The World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat (WWAM) are intended as a means of promoting a political debate around the idea of abolishing the murder of animals for food. Worldwide six million sentient beings are killed for their meat every hour. The number of water animals killed is even greater.  Meat consumption causes more suffering and deaths than any other human activity and is completely unnecessary.

Many groups mobilize to promote this demand. They not only advocate vegetarianism and veganism to individuals but call for society to abandon for ethical reasons, by means of a law, the slaughter of animals and the consumption of their bodies.

We hope that this initiative will strengthen the animal rights movement over the years. It is important to address people not only as consumers but also as citizens just like the anti-slavery activists who, although they were only a small minority, not only sought a boycott of sugar produced by slaves but also clearly expressed the idea that slavery should be banned.

It is important today to question society as a whole about the murder of animals for food so as to open a public debate on the legitimacy of this practice.

During the World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat, conferences, street actions, leafleting and information stands are organized to spread the idea that the consumption of meat cannot be justified ethically and should therefore be forbidden just as human slavery was in its time.

The World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat are organized every year on the weeks that surround the final Saturday of the months of January, May and September.

The World Day for the Abolition of Meat (WDAM) has been held each year since 2009 on the final Saturday of the month of January.

Below is the video of an original action held for the World Day for the Abolition of Meat by Swiss activists in 2007. (Other groups are welcome to use the same format.)

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