The Board of Appeal of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) recently published two decisions on animal testing for cosmetics.
It stipulates that ingredients that are used exclusively for cosmetics may still be tested on animals under the REACH regulation. (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals)
In fact, animal testing for cosmetic ingredients has been banned since the EU Cosmetics Regulation came into force in 2013 – and thus the current decisions represent an absolute misinterpretation of the law, as they enable manufacturers and regulatory authorities to effectively ignore the ban.
What does all this mean for animals and what can we do about it?
The following will happen to the animals:
As a direct result of the decisions, over 5,500 rats, rabbits, and fish are used in new experiments.
Some of them are given a cosmetic ingredient repeatedly during pregnancy.
The animals themselves and their offspring are then killed and dissected.
In addition, the decisions open the door to further animal testing, as hundreds of new cosmetic products come onto the market every year, the ingredients of which may then have to be tested on animals within the framework of REACH – at the expense of tens of thousands of animals.
There is one animal that works 6 months each year to protect you, your family, and your pets.
It does this every night for up to 15 years. During a night flight, it eats more than 1000 mosquitoes.
1000 mosquitos that can be dangerous for you, your family, and your dog.
1000 mosquitoes that can spread western Nile fever, the Usutu virus, skin worms, and heartworms in humans and animals.
More than 1000 mosquitoes every night for 6 months.
That translates to 180,000 mosquitos per year that can bite you or your pets and transmit diseases.
Because the bat lives 15 years, it destroys more than 2,700,000 mosquitos in its lifetime, and it’s only one bat !!!
If one counts a medium colony and 2x offspring per year, this number is over 12,555,000,000 destroyed mosquitoes, which results in a little over 12 tons.
All they ask is that we do not hate these useful animals, that we do not hunt them, that we do not destroy their habitat and their nesting opportunities, and where these are destroyed we give them the opportunity to nest again.
Rabies bats are rare, the chance of being infected with rabies by bats as a human being is less than winning the lottery.
People are not actively attacked by bats, but maybe bitten when they pick up injured animals and try to help them.
Wear thick gloves during rescue operations.
Many people do not like them, out of blind prejudice, even though they do much more for us than we do for them.
I have campaigned for, and spoken in defence of, all the worlds animals exported live for over 30 years. Part of my campaign ‘patch’ was at Dover in Kent, which is my personal home county.
Until recently; the Dover Member of Parliament (MP) was one named Charlie Eliphicke. Over many years of campaigning against live exports (from Dover); protestors were constantly informed that ‘Charlie’ was against the trade and fully supported them. Never once was he observed at the docks supporting the protests, or supporting written documentation (evidence) being presented to either the EU or ‘his’ Political Party, the Conservatives.
Yesterday, 15th September 2020, Charlie Elphicke was sentenced to 2 years in prison for ‘sexual assaults on women’. The Judge at the case, one Mrs Justice Whipple; told Elphicke he was a “sexual predator who used his success and respectability as a cover”.
It is not for me to stand here and put Charlie Elphicke down; I have better things to do; nor do I in the least support his alleged actions against women in any way – quite the opposite; but what (allegedly) happened in his case is an issue that I don’t want to get involved with. The abuse of females is wrong – simple as that; whatever guise it takes.
For me, personally and more importantly, is the fact that CE was sentenced to 2 years for the ‘assault on women’. That to me this is disgusting enough, but with all that has happened here I consider the envelope should be pushed a little wider.
‘An assault on women’.
From of many searches today, I find that under ‘the system’, ‘A woman’ is identified as an adult femalehuman.
Fine; no problems there, but then what about all the other ‘women’; females of this planet ?
There are ‘women Bovines’; and they are called Cows once they have had offspring. A heifer is a female (cow) that has not yet had any young. A cow is a mature female bovine that has had at least one calf.
There are ‘women Porcines’, Female pigs, called sows, give birth to offspring twice a year to a litter of around 12 young. The baby pigs are called piglets. Prior to having any young, the female pig is usually known as a ‘gilt’. At birth, piglets weigh around 2.5 lbs. Wild pigs can give birth to six for 14 piglets at a time.
For ‘women’ sheep, or ‘Ovines’, an adult female is referred to as a ewe. She gives birth to lambs.
For ‘women Hens’, younger females are known as pullets, although in the egg-laying industry, a pullet becomes a hen when she begins to lay eggs.
The female / male list of animal types is endless. If you’d like to find out the correct male and female names for these animals and many more, then check the list below
‘Women’ animals are abused by respective ‘Human’ industries that farm them continually. Most humans; those of the non animal advocate kind; accept this as part of the system. I ask the question; why can a male human abuse females and get sent to prison for 2 years; and yet tens of thousands / millions of ‘women’ animals’ suffer much greater abuses, and yet their perpetrators appear to get away with the abuses all the time because they are accepted by most in human society as being the ‘norm’.
Until society realises that ‘women’ animals are sentient beings; just like the human version, and accept that they also love and cherish their offspring (given a chance), and allowed to be mere mothers for more than just a few hours; then human society will make little progress. The human abusers will remain as the abusers and the women animals that suffer as a result will continue to suffer for all mankind.
2 years for fondling a human woman.
Continual Insemination of a ‘woman cow’ – Using the flexibility of your wrist, twist and bend the cervix until you feel the second ring slide over the gun tip. Push the plunger slowly so that drops of semen fall directly into the uterine body. When the insemination gun is more than 1” through the cervix, all the semen will be deposited in only one horn. Animals – thus ACCEPTED.
Seems that some abuse is not accepted in the human world; you can go to jail for it; and yet the daily animal abuse is accepted in the human world everywhere without question.
The question is – Why ?
Regards Mark
Learn more about more ‘female mums’ – the stray dogs and cats of Serbia – from our other site; ‘Serbian Animals Voice’ (SAV):
A small sample of the welcome the fishermen gave us a few days ago in Brittany.
As part of OPERATION DOLPHIN BYCATCH, we are currently on the move off the coast of Brittany to uncover dolphins being caught in fishing nets.
After we documented on August 30th how five dolphins were killed in one day in the nets of a single fishing boat, fishermen pursued, threatened, surrounded, pelted us, and tried everything possible to hinder our work.
But we don’t let ourselves be scared off, we don’t let ourselves be discouraged and we don’t let ourselves be intimidated … especially not by an ass demonstration!!
Every year 10,000 dolphins die off the French coast from fishing nets.
We’ll keep patrolling and uncovering these deaths until something changes.
The European Union has already asked France to ban fishing methods that are responsible for the unnecessary death of thousands of dolphins.
And I mean…
...”The European Union has already asked France to ban fishing methods that are responsible for the unnecessary death of thousands of dolphins”.
If a court requires a rapist not to rape any more women, can the judiciary assume that the perpetrator has been punished enough?
Is this a sufficiently effective punishment for the perpetrator, so that will keep him from future rape?
Govt agrees to change law to help protect over 35,000 endangered species
“The changes will be made by amending the Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989 to ban the domestic sale of elephant ivory in New Zealand with some exemptions, and to improve the regulatory system at the border,” said Eugenie Sage.
The Government has agreed to change the law to help protect more than 35,000 internationally endangered species where unsustainable trade threatens their survival in the wild, Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage announced today.
“The changes will be made by amending the Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989 to ban the domestic sale of elephant ivory in New Zealand with some exemptions, and to improve the regulatory system at the border,” said Eugenie Sage.
“This is a big step forward in strengthening the management of international trade in endangered, threatened and exploited species. The Cabinet decisions follow the release of a discussion document in September 2019 and public submissions.
“Currently there are no restrictions on domestic trade in elephant ivory in New Zealand. This is out of step with many countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, France, Taiwan and China which have already banned domestic trade in elephant ivory.”
“I am pleased to announce the proposal to ban the domestic sale of any items made with ivory from elephants killed after 1975, which is when elephants began to be protected from international trade under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
The import and export of all elephant ivory is also proposed to be banned, with narrow exemptions to ensure elephant ivory items can still be traded by museums, for DNA testing and testing to determine age, and that antique musical instruments with correct permits can still be carried across the border.
“The New Zealand market in ivory is small, but banning the sale of post-Convention elephant ivory in New Zealand will send a message that New Zealand does not want to receive elephant ivory that may have been poached or illegally traded,” said Eugenie Sage.
Other planned changes to the TIES Act focus on improving the way the Act is implemented to ensure the regulatory system at the border efficiently and effectively manages international wildlife trade and stops illegal trade.
“Proposed changes to the TIES Act will ensure that New Zealand can continue to protect significant plants and wildlife from around the world to the highest standard.”
Regulate the domestic sale of elephant ivory, with elephant ivory from elephants killed before 1975 exempt;
place further restrictions at the border on importing and exporting elephant ivory;
update the definition of personal and household effects to ensure it functions as intended by not allowing items for commercial sale to qualify as personal or household effects;
include a regulation-making power enabling species-specific exemptions from permitting for personal and household effects;
enable a process to return seized items to individuals where there are permit irregularities in certain limited circumstances; allow cost recovery for services provided to commercial traders; and
allow DOC to consider cases where there have been irregularities with permits issued by Management Authorities in other countries. There will be a process with strict conditions to consider errors, and decide whether to accept replacement or retrospective permits.
The Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989 will need to be amended to implement the changes. An amendment Bill will be drafted incorporating the proposed changes. It is planned for introduction to the next Parliament after the election to be referred to Select Committee after its first reading.
(With Inputs from New Zealand Government Press Release)
A study concludes that pressure on networks led to the prohibition of Toro de la Vega.
Eduardo Galeano once said, “Many small people, in small places, by doing small things, can change the world.”
The activists created against this barbarian fiesta in Tordesillas (Valladolid) an emotional stigma for the followers of this celebration, constructing them as psychopaths, sadists, or beasts.
And won! After many years of fighting, they won!
It is said that the press is the fourth power.
Perhaps everyone who fights against the lies of the press, the animal rights activists, the protesters, the defenders of animals, is the fifth power.
All these forces have abolished el Toro de la Vega!
WAV Comment: Special thanks must go to the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) who battled the flames for hours, unsuccessfuly, to save lives.
Paris seems to be turning its hunting policy 180 degrees: After the use of limed rods for catching birds was banned only two weeks ago, the Supreme Administrative Courthas now completely stopped lovebird hunting.
The migratory bird has seen a dramatic decline in populations in recent decades – not least because of the completely unrestrained hunting in France and Italy.
In recent years, the Committee against Bird Murder and its partners have used campaigns and actions to draw attention to the dramatic situation with the turtledove in particular – we only submitted a complaint against France to the EU Commission this spring.
Brussels has finally taken the reins and is putting considerable pressure on the countries where endangered bird species are still allowed to be shot en masse.
This success cannot be rated highly enough, because France has so far been one of the great “hunting nations” that have blocked any progress in protecting migratory birds.
We now expect similar restrictions as with the turtle dove for species such as the curlew and the skylark.
There are new government regulations in force now that UP TO 6 people maximum are allowed to meet – the ‘rule of 6’ coronavirus law.
12/9 is known in the UK as the ‘glorius Twelth’ by hunters; as it is the day each year that they can start thier abuse towards animals by having hunting parties to shoot game birds. Anyone else (under the 6 rules) would not be allowed to meet in groups of more than 6 people. But as always, the Conservative Party has given in and made ‘exemptions’ which allow MORE than 6 people to blast game birds out of the sky. How very typical.
Bloodsports exempt from ‘rule of six’ coronavirus laws
Shooting and hunting groups have been exempted from the UK Government’s new ‘rule of six’ coronavirus laws.
The government has made it illegal to “mingle” under the new law enabling the enforcement of the rule in England, which came into force on Monday. But regulations published on Sunday include a number of exemptions, which including shooting and hunting, with both listed under the physical activities people can continue with in groups of more than six.
A statement on the British Association for Shooting and Conservation says: “Shooting has been added to a list of sports that are exempt from the latest COVID-19 restrictions in England. The ‘rule of six’ restrictions brought in today in England could have disrupted game shooting which usually includes eight or more people.
However, the exemption will allow shooting to operate under COVID-safe guidance.”
Ian Bell, BASC’s chief executive, said the decision to allow shooting to continue was “the right one”. “Like other team sports, shooting is able to operate under social distancing guidance, and its benefits to the rural economy and well-being makes its inclusion significant,” he said.
A Cabinet Office COVID-19 Operations ministerial committee scheduled a meeting on Saturday with an agenda item titled: “Exemption: hunting and shooting”, according to the Huffington Post. The meeting was cancelled just hours beforehand and insiders told the publication that the meeting was axed to avoid ministers raising objections.
Former minister Tracey Crouch told the Huffington Post: “Many will find this topsy-turvy prioritisation from government.
I’ve had queries about choirs, community bands, addiction therapy groups, all of whom would be worthy of an exemption and instead we are scrabbling around prioritising shooting animals. It’s bonkers.”
Lower Austria, 2020: Pig farming with fully slatted floors – AMA certified and self-marketing.
But behind the scenes there are sick piglets in the aisle, injured pigs are not treated. Dirt and boredom …
Fully slatted floors are popular in Austria’s agriculture: Concrete slabs with crevices ensure that urine and feces drain off and save farmers so much work (!!!)
60 percent of all Austrian pigs never sleep on straw, but on concrete for their entire life. And that although over 80 percent of Austrians are against this practice. Because life on hard concrete not only causes animal suffering but also diseases in pig farming.
If you ask the Austrian Agriculture Minister Köstinger about keeping pigs on so-called fully slatted floors, she refers to the role of consumers.
She puts the responsibility on the consumer.
They are not prepared to spend more money on meat from animal welfare. The consequence would be that domestic companies no longer meet the demand in the country, instead, they are imported cheaply from abroad.
But how are meat buyers supposed to know how animals live when there is even animal suffering behind the AMA seal – as the Association against Animal Factories(VgT) recently demonstrated?
A piglet that was put to death in the corridor between the boxes.
Only organic farming excludes fully slatted floors.
In 2019, not even 75,000 of the 2.7 million pigs were kept on organic farms – that is just 2.8 percent of all fattening pigs.
One solution to this misery would be the complete ban on fully slatted floors, as animal rights activists have been calling for for years.
A request to this effect was rejected by the government. Only the list “Now” (Jetzt) and the SPÖ (social democratic party of Austria) agreed. So far nothing has changed in the matter.
A piglet that was put to death in the corridor between the boxes.
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