Africa, some hailing from Cape Town’s branch of Extinction Rebellion.

A petition by Oceans Not Oil Coalition was started to try and get Barbara Creecy (South Africa’s Minister for the Environment) to revoke Shell’s permit and currently has nearly 363,000 signatures.

It says the explosions will leave whales, dolphins, seals, penguins, sharks and even crabs “panicked and damaged”, adding that the ship will work around the clock, firing air guns every 10 seconds.

“At a time when world leaders are making promises and decisions to step away from fossil fuels because climate science has shown we cannot burn our existing reserves (let alone drill for more),” it adds, “offshore oil and gas Operation Phakisa is pushing ever harder to get its hands on a local supply of gas.”

Happy Khambule is Senior Climate and Energy Campaign Manager for Greenpeace Africa. He calls Shell a “climate criminal”.

“Shell’s activities threaten to destroy the Wild Coast and the lives of the people living there. South Africa’s problems do not require violent extraction nor destruction of the environment and community livelihoods.

“The best and most immediate solution is a just transition to renewable energy, ensuring safe and decent/work jobs, and energy access for all,” he explains.

Tracy Carter describes herself as a concerned South African citizen, whose family come from the Wild Coast in the Transkei. She also spoke to Euronews Green about how devastated she would be if the Shell exploration goes ahead.

“To give you an idea about the Wild Coast, where my family come from, it is the most incredibly breathtaking place one could ever dream of. The ocean is lush and abundant with sea life in all shapes and sizes,” she says.

“I was honestly shocked that after the COP26 summit Shell had the gall to go ahead with the seismic surveys when the world is meant to be moving away from fossil fuels. There was absolutely no public notice given to South Africans about this matter.”

Tracy stresses that it’s important to make as many people as possible aware that this “heinous act” is going on.

Whales in South Africa

South Africa is one of the best destinations worldwide for watching whales and dolphins. Annual visits from humpback and southern right whales and the presence of enormous pods of dolphins all year-round provide amazing viewing opportunities both from land and boats.

Southern right and humpback whales migrate to southern Africa’s warmer waters between June and December, to mate and rear calves.

The whales’ annual visits from Cape Town to Mossel Bay are in fact so predictable that the south coast is also known as the ‘whale route’ and a whale festival is held every year at Hermanus.

Shell’s disruptive surveys will begin just as these whale families start making their way back to icy feeding grounds in Antarctica this year, meaning many could be harmed or killed along the way.

“Having grown up in one of the most unspoiled areas left on this planet and watching the migration of whales over the years, it means a lot to me to fight for the protection and conservation of this area and the sea life that will be affected if this seismic survey goes ahead,” adds Tracy.

In response to concerns about how underwater blasting would affect the marine environment, a Shell spokesperson told New Frame, “the impacts are well understood and mitigated against when performing seismic surveys. This is supported by decades of scientific research and the establishment of international best practice guidelines.

“There is no indication that seismic surveys are linked to (whale and dolphin) strandings,” they conclude.

Regards Mark

General News

Australia- Three flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest!

Australian police have arrested three people who escaped a Covid-19 quarantine compound near Darwin in the Northern Territory.
They had all tested negative the day before they broke out.

On Wednesday, police alleged that three people had scaled the perimeter fence of the compound in order to break out of the facility situated near Darwin in the Northern Territory.
Police say the trio escaped Centre for “National Resilience” (!!!) just before 4:40am.

Officers had set up checkpoints and were inspecting cars in the area in an attempt to find the absconders.
The three were swiftly caught and taken into custody.

“Police and staff at the Centre for National Resilience are currently confirming the absconder’s identities prior to releasing further information,” authorities stated

Officials did not confirm whether the inmates (it’s amazing they didn’t call them unvaxxed criminals) were returning travelers or local citizens who had been put into quarantine.
According to the BBC, the center has been used in recent days to house people infected with Covid-19 from an outbreak in Katherine, a town 300km (185 miles) away.

The Howard Springs site can hold up to 2,000 people; it is situated within an old mining camp (!!!) which was turned into a quarantine center by the Australian government in August.

The three individuals arrested had tested negative for Covid-19 on Tuesday.
Fears of contagion were heightened after one person housed at the facility, having returned from South Africa, had tested positive for the highly mutated Omicron variant on Tuesday.

On Friday, a 27-year-old man scaled the facility’s perimeter fence and jumped into a waiting car.
He was later arrested but tested negative for Covid-19.

https://www.rt.com/news/541844-australia-covid19-center-break/

And I mean…“Centre for National Resilience”? What a great euphemism for “concentration camp”…!

Suggestion: Send the Australian government to Re-education camp in China. China has no compulsory vaccination and can do without centers for national resilience.

My best regards to all, Venus

General News, Live Transport

Belgium: GAIA Calls for Ban of Live Cooking of Lobsters. Please Support the GAIA Petition – Link Given.

GAIA calls for ban of live cooking of lobsters

2 December 2021

GAIA

News

In an ongoing campaign and petition, GAIA is calling on the three regional Ministers for Animal Welfare in Belgium to introduce a ban on the cooking of live lobsters, as is already the case in Switzerland, as well as a ban on cutting lobsters in half.

Each year, Belgium imports an average of 3.8 million live lobsters, mainly from Canada. Belgians are the largest consumer of lobster in the world per capita. 

The whole journey of the lobster from capture to death is agonising. The lobsters are transported from Canada to Belgium in polystyrene foam boxes with gel ice packs. They are held vertically with their claws held upright. On arrival, the lobsters are at best kept alive in water tanks, sometimes for months. At worst, they are simply placed on ice. Exposed to air, they are unable to excrete bodily waste products, and their condition weakens significantly leading to a slow death. The animals are commonly then boiled alive or cut in half without being stunned.

Recent scientific research has concluded that that crustaceans, such as crabs and lobsters are sentient beings that feel pain. GAIA is therefore collecting signatures for a petition to introduce a ban on the live boiling or cutting of lobsters without stunning. 

Such a ban would receive the support of a large part of the population. GAIA reports that 83% of Brussels residents are aware that lobsters feel pain. In addition, four in five Brussels residents believe that lobsters feel pain when they are boiled alive and consider that this is also the case when they are cut up alive. 80% of Walloons agree that there should be a legal ban on killing lobsters without stunning them. 

Crustastun is an electrical stunning and killing device developed to render crustaceans unconscious without impacting the quality of the meat.

Read more at source

GAIA petition

Please support the petition;

Regards Mark

Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

EU: NGOs and MEPs protest against live animal transports in the EU.

WAV Comment 1345hrs 02/12/21. No further news yet; but we are monitoring this very important issue and will bring you further news when we have it. Regards Mark

Photo: Jane J – Kent, England

NGOs and MEPs protest against live animal transports in the EU

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

A protest action took place on Tuesday in front of the European Parliament ahead of a crucial vote in the European Parliament against live animal transport over long distances and live export.

The action was organised by animal welfare NGOs in Brussels and accompanied by speeches from a a number of MEPs across party lines.

For the past year the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport (ANIT) has analysed the implementation of EU rules by member states and the correct enforcement by the European Commission.

The draft Report and relevant recommendations are going to be voted in the Committee on Thursday (2 December) and put forward for adoption by the plenary in January 2022. In the pipeline is also a revision of the Transport Regulation, for which a new legislative proposal is expected in 2023.

Animal welfare NGO Eurogroup for Animals told The Brussels Times that it has been campaigning for decades to stop live transport and has issued a white paper how it should be done in line with recommendations made by the European Food Safety Authority, the World Animal Health Organisation and the Federation of the Veterinarians of Europe.

For the time being, every year over one billion animals are transported in the EU and from the EU to third countries without effective protection. EU has become the world’s biggest live animal exporter, according to the NGOs.

“Over the years we witnessed endless and avoidable suffering: animals crammed on overcrowded and unsuitable trucks and vessels, and animals unfit for transport, such as pregnant, young or injured ones. The tragedies at sea and on the road have given the ANIT Committee plenty of evidence to stop live transport”, commented Reineke Hameleers, CEO, Eurogroup for Animals.

MEP Anja Hazekamp (The LEFT) is Vice Chair of the ANIT Committee and President of the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals. “The way animals are transported in the EU is heart-breaking, devastating and unbelievably brutal and cruel,” she said.  “The investigation of the ANIT Committee confirmed that animals are currently not protected during transport and that changes are urgently needed.”

“I expect from my colleagues in the ANIT Committee that they give a strong message to the European Parliament: long-distance transport, live export and the transport of vulnerable animals, such as unweaned animals, so-called ‘end-of-career’ animals and pregnant animals, must be stopped,” she added.

Live animal transports are extremely important from an animal welfare viewpoint, Swedish MEP Emma Wiesner (Renew Europe) told The Brussels Times. “Our patience is running out. Transports take place in poor conditions where the temperature is not regulated, there is not enough space for the animals and they don’t get water during the transport. In addition, the transport distances are far too long.”

Which member states are most in breach of current regulations?

“There are many member states that violate current regulations. Romania, Greece and Spain are some that occur relatively frequently. Member states that do not comply with the law must be sued. The European Commission has every legal opportunity to do this, but has repeatedly failed to use this tool.

“In our compromise proposal, we set a limit of eight hours in transport. That is the current limit that already exists in Sweden,” she added.

Is there a majority in the parliament for changes to the legislation and for better compliance with the regulations?

“In the committee of inquiry, there is now a majority behind the compromises and I hope that they will go through. Europe must become better at taking animal welfare seriously. It’s about countries complying with laws and regulations already in place and about the total time that live animals can be transported. We need also to ensure that we control transports that go outside the EU,” MEP Wiesner concludes.

Update: The article has been updated to include an interview with MEP Emma Wiesner.

M. Apelblat
The Brussels Times

Source:

NGOs and MEPs protest against live animal transports in the EU (brusselstimes.com)

WAV Comment:

EU: 2/12/21: Time When The EU Should Finally Step Up To The Plate and Introduce Major Reforms For Live Animals In Transport. – World Animals Voice

Regards Mark

Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

EU: 2/12/21: Time When The EU Should Finally Step Up To The Plate and Introduce Major Reforms For Live Animals In Transport.
MEP’s Make Their Voices Heard Against the Live Animal Business.

WAV Comment – I (Mark) have been witnessing and fighting this vile, disgusting, abusive, cruel, abhorrent, insulting bloody business for over 30 years.  December 2nd sees the chance for the EU to start to put something into practice; ie legislation, regarding something it has avoided for so many (too many) years; to now finally make a real legislative issues on live animal transport.

Now, finally, we have so many MEP’s who support change; but it is the non-elected Commission which has the final say.  There will be opposition, we expect that, from the industry and the abusive animal transporters who haul innocents all over the EU, and beyond to third states such as Turkey.

Fingers crossed that 2nd December 21 will be a major turning point for live animal transport across the EU and beyond.

Would I give it another 30+ years of fighting if needed ? – you bet I would.  If the political leaders of the EU were herded into a 3 tier transporter; spent 48 hours crapping and urinating onto each other; without adequate food and water; then you see how quickly the legislation would change !

Now is their chance – lets hope for their benefit, they meet all the demands set out below.  If they don’t, then one has to ask what they are about; certainly not meeting what is required of them by EU citizens.

Regards Mark

On December 2nd the ANIT members can contribute to the building of a truly sustainable transport system by supporting key amendments to the ANIT Report and Recommendations. 

To make sure that human and animal health and welfare will be effectively addressed in the revised Transport Regulation, Eurogroup for Animals urges to:

  • Replace terrestrial farmed animals transport with the export of meat, carcasses and genetic materials to non-EU countries.
  • Introduce species- and category-specific maximum journey times with a maximum travel time of 8 hours for adult bovine, swine, and ovine, and 4 hours for poultry and rabbits.
  • Prohibit the transport of unweaned and pregnant animals (for which 40% of the pregnancy stage has already passed).
  • Introducespecies-specific requirements for the commercial movements of fish and invertebrate, laboratory animals, equidae, cats and dogs.
  • Introduce clear definitions and species-specific rules for the Intra-EU movement of animals, including stricter and centralised systems for the approval of livestock vessels used to move animals within the EU

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China Cat Torture, Farm Animals, General News

Cat meat in Asia

CAT MEAT – When Central Europeans’ favorite pet ends up on the plate in some countries

Many people around the world can no longer imagine life without the cat as a loyal companion.
In Central Europe, especially in Austria and Germany, the sweet velvet paws have even replaced the dog as the most popular pet.
They enrich our existence with their unmistakable nature, but their individual character and are pampered and looked after by us.

Not so in large parts of southern China, northern Vietnam, Korea and Peru.
There, cat meat is still seen as a natural food and remedy.
The cat has the same status there as dogs, which unfortunately are also consumed.
The keeping and the cruel slaughter of the animals look accordingly.

In southern China and northern Vietnam, cat meat is considered warming in winter.
The cat’s stomach and intestines are eaten, and the meat is often turned into meatballs while the head is thrown away.

According to a market analysis published in February 2020, 8% of the people living in Hanoi have consumed cat meat in their lifetime (!!!)

There are professional cat catchers in the Chinese city of Pukuo.
They regularly transport cats to the southern province of Guangdong, where they have become scarce since they were used as food.

In Korea, cat meat is sometimes cooked into a tonic for nerve pain and joint inflammation, but the meat itself is not very common as a food.

Cat cooking techniques will be demonstrated at the Peruvian Santa Efigenia Festival in a town in La Quebrada in September.

According to a report by “Four Pows” around 10,000,000 cats and dogs are slaughtered in Southeast Asia every year.

Four Pows published the market analysis “The Dog and Cat Meat Trade in Southeast Asia: A Threat to Animals and People” in February 2020 and, together with the “Change For Animals Foundation”, calls on the Vietnamese government to reinstate the previously applicable government laws that have specifically banned the trade in cat meat

In Germany, for example, the consumption of cat meat and its import and export is prohibited by the Food Ordinance, in Austria by the Animal Welfare Act.

In China, a nationwide dog and cat meat ban was enacted in May 2020, but this is hardly controlled, as can be seen from the fact that the largest annual dog massacre, the “Yulin” slaughter festival, took place unmolested despite the ban.

Dogs and cats are still being slaughtered and eaten, although many Chinese are against cats becoming increasingly popular pets and Chinese animal welfare organizations rioting.

Our position on this cruel issue is clear and precise: the slaughter of cats and dogs is globally prohibited and severe penalties are imposed if it is violated.

The same applies to the miserable attitude and lack of appreciation for living animals.
And we make one thing clear in advance: Before some people write that we should rather look at the slaughter of “farm animals” because they are also treated very cruelly, take a close look at our site !!!
We do that again and again because we don’t make any distinction between species.

For us, all animals are the same.
But this article is now devoted to the cat and the cruel ways it is treated in some places.
You can read about other animals in other articles.

We thank you for your understanding and ask you to sign the following petition on this topic:

https://help.four-paws.org/de-DE/stoppe-den-hunde-und-katzenfleischhandel-s%C3%BCdostasien

https://www.facebook.com/marschfuerdietiere/

And I mean…As soon as such articles (mostly accompanied by petitions) appear, the wave of outrage with comments in animal welfare groups immediately begins

They have dedicated themselves to the task of explaining to the Chinese and other Asians that instead of dogs they should finally eat the right animals: cattle, chickens, pigs … just like normal people.
And that’s because we Europeans are firmly convinced that our animal protection laws are way ahead and can therefore dictate to other countries which animals they are allowed to eat.

We often refer to our Animal Welfare Act. And that says:
“Nobody should inflict pain, suffering or harm on an animal without a reasonable cause”.

But the trick is that it is so cleverly worded that, in terms of animal welfare, it is not even worth the ink with which it was signed.
Otherwise, and if we should decide to take it seriously, it would really be forbidden in the end animals to torture and brutally murder in order to eat them.

We reserve the right to decide for ourselves who the “reasonable cause” is.

What does homo sapiens have that other animals don’t?
He has rights! And lots of it. The right of the fittest, for example.

So we use all rights and all kinds of ways to torture animals, to enslave them in order to eat them!
We can destroy any animal because we are stronger.

And we take this right seriously. So serious that we even consider it the duty of the strong to eat the weak ones for a “reasonable reason” (pleasure) under all suffering and torture.
Except for dogs and cats, of course.

It is now a very common fact that the pigs killed here are more intelligent than dogs (not that intelligence has to be a mandatory criterion in order to be murdered or not).
That is why the argument among animal rights activists seems to be particularly widespread that it is not the killing that is criticized, but only the torture. It’s about torturing!
So the outrage gets a rationalization.

In the future, outrages and petitions would completely fall through if Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese … etc would refrain from eating dog meat.
That wouldn’t change the number of animals tortured and eaten, but it would at least be comforting to know that they are now eating the right animals, just like us.

My best regards to all, Venus

General News

Danone: the milk gets vegan competition

Danone converts its entire dairy factory to plant-based products from the Alpro brand!
As part of the global change in diet, Danone is converting one of its dairies to plant-based products from the Alpro brand

Danone recently announced that it will invest 43 million euros ($ 49 million) by 2022 to convert its dairy in Villecomtal-sur-Arros, southern France, into an Alpro-branded plant-based production facility.

This year, this was preceded by an investment of 16.5 million euros in the Alpro plant in Issenheim (Eastern France).

Danone, who also owns the Evian water and Activia yogurt brands, said the French plant-based food market has tripled in seven years and is expected to grow by another 50% by 2025.

A view taken on November 23, 2020 shows a part of the entrance to the Danone factory in Bailleul, northern France. – (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images)

“We are seeing growing consumer interest in plant-based foods in the country.
Many consumers are looking for herbal solutions to have a more varied and varied diet, ” said François Eyraud from Danone France.

The factory is to be rebuilt in autumn 2022 and will start producing the first Alpro brand beverages from the second quarter of 2023.

https://vegconomist.de/unternehmen-und-portraits/danone-stellt-molkerei-pflanzliche-produkte-der-marke-alpro-um/

And I mean…This decision does not come as a surprise.
Consumer trends changed rapidly during the corona pandemic.
In any case, the company has complained of a drop in sales of 70% in Bavaria over the past ten years.

In the past two years, its coveted Quark yogurt cream, Greek yogurt, Danone Mars chocolate yogurt and Danone Disney fruit yogurt… suddenly fell into disrepute; Corona had destroyed the illusion of safe dairy products.
Danone, unlike its competition, was hit much harder by the corona pandemic.

The Danone plant near Würzburg (Germany) wants to respond more quickly to consumer wishes and, according to the French company, also invest in plant-based products.
Well, yes … The global pandemic has accelerated some aspects of the upheaval in the food sector and changed others.

The new head of Danone Richard Trechman said: “We have had a massive rethinking! We want to become an” Activist Company “, Danone’s vision is: “One Planet. One Health “….

Of course, within the framework of a capitalist system, because Danone already terminated the supply contract with 46 dairy farmers in Bavaria at the end of January 2019, which has consequently greatly reduced the number of dairy farmers in the region.

Some talk about job losses, we talk about less animal suffering.
Because if there are no more animal products on the shelf, then the consumer will not buy them.
And we would not mind if Danone increased its sales through plant-based products.

My best regards to all, Venus