Farm Animals, General News, Stray Animals

South Korea: Some Positive News For Korean Dogs and Other Animals.

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WAV Comment:

It finally looks as if Korean dogs.org are starting to make an impression with all their dedicated and very hard work – congratulations to them !

The new government announcement on a 5 year plan for animal welfare is really great news – we know you will join us in congratulating them on this very positive news.

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Click here to read the newsletter in the homepage:

https://koreandogs.org/newsletter-july-5-2019/?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Breaking_News!!_South_Korean_Government_to_Set_5year_Plan_on_Animal_Welfare__LA_Council_passes_resolution!&utm_medium=email

 

Breaking News!! South Korean Government to Set 5-year Plan on Animal Welfare!

The Korea Bizwire reported on July 3, “South Korea’s agriculture ministry said Wednesday it is drawing up a five-year plan on improving the welfare of animals in the country, which will focus on adopting tougher regulations against animal cruelty and providing them with a better living environment.”

They reported, “Under the 2020-2024 plan which is anticipated to be announced in December, the South Korean government will revise animal-related regulations in different areas from raising pets to carrying out animal tests, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Among others, the government said it will redefine the scope of actions that can be considered as animal cruelty. When implemented, abandoning pets also will be considered an abusive action and violators will face stronger punishment. Any maltreatment that leads to the death of animals may be punishable with a jail term of three years or a fine of 30 million won (US$25,638), up from the current ceiling of two years and 20 million won.”

According to the report, “Breeding farms will be required to provide better living conditions for animals in terms of the size of cages and the number of employees….

The government will also prepare guidelines to cope with stray animals, including making shelters for pets in case of disasters.”

This is a great news and a big step towards the ending of dog and cat meat cruelty in South Korea. Let’s keep up our pressure on South Korea until the dog and cat meat trade ends!

Click HERE to learn more.

 

LA City Council passed the dog meat resolution unanimously!

YAY!!! We are so happy the resolution (asking the governments of China, Vietnam, South Korea, Cambodia, and Indonesia to ban the sale of dog meat and to enforce their animal cruelty laws) unanimously passed the City Council today (13 Yes, 0 No, and 2 absent). A big thank you goes out to Mr. Jeffrey Mausner for speaking at the council meeting today and to all the members of the Valley Alliance of Neighborhood Councils for their efforts to make this possible. Also we are grateful to all council members who voted for this important resolution. Click HERE to learn more.

 

Busan Gupo Dog Meat Market Closure Update

Today is July 1 in South Korea and as of this day, Busan Gupo Livestock (Dog Meat) market is closed for good! Busan Korea Alliance for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Busan KAPCA) has worked very hard for many years to make this happen. They, along with Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA) and Korea Animal Welfare Association (KAWA) are right now at the Gupo Market to rescue the remaining dogs.

Busan Gupo Dog Meat Market is the first market in South Korea to close down altogether instead of just banning onsite slaughter. This is a truly momentous time in South Korea’s animal rights history. Many people are here to celebrate the closure of this market and rescue of the remaining dogs that the dog butchers agreed to release. Busan Mayor Oh Keo-Don, Busan Buk-gu District Director Jeong Myeong-Hui and other government representatives, along with many rescue activists/organizations and press, are present for the photo opportunities.

It is hoped that the actions of Busan Gupo Dog Meat Market will create a domino effect and that other major cities with large dog meat markets will follow Busan’s example. There are still hundreds of dog meat restaurants and so-called “Health Food Shops” in Busan that continue to sell dog meat. We must, therefore, keep the pressure on by taking action and protesting until the dog meat industry is completely banned in Busan and all around South Korea.

 

https://koreandogs.or

 

We are very excited that the New York based animal rights group “The Animals’ Battalion” will be organizing demonstrations in front of the Korean Consulate General’s Office for the fifth year in a row for the 3 days of Boknal (dog eating is traditionalized in Korea – Chobok 7/12, Jungbok 7/22, and Malbok 8/9 (Demonstration is on 8/9 Friday because Malbok 8/11 is on Sunday) in 2019) and EVERYONE IS INVITED. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE ANIMALS’ BATTALION. IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE KOREAN DOGS, PLEASE JOIN.

Click HERE to learn more.

 

Not in New York? You can still join us from the comfort of your home. Join our Phone Blitz and be the voice for the Korean dogs and cats! All you need is compassion and a phone.

📞☎️📱🖨 Click HERE to learn more and join.

 

Big congrats to Korean Dogs for all their hard work to tell the world – efforts now paying off.

Regards Mark.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

Stray Animals

Stray: the street victims

 

hund im MüllnThis dog was just thrown in the trash. The owner had moved to another location and did not want to take her dog. When the garbage was to be picked up after 6 days, the men noticed that something was moving in a plastic bag and found the totally emaciated dog and rescued him.
But many dogs do not have this luck.
It is summer time and many pack kids and cones and travel. Only one family member will like to forget, the dog.

Thousands of animals are also exposed in Germany every summer.

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It is supposed to be fifteen million pets that are maltreated, neglected or abandoned every year.

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If they are captured, they live in shelters the rest of their lives or are cruelly killed by the authorities.

We call for an international animal welfare law to deal ethically with stray dogs and cats in all member states of the EU.

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If they are captured, they live in shelters for the rest of their lives or are killed by the authorities.

If they are not captured, they spend their lives hungry on the streets or are brutally slaughtered. From people who see animals as objects or even as pests that can be maltreated, tortured and killed. And without being punished.

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When catching fatally injured

Countless dogs and cats are caught by unqualified animal catchers. These often use brutal methods. Sometimes stun weapons are used, which injure some animals so much that they die a painful death on the spot.

In front of scared children

Especially before major international “events”, the authorities “clean up” the streets with mass murders. Often this happens in front of the eyes of frightened passers – by and children.

We call on the EU to enact a law that regulates the protection of pets and the ethical dealings with strays in all member states.

The aim of this law is to protect the animals and reduce the strays ethically. This law should, inter alia, consider the following points:

– Registration obligation for all strays

– Castration obligation for all strays

– Establishment of an International Animal Cruelty Register linked to the lifelong prohibition of activities related to animals

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Please sign and share the Petition: https://jedertag.org/petition-streuner

Thank you for raising your voice for the animals today.

My comment: I have three cats, all from ” rescue service for wild animals” in my city.

The two siblings dropped off in an asparagus field in heavy winter because they were not purebred. They were only 2 weeks old.  Both were frozen and half dead.

The third was a move victim. Some brainworms have moved and left her in the garden. She was one year old and cried for 5 days in the cold. Nobody wanted to take her!

Earlier, we thought, that only happens in southerners. Here in Germany it is exactly the same.
It’s just so! We correct the deeds of the criminals of this society, every day. In every way!

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We can not save all the strays, but many of us can give a nice home to one or two animals.
You will have a faithful friend for life.

Best regards to all, Venus

General News

Vietnam: UPDATE on 5 Rescued Bears By Animals Asia – 5/6/19.

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We covered the rescue of these bears in a recent post:

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/06/28/vietnam-4-bears-rescued-from-a-vietnamese-resort-by-animals-asia-are-home-and-starting-a-new-life-at-their-sanctuary/

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Five precious bears…
and how your love is changing their lives
Dear Mark,

You got them home. Now you’re mending their broken bodies and tortured minds.

Our five precious newbies are all doing great and responding well to the treatment and loving care they’re getting. That loving care is a gift from you. Your donations truly mean the world to these bears.

Solo was abandoned in a cage, left all alone on a construction site. The four bears were rescued from a resort. It’s likely all would have been sold on to a circus if it weren’t for you. Or worse. A bile farm.

Instead they’re wrapped in your kindness. Medicine for their wounds… fruity treats and toys to bring some wonder to their days… and words and smiles to remind them that they’re home for good and loved beyond words.

Our wonderful Senior Bear Manager Sarah van Herpt has been mama to these bears since they arrived – Solo two weeks ago, and the four bears, just a week ago. Here’s what she has to say about her newest little charges:

 

Solo is an absolute sweetheart, but the sight of the four new bears was a shock to her. Who knows how long it’s been since she last saw another bear? But after a few days she got used to them being around. Solo is very smart with her enrichment toys, and figures out puzzles with treats inside very quickly. She’s been heard clucking a few times. Science doesn’t know for sure, but we see it in bears who are anxious. They’ll cluck to one another to say ‘I mean no harm’ or ‘I’m here behind you… don’t startle’ or ‘You’re making me uncomfortable’.

Sweet Pea is a cruisy wee bear. She loves to make nests with giant leaves and palm brooms, and she was the first bear to give in and eat her tomatoes! But poor Sweet Pea… she was on meds for the wound on her nose and nasal discharge, but we had to stop them because she was vomiting them straight up. We’re monitoring her closely when introducing her to new foods like banana to make sure it’s not the banana causing her vomiting. Right now, we’re trying her out with congee. The wound itself is healing well.

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Lily is on meds because she’s very itchy. Her sparse coat has revealed just how extensive her snare scar is. It runs right across her lower abdomen and around to her back. What must this gorgeous girl have suffered? Thankfully, that’s all over now. Lily is really enjoying her fresh fruit and veggies, and she loves to lick jam from the bamboo feeders. Her personality is still emerging and we can’t wait to see how she develops and grows.

Scooby is a hungry little man! He loves his food, and is always asking if we might have a few more of those dried sweet potatoes he loves so much. Scooby loves to play in water and you can often find him on his stomach lying down, two feet in his water bowl. He’s very small for a male bear, so we think he might be quite young.

Phuong is taking everything in her stride. It’s been a battle to help her to eat, but finally we have the key – honey! By blending her food with honey we found a way for her to enjoy her meals – but it also tells us she must have some painful teeth in her mouth. So our gorgeous Phuong will soon have a full dental. Phuong is often seen rolling around on her back playing with all of her toys.

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These precious bears are where they are today because of you. Your kindness affects their lives in every way… thank you for saving them from the worst possible fate. Now, together, we can make these broken bears whole again.

If you haven’t had a chance to give to these beautiful bears yet, there’s still time.

Because of your support, Solo, Sweet Pea, Lily, Scooby and Phuong will know only kindness from now on. Without your urgent help… a brutal bile farm was likely.

Instead you gave them sanctuary. And with each gorgeous Vietnamese sunrise, these precious bears are one day closer to recovery.

Thank you sincerely,

 

Tuan Bendixsen OAM PhD
Vietnam Director, Animals Asia

PS We think that some of these bears were previously abused on circuses. They’ve almost surely had no veterinary care their whole lives. If you haven’t given yet, a donation from you could make all the difference.

 

 

 

 

 
Farm Animals, General News

England: When Royals Visit, You Walk Behind Them – Unless You Are ‘Olive’ the Duck That Is !

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To lighten things up; we need to show you this.

Here in England there is one simple rule – when the Queen is on your patch she always leads the way, and everyone else follows.

That is apart from when you are a duck named Olive; then you lead the way and the queen of England follows you !

 

Watch the video here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-48875995/when-the-queen-met-olive-the-duck

When the Queen met Olive… the duck

The queen rounded off her royal engagements in Scotland with a visit to Edinburgh’s Gorgie City Farm where she was given a guided tour by volunteers and Olive, the four-year-old duck who “thinks she’s human”.

The Farm’s fortunes have changed considerably, avoiding closure in 2016 after a successful fundraising effort; its chief executive Iain Herbert described the Queen’s visit as a great honour.

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Her Majesty the Queen of England.

 

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Olive the Duck – with keeper.

General News

The fascist law of the strongest

 

 

Pictures proving that a self-conferred special right exists only for the ruling human species, based on a gigantic discrimination and exploitation of all other species, which this right is denied.

The right to one’s own dignity, the right to self-determination, the right to natural behavior, in other words the right to freedom exist nowhere for animals.
Human rights are on their core fascist and favors the stronger.

All other animal species suffer from the law of the dominant species, which calls itself “Human Species”.

These are pictures that prove the fundamental lawlessness of the animals

 

Best regards, Venus

Hunting

Namibia: the bloodshed has begun

Every year in Namibia, 86,000 Cape Fur Seal pups are butchered to death.

 

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Namibia is the only southern hemisphere country where seals are commercially slaughtered and the only country in the world where slaughter of puppies still nursed by mothers is possible.

 

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The cruel seal hunt is actually known only from Canada. And Canada has also resumed the bloody seal hunt, although demand for seal products has plummeted.
But even on another continent, seals are slaughtered by the thousands.
Between 80,000 and 100,000 dwarf fur seals, also known as eared seals, cavort at the Cape Cross on the rocks in Namibia.

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Over the next four months, as we learn, thousands of seals living in Cape Cross and Atlas Bay are brutally killed for their fur, oil and genitals. The genitals are exported to Asia. The terrible bloodshed has already begun. The hunting season lasts 139 days from July to November.

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The seal cubs are brutally hit on the head after being separated from their mothers. Under the cries of the mothers, they are stung, whether dead or not, in the neck and slashed with knives. By now 80,000 Robby babies are supposed to be.

The massacre of seals in Namibia is brutal for a number of reasons, including the method of killing and the effects that it has on the entire colony.

The sealers prevent the colony of seals from escaping into the sea. Seal hunters aim for bigger puppies and get away with the smaller, thinner ones – those with less chance of survival. This can weaken the long-term genetic vitality of the populations.

The puppies are killed mainly because of their fur, but also because of their bacon sold as a “food supplement”. The bones are made into pieces of jewelery and then sold with the fur as a luxury item in distant lands. To make a fur coat, it takes about 8 dead seals.

The butcher of Namibia – Hatem Yavuz

 

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The Turkish-Australian fur trader Hatem Yavuz is one of the main licensees.
He controls 60 percent of the fur market in the world.

 

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Hatem Yavuz, known as the butcher of Namibia, is the man responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of seals – both in Canada and Namibia, according to hesealsofnam.org.

This one man has the contract to turn their fur into so-called fashionable apparel. We had pictures of what’s going on but Google banned the page for it being too graphic.

The Turkish and Australian based company Hatem Yavuz named after the owner Hatem Yavuz controls roughly 60 percent of the world’s seal market and processes 130,000 seal pelts every year in his Istanbul factory. Yavuz also has a hand in the Canadian seal market and claims to be proud of what he does. In an interview that spurred a flurry of hate mail, Yavuz told “7 News” in Australia that “It’s a job. If I don’t do it, someone else is going to do it.” He is called the King of Seal Killers.

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Yavuz is an Australian citizen and also has Turkish citizenship. He is honorary consul in Namibia for Turkey and has as a diplomat both a luxury vehicle and offices, which are paid by the Namibian taxpayer. As a Consul of Namibia, he is a government official and benefits directly from the sale of the country’s assets, according to the organization.

Yavuz pays about $ 7 per coat and needs the fur of about 8 dead seals.

Yavuz will sell this coat for $ 30,000. Enough money to buy an exclusive townhouse in Swakopmund, Namibia. However, this money does not remain in Namibia to help the economically disadvantaged. It goes to Yavuz, who rides between Sidney and Istanbul, leading the life of a multi-millionaire.

The fur is processed in his company in Turkey.

Yavuz controls 60 percent of the world’s fur market.

As Turkey is not part of the European Union, which prohibits the import and export of seal products, hides from Namibia are shipped to Turkey, where they are processed and sold to countries such as China and Russia.

http://www.thesealsofnam.org/hatem-yavuz-the-butcher-of-namibia/
https://netzfrauen.org/2019/07/04/namibia

 

My comment: I read in another website that this bloody spectacle is a popular tourist attraction.
If some dull, mentally ill proletarians can find it beautiful, get excited, and enjoy how innocent and utterly defenseless animals suffer and are tortured to death like this, then they are nothing more than pathetic monsters, and they do not deserve anything like their own human rights.
The Government of Namibia allows this. The Government of Australia, Turkey and Canada allows fur trade.

And if the butcher Hatem Yavuz says massacring innocent beings is just a job, then why is he no longer burning witches, or selling slaves? That would be good business too.

For this, all he needs to do is make an offer to the governments that they can not refuse.

My best regards, Venus

 

Farm Animals, General News

England: The Price of Your Pint.

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With heartbreaking new footage from a British dairy farm, today we’re shining a light on the cycle of cruelty that exists in every glass of milk.

Filmed by one of Animal Equality’s investigators, this short non-graphic video is a moving reminder of how the bond between mother and calf is cruelly and routinely broken on dairy farms.

 

Shortly after a cow gives birth, her baby is taken away from her. Usually, they’ll never see each other again. Much like humans, cows have strong maternal instincts. They will call out for their calf for days or even weeks after they’ve been separated.
The milk this cow produces for her calf will instead be taken from her to be sold. She’ll be forcibly impregnated every year, putting her and her calves through a cycle of cruelty that ends with their slaughter.

We know how much suffering takes place in the dairy industry, but so many people are still unaware. Please, share this video with your friends and on social media, and help us spread the word about the torment cows endure for every pint of their milk sold.

Thank you,

 

https://animalequality.org/

 

info@animalequality.org.uk / Edinburgh House, 170 Kennington Lane, London •
SE11 5DP • United Kingdom

 

 

 

General News, Stray Animals

‘Please let me be an indoor dog tonight’

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‘Please let me be an indoor dog tonight’

Don’t forget that we also have a ‘Serbian Animals Voice’ Facebook site, which has over 1,250 members and which is a real talk shop for Serbian animal welfare campaigners; many of whom run small shelters and who have rescued animals who are looking for forever homes.

Note that each post has a ‘translation’ option where you can translate into English if you are not proficient at other languages.

 

There are many animals needing help – see if there is anything you can do for them.

Visit the site by clicking on:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SerbianAnimalsVoice/

 

SAV was founded before WAV to help campaign against the stray dog / cat abuses within Serbia, EU.  You can still visit the SAV site by clicking on:  

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/

 

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Find out more about the situation; including legal, for Serbian strays, and why it is never enforced,  by visiting: 

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-serbian-animals/

On the right side you can select a ‘Category’ to allow you further investigation into the situation for strays, and the work we have done in the past.

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On the left side you can backtrack over many years of Archives to see the work we have done for EU stray animals in the past.

So, we hope that with SAV, SAV Facebook and now with WAV, we are gradually keeping the world informed about the global suffering of animals.

We are attempting to be their voice, to follow on from Ella in London who wrote this fantastic poem in 1910; yes 1910.

THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS

I am the voice of the voiceless;
    Through me the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear
    The cry of the wordless weak.
From street, from cage, and from kennel,
    From jungle and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
    Of the mighty against the frail.

I am a ray from the centre;
    And I will feed God’s spark,
Till a great light glows in the night and shows
    The dark deeds done in the dark.
And full on the thoughtless sleeper
    Shall flash its glaring flame,
Till he wakens to see what crimes may be
    Cloaked under an honoured name.

The same Force formed the sparrow
    That fashioned man, the king;
The God of the Whole gave a spark of soul
    To furred and to feathered thing.
And I am my brother’s keeper,
    And I will fight his fight,
And speak the word for beast and bird,
    Till the world shall set things right.

Let no voice cavil at Science–
    The strong torch-bearer of God;
For brave are his deeds, though dying creeds,
    Must fall where his feet have trod.
But he who would trample kindness
    And mercy into the dust–
He has missed the trail, and his quest will fail:
    He is not the guide to trust.

For love is the true religion,
    And love is the law sublime;
And all that is wrought, where love is not,
    Will die at the touch of time.
And Science, the great revealer,
    Must flame his torch at the Source;
And keep it bright with that holy light,
    Or his feet shall fail on the course.

Oh, never a brute in the forest,
    And never a snake in the fen,
Or ravening bird, starvation stirred,
    Has hunted its prey like men.
For hunger, and fear, and passion
    Alone drive beasts to slay,
But wonderful man, the crown of the plan,
    Tortures, and kills, for play.

He goes well fed from his table;
    He kisses his child and wife;
Then he haunts a wood, till he orphans a brood,
    Or robs a deer of its life.
He aims at a speck in the azure;
    Winged love, that has flown at a call;
It reels down to die, and he lets it lie;
    His pleasure was seeing it fall.

And one there was, weary of laurels,
    Of burdens and troubles of State;
So the jungle he sought, with the beautiful thought
    Of shooting a she lion’s mate.
And one came down from the pulpit,
    In the pride of a duty done,
And his cloth sufficed, as his emblem of Christ,
    While murder smoked out of his gun.

One strays from the haunts of fashion
    With an indolent, unused brain;
But his sluggish heart feels a sudden start
    In the purpose of giving pain.
And the fluttering flock of pigeons,
    As they rise on eager wings,
From prison to death, bring a catch in his breath:
    Oh, the rapture of killing things!

Now, this is the race as we find it,
    Where love, in the creed, spells hate;
And where bird and beast meet a foe in the priest
    And in rulers of fashion and State.
But up to the Kingdom of Thinkers
    Has risen the cry of our kin;
And the weapons of thought are burnished and brought
    To clash with the bludgeons of sin.

Far Christ, of a million churches,
    Come near to the earth again;
Be more than a Name; be a living Flame;
    ‘Make Good’ in the hearts of men.
Shine full on the path of Science,
    And show it the heights above,
Where vast truths lie for the searching eye
    That shall follow the torch of love.

 

Poems of experience. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
London : Gay and Hancock, Ltd. 1910.

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Don’t drink coffee I take Tea my Dear ….

Takes more than combat gear to make a man;

takes more than a license with a gun

Be yourself, no matter what they say !

 

Regards Mark – Englishman in Animal Rights !

 

 

 

 

General News

A fascist system of exploitation

“Over 150 million animals are killed for food around the world every day—just on land. That comes out to 56 billion land animals killed per year. Including wild-caught and farmed fish, we get a total closer to 3 billion animals killed.” ( Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals)⁣

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There is no other cause or struggle that comes even close in numbers.⁣
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Most victims of the Animal Holocaust do not even have legal means to be defended in courts around the globe. Their voices are not acknowledged. This is the only cause in which the victims are not even recognized as victims by the majority of the human population.
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How can we trivialize the magnitude of the massacre and abuse that thousands of millions of non-human animals are subjected to every week by somehow equating any other tragedy with theirs?⁣
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Just trying to include any other cause in the spaces dedicated to animal rights is an anthropocentric gesture—one which only shows selfishness and a false sense of human supremacy. ⁣
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Attempts to overshadow the animal rights struggle, to not let it exist on its own, and to hide the scale of non-human annihilation at a single species’ hands are just reflections of the internalized speciesism in our society.
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The need to create a movement with a unique and specific cause focused on defending the rights of voiceless victims—victims who cannot make use of the human language or legally defend their own lives—originated from that void among justice movements. The goal was to have a movement specifically dedicated to shedding light on the most ignored victims, the most oppressed on the planet, and the most numerous above all: non-human animals.

Anonymous for the Voiceless

 

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“I want to make it clear: All around us there is a system of degradation, cruelty and killing that can compete with anything the Third Reich was capable of; indeed it can overshadow it, because our system knows no end, it regenerats itself, incessantly giving birth to rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock, just to kill them.”

J.M. Coetzee (Nobel Prize for Literature)

My best regards to all, Venus

 

Farm Animals

The blood farms in South America

 

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It’s a brutal business: On horse farms in South America, mares are held for one purpose only: to take blood from them. For in the blood of pregnant mares is the hormone PMSG – a popular drug in this country for pig breeding. For years, the grievances are denounced. But almost nothing has changed.

 

What is the hormone PMSG used for?

In Europe, PMSG ( Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin) is used to synchronize piglet production. This is mainly used in industrial mass production. One wants to prove the mother sows at the same time.

The so-called insemination engineers of the agricultural industry then only need to come once.
Then all are inseminated at the same time and all get their piglets at the same time within a few hours.

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That is, you can calculate the exact day and hours. Of course this makes the handling  of the production very easy. The piglets can be exhibited at the same time, be fattened and thus slaughtered at the same time. The perfect way to clock the whole production.

On August 28, 2018, ARD magazine FAKT in Germany has repeatedly reported on the conditions on such “blood farms”.

Systematic torment – shock report

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York Ditfurth, board member of the Animal Welfare Foundation, has been fighting for years against the scandalous blood farms in Uruguay. In Europe, the mare’s hormone has been used in pig breeding for 30 years.

The current video footage has made York Ditfurth turn at high risk. After the release of the first images in 2015, the South American “blood farms” had made various promises to improve conditions. So workers should be exchanged and a more animal-friendly handling of the horses be prescribed.

The current recordings show even more catastrophic abuses. They prove that the misery of the mares in South America has not improved. Animal rights activist York Ditfurt is shocked by the scale.
The animal cruelty had never been so detailed in detail.

The hormone is obtained from the blood of pregnant mares on so-called blood farms in South America. The searches of the organization were in Uruguay and Argentina. There are also blood farms in Chile. They were on blood farms in Uruguay and got a picture of themselves.

What exactly happens there?

Basically, the mares have to be pregnant to produce the hormone PMSG at all. They are kept in huge areas under the most adverse circumstances, because the worse the condition of the animals, the more hormone PMSG they produce.

To take blood samples, the pregnant animals are loaded into trucks by Gauchos and brought to these blood farms. There they are driven through a narrow corridor in head boxes. The animals are stunned with a wooden beating and finally they are taken with a blood cannula about ten liters of blood – that is about a quarter of their total blood volume. The mares have to undergo this procedure once or twice a week. That’s why they are barely older than a maximum of six years. About 30 percent of the mares die each year either directly from the consequences of the blood collection or they end up in a slaughterhouse, because they no longer pregnant.

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For 100 grams PMSG be paid around the 850,000 euros. That is a lot of money. If one calculates the cheap acquisition costs and maintenance costs for a mare, money is printed with the blood. From two and a half liters of blood, two milligrams of PMSG are recovered. At least ten liters are tapped from the mares a week. Eleven weeks long. That’s more than 110 liters of blood in one season. PMSG is eventually sold to Europe.

Since the mares only produce the coveted hormone until the 130th day of gestation, the foals are aborted manually as waste because they are not needed. Abortion is also extremely painful for the animals: For example, workers simply scratch the uterus of the horses with their hands. The animals are left to themselves and brought back to the pastures. Veterinary care does not exist.
Way too expensive.

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“The condition has become more brutal for the horses. The tortures are as systematic as they used to be, but much harder … The worker sticks a bamboo stick in the genitals to give a painful impulse so that the mare can go forward so that her blood can be taken off. That’s brute force”.
York Ditfurth, Animal Welfare Foundation

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Why can not anything be done against PMSG trading from a legal perspective? Because PMSG has been an approved drug for 30 years.
Here are the interests of pig breeders and veterinarians who say that PMSG has been proven for 30 years and thus earn a lot of money, against animal welfare.

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The medical preparations made from this primitive torture are also distributed in Germany.

Largest PMSG Distributors: IDT Biologics from Dessau, Germany!

According to the report of the state television magazine FAKT, the company IDT announced that in the future the active substance PMSG would only be sourced from European horse husbandry.
Thus, the largest distributor of the drug in Germany apparently no longer wants to buy in South America.
A success, but the animal cruelty is still not finished. There is another company that still sells PMSG products from the “blood farms” in Germany.

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/politik/gesellschaft/umwelt/hormon-pmsg-tierquaeler-pferdeblut-schweinezucht-suedamerika-100.html

 

My comment: Guidelines of the OIE and the EU Commission exist only for the meat production, but not for the production of an animal by-product, among which the blood serum falls. The customers of PMSG, including European pharmaceutical companies, have so far shown no interest in introducing binding legislation. Because they also benefit from this loophole,  and from the dirty business with the life and suffering of the animals, as always.

And so continues the dirty business of suffering and dying mares and foals in the blood farms.

I think that would as well work with the blood of tortured pharmaceutical entrepreneurs who have something to answer, right?

My best regards to all, Venus