The most recent incident, with a cat shot in Larnaca, is clearly only the tip of the iceberg.
https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/tag/animal-abuse/
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A tiger walks up the ramp into the tent
22 Oct 2024: Civil defence teams and residents work together to rescue a horse trapped beneath the rubble of a home destroyed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza.
One more innocent victim, among the many animals so often forgotten in this war not just on humanity, but on all creatures trapped there in this Hell unleashed by Israel, made possible by the United States.
Italy banned male chick killing in 2022, yet the slaughter quietly continues. From the heart of Rome to its most iconic landmark, advocates are demanding action.
March 28, 2025
- Italy banned male chick killing in 2022, but enforcement has stalled due to loopholes and government delays.
- Male chicks are killed in the egg industry because they cannot lay eggs or grow quickly enough for meat. Millions are ground up alive or suffocated each year.
- Animal Equality has long pushed for in-ovo sexing, a technology that determines a chick’s sex before hatching.
- Animal Equality projected a message onto the Colosseum, displaying hatchery footage and urging ministers to enforce the ban.
- Advocates have also taken to the streets, protesting outside Italy’s Agriculture and Health Ministries.
Update February 2025 – Animal Equality projected a message onto the Colosseum, calling for enforcement of Italy’s male chick-killing ban. The display showed footage from hatcheries alongside the faces of the three Italian ministers responsible for implementing the ban. These were accompanied by the words: “Act now, stop the slaughter of male chicks!”
Advocates also launched a manifesto against chick killing, backed by journalist Giulia Innocenzi and singer-songwriter Giorgia.
Update December 2024 – Animal Equality’s Vice President for Europe spoke about male chick killing on TV program Mi Manda Rai Tre.
Update November 2024 – Protesters gathered outside the Agriculture and Health Ministries, condemning delays in the ban’s enforcement.
Update September 2023 – The Italian government outlined enforcement for the male chick killing ban. However, loopholes remain, allowing exceptions for sexing errors, machine failures, and more. A letter signed by Animal Equality and other groups urged the government to close these gaps.
Update August 2023 – Some members of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies–similar to the U.S. House of Representatives–asked to clarify enforcement of the 2022 male chick-killing ban. Officials formally requested answers from the Ministers of Agriculture and Health.
Update August 2022 – Italy’s Chamber of Deputies gave final approval for a ban on male chick killing. The law passed by a wide margin and is slated to take effect by 2026. Animal Equality’s Director for Italy spoke at a press conference to mark the occasion in the Parliament’s press room.
Animal Equality has launched a campaign urging Italy’s government to end the killing of male chicks in the egg industry.
The petition–directed at the Ministries of Agriculture and Health–calls for officials to promote in-ovo sexing technology and support companies that adopt it.
Italy’s largest supermarket chain–Coop–voiced its support just hours after Animal Equality’s campaign launch. The company announced online and in the media that it will adopt in-ovo sexing technology as soon as possible.
Why are male chicks killed in the egg industry?
Around the world, millions of male chicks are killed every year because they can’t lay eggs or grow fast enough for meat. Within hours of hatching, they are typically ground up alive in industrial macerators, gassed, or in some cases, electrocuted.*
*While electrocution is allowed in the U.S., it is not allowed in Europe.
In Italy, tens of millions are discarded as waste each year. The practice is just as widespread in the U.S., where hundreds of millions are killed annually.
Billions of baby birds face death on the day they are born simply because their lives are not profitable. Please sign the petition to end this massacre.
(PLEASE SIGN PETITION ON PAGE)
A proven solution: In-ovo sexing
In-ovo sexing technology identifies a chick’s sex before it hatches, preventing millions of male chicks from being born into the egg industry. Several countries have already adopted this method.
The process works by detecting the embryo’s sex within the first days of fertilization. This is done through a minimally invasive or non-invasive test.
Various in-ovo sexing technologies are available, though some are still in development.
Egg-free: The best way to protect chicks
While in-ovo sexing prevents male chicks from being killed, millions of hens still suffer in the egg industry. They endure short, stressful lives, only to be slaughtered when their production slows.
The simplest, most effective way to protect them is to choose plant-based alternatives. Check out delicious, compassionate, egg-free recipes on Love Veg (https://loveveg.com).
The referenced incident in 2023 in Italian:
https://www.parcoabruzzo.it/dettaglio.php?id=74362
Medieval Displays of Cruelty in Tuscany
https://action.eko.org/campaign/iceland-ban-pmsg
It sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, but it’s real: pregnant horses are restrained and drained of massive amounts of blood, leaving them weak and traumatized —all so the pharmaceutical industry can extract PMSG, a hormone used to fuel factory farms.
And Iceland is at the center of this horror. As the only producer of PMSG in Europe, its blood farms keep industrial animal agriculture running across the continent. Without Iceland’s supply, the entire industry takes a major hit. But right now, we have a rare chance to shut these farms down for good.
Iceland’s government has already admitted that blood farms violate EU animal welfare laws. Under pressure, they’ve pledged to reconsider the future of PMSG production *this year*—to either ban it permanently or allow this cruelty to continue. Meanwhile, Ísteka—the pharmaceutical company profiting from this torture—is lobbying hard to keep blood farms open, pressuring Iceland’s government to protect its bottom line.
This is our moment. If we raise a massive global outcry now, we can drown out Big Pharma’s lobbyists and push Iceland to finally ban PMSG for good.
Tell Iceland: ban PMSG
Thanks to numerous investigations by the Animal Welfare Foundation, the reality of PMSG production in Iceland has been exposed. Their latest undercover investigation in 2023 revealed the true extent of the cruelty behind PMSG extraction, bringing this hidden industry to light.
PMSG is the ultimate symbol of factory farming’s brutality—a hormone extracted from the blood of pregnant horses to fuel mass production of meat. In industrial pig farms across Europe, mother sows are injected with PMSG to hijack their bodies, forcing synchronized pregnancies so factory farms can churn out piglets on a rigid schedule.
Iceland had a chance to stop it. But in 2023, under pressure from Ísteka the government caved. Instead of banning blood farms, they put forward weak regulations and delayed real action until this year. Now, with the future of PMSG on the line, Big Pharma’s lobbyists are back, fighting to keep the cruelty going. This time, we can’t let them win—Iceland’s leaders need to see that people everywhere are demanding they ban PMSG for good. If we act now, we can make this year the turning point.
The Ekō community has taken on this fight before—and won. We pressured two major German pharmaceutical companies to cut ties with blood farms in South America, dealing a big blow to this cruel industry. Now, Iceland is the last major stronghold—and together, we can shut it down.
More Information
Iceland admits to breaching EU law on horse blood farms
Eurogroup for Animals 28 September 2023
Investigation in Iceland: Blood Collection & Laboratory Samples, PMSG Production
Animal Welfare Foundation 18 August 2023
Reprieve until 2025 for blood farms in Iceland?
Eurogroup for Animals 28 March 2023
Prosciutto’s Secret Ingredient: Horse Blood
Sentient Media 30 May 2024
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https://action.eko.org/campaign/iceland-ban-pmsg
‘The paper holds their folded faces to the floor,
… and every day the paper boy brings more’ – ‘Brain Damage’ – Pink Floyd
I hope that I can give you an example here. The county elections – in my individual case Kent county https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kent+england&qpvt=kent+england&form=IGRE&first=1 ‘Please vote for us’ leaflets have now started to arrive; adding yet more paper waste to that heaping up on the doormat anyway each day.
Pauline is an animal buddy who’s photographs you can see on this site – https://worldanimalsvoice.com/?s=pauline
Pauline is also a volunteer animal rescuer for the Greenwich Wildlife Network – a charity founded in 2018. For overseas visitors, Greenwich is an area of South East London. Pauline often tells me, Mark, about many of her rescues; and the wonderful network of the volunteers available.
I do not know Rae personally, but in Pauline we have a mutual friend – and an interest in helping / saving animals in need which all of us share. There is one issue in particular which we all have concerns about – CATAPULTS – particularly when used by youngsters to maim or kill wildlife.
The use of, and resulting terrible suffering caused by catapults on animals is detailed in the following newspaper article by Rae. Here she does a overwiew of daily rescues resulting from the use of catapults,
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/young-people-killing-london-wildlife-b1218708.html
I personally produced a post on this site recently which was directly associated with the same issue; the use of catapults by youngsters on innocent British wildlife. It is almost always the wildlife rescuers who have the task of dealing with the results of catapult usage; dead animals, dying animals or injured animals.
Catapults and their availability to the general public –
w.amazon.co.uk/s?k=catapult&crid=LUU2A3P4WFK3&sprefix=catap%2Caps%2C149&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_5
So, here we are back at the start again; local politics, county elections etc. As the title says they are after your vote, but once elected, they do not generally give a damn anymore. So lets all work together to try and change that; respond to them by phone, e mail etc and TELL THEM, no changes, no vote. They usually do not really give a damn about animal issues; but YOU, AS A VOTER, DO; so lets see them as potential politicians give a damn for once.,
We wish to see immediate changes from all those posting these current election papers, and more importantly, from those in power as OUR political representative MP’s, to take this issue much more seriously; to give the national county police forces the time and the money to take wildlife catapult killings more seriously; as THIS ISSUE IS NOW BECOMING A SERIOUS ONE.
Further, the social media platforms need to constantly check, and instantly remove where necessary, all people and posts associated with this issue – social media talks the talk about ‘controls’ when it comes to issues such as this wildlife killing; but in my personal opinion, these so called controls are about as useful as a chocolate fireman. Social media needs to step up to the plate and act; seriously act, to close down everyone and everything who lives in ‘sickoland’.
The British public support us and our cause; it is as usual the people in power, those who have the ability to implement real change, who are failing to listen once again. So with elections round the corner we can smile at them and say, ‘IF YOU DO NOT TAKE ACTION ON THIS ISSUE, A CONCERN OF MINE; THEN YOU DO NOT GET A VOTE FROM ME’. Simple,
They are supposed to work for you; so make them do it.
Regards to you all – I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon – Mark.
Further information
National Wildlife Crime Unit NWCU
Kent police – Reporting wildlife crimes
https://www.kent.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/wc/wildlife-crime/
and this is what it looks like …
from: https://www.facebook.com/IsraelAgainstLiveShipments/
A site well worth the visit, and proof – if that were needed – that NOT EVERYONE in Israel supports this practice!
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10156047773473433&set=ecnf.100064315824726
Translation of above text:
An excerpt from a biased article in late 2016 about the adequacy of the conditions in the live transports (since then, countless horrors have been documented, all of which turn out to be adequate):
“The issue of animal cruelty is very important to the Ministry of Agriculture and to me personally,” Uri Ariel clarified. “We decided to conduct a surprise inspection of a shipment of calves arriving in Israel, in order to see the reality up close. The conditions on the ship were adequate.”
According to him, the professionals in veterinary services are doing a sacred job to reduce harm to animals, “We are constantly examining new ways to see what else can be done to reduce harm to animals imported into Israel.”
“Animal cruelty is a well-known prohibition in Judaism, an example of which is the rule ‘You shall not muzzle an ox,’ which was already written in the Torah thousands of years ago. Judaism taught humanity not to harm animals, and we as a country see this as a moral and professional obligation,” emphasized the Minister of Agriculture.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1375940542509823.1073742047.488281447942408&type=1&l=71b873bc54
World Animals Voice 