Germany: Undercover footage reveals ‘nightmarish’ animal testing in German lab.

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With thanks to Stacey as always – sorry it is late;

Regards Mark

 

Challenging the Government’s Censorship of Animal Advocates’ Speech on Social Media

by Stacey

Undercover footage reveals ‘nightmarish’ animal testing in German lab

Germany sees spike in experiments on monkeys | News | DW | 20.12.2018

Undercover footage reveals ‘nightmarish’ animal testing in German lab (france24.com)

In rare footage from an animal testing facility, released on October 11, dogs can be seen lying in blood and excrement, while primates spin in circles in tiny cages, visibly in distress. Dead beagles are hung up on meathooks, and macaque monkeys are violently handled, restrained and force fed. Staff also appear to harm cats.

The footage was shot at the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT), a contract testing laboratory near Hamburg, Germany, and relates to its toxicity testing for pharmaceutical companies.

The investigation, organised by animal welfare organisations SOKO Tierschutz (based in Germany) and Cruelty Free International (based in the UK), involved getting someone employed at the facility in December last year. This undercover investigator worked there for four months, filming with a hidden camera.

In the US, it is estimated that 100,000,000 animals are used for testing/research YEARLY. Approximately 95-99% are not afforded any legal “protections” under the Animal Welfare Act and are therefore not required to be reported (thus the estimate). Of the few who do receive “protections” under AWA, they still suffer, experience pain and fear, and violently die; sadly, they are often subjected to INTENTIONAL PAIN as it is theorized that pain relief would compromise testing outcomes. These animals include dogs, cats, and primates, totaling >56,000 victims REPORTED, neglecting the vast majority who are not afforded even the illusion of existence by mandated recording of their suffering, pages 7-8:

Animal exploiters DETEST social media for giving activists a platform to publicize the violence they inflict on vulnerable animals, who all experience pain, fear, and suffering as human animals do. If the law doesn’t prevent humans from violent exploitation of animals, then it cannot exempt humans for exposing these criminal, unethical acts.

And to the indignant who equate animal suffering with human health, do remember the negative consequences and fatalities of pharmaceuticals that were considered safe as the result of testing them on different species: thalidomide was a tragedy, and saccharine, which was found to cause cancer in rats, is still marketed to humans. If humans claim human superiority as a validation for condoning animal experimentation, perhaps those “intellectual giants” can determine more effective research methods that do not violently kill billions of animals, a rather contradictory “means” to an uncertain “end”.

Some states have enacted student rights to not use animals in education, determine if you have Student Choice Laws via AAVS HERE or NAVS HERE

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UK: Ever Visited Your GP With A Cough And Then Been Prescribed 20 Cigarettes A Day ?

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Urge the COP26 Climate Summit to Serve a 100% Vegan Menu

The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) climate summit is fast approaching. Urge the president of COP26 – Alok Sharma – to set a meaningful example during this time of climate emergency by serving a fully vegan menu at the event.

Eating Vegan Is Better for the Environment

The fishing, meat, dairy, and egg industries are not only cruel to animals but also cause catastrophic damage to the environment. For decades, the United Nations has identified animal agriculture as a leading cause of deforestation, pollution, ocean dead zones, habitat loss, species extinction, and zoonotic disease spread.

Plant-based foods have a far smaller carbon footprint than their animal-derived equivalents, even when comparing imported plant proteins to flesh from grass-fed, locally farmed animals. And a switch to vegan eating can reduce food-related carbon emissions by 73%. Quite simply, eating meat and dairy is part of what got us into this mess.

The COP26 Climate Summit Should Set an Example

Given everything we now know about the devastating impact of animal agriculture on the environment, serving meat, dairy, or eggs at a climate change summit would be like distributing cigarettes at a health convention.

Plants are the way forward, and a vegan menu would not only allow attendees to dine with a clear conscience but also set an important example for the world to follow.

Take action and tell Alok Sharma, president of COP26, to set an example and only serve vegan food at the event:

Urge the COP26 Climate Summit to Serve a 100% Vegan Menu | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta.org.uk)

Regards Mark

England: Vegan Bites 7/10/21.

Hi all you super cool vegan foodies – here are a few links which I hope will give you a few ideas about expanding your diet.  Enjoy;

Regards Mark

Viva ! Recipe Club

Easy Rocky Road, Halloween Cupcakes, Ethiopian Lentil Stew, Win a Surprise Treat Box! (mailchi.mp)

Nestlé Launches Vegan Egg And Shrimp In Health And Sustainability Drive

Nestlé Launches Vegan Egg And Shrimp In Health And Sustainability Drive – Plant Based News

11 Vegan-Friendly Apps Every Plant-Based Eater Needs on Their Phone

11 Vegan-Friendly Apps Every Plant-Based Eater Needs on Their Phone (chooseveg.com)

Kate Winslet’s Self-Care Is Eating Vegan

Kate Winslet’s Self-Care Is Eating Vegan – Mercy For Animals

7 Fall-Inspired Vegan Recipes to Try This Week

7 Fall-Inspired Vegan Recipes to Try This Week – ChooseVeg

Jane Goodall Becomes Narrator Of Cultured Meat Documentary ‘Meat The Future’

Jane Goodall Becomes Narrator Of Cultured Meat Documentary ‘Meat The Future’ – Plant Based News

VegNews

Soft-baked vegan cookies (mailchi.mp)

Cultured Meat Market To Be Worth £1.7 Billion In The UK By 2030, New Report Finds

Cultured Meat Market To Be Worth £1.7 Billion In The UK By 2030, New Report Finds – Plant Based News

Veg Newsletter

Vegan eggs, all the ways 🍳 (mailchi.mp)

Brown Rice With Maple-Roasted Parsnips and Shallots

Brown Rice With Maple-Roasted Parsnips and Shallots – Vegos

THE TRUTH ABOUT CALCIUM FROM DAIRY

How to Get Calcium Without Dairy | The Truth About Calcium & Dairy (veganuary.com)

Creamy Kale and Mushroom Salad by Deliciously Ella

Creamy Kale and Mushroom Salad by Deliciously Ella – PETA UK

EASY VEGAN CHILI CHEESE FRIES

Easy Vegan Chili Cheese Fries – Make It Dairy Free

Vegan Breakfast Products: The Ultimate Guide to a Quick and Delicious Meal

Vegan Breakfast Products: The Ultimate Guide to a Quick and Delicious Meal (chooseveg.com)

Russia: Bear attacks his torturer during the circus act

They are horrific scenes (!!!) that they recently played in a circus in Russia.

A brown bear suddenly attacks its trainer – in front of numerous children. In the end, the trainer collapses injured.

Shock moment during a circus performance: children were shocked to see a bear suddenly attacking its trainer. As currently reported by the British “Daily Star”, the brown bear pounced on the woman in the middle of the show and clung to her legs.

The incident took place four months ago in Berezovsky, Russia.

Shocking images show how the animal pounces on the trainer.

Two other trainers are desperately trying to get the beast off the woman. But the bear holds on to her, biting her leg more and more.

The bear – dressed in a hat and glittering scarf – was made to continue performing despite the horrifying attack – and the set upon the trainer again as she dangled a hoop in front of the animal. Eventually the woman collapses in excruciating pain. Again a male trainer intervenes and finally pulls the animal away from her.

The injured trainer did not see a doctor after the incident, it is said. Presumably to cover up the bear attack. And the circus continued the show anyway.

There have been reports of multiple attacks at the circus previously. Some local reports say there was a third attack but still the show did not stop.

The circus is famous for dressing bears in human clothing, with some even wearing tutus. Although the animals obviously suffer from the circus conditions, the operators repeatedly emphasized that they are proud of “the humane training of their animals” (!!!)

Circus denies bear attack but the Russian Investigation Committee is investigating the case to see if there were any security breaches during the performance. According to the report, there would have been neither a fence nor a barrier to protect the audience.

The Harlequin Traveling Circus later denied there was an attack, despite video evidence.

A spokesman told Mash Siberia: “There was no incident at all. Simply put, the bears are now in the mating season.”

Animal rights activists appalled by “cruel circuses” Irina Novozhilova from the animal rights group VITA called for a ban on all circuses with live animals in Russia after the incident.

“Circuses are always cruel without limits. And circuses with animals should be banned, “she explained.

https://www.news.de/panorama/855928547/baer-attackiert-trainerin-in-zirkus-in-russland-vor-zuschauern-braunbaer-stuerzt-sich-auf-dompteurin-und-krallt-sich-an-beinen-fest/1/

And I mean…“Shocking scenes?” If anything is shocking, it is the fact that animals in the circus are still allowed to act as ridiculous servants.
We don’t want to imagine how the bear fared behind the scenes after the attack.
The reaction of the circus workers, who forced the bear to continue performing after its attack and also to bow to the audience, suggests the worst.

In addition, according to media reports, the circus denies the attack – although video recordings clearly prove the incident.
Apparently the primitive circus people think their audience is stupid.
Which is not totally wrong, however.
Because who brings their child to such a shit?

All animal abusers deserve this.
If you decide to train animals in the circus, you have decided to become an animal torturer.
We abhor animal abusers.
We fight for the liberation of slaves wherever they are held and exploited.

My best regards to all, Venus

No surprises as French senators distort anti animal mistreatment law.

No surprises as French senators distort anti animal mistreatment law

1 October 2021FBBNews

After a marathon day finalising the adoption of the ambitious law aiming to reduce pet abandonments and end the use of wild animals in shows, the French Senate significantly weakened the text.

Where the Senate weakens the text adopted by the National Assembly in January:

  • Ban on the sale of animals in pet shops from 2024: the senators are opposed to it, they propose instead to stop displaying the animals in shop windows and to introduce a seven-day reflection period between the purchase and the collection of the animal.
  • Obligation to sterilise stray cats (responsibility of the mayor) in the interests of animal protection, public health and defence of biodiversity measure: the senators cancelled this provision.
  • Ban on the use of wild animals in traveling circuses (5 years after the law was enacted) as well as on bear and wolf “shows”. The Senate reverses these bans and puts the ball back in the government’s court, which will have to issue decrees specifying the target species. The ban would not be set by law but at the discretion of the minister and after the opinion of a commission, which is yet to be established but already seems highly convoluted.  
  • Ban on holding cetaceans in captivity (7 years for dolphins, 2 years for orcas), the Senate is opposed to this measure.

Concurrence between the two chambers:

  • Ban on carousels and pony rides at fairs: the Senate maintains the ban.
  • Reinforcement of penalties for acts of cruelty: the penalty of two years’ imprisonment and a fine of € 30,000 is replaced by a penalty of three years’ imprisonment and a € 45,000 fine (5 years and a € 75,000 fine in the case of acts leading to the death of the animal), the Senate maintains the measure.

The main advances adopted by the senators:

  • The Senate introduced a VAT exemption on veterinary procedures for animals taken in by associations, regardless of whether they have a shelter.
  • Ban on mink farms and other animals raised specifically for their fur: the Senate adopts an immediate ban, as opposed to the National Assembly’s adopted ban “within two years”

We cannot be satisfied with this vote which betrays both the spirit of the text adopted by the National Assembly, and the commitments made by Barbara Pompili. The joint committee will have to restore the ambition of the initial proposal so that France can finally catch up with the other EU Member States. This bill is the most ambitious one ever debated in Parliament on animal protection. An exceptional opportunity that must not be missed, especially as this subject, supported by a majority of French citizens, will be at stake in the next elections.Christophe Marie, spokesperson for the Brigitte Bardot Foundation.

Read more at source Fondation Brigitte Bardot

Regards Mark

The Belgian Constitutional Court upholds the ban on slaughter without stunning in Flanders and Wallonia.

The Belgian Constitutional Court upholds the ban on slaughter without stunning in Flanders and Wallonia

30 September 2021GAIANews

Today, the Belgian Constitutional Court supported the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on the ban on animal slaughter without stunning.

Following a lengthy legal battle, last December the CJEU clearly concluded, in response to the preliminary questions by the Belgian Constitutional Court, that Member States are allowed to impose mandatory pre-slaughter stunning. With this ruling, the Belgian Constitutional Court also confirms the legality of the ban in Flanders and Wallonia.

Eurogroup for Animals member GAIA has been leading the campaign for a ban on ritual slaughter without stunning in Belgium for over 25 years. In 2014, 10,000 people marched in Brussels asking for a ban. Finally, in 2017 the Walloon and Flemish decrees prohibited the slaughter of animals without stunning. The bans came into force in 2019 for both regions but were then challenged by several religious organisations on the grounds of freedom of religion. 

The CJEU judgment considered the latest development on reversible stunning as a method that successfully balances the apparently competing values of religious freedom and animal welfare, and it concluded that “the measures contained in the (Flemish) decree allow a fair balance to be struck between the importance attached to animal welfare and the freedom of Jewish and Muslim believers to manifest their religion”.

This brings to an end a lengthy legal battle in favor of the Flemish and Walloon ban, the sole purpose of which is to avoid inflicting scientifically proven and practically avoidable suffering during the killing of animals, with no exception for slaughter carried out in a religious context

commented Michel Vandenbosch, GAIA’s President

To date, the Brussels-Capital Region still permits slaughter without stunning and that’s going to be the next step for GAIA:

Now that the Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of the Flemish and Walloon bans, there is no longer any valid reason to not introduce a total ban in the Brussels-Capital Region too. GAIA urges the Brussels government and parliament to introduce such a ban without further delay

added Vandenbosch.

We congratulate GAIA for their relentless efforts on these bans. Last December we celebrated together an important victory for the animals and we have more reason today to salute the Constitutional Court’s  confirmation. It’s now time for the EU to make it mandatory in the next revision of the Slaughter Regulation

added Reineke Hameleers, CEO, Eurogroup for Animals.

ENDS

Notes

Animal welfare victory: the CJEU ruling confirms Member States right to introduce mandatory pre-slaughter stunning
Position Paper Slaughter without stunning 
Opinion poll on slaughter 
Summary of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) case C-336/19
Amicus Curiae on CJEU case
EFSA reiterates that slaughter without stunning should not be practiced

Regards Mark

Germany: Three wolves illegally shot down by criminals

Sep 29, 2021 –

In the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the police and public prosecutor’s office are investigating several wolves who have been killed.

As a spokesman for the Environment Ministry said on Wednesday, a predator carcass was found on Sunday in Western Pomerania and two dead wolves on Tuesday on the Elbe.

Initial investigations by veterinarians have shown that all three wolves died from gunshot wounds.
It is still unclear when this happened and where the animals came from. It is being investigated for a violation of the Federal Nature Conservation Act.
Wolves are strictly protected across the EU (!!!)

Two dead young wolves were last discovered on Tuesday on the banks of the Elbe.
Conservationists had informed the police.

The animals were examined by specialists from the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research. The full results of the investigation are not yet available, as the ministry spokesman said.
One now hopes to get to the perpetrators via traces that have been secured.

It is also unclear how long the animals swam in the Elbe and where they came from.
The third wolf carcass was found in a corn field on Sunday. According to previous knowledge, the animal had been shot a little long ago.
This area is not far from the border with Poland. Here, too, the investigations continued.

Wolf protection -Germany e.V. offers a reward of 4,000 euros for apprehending the perpetrators.

PETA sets a reward of 3000 euros for hints to convict the perpetrator (s)-also anonymously

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Drei-erschossene-Woelfe-in-MV-Belohnung-ausgesetzt,wolf4578.html

And I mean…Since the wolf returned to Germany in 2000, a total of 64 animals have been killed illegally.

These are no longer isolated cases. Apparently there are criminal hunters and farmers who specifically hunt wolves.
This year, eleven wolves have already been shot illegally, and in 2020 there were officially a total of eight.

The number of unreported cases is certainly many times higher.
Without the perpetrators being identified once.
To put it more precisely: without any authority showing any great interest in capturing this pathetic criminal machos.

Hardly any of these cases could be resolved. The acts would still be treated as petty offenses.
In contrast to other countries, such as Italy, where wolf killers could be found, this has never been the case in Germany.

Not only wolves are affected, lynxes are also repeatedly found killed, as are a number of birds of prey.
Spongy statements about the protection of the wolves on the part of politicians (mostly also hunters) brood a favorable ground for criminals to commit vigilante justice in Wild- West- Manner.

Germany is still miles away from a good state of conservation for the wolf.
Germany is also miles away from fair punishments for illegally shooting down strictly protected animals.

It is not our wild animals that have to be banned from nature, but the hunters. And their stupid followers in politics immediately have to give up their posts.

My best regards to all, Venus

U.K: Gamekeeper caught trapping birds of prey

A gamekeeper has been caught trapping birds of prey on a pheasant shoot in Shropshire.
Two traps were found in mid-September in woodland near the village of Chelmarsh, just south of Bridgnorth.

Footage passed to the Hunt Saboteurs Association shows two homemade wooden traps, both baited with dead pheasants and located inside a pheasant release pen.

Shockingly, a buzzard was found trapped inside one of them, but luckily was released to freedom before the gamekeeper arrived.

The gamekeeper is then filmed entering the pen and checking on the traps. However, clearly noticing that his illegal activities have been found out, he quickly moves the traps and brushes the ground in a poor attempt to hide evidence.

The site was also littered with Fenn traps, snares and Larsen traps.

Bird of prey persecution goes hand in glove with the persecution of ‘gamebirds’.
Indeed, 67% of raptor crime convictions since 1990 were gamekeepers.

Earlier this year, the HSA revealed that a staggering 24 million pheasants and partridges were imported to the UK in 2020, making up around half of all the birds released to be shot.

Not only do these factory farmed birds suffer immensely, but so do the many other species targeted by the shooting industry including foxes, stoats, weasels, corvids and birds of prey.

The spokesperson for the Hunt Saboteurs Association, Lee Moon, said:

“Gamekeepers aim to create a wasteland where nothing else lives apart from the birds they breed to be shot. Any animal that may predate on gamebirds is considered fair game to be trapped and killed, whether it’s legal to or not.

The hideous badger cull has led to the death of thousands of innocent lives but one of the very few benefits is that more compassionate people are now out in the countryside exposing the vile practices that appear commonplace.

As more and more of these cruel acts are exposed then ordinary people turn against shooting, a cruel sport that leads to suffering and death for millions of animals and birds every year.”

https://www.huntsabs.org.uk/gamekeeper-caught-trapping-birds-of-prey-on-shropshire-pheasant-shoot/

And I mean…Once again fabulous work by the Sabs.

As we all know, most judges are hunters themselves, which increases the likelihood that the gamekeeper will pay a small fine or even be acquitted for lack of evidence, if the case goes to court at all.

But if there were 100,000 hunting saboteurs active instead of a hundred, then all the traps in the country would have long been empty and the hunters might have chosen football to pass their free time instead of barring animals and killing them.

Thanks guys, you are great!

My best regards to all, Venus

Animals are also tortured on World Animal Day

Even if it is popular among animal lovers on this day to ponder “OTHER ANIMALS”, and posts of this kind =how terrible is animal suffering = flood the internet , we would like to remind you, that the majority of the “other animals” never had basic rights on this planet even for an hour.

Therefore we dedicate the day to this animal and will try to describe its fate truthfully.

Let’s look at this photo!
It is an enslaved monkey who is forced to perform tricks and is therefore brutally abused beforehand.
No living being deserves to be mistreated like this!
Animals also have feelings and we can imagine how this monkey feels.

Robbed family, lifelong imprisonment and torture of the most brutal kind, an existence as an entertainment convict that no felon has to fear in his country.
He is given the right to life as long as he is useful as a slave.

We treat animals like rubbish. Just throw them away or abuse them as we feel like it.
Although animals have just as much a right to their lives as we do.

But animal rights are nowhere in the world. Not a single animal, from mussels to chimpanzees, has a single right. Nowhere.

What animal laws regulate (if they exist at all and at best) is only to limit the power of disposition of humans to animals.

That is why we fight and demand for animals (at least for the thinking, feeling ones among them, i.e. those with consciousness) subjective rights in analogy to human rights, specifically at least the right to life, freedom, integrity; simply because they have a comparable interest rights as we humans have.

And we will not only do it on this one day of the year, but we fight tirelessly and uncompromisingly for basic rights for all feeling, thinking individuals.

My best regards to all, Venus

Animal transports – the EU`s shame

An Animals ‘Angels team accompanies a transport of bull calves to Turkey.
The animal children come from the Czech Republic. They are still transported across the Bulgarian-Turkish border in an EU-approved truck.
At the border, however, they are loaded onto a Turkish truck. This truck does not meet the requirements of the EU for animal transport by a long way.

There are neither drinking troughs on board nor sufficient ventilation or litter for the 60 calves.

They have to stand or lie on the bare, slippery metal floor for the next 17 hours.
We accompany the young bulls from the Turkish border to their destination near Kirsehir in Central Anatolia.
During a longer stop, we watch them roll their tongues in despair – a typical sign of hunger.

Many thirstily lick the metal walls of the truck.
The last time they could have a drink at the Turkish border. The last time they ate was in Bulgaria.
That was more than a day ago.

Many of the calves have clearly sunken flanks.

Erwin, who previously blinked at us with one eye (his other eye is infected, maybe from a blow or kick in the eye while driving), is now curled up on the dirty floor, exhausted.
Overall, according to our observations and calculations, they are at least 19 hours without water and almost 30 hours without food before they arrive exhausted at their destination the next morning.

There they will be fattened for the next few months before they make their last trip to the slaughterhouse.

This madness has to stop!
Animals are sentient beings – and the EU recognizes them as such.
But only on paper, because Erwin and all the other ‘farm animals’ do not notice any of this on the transports.
This transport also shows once again that control outside the EU is not possible.

Who on site is interested in whether the animals are loaded onto unsuitable vehicles?
Who will check and punish it accordingly? (!!!)

For us it is clear: The long animal transports to countries outside the EU must finally be banned!

With a detailed report on our observations on this transport, we continue to campaign for this export ban in the EU and its member countries.
Everything about our projects and missions: http://www.animals-angels.de
Time to Act: For a better law to protect animals during transport

https://www.animals-angels.de/neuigkeiten/beitrag/kaelbertransport-aus-der-eu-in-die-tuerkei-tiere-19-stunden-ohne-wasser-30-stunden-kein-futter.html

And I mean…The transports to third countries make up only a small part of the animal transports in the EU.
Because the grievances are particularly large and the images of them are particularly cruel, they keep making headlines in the media.

And yet! The animals also suffer terribly when they are transported within the EU and even within Germany.
Four million cattle, pigs, sheep and goats are transported from the EU to third countries every year and slaughtered there. These include 70,000 cattle from Germany.

For the entire EU, the numbers increase to 360 million pigs, cattle, sheep and goats and four billion poultry – every year!
In Germany, only one percent of all animal transports are checked on the road.

Article 3 of the EU Animal Transport Regulation states:
“Nobody may carry out or arrange for an animal to be transported if the animals could be injured or unnecessarily suffered in the process.”
Everything fits on paper!
The EU legislation has no time limit for Animal transport. With certain breaks, animals are allowed to go endlessly
be transported.
For horses and pigs, for example: 24 Hours of travel – 24 hours break in a supply station – 24 hours of travel – etc

That might still be bearable if the animals had as much space as in a stable.
But a full-grown fattening pig has to get by on half a square meter in a truck; 1.6 square meters are provided for a cattle.

Animal welfare organizations have been calling for the requirements to be tightened and the transport time to be strictly limited to eight hours for years.
We still remember the 1.2 million votes of EU citizens for the 8hours campaign in 2014.
But the EU Commission has so far shown no willingness to realize it.

We have had anger about animal transport with Brussels for at least 10 years.
It is too naive to believe that it can be done with good words and showing them what is going on.
Those responsible know exactly what is going on during animal transport – they just don’t care.

It is an incredible crime, it is barbaric to treat animals like that in the 21st century and to preach an animal transport law that is not even worth the paper.
Worse still, we are allowing an incompetent, disinterested oligarchy to work in the service of the meat and dairy industry and constantly refuse to respect EU citizens’ desire for better animal welfare.

My best regards to all, Venus