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Liebe Unterstützer*innen, 

ich habe von animal equalty von deren Petition (siehe oben, man kann sie unterzeichnen, wenn man das Video abspielt) erfahren, und die E-mail der berühmten Schauspielerin Miriam Margolyes erhalten. 
Ich finde es so großartig, daß sie sich zusammen  mit animal equalty für die Tiere einsetzt!!!!!
Leider ist es oft so, daß ich nicht spenden kann, auch wenn ich dies von Herzen gern tun würde...!
Dann bin ich immer dankbar, wenn ich eine Petition unterstützen kann, um den Tieren zu helfen!
Die Petition von animal equalty ist zwar an die britische Regierung gerichtet, aber ich finde es so wichtig, daß alle Politiker erkennen, daß die Menschen weltweit ihre Stimmen für die Tiere erheben! Denn das Leid der "Nutztiere" ist auf der ganzen Welt dasselbe!
Meine Hoffnung ist, daß Politiker aller Nationen unsere Stimmen hören und sich gegenseitig den Rücken stärken, um Maßnahmen ergreifen zu können, die das Leid der Tiere beenden können!!!!!

Darum möchte ich Euch bitten, auch diese Petition von animal equalty zu unterzeichnen. 

Vielen,vielen Dank an Euch alle!!!

Und hier der Text der E-mail von Miriam Margolyes über animal equalty:

 
Hello Sabine,

My name’s Miriam Margolyes. It’s nice to meet you. I’m a British-Australian actress. I suppose I’m most well-known for my roles as Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and Sister Mildred in Call The Midwife, but I have a long career in film and television so you may have seen me elsewhere.

Abigail from Animal Equality suggested that I write to you because you'd be interested to hear about the recent journey I’ve been on. It’s not a physical journey, but a journey of discovery. And a journey about animals.

It’s funny… people think because you’re ‘famous’ - whatever that means! - that you know things. But I’ve been learning every day of my life.

In fact, you won’t have known, but I’ve been reading Animal Equality’s emails and taking action for animals just like you. Our stories probably have a lot in common.

A couple of years ago, I came across an Animal Equality petition on the internet. It was about helping chickens who live short and miserable lives on factory farms in Britain. I couldn’t believe that chickens only have the space of an A4 piece of paper each to live in!

So of course, I signed the petition and it was from there that my journey started. Because the following day I received an email from an Animal Equality investigator called Mark.

He told me about how his world had been turned upside down when he first found out about factory farming and that he’d decided to become an investigator to show more people the truth.

His email intrigued me. What had Mark seen to make such a drastic life decision? And how could he make such a tough choice to go into factory farms and see animals suffering when he loved them so much?

Well more emails came and I kept reading. I learned more and signed more petitions, and soon I received a second email from an investigator. This time it was from an investigator called Jane.

She told me about the latest undercover investigation that she’d been working on. She had gone undercover inside a UK pig farm and she’d seen a mother pig trapped in a tiny, metal crate. The mother pig was laid on the ground and shaking from the pain she was feeling.

She had been forcibly impregnated and had given birth to piglets multiple times already. Every time, she'd been locked into the crate with no room to turn around or comfort her piglets.

Some of them had died there in front of her and the others were taken away. Some piglets were even hammered to death by one of the workers.

I was devastated. I couldn’t believe anyone could do such things to innocent animals.

At the same time, I was amazed by Jane’s strength. She said she'd seen so much suffering that, at times, she’d thought about giving up. But her determination to help animals kept her going. I felt a great sense of gratitude for her courage.

At times it was difficult to read the emails I was receiving because of how sad it all is. But at other times, I was uplifted by the progress being made. My eyes were opened to what chickens and pigs face on factory farms, and I began to feel like I could be a part of the solution.

But there was something I still had to learn.

In February, I received an email from another Animal Equality investigator called Matthew. It contained a video he had recorded of cows on a UK dairy farm. Maybe you saw the video too?

The video showed a young calf being separated from his mother just a few hours after being born. I have to be honest, despite everything I’d learned, it had never occurred to me that cows must be pregnant and give birth to a calf to produce milk.

So of course, it hadn’t occurred to me either that the dairy industry takes the calf away from their mother so we can use the milk. Some mother cows cry out for hours, even days, after the separation.

And what happens to the calf after that is terrible too.

A female calf will face the same fate as her mother. The dairy industry will artificially impregnate her and after she's given birth, they'll separate her calves from her too. This will happen year after year. 

She’ll spend hours of her life standing on concrete floors. The constant milking puts such strain on her body that her bones will become weak and she'll have trouble walking. And she’ll be sent to slaughter at just a few years old when she would live much longer naturally.

And then there’s what happens to the male calves. A male calf is not useful to the dairy industry because he doesn’t produce milk, so he’ll be killed.

The dairy industry used to shoot them right there on the farm. Now they’ll send him to the slaughterhouse. Can you imagine how scared he would be, being pushed into that terrible place to be killed when he’s just a baby?

All of this seems obvious once you know it, but I just didn’t know. 

I don’t mince my words, so I will tell you the truth: it broke my heart. But I was also thankful that this had been brought to my attention. Everyone deserves to know the truth. So I decided I’d do more to help.

Yesterday, Animal Equality launched a new campaign urging the Government to fund plant-based alternatives to dairy products made from cows’ milk. Alternatives like oat milk and soya milk. 

The campaign is also calling for taxpayers’ money to be shifted away from dairy and for financial support to be offered to farmers to help them transition away from dairy too.

I’m supporting the campaign and I’ve narrated a video so that more people will learn about what’s happening to cows on dairy farms.

If we’re successful, more people will choose plant-based options and they’ll drink less cows’ milk, which means fewer cows will be separated and killed.

I really believe we can make a difference. If we all work together, there’s so much we can achieve for animals.

But we also have to look beyond this campaign. If we truly believe in a better world for animals, there’s a lot more work to do.

Fortunately, we’re not alone. We have Animal Equality, we have their brave investigators, and we have each other, as long as we stick together.

And that brings me to the greatest lesson I’ve learned from my journey:

It’s good to be aware and to learn. It’s good to embark on a journey of discovery. But people like you and I, we can do more than that. We can actually save animals.

It’s true, this journey has shown me some tragic things. I never wanted to see chickens unable to move on factory farms, or piglets hammered to death, or calves being torn from their mothers. It makes me very sad when I see what humans are capable of doing to animals.

But I don’t just feel sadness. I also feel hope. I feel hope that the world doesn’t have to be this way, and that every one of us can help to make the world a better place.

And it’s Animal Equality’s brave investigators who give me this hope. They make the tough decision to keep going back to factory farms and slaughterhouses to collect the evidence we need to help animals, even though it’s so hard for them.

The investigators are just like us and they’re doing so much to help animals. We need to help them too.

That’s why I ask you to please support Animal Equality’s investigators by making a donation today.

Right now, every donation made to Animal Equality is being matched by an anonymous donor. This means if you donate today, you'll be able to give twice as much to support the investigators and help animals at no extra cost to you!

It'll be like there's two of you stepping up to help the investigators. It's an amazing opportunity, but it's only here for a short time.

Do it for the animals, do it for the investigators, and do it for yourself, knowing that you’ll wake up tomorrow with a new feeling. 

That as hard as the world can be, there is hope of a better one, and you’re one of the special people making it happen.

 SUPPORT THE INVESTIGATORS

The world is harsh. Let’s make it kinder.

With love and optimism,
 

 
Miriam Margolyes
Actress and Supporter of Animal Equality

P.S. If you set up a monthly donation, your donations will be matched every month for an entire year and you’ll be by the investigators’ side all year-round. Make a donation today.
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