Environmental, Farm Animals, General News

England: Viva! Have A New Website – Well Worth A Look.

WAV Comment – Viva is based in Bristol, England; but has now also set up a major facility in Poland – see the Viva! Poland link below to enter the site; there should also be a ‘translate’ link for you to use if you wish.

Viva! Have now set up a brand new website, and we have provided some links to areas below. 

Take a trip and investigate further one of the UK’s leading Vegan animal organisations:

From Viva !:

2021 – the perfect opportunity to clear away the cobwebs and make way for new beginnings. And that’s exactly what we’ve done with our new website.

We have been busy working away behind the scenes on a brand new website, and we really do mean brand new!

We have developed four stylish and vibrant sections of the new site, which represent the four key tenets of our work; Viva! Animals, Viva! Health, Viva! Planet and Viva! Lifestyle. Each section is beautifully designed and colour coded, with current, fully-referenced content.

When it comes to web, first impressions are everything. It takes web users just 50 milliseconds to form an opinion about a website. So your opinion matters to us!

From WAV – we have supplied the following short cut links for you:

Explore:

Viva! – The Vegan Charity

Animals – Animals | Viva! – The Vegan Charity

Health – Vegan Health & Nutrition Based on Science | Viva! Health

Planet – Planet | Viva! – The Vegan Charity

Lifestyle – Lifestyle | Viva! – The Vegan Charity

Who we are – Who we are | Viva! – The Vegan Charity

Meet the Team – Staff | Viva! – The Vegan Charity

Media Centre – Media centre | Viva! – The Vegan Charity

Viva! Poland – Viva! Walczymy o konie i inne zwierzęta. Dbamy o bezdomne psy i koty.

Regards Mark

Farm Animals

Morality requires, not to eat animals!

From the Blog: V changemakers.de

What happens to the cute little calves in the meat industry?

That decides the lot.
If it is a little calf girl, then it is allowed to “live” first. His fate is the dairy industry.

After a few months of “rest”, the little calf becomes pregnant. This usually happens when the little girl gets a metal rod rammed into her vagina and is thus fertilized. This then happens once a year.

Up to 5 times. After the last long-term pregnancy, the little girl is a young woman with an emaciated body. The pregnancies, as well as the enormous milk yield, wrench their bodies completely.

As a thank for her services, she is allowed to go to the slaughterhouse at the age of 5 and is killed. The “normal” life expectancy of a cow is up to 20 years. It dies as a child.

If the calf is a little boy, then the following happens:
Extract from an interview with a slaughterhouse worker:

“To make things go faster, 8-9 calves are put into the killing box.
We’ll fire straight away with the nail gun. Some we hit right, some not. It is also difficult to get every one right as the calves go mad with fear and jump over each other in panic.

At some point you will no longer know which animal is now anesthetized and which is not … at some point, they’ll all be hooked.

Many of them wriggle and scream as the tape continues and they are stabbed and dismembered with full consciousness. “

It is so dreadful to read these lines. It’s so horrible to think of something like that.

It’s so horrible to know that this happens EVERY DAY. Presumably right now.
Please tell me how you can continue to eat meat or animal products with lines like this? Tell me!

I would like to know how one can still be able to do so after such facts.

Emotional brutality to the highest degree. I find it deeply shocking to support something like that.

Nobody asks you to be vegan overnight.

But show the willingness to find solutions so that innocent and defenseless living beings do not find such a painful death.

THANKS!

From the blog V changemakers.de

And I mean…How far can animals be devalued?
The devaluation of animals is really so bizarre that it goes beyond imagination.
Wherever we look meat is practically everywhere.

We have reified animals, the meat producers see them as a product, the meat-eaters as food.
It has been taken for granted that meat is part of our lives.

The meat industry takes care of this with every dirty means.
One of them is that the animals that suffer and die in modern concentration camps are invisible.
We don’t see them.

Why is the meat industry going to such great lengths to keep the victims of our consumption invisible?
So that this fascist system can continue to exist without its function being called into question.

Because access to animal farms is not permitted for the public (including the media), the real facts about factory farming come from undercover research, which is therefore classified as illegal and unlawful!


But although these investigations have increased and become very professional in the last few years, the meat industry is mobilizing against it, with “bio” meat, “organic-keeping” chickens, “humane” slaughtering in farms … so that the consumer can calm his conscience as best as possible can.

Thousands of undercover videos and insider stories can still turn up; this is simply further rationalized as a “blatant exception” and “individual misconduct”.

Life has the highest value, and those who hate really animal suffering and death are not looking for excuses but for solutions.
Actually one is enough …! Don’t eat them!

My best regards to all, Venus

Farm Animals, General News, Stray Animals

South Korea: Dog Meat Trade – Much More Action Needed NOW – See Below for All Details and Actions.

Please Pass This On to as Many Contacts as Possible – Especially if you have a Site or Animal Friends – Get Them to Act – Thanks.

WAV Comment – we have attempted to do our little bit by alerting folk to the issue of dog meat farms in South Korea.  Please click here to get a link to all our past posts:

Search Results for “south korea” – World Animals Voice

“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”
-Albert Einstein
 

After our involvement; and the immense hard work of organisations such as KARA, it is very depressing to see that less than 1% of people have filled in the e ‘people petitions’ which we have supported.  These are official petitions to the government of South Korea.

It is simple and quick to undertake; and with enough support it can make all the difference in the future to the innocent dogs being held in the most barbaric conditions on dog meat farms.

Despite the fact that dog and cat meat consumption is an everyday occurrence and is being carried out all over South Korea, it is NOT LEGAL in that country. Their Government does nothing to stop this illegal practice and they seem happy to ignore it; many Korean citizens are just as apathetic and must also be held accountable.

This is the 21st Century, and it is high time that all South Koreans, leaders and general public alike, stand up and take responsibility to enforce their own country’s laws. South Korea and South Koreans cannot continue to ignore these brutal and unethical trades, so let us campaign to urge each of South Korea’s cities to enforce their laws and to put an immediate end to these illegal dog and cat meat trades. 

The e-People petition is the South Korean government’s official petition site and your petition will receive a response from the Korean government. Anyone from all countries can file a petition using the e-People petition.  It’s quite simple to file e-People petitions, but you can find help on (1) how to file e-People petition and (2) how to check the status of your e-People petitions on our website.

Dogs destined to be EATEN in South Korea are saved following months spent in cages | Daily Mail Online

Important notes:

If you get an error message Invalid domain address, please check how you entered your email address in the form and correct it. 😉

Please go through our campaign list and take actions for the ones you have missed!   💡 You can print out this page and mark them off as you go. 👍

Don’t remember which ones you have already filed?

Don’t worry! 😄 There’s no penalty for filing duplicate petitions. 

These Rescues Hatched A Brilliant Plan To Stop Dog Meat Farming Forever

ACTIONS – Please click on each of the following links to take regional actions.  They don’t have to all be done at the same time – tick off your list as you work through it.  All the information you need as part of the campaign is detailed within each link – so please take action.

Gimcheon, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Gumi, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Gyeongju, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Gyeongsan, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Mungyeong, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Pohang, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Sangju, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Yeongcheon, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Slaughtering Dogs for Food Violates Animal Protection Act | World Animal Rescue Fund

Yeongju, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Changwon, South Korea, Shut down the illegal dog meat farms, slaughterhouses and markets. – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

The Ugly Truth of Korean Dog Meat Farms Miles from Winter Olympics

Also write to South Korean reps in your country about this issue – check them out at:

Write to your government representatives! – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

Finally, take a look at the photos here and tell yourself that the least you can do is give 5 or 10 minutes each day to get this illegal trade stopped.

South Koreans eat more than 2 million dogs every year, but that’s changing (usatoday.com)

Call for Action! – Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in S. Korea! (koreandogs.org)

The time to act is NOW – so please do it; lets ramp up those responses by flooding the areas with letters of protest.

Thanks and regards;

Mark

General News, Live Transport, Uncategorized

England: ‘Operation Snack’ – Free Vegan Food to British Truckers ‘Punished’ by Mental EU Legislation (Post Brexit).

WAV Comment:

Part of WAV is based in Kent; England.  Kent is the ‘gateway to Europe’ and is home to both Dover ferry harbour and the Channel Tunnel; both of which take hundreds of trucks (into and out of Europe) every day.  Sometimes, for reasons such as bad weather, freight numbers etc; trucks cannot get across directly to Europe; so they have to wait their turn on Kent roads to get to the port or Eurotunnel.  This queue of trucks is known to Kent people as ‘Operation Stack’. Kent people are used to the stack.

Above – Trucks destined for EU wait their turn (on Kent motorways) in ‘operation stack’

The police do what they can to control the situation, but masses of trucks waiting their turn on Kent roads is not uncommon.  British truckers have taken their own food (sandwiches etc) with them into Europe for decades; but now as some kind of ‘Trumpish’ revenge for leaving the EU (Brexit); EU officials have now stopped British truckers taking their own food with them into Europe. The ban prohibits drivers from carrying food for personal consumption in their vehicles.  How pathetic is that ?  – but so very EU; determined to make the UK ‘pay’ for leaving the EU.

What was once a simple ham and cheese sandwich carried by a driver in his own truck is now classed as a ‘personal import’ and is prohibited by the EU.  British truckers sandwiches are being taken from them as they try to cross into the EU.  They can eat (as they do) in EU truckstops; but they must not carry their own sandwiches into Europe !!!

So now step up Vegan sandwich makers to help the truckers – and ‘Operation Snack’

Vegan sandwiches which should satisfy both the haulers and EU officials checking their food as they contain NO MEAT.

‘Operation Snack’ will provide protein-rich seitan sandwiches to hungry haulers as they wait to cross into the EU.

The lunches are EU-compliant as they don’t contain animal products. Vegan sandwiches will be given to haulers with leaf-grabbing sticks. Therefore, ensuring safety regarding COVID-19.

Another finger to the EU one could say – a ‘crisis’ now taken advantage of in spreading the Vegan benefits to British and EU truckers.

Above – A British trucker tucks into his Vegan sarnie !

UK Haulers Given Seitan Sandwiches From Vegan Meat Brand Following Brexit Ban

LoveSeitan is offering free EU-compliant vegan sandwiches to haulers following a new Brexit ban on taking on-the-go lunches over the borde

UK Haulers Given Sandwiches By Vegan Meat Brand Following Brexit Ban (plantbasednews.org)

Hungry British haulers are getting free seitan sandwiches from a vegan-meat brand, LoveSeitan, following the news their usual lunches had been ‘confiscated’ due to a new Brexit ban.

UK haulers are handed vegan lunches after new Brexit rules prohibits bringing their own lunches over the border - this is part of Operation Snack!

Hundreds of vegan EU-compliant sandwiches will be handed to the key workers near the Channel Tunnel as part of Operation Snack!. This is taking place on Saturday, January 23.

The Operation Snack! initiative is a team effort involving food supplier Simply Lunch.

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has faced ‘mountains’ of paperwork for each load as a result of the new regulations.

The ban prohibits drivers from carrying food for personal consumption in their vehicles. This means many are going without food whilst at work.

RHA chief executive, Richard Burnet branded the ban ‘ridiculous’.

Brexit ban

New regulations over Brexit has caused disruption amongst lorries transporting goods from the EU over the border into the UK.

‘Brexit legislation gone mad’

He described the ban ‘a perfect example of Brexit legislation gone mad’.

“What was once a simple ham and cheese sandwich is now classed as a personal import and is prohibited”, he added.

Steve Swindon, co-founder of LoveSeitan, added: “Hauliers are essential to the British economy. 

“They are key workers in need of good food – especially as their sandwiches are being taken from them as they try to cross into the EU. We couldn’t standby and watch their food being confiscated.

The seitan sandwiches we’ve assembled with Simply Lunch are high in protein. They’re tasty and EU-
compliant as they don’t contain animal products.

“So, they should satisfy both the haulers and EU officials checking their food.”

The scheme stops hundreds of haulers from going hungry, as a result of the Brexit ban

The scheme will provide 500 protein-rich seitan sandwiches to hungry haulers as they cross into the EU.

The lunches are EU-compliant as they don’t contain animal products. Workers will hand haulers their lunches with leaf-grabbing sticks. Therefore, ensuring safety regarding COVID-19.

“Plant-based food is quite topical at the moment as it’s Veganuary“, Steve added.

As a result, the company is inviting other vegan food suppliers to join the initiative.

General News

the political dimension of our food

“how do we manage to feed 60 billion “farm animals” but not 7.8 billion people?”

The global grain harvest is around 2 billion tons per year.
Over 500,000 are fed to the cattle of the rich nations – while in the 122 countries of the Third World 43,000 children die of hunger every day, according to UN statistics.
The poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms.
So that we can enjoy our steak

A child who dies of hunger today is murdered.

good night, Venus

General News, Uncategorized, Vivisection

Taiwan: Be A Voice for Animals – The TFDA is Now Accepting Public Comments on a Regulation Through Till March 1.

photo of forced swim test

As we told you earlier, after hearing from PETA, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) took the historic step of deleting outrageous animal tests—including drowning mice and rats and making them run to exhaustion on an electrified treadmill—from its draft regulation for marketing foods and beverages using dubious anti-fatigue health claims.

The TFDA is now accepting public comments on the regulation through March 1, before finalizing its decision. Please contact the agency to help ensure that it deletes these animal tests in the final version of the regulation.

ACT NOW to speak up for animals suffering in these experiments before the MARCH 1 deadline.

TAKE ACTION HERE:

URGENT: Help Finalize Taiwan Ban on Drowning, Shock Tests on Animals | PETA

URGENT: Help Finalize Taiwan Ban on Drowning, Shock Tests on Animals

Following years of pressure from PETA, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has announced a groundbreaking decision to delete all animal tests—including drowning mice and rats and making them run to exhaustion on an electrified treadmill—from its draft regulation for marketing foods and beverages using dubious anti-fatigue health claims.

The agency is now accepting public comments through March 1 before finalizing its decision, and it needs to hear from you.

Prior to the TFDA’s announcement of its decision to remove the animal tests from its draft regulation, the agency had endorsed these horrific experiments, which are irrelevant to human health, and PETA sent the TFDA a detailed scientific critique of these tests at the agency’s request.

If the final draft regulation is approved as is after the public comment period ends, for companies that want to make anti-fatigue health claims for marketing food and beverage products, only safe and effective human tests would be required and allowed.

Permanently removing animal testing from the draft regulation would save countless animals’ lives.

During the notorious forced swim test, experimenters fed mice or rats large quantities of the test foods and then starved them for up to 24 hours. Afterward, experimenters dropped them into beakers filled with water and observed how long they struggled before they drowned or remained underwater for eight consecutive seconds. If the animals learned to float and conserve energy, experimenters would stir the water to force them to struggle. To speed up the drowning process, experimenters tied lead wires to animals in order to make it harder for them to swim.

photo of rat in a cage

During the treadmill-running test, experimenters also fed rats large quantities of the test foods and then put the animals on treadmills equipped with electrified plates. Experimenters forced them to run at increasing speeds and on steepening inclines and observed how long it took for them to choose repeated electrocution over continuing to run. At the trials’ end, experimenters killed and dissected them.

Not only is animal experimentation cruel, it’s also a colossal failure. Specifically, 90% of animal tests fail to lead to treatments for humans and more than 95% of new pharmaceutical drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials.

Rats, a preferred target of experimenters worldwide, are highly intelligent. They are natural students who excel at learning and understanding concepts and are at least as capable of thinking about problems and figuring them out as dogs. They have excellent memories, and once they learn a navigation route, they never forget it.

Please TAKE ACTION (link above) and let the TFDA know that you support its deletion of animal testing from the draft regulation for anti-fatigue health claims and that you support keeping such testing banned in the final version of the regulation.

General News

Berlin: Coral World is cruel world!

A marine aquarium is to be built by an Israeli investor in Berlin Lichtenberg the Rummelsburger Bucht: Coral World.

According to media reports, the exhibition of marine animals, corals, and tropical fish – including probable sharks – is planned. Together with other organizations, we at PETA Germany call on the responsible politicians to remove the project from the development plan.
Environmental destruction, overfishing and animal suffering:

In addition to office and administrative buildings and luxury apartments, a giant aquarium called Coral World is also to be built in Rummelsburger Bucht in Berlin.
Instead of native fish, tropical fish and probably also sharks are said to swim in an aquarium in the bay.

7 reasons against building the marine aquarium in Rummelsburg Bay:

1) The construction of Coral World is driving coral reef destruction. Around 99 percent of the marine ornamental fish in large European aquariums are caught in the wild.

Numerous sea creatures die while being caught and transported: around four out of five coral fish caught in the reef die before they reach the aquarium. Dead animals are then promptly replaced by further wild-caught animals – every new large aquarium built thus contributes massively to the looting of the oceans.

2) In addition, species-appropriate keeping in the aquarium is not possible: Many marine animals cover great distances in the ocean and dive into the depths of the sea. Many ocean dwellers live in symbioses with one another, avoid each other or live in shoals.

All of these natural behaviors cannot be performed in captivity; In the aquarium, these animals therefore often develop behavior disorders, depression, and aggression.

3) In addition, the construction of a new marine aquarium is extremely harmful to the climate: the operation of such an aquarium alone wastes as much energy as hundreds of private households. In times when climate and environmental protection are increasingly in the public eye, building a tropical aquarium is provocatively damaging to the environment.

4) Visitors and especially children learn nothing about the natural behavior of these animals or about marine and nature conservation through the display of animals in captivity. Visitors are falsely conveyed that it is natural to wrest living beings from their homes and imprison them for human entertainment.

5) In the area in which the aquarium is to be built, there are strictly protected animal species that are endangered if the planned construction project is carried out. In addition, the area is important for the urban climate. The planned, legally permissible compensatory measures are questionable from the point of view of nature conservation.

6) Aquariums are being phased out: This is not only shown by falling visitor numbers, for example in the Haus des Meeres in Vienna or in Sea Life in Munich but also the vote against the large Basel project Ozeanium.

7) The implementation of the project would be a waste of taxpayers’ money. In Lichtenberg, there are more important climate protection projects or social projects in which investing tax money would be much more sensible.

Together with the organization ElasmOcean e.V. and the Fondation Franz Weber, we turned to the district mayor of Berlin Lichtenberg, his deputy, and the head of the Berlin district administration in December 2020 and demanded that they distance themselves from the planned construction of the Coral World marine aquarium.

As early as 2017, we asked the politicians in charge to designate the Rummelsburger Bucht as a water protection area.

https://www.peta.de/themen/coral-world-berlin/

And I mean…Water zoos are an outdated concept and isolation torture on the captive animals. Here, too, is a kind of mass animal husbandry
Animals that naturally have thousands of kilometers to choose from (even if they are perhaps more territorial) is criminal to keep this way.

In addition, 80 percent of marine animals die on the way to the aquarium, the stocks of wild-caught fish are damaged and this leads to the destruction of coral reefs.

The behavior of animals in captivity does not help anyone to develop a real ecological awareness, and at most, it gives the children the wrong idea that it is okay to cage an animal or to keep an exotic animal in the water basin.
Exotic fish, and actually all animals, can now be observed better in excellent documentation.

No creature has to be locked up for this!

My best regards to all, Venus