The Spaniards actually want to start bullfights without an audience again from June. How crazy is that?

The Bullfighters Union, together with the Movistar Plus Canal Toros, has planned a hypothetical bullfighting season in which the first 10 bullfights will take place next June. A total of almost thirty fights are said to be televised. According to ABC from Seville, José Pedro Prados ‘El Fundi’, as President of the Union, has already contacted the first thirty bullfighters on the 2019 bullfighter list to host bullfights and horse fights.

Movistar Plus is definitely trying not to associate its brand with the abuse and death of the bulls. For this reason, the name Movistar Plus does not appear in the news published by ABC de Sevilla.

But AnimaNaturalis clearly points out that Movistar Plus is responsible for all of this.

With this initiative, ‘El Fundi’, President of the Union of Bullfighters, is hoping for the support of all institutions involved and is currently investigating possible scenarios for the development of new bullfighting strategies.
Fundi himself emphasizes that “the intention of this project is to create a campaign plan to save the bullfighting sector”. After these first ten battles, another significant number of broadcasts could continue.

This scenario is only intended to give bullfighting a voice and to ensure that “the thematic space is not lost. ” (!!!)

Movistar Plus itself assumes that no subscribers will be lost in its payment channel with this measure.

This shows how important it is to fight bullfighting right now.

Do not get tired and sign and share our petition. We need every voice.

https://www.change.org/p/die-grausame-tradition-der-stierk%C3%A4mpfe-in-spanien-und-mallorca-m%C3%BCssen-beendet-werden-es-gibt-keine-rechtfertigungen-f%C3%BCr-die-grausamen-schauspiele/u/26509681

And I mean…All viewers who watch the live executions via Movistar Plus and are enthusiastic about it even in Corona times must be mentally weak primitives who want to forget their current misery and their catastrophic economic future through bloody spectacles on television.

The ruling left-wing coalition in Spain actually wants to cut all subsidies for the Corridas, and would like to ban them completely.
A referendum on this is already in preparation.

But the conservative and corrupt former Rahoy government with its then parliamentary majority declared bullfighting as a national intangible cultural asset in November 2013.
An eyesore in the deepest dark Spain.
And this shameful law still applies.

It is a serious impudence to think of the bullfighting program on TV during the coronary crisis, when many people are financially ruined and the country is most affected by the pandemic of all European countries.

But this is more than understandable.
Anyone who does bloody business with the bull massacre usually loses sympathy and humanity towards people.

My best regards to all, Venus

Dear all,

given the occasion, we, Mark and Venus want to say one thing: we are open to any opinion and criticism sent to us regarding our posts and our own opinions.

We are not writing here to distinguish ourselves, we run this blog as a defender of animal rights.

We would like to remind you that we are an independent, private blog that is neither behind an organization, religious group or political party nor financed by it.

That is why we see every justified criticism and comment as a support for this function.

We don’t always expect approval or applause, but when criticism comes, we expect arguments and substantiated evidence to show that the criticism is not against us, but rather to improve our work for animal rights. If we make mistakes, we are ready to correct them.

In this sense, we behave democratically towards all of our readers without betraying them to whom we have promised fidelity and loyalty: the animals.

It is clear to us that many of our articles and opinions, the Labor Meat and Hunter Mafia and several other animal haters do not like it.

That is not our problem and we can still live with it well.

Venus and Mark (WAV)

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/01/29/england-germany-wav-photographs-we-want-to-explain/

Importance: High

https://vimeo.com/412364813

Subject: PETITION:  (France) Badger diggers slaughter whole family using dogs, cries and screams of despair from helpless badgers

Nous avons infiltré le milieu de la vénerie sous terre ( photos and video)

Digging up badgers with the help of dogs and murdering the whole sleeping, peaceful family is considered a sport (!!!) in civilised FRANCE

Activists of the organisation ONE VOICE managed to infiltrate a group of these disgusting scumbags

Please sign and share the petition

https://www.jaimelesblaireaux.fr/

https://vimeo.com/412364813

Prenom – First Name

Nom – Main name

E mail

Ville – Village or town

ZIP – Postcode

Then click on ‘Je Signe’

Which side do you belong to?
If you are not vegan, look at the picture to the left,
You belong there.

Regards and a good night from Venus

Incredible ‘tradition’! Cattle heads nailed to the wall again!

We are talking about the barbaric placement of a pig or cow skull in front of a bachelor’s house who is about to marry his 30th or 40th birthday. This ritual has been held in the region since memory, mostly carried out by rural youth.
There is actually a scaffold erected right in front of the ‘recipient’ ‘s home, decorated with colorful balloons … and, oh how funny, as a’ main attraction ‘: a severed cattle head!
To avoid misunderstandings, these are not artificial heads, but those of recently killed animals!

The sight is reminiscent of the darkest Middle Ages, you feel transported back to a Viking village, where violence and mortality dominated everyday life. What is the message, what is being conveyed to the children here? One day they will turn away in disgust, and deeply ashamed of such a procedure of their fathers and mothers.
And completely right!
Everyone has to endure such a sight, whether they like it or not. It has nothing to do with tradition anymore, it is just ugly.
A thoroughly incomprehensible ‘tradition’, which in a modern society – because highly life-contemptuous and above all animal-contemptuous – something like this should no longer find a place … emphatic passers-by simply lack the words.

We had to testify to the current cases, two in number, today. Both in the same village, each at the entrance and exit! The first is already full of flies, it smells horrible, the decay is in full swing. Under the second head, attached to a table by screws through the ears, one can see coagulated blood that has flowed in thick streams.

We repeat ourselves – in the 3rd millennium, it is just unbelievable !!! How far we as a society really have moved from barbarism, in view of this, the inevitable question arises.

https://us12.campaign-archive.com/

The association RespekTiere has created a petition (translation below) against this barbarish habit, please sign it.

https://secure.avaaz.org/de/community_petitions/bundesregierung_tierschutzminister_end_the_shamenow

Dear Sir or Madam,

We demand an immediate ban on exhibiting dead animals or animal heads for whatever purpose.
Such ‘traditions’ are cruel, inhumane and completely unworthy of a modern society – which is also committed to animal welfare according to the constitution.

‘If you don’t respect the dignity of animals, you can’t take them away, but you will lose your own. ”

And I mean…This has nothing to do with tradition or national culture.
It only shows how little intelligence the villagers have.

How primitive and anti-social people can be in the middle of Europe, you can also see from the fact that traditions from the Middle Ages are perceived with enthusiasm, which only deter and dislike any other educated person.
We can only hope that the Austrians will actively and massively mobilize against this shameful rituals, and that we won’t need a new petition next year.

My best regards to all, Venus

horses tied to a log that flutter through the air and the horses fly off and are hanging on ropes horses tied to a log that flutter through the air and the horses fly off and are hanging on ropes

Petition Link –

https://www.sosvox.org/en/petition/they-tie-horses-to-logs-and-throw-them-into-the-air-rescue-these-animals-and-investigate-this-animal-abuse.html?utm_source=highlight&utm_medium=title&utm_campaign=campaign-p020520&uuid=fd376f375efd72ffbb9b53f8573be8925cc4f75c7aa9a1671739edf280fb793a 

Mark,

In the video it is very clear how they have the horses tied to a trunk that flutter through the air and the horses fly away and are left hanging.

Addressed to: Tolhuin Police Station, Mayor of Tolhuin, Tolhuin Prosecutor’s Office

In the video it is very clear how they have the horses tied to a log that flutter through the air and the horses fly off and are hanging on ropes. This happened in Tierra del Fuego and I hope that something will be done against the people who did this to the horses, because in the end there are witnesses, even videos and nothing ever happens and this is forgotten and the animals continue to be mistreated by these criminals.

More than 1,140,100 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 66,400 have died, according to a New York Times database. More than 1,000 additional deaths have been announced every day since April 2.

Case numbers spike in Midwestern meatpacking cities

Across the Midwest and Great Plains, production at meatpacking plants and other food processing centers has slowed or stopped because of large outbreaks, including one at a Smithfield facility in South Dakota that sickened more than 1,000 people.

The Times has identified more than 40 food processing facilities across the country with coronavirus outbreaks. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at 4,900 meat and poultry processing workers had been infected across 19 states, and at least 20 had died.

Some companies, including Tyson and Smithfield, have refused to answer even basic questions about the size of their outbreaks. And in some places, state and local health officials have also been silent. In Kansas, state officials said there were 544 meatpacking-related cases spread across six clusters, but they refused to name those facilities. In Dakota County, Neb., where case numbers have exploded in recent days and where Tyson closed a plant for cleaning, the county health department has declined to give that information. The Nebraska National Guard has been testing workers at that facility.

Small metro areas with large meatpacking industries are seeing some of the country’s highest rates of growth in cases. In the county that includes Green Bay, Wis., where there are outbreaks at three meatpacking facilities, cases more than tripled over 10 days. In St. Joseph, Mo., more than 350 workers and their close contacts have tested positive. And in Cass County, Ind., where large numbers of Tyson workers fell ill, the number of known cases surged from roughly 50 to more than 1,200 over two weeks. Around half of the roughly 1,900 employees tested at that facility had the coronavirus, Indiana officials said.

Read the entire article, with virus spread maps at:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html#clusters

With unprecedented violence, attempts were made in Italy to silence journalists who reported on the conditions in factory farming and their fatal consequences for humans, animals and the environment.

“Our support for the journalists attacked by the meat industry”: Sabrina Giannini, Sigfrido Ranucci and Mario Tozzi (picture by Animal Equality Italia)

In detail, there are four journalists who brought uncomfortable truths to light on programs of the Italian public service broadcaster Rai (Radiotelevisione Italiana) by reporting on the effects of factory farming on the climate, environment and health – also with regard to the current corona Crisis – reported and related to the current level of meat production and consumption:

— Mario Tozzi talked about how global meat production contributes to deforestation, pollution, damage to water and soil and the loss of entire natural habitats, which has always been fundamental, in the program “Sapiens – Un solo pianeta” on March 28 on Rai 3 are part of our ecosystem.

— On March 29, Sabrina Giannini reported on the show “Indovina chi viene a cena – Il virus è un boomerang”, also on Rai 3, about the consequences of meat production, which promotes the spread of viruses, and how the enormous use of antibiotics in intensive livestock farming leads to antibiotic resistance, a phenomenon that is already having a serious impact on public health and will become increasingly serious for all of humanity in the future.

— In a program in the “Report” series (Rai 3), Sigfrido Ranucci and Luca Chianca reported on April 13th about the slurry problem, in which large amounts of ammonia and nitrates are released, which among other things leads to high air pollution, especially in Lombardy, a factor that appears to favor the spread of viruses and the occurrence of respiratory diseases.

In their research, the journalists referred to scientific data, facts and sources from internationally recognized institutions such as the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) of the United Nations and the WHO (World Health Organization) of the United Nations as well as the EU Commissioner for the Environment and Oceans Virginijus Sinkevičius, quoted by the New York Times as follows:

“Factory farming plays a role in the current pandemic, with strong evidence that meat production, not only in China, has contributed to COVID-19.”

In return, representatives of the Italian agricultural, livestock and meat industries and their numerous lobby associations, including Assica, Assalzoo, Assocarni, Una Italia, Unica, Carni Sostenibili, as well as the Ex-Minister of Agriculture and current Lega Nord politician Gian Marco Centinaio had received harsh criticism failing to finance and suppress such voices accused them of unfounded claims and accused them of boycotting domestic “Made in Italy” industry (!!!)

Eight environmental and animal protection organizations have now responded, including the Italian departments of Greenpeace, Animal Equality, Compassion in World Farming and the Humane Society International, and have written an open letter to the Rai Board of Directors, which we will publish in German below.

In it, they defend journalists, thank the Rai for the broadcasts, and emphasize that the call to silence journalists or prevent them from addressing specific issues contradicts the concept of freedom of information on which every true democracy rests , also and especially in times of a global crisis like this one.

https://www.pressenza.com/de/2020/04/italien-unterstuetzung-fuer-von-der-fleischindustrie-angegriffene-journalisten/

My comment: The letter is very good but because it is quite long I will not translate the whole thing.
However, the following starting points must be mentioned:

– “With this letter, the signing associations would like to express their full solidarity and support for the Rai journalists, who have been attacked by the meat and livestock industry as a result of their investigations ….”

– “The requirement to silence journalists or prevent them from addressing specific issues also contradicts the concept of freedom of information on which every true democracy rests ….”

– “Journalistic investigations, such as those mentioned here, are valuable beacons that help illuminate the role that intensive animal husbandry also plays in all of this ….”

– “A study published in Nature magazine estimated that in fact 75% of the infectious diseases that have affected humans in recent decades come from animals.
Sars, Ebola, swine flu, bird flu and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (known as “mad cow disease”) are just a few examples that preceded this coronavirus …. ”

and finally they say …”We also thank the Rai and its journalists for repeatedly giving room to the investigations by nonprofits, with images that show the hidden side of intensive animal breeding.
To hide all this information from the public is very serious: It means neglecting public health and a global problem, a problem that the whole world is experiencing dramatically and with devastating social and economic impacts at the moment”.

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We also thank the Italian journalists for these reports and for doing their job conscientiously and consistently.
We also thank the eight animal welfare organizations for their solidarity.
That strengthens the victims because they know they are not alone.
In today’s society we live separately from each other, which makes us vulnerable and weak, we don`t  know a real WE and loyalty is mostly practiced with the powerful.

Loyalty in the animal rights movement is a political act.
We have to learn to act politically correctly.

My best regards to all, Venus