Animal exploitation is unjustified and therefore should be abolished. Join us in denouncing this injustice as we "Stand Up For Animals" for a second time during the World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat (at a midtown Toronto location to be disclosed to participants 48 hours before the event). This is a bold but peaceful visit inside a location that sells animal flesh. Placards will be provided, and please note that this action calls for the use of iPads. If you can bring one along, message us for details.

The World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat (WWAMs) are intended as a means of promoting debate about the idea of abolishing the production and consumption of sentient beings. We are making this demand in order to move our culture, ideology and social structures closer toward a just society that will cease to treat and perceive nonhuman animals as commodities and property that can be exploited and consumed.

The primary goal of this particular event is not to urge people to change their individual consumption behavior (i.e. by advocating veganism). Of course, it is important to address people as consumers - but we must also address them as citizens. The anti-slavery activists of the 17th and 18th centuries not only sought a boycott of sugar produced by slaves but also clearly expressed the idea that slavery should be banned. Therefore at this event we will be directly denouncing the commodification, ownership and exploitation of nonhuman animals, and advocating a legal ban on the production and consumption of animal products. This event is organized to spread the idea that meat consumption (and other animal products) is unjustified ethically and should therefore be forbidden.

The World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat are organized every year at the end of the months of January, May and September.

Further details about the meat abolition movement are available at:
http://meat-abolition.org/