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FARMING/LIVE EXPORTS
If the screams and moans of
the animals used to provide for us could be heard, the sound would be deafening! If their misery and suffering could be felt by us, it
would be unbearable!.
Thanet against live animal exports is a facebook site. - does anyone know who runs this group? Does anyone know if these exports go through Wales? Any info to our rocketmail address (bottom of the front page on WAAC site) Calves and sheep go from Ireland and across England on to Kent, then via Ramsgate Port to Calais and on to who knows where in Europe.
Brave campaigners have been picketing this Port to monitor when these poor (mostly) Calves come in. They get to them in the Night anytime from 12.00 to 4.00 on wednesdays fortnightly - there was also a shipment last friday.
Clearly this obscene abuse of animals is still going on after many years of fighting to stop this terrible cruelty. The media do not do enough to stop this torture - they pander to rotten governments and rich land owners. If people were treated so horrifically then all hell would be to pay.
It's high time somebody in the media had the guts to blow this rotten trade up for what it is, utterly barbaric, and put it on to every front page in the country.
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The conveyor belt of death: Secret footage shows how millions of unwanted British chicks are killed every year
By SEAN POULTERLast updated at 12:17 PM on 3rd November 2010· Comments (50) This is the conveyor belt reality of the millions of chicks that go into Britain's egg farms every year.Thousands of the fluffy yellow chicks will travel the conveyor belts of the hatcheries dotted across the country each day.Half of these chicks, the males, are sorted and immediately discarded - either thrown alive into mascerating machines, which kill instantly, or gassed.Undercover filming by the campaigning welfare group, Viva, has captured the every day reality of the early days of these factory farm chickens.Once hatched, the chicks are placed onto a conveyor belt system to be sexed and sorted.Bleak existence: Once hatched the chicks are placed onto a conveyor belt system to be sexed and sortedImmediately killed: These male chicks have been gassed and are falling out of the machineWhile the females will survive this initial process, their heads are placed into machines that will automatically clip away the ends of their beaks and inoculate them against disease.In some hatcheries the tips of the beaks are removed using a hot wire.This is done to ensure the birds do not peck and injure each other out of the frustration of spending their lives in cramped wire battery cages.The same machine will inoculate them against various diseases common in the cage systems used on farms in Britain and around the world.Even chicks going into other systems, such as free range, will have the end of their beaks cut off.There was nothing illegal in the activities witnessed by Viva's undercover team, however the images demonstrate the reality behind the idyllic farmyard pictures plastered over supermarket egg boxes.Viva is a pro-vegetarian organisation and would prefer people to turn their back on eating eggs. The filming took place at two hatcheries in this country in August.At one, the male chicks are gassed in a machine before the bodies are then packaged to be fed to reptiles.Life and death: This woman is sorting males from females to catch any that were missed in the gassing room and is pictured flinging a male chick from the conveyor belt into a crateComing up for air: This little chick's head was poking out of a crateAt the second the male chicks are picked up in handfuls and dropped alive into a mincing machine in a process known as IMD - Instantaneous Mechanical Destruction.Even chicks going into other systems, such as free range, will have the end of their beaks cut off.The official line of the UK egg producing industry is that this destruction method is uncommon.However, the recent footage demonstrates IMD is routinely used by at least one major hatchery.Both of these slaughter methods are approved by Government's food and farming department, Defra, and the Humane Slaughter Association.Viva campaigns manager, Justin Kerswell, said: 'It is the hidden horror that the egg industry does not want you to see.Star support: Actor Martin Shaw - aka Judge John Deed - backs Viva'For the first time ever in the UK, the egg industry’s number one secret has been exposed: what happens to male chicks.'In egg production male chicks are surplus to requirements, which means that they are sorted from the females in vast warehouses and then killed in their thousands at just a day or two old.'Identical to the chicks you see on Easter greeting cards, these uncomprehending young birds are either sent on a conveyor belt to be gassed or thrown alive into electric mincers.'Our undercover investigator has revealed the awful truth that underpins the British egg industry.'He said: 'The female chicks don’t get it much better. Roughly sorted from the males, they too are transported on a seemingly never ending conveyor belt.'However, they are vaccinated and have the tip of their beaks cut off, which is potentially painful to these young animals.'Mr Kerswell said the conveyor belt system in the egg hatcheries is not unique to the chicks that go into battery cages. The same system is used to sort those which move to barn, free range or even most organic egg farms.'It is an unimaginable waste of life – and all just to bring an egg to your morning table,' he said. The actor Martin Shaw, who starred as Judge John Deed is a vegetarian and supporter of Viva. He described the footage as 'shocking'.He said: 'This exposes the mass murder and mutilation of thousands of baby chicks – at the hands of the British egg industry. Common abroad: Masceration is more widespread in other countries (file photo)'Supporting this cruel industry sees the continuation of the slaughter of male baby birds for no reason, other than their sex.'The British Egg Information Service defended industry practises. Despite the evidence of the Viva footage, the organisation claimed it was unusual to put live chicks into mascerators in this country - although not illegal.It said: 'In the egg industry, on hatching, chicks are immediately segregated into the male and female sexes by feather colour identification. Obviously, only females lay eggs. 'In the past the male chicks were used for poultry meat but the broiler meat industry has now developed specific strains of chicken which grow quickly. The male chicks from egg-laying breeds are not suitable. 'It is therefore necessary to dispose of the male chicks using a method approved by DEFRA and monitored by the Government's Animal Health Agency.'Disposal is normally carried out by exposure to carbon dioxide or a mixture of carbon dioxide and argon, which is quick and painless, following a Code of Practice approved by the Humane Slaughter Association. 'The male chicks then provide a valuable source of food for other species such as reptiles and birds of prey.'It said hatcheries are required to have mascerators by law, but said these are mainly used to dispose of unhatched eggs. 'It is not in the industry's commercial interest to throw chicks alive into mascerators, although this is not illegal,' it said. 'Masceration of live chicks is common in other countries including the USA.'
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HELP VIVA FIGHT THE MEGA DAIRY PRISON'S.
Viva are currently
fighting plans to stop a huge dairy prison. Cows already suffer horrendously for the dairy industry, and they need our help
to save them from these massive animal Belson's, before it's too late.
Without your help, these massive
animal prison's will spread across the UK. Could you live with this on your conscience, because I can't! So let's
do something about it!
Please contact Viva urgently on tel 0117 944 1000 - or check out their website www.viva.org.uk
ABUSE AT ANIMAL MARKET IN BUILGH WELLS
5th Dec 2009
The RSPCA are always asking for donations, yet seem very reluctant
to investigate animal cruelty at markets, unless they have a witness to the abuse and the animals are still in
situ. I was under the impression that the RSPCA had undercover investigators and not just inspectors to bring animal abusers
to justice, therefore preventing further suffering.
Just last Saturday, a member of the public tried unsuccessfully to
get through to the RSPCA to report around a hundred very dejected looking sheep left inside a pen at a
deserted market in Builgh Wells. These bedraggled muddied animals had been at this Market since Thursday (market
day is on a Friday) they'd had no food and more critically no water in over two days. When this lady approached
the animals, one lamb stood, then in despair, lay back down. Understandably, the witness to this cruelty told me she
cried.
Animal markets are a hot bed of animal cruelty, yet the RSPCA seem loathe to do anything about it, unless
a member of the public witnesses the abuse and an Inspector can turn out immediately to see it for himself.
So you might ask, where are all the undercover investigators? Or are these people ficticious and only availbale for TV programmes?
It would seem so!
If you live close to an animal market and are available to report
suffering, then please take incriminating photo's, revealing date, time and location and forward them to me at wacc@rocketmail.com You should also persist with your concerns as soon as possible to the RSPCA
03001234555
This animal welfare organisation are paid a lot of money from the public to look out for animals (and just
pets) in distress. Make your views known to them and don't let them fob you off with clinical one liners.
I once read that 90% of the worlds animal abuse is suffered by farm animals. And it’s easy to see why when you come across regular cases of neglect when taking to the hills. Mind you, you don’t need to go far to see how farm animals are treated, there are plenty of farms close to towns and villages with forlorn animals stuck in filthy sheds, in muck up to their knees.
But this story is about a dead lamb that we found after descending the ridge above Llyn Crafnant. As we approached, at first we thought he was asleep, but quickly realised he was dead but only just, he was still warm. I pulled him away from the wall and the first thing I noticed was his tongue, blue and very swollen, it also looked ulcerated and pustule and there was yellow discharge coming from his nostrils. I understood then, how he came to place his face inside that rock crevice, he must have been in sheer agony and the cool wall offered him some small relief from his suffering. A ewe close by was bleating pitifully, calling for her lamb; her desperate cries so heartbreaking, I’m not ashamed to say that I cried. I vowed to inform the authorities about it the next day, not least because I felt there might be a chance this lamb had died from “blue tongue” and I was concerned for the other lambs. Mind you I needn’t have bothered, Animal Health in Caernarfon were about as much use a chocolate fireguard. I gave them details of the area and where to find the body, but they rang me back a day later to say they couldn't find it. A week went by and I decided to go back and found what they couldn't, the rotting remains of the lamb that was now crawling with maggots. So not only had the farmer NOT removed the carcass as Vet Ms Humphries had "wrongly" assumed, but the farmer hadn’t even bothered to inspect his flock that week. I concluded that Animal Health, Caernarfon, were happy to leave the remains of this lamb [that may well have died from blue tongue] with the farmer they couldn’t even be bothered to identify. Now I’ll admit I'm not an expert on farm animal diseases, but the death of this poor animal should have been checked out properly, if only to rule out a rapidly spreading disease carried by mosquitos and which can devastate a whole flock, if they’re not immunised against it. I'm just amazed how these so-called health officials keep their jobs, when they’re clearly not up to it! I even spoke to a cyclist up at Crafnant who goes there regularly and was told he doesn't bother to inform the authorities anymore when he finds dead sheep, because they always tell him the same thing, “We've been to look and there's no evidence because the farmer removed the animals”. What are these people being paid for when they show no interest in reports from the public about dead animals left to rot? Personally, I’m sick of reporting distressing farm animal neglect and cruelty to authorities like Trading Standards and Animal Health Divisions, because they never do anything about complaints, unless of course it happens to be badgers that need killing? Is it any wonder that bTB is rife when lazy do little, publicly paid servants of the state are seemingly only interested in protecting farmers interests and not the animals, who as far they’re concerned can suffer and rot? Judi