Conference/debate about the demand for the abolition of meat

The idea expressed here is that we must now work explicitly towards the legal banning of the production and consumption of animal flesh. It is both a necessary measure, and one possible to obtain without waiting for a revolution in the way of thinking or the organisation of our societies.

“Animals should not be harmed or killed unnecessarily”: throughout the world, this precept is part of common morality. Throughout the world, the consumption of animal products for food is the main reason why humans harm and kill animals, unnecessarily. The aforesaid precept is not without consequence: some people refuse to consume products of animal origin, others reduce their consumption of meat, still others choose products from farms that offer some guarantee on how the animals are treated; some countries pass laws protecting farm animals. But this is not enough to reverse the trend: the number of animals raised and fished in the world is growing inexorably, whilst industrial farming becomes the norm. It is illusory to wait for laws protecting animal welfare to finally ensure decent living and dying conditions for the billions of animals eaten every year: it is difficult for farmers to decide to place the well-being of their animals before the profitability of their farm, and there is neither enough space nor a big enough workforce to properly care for so many animals.

In addition, beyond the minimal precept “One should not mistreat or kill animals unnecessarily”, more and more people worldwide, including many philosophers ethicists, think we should grant basic rights to animals, because they are sentient. The rights not to be locked up, not to be tortured, not to be killed. This implies here as again that, from a moral point of view, we need to abolish animal exploitation.

It is for these reasons that, since 2009, around the world, thousands of actions have already been held to demand the abolition of meat (cf. http://meat-abolition.org/en/announcements) and every year since four years, are taking place on three continents marches for the closing down of all the slaughterhouses (https://stopabattoirs.org).

Come in great number to chat with Yves Bonnardel, one of the coordinators in the world of the World Weeks of actions for the abolition of meat (WWAM : http://meat-abolition.org/en/wwam), and member of the Association PEA - Pour l’égalité animale (For Animal Equality)!
(http://asso-pea.ch/)

Place to be determined.

> Site du mouvement: http://meat-abolition.org/fr/smav
> Site de PEA: www.asso-pea.ch