Destination: unknown

 

English: Compassion in World Farming’s founder, Peter Roberts, campaigning for farm animal welfare (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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These animals experience some of the worst welfare conditions imaginable. Every email sent really can make a difference to the plight of these animals. Please ask friends and family to take action now and help stop this horrific trade.

Millions of animals are transported every year from the EU to destinations including the Middle East, Turkey, Russia and North Africa. Journeys might last hundreds of hours and can even result in the death of the animals involved before they reach their destination. Please act now to stop this trade.

Compassion in World Farming’s Investigations Unit, and European NGOs Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation have trailed animals travelling from the EU to Turkey.

The footage taken during recent investigations is truly shocking: Delays at the border crossing between the EU and Turkey, and overcrowding, led to hunger, dehydration, injury and even death.

Every year, around 700,000 sheep and cattle are exported from the EU to Turkey. Hundreds of thousands are destined for countries in the Middle East, Russia and North Africa. View map in more detail (pdf).

 

The more we care for the happiness of others,

the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

Dalai Lama

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Bears of Romania

Română: Munţii Făgăraş (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bears Of Romania 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYSBears Of Romania

For me, some Canadian Animal-Protectors are Heroes! Today´s Hero: Twyla Francois & Friends

Wenceslas Hollar - Turkeys (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Food Animals (CETFA) is an investigative and educational organization established to examine intensive farming practices, including the transportation and slaughter of animals forced to exist in this system.
		Olivier and Sophie immediately after rescue Photo still from our new joint video with musician jesse thom  Dear CETFA Supporter,    When I first heard the work of Canadian musician jesse thom, I was brought to tears.  His music is haunting, ethereal and emotive, yet clear, honest and innocent.     I knew immediately that we had to work together on a project. Waiting for the Birds to Strike is the result.    The timing of my introduction to jesse was particularly synchronous.  The song jesse sent me: Waiting for the Birds to Strike arrived just after co-investigator Olivier Berreville and I returned from a Granny‘s Poultry turkey barn, where, contrary to company management assurances, we documented the same cruel and abusive loading of baby turkeys that we had two years prior (turkeys reach slaughter-weight at just a few months of age – they’re still blue-eyed and peeping).  We trailed the terrified  turkeys to Granny’s slaughterhouse in Blumenort, Manitoba feeling absolutely helpless to stop their killing.   The next day, we received a call from a supporter in the area telling us they’d found  two shivering, ragged turkeys in the ditch.  The birds must have escaped their captors during the catching.  We ran out, picked up the bedraggled bundles of bones and feathers and brought them home.    The footage in the music video shows their rescue.  Breaking through the darkness of their experience we see Sophie on Olivier’s lap in the car.  Just 2 hours later, and now home, we see Katie, exhausted, sleeping on my lap, while wee Sophie peeps for her mother, then breaking through her fear, slowly approaches me to finally stretch her head back and lay it against my shoulder in what can only be described as a turkey hug.    For months, Katie and Sophie feared our hands but would stare into our faces, searching our eyes to see if it was cruelty or kindness behind them.  Eventually, their fear of hands subsided and they sought even these out for comforting pets.   Our time with Katie and Sophie was bitter sweet and short-lived.  Katie died of congestive heart failure at just 7 months of age.  Sophie, the runt, was allowed 2 additional months because of her smaller size reducing the stress on her heart.  At 9 months of age though, Sophie left us too.   Today’s turkeys have been so genetically selected for large breasts to supply society’s demand for white meat that the birds themselves are kept in a physiological state my colleague Dana Medoro refers to as “not dying.”  They struggle with every breath from the strain their enormous bodies put on their hearts and very quickly, they simply give out.   After seeing the depth of forgiveness of these incredible animals, I hope you too will reconsider your relationship with them.  As a consumer, you have the power to change the future for birds like Sophie and Katie.  Please, stop providing a reason for companies like Granny’s to continue killing them.   Twyla Francois P.S. To download the music from this video please visit http://jessethom.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-for-the-birds-to-strike . Proceeds go to CETFA’s efforts to end animal cruelty.

Streit um Lizenz zum Taubentöten geht vor Bundesgericht

soeben hat es auch die Frankfurter Neue Presse verkündet, dass im

Streit um gewerbsmäßiges Taubentöten (VGH-Kassel-Urteil) das Vet-Amt

Limburg-Weilburg standhaft geblieben und Revision eingelegt hat.
Neben dem Bericht wird eine Abstimmung durchgeführt, die noch reichlich

Beteiligung erfahren sollte (also bitte gern weiterleiten):

http://www.fnp.de/fnp/nachrichten/vermischtes/rmn01.c.9349263.de.htm

Streit um Lizenz zum Taubentöten geht vor Bundesgericht 8 Kommentare

Der Streit zwischen einem Falkner und dem Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg um das gewerbsmäßige Töten von zur Plage gewordenen Tauben soll vom Bundesverwaltungsgericht entschieden werden.

Sind Stadttauben Ungeziefer? Mit dieser Frage beschäftigt sich jetzt auch das Bundesverfassungsgericht. Foto: dpa Limburg. Der Kreis habe Revision gegen die Entscheidung des Hessischen Verwaltungsgerichtshofs (VGH) in dieser Sache eingelegt, bestätigten beide Parteien am Dienstag der Nachrichtenagentur dpa.

Der Kreis muss nun begründen, warum er mit dem Urteil nicht einverstanden ist.

Umfrage: Taubenplage

Darf man Tauben töten, weil sie Schädlinge sind? Oder gilt auch für sie der Tierschutz?

Stadttauben sind grundsätzlich eine Plage. Man sollte sie ohne Einschränkung töten dürfen.

Lasst die Tauben in Frieden! Auch sie sind Lebewesen und sollten unbedingt Tierschutz genießen.

Die Tauben sind ein Problem. Aber es gibt andere Wege, es zu lösen, ohne sie zu töten – etwa, sie einzufangen und in Taubenhäuser einzuquartieren.

Abstimmung hier leider nicht möglich, bitte, zu dem angegeben Link gehen! Danke!

 

Bei dem Streit geht es unter anderem um die Frage, ab wann man von einer Taubenplage sprechen kann. Der VGH hatte entschieden, dass verwilderte Straßentauben Schädlinge sind, wenn sie in großen Schwärmen auftreten.

 Artikel vom 08. November 2011, 13.09 Uhr (letzte Änderung 09. November 2011, 04.14 Uhr

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E-Mail:  info@tierrechte.de

Internet: www.tierrechte.de

 

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Handled with no Care: Export of Live Animals from EU to Turkey

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 The Export of Live Animals From the EU  to Turkey

Tiertransporte in die Türkei stoppen

Hungernde, durstende, schwache und verletzte Tiere. Das ist die bittere Realität der Tiertransporte von der EU in die Türkei. Selbst die schwachen EU-Vorschriften zum Schutz der Tiere werden routinemäßig gebrochen, wie das folgende, aktuelle Video zeigt. Vorsicht! Warnung! Grausame Bilder!

Bitte, schreiben Sie einen Brief an den zuständigen EU-Kommissar John Dalli, die Transporte unverzüglich zu unterbinden. Es folgt ein Schreiben in Englisch:

Here now a letter in English: For the address of Mr. Dalli please, scroll down:

Dear Commissioner Dalli,

I’m deeply appalled by the latest investigation on Live Animal Exports from the EU to Turkey:

What we see is systematic contravention of EU law on  Live Animals Transports that must be stopped immediately.

I therefore ask you to suspend the export of Live Animals to Turkey as a matter of urgency in order to prevent further suffering.

I also urge you to put an end to all long distance Transports of Live Animals.

Sincerely,

…………..

 

EU-Informationen inkl. der Verordnung zum Schutz von Tieren beim Transport finden Sie hier:

Here you´ll find more informatons about transport and animal welfare on transport in the EU:

https://ec.europa.eu/food/animal/welfare/transport/index_de.htm

John DALLI

European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy European Commission B – 1049 Brussels (Belgium) mailto:cab-dalli-webpage@ec.europa.eu?subject=Contact%20the%20Commissioner

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/dalli/contact_en.htm

I/We never want to accuse a nation or persons. I/We only make publicly the

dramatic animal-abuses on transport, here transports to Turkey.