World Week for the Abolition of Meat: 23-30 September 2011

For the third time this year, a World Week of actions for the Abolition of Meat (WWAM) has been organized.  It will run from 23 September to 30 September, 2011.

Animal breeding, fishing, and hunting bring about a constant and immense prejudice against countless sentient beings who suffer and are killed to supply meat.

More than 60 billion land animals are killed each year around the world in order to be eaten. The number of water animals fished or raised to be eaten in fact surpasses this figure.

More and more people throughout the world refuse to support the exploitation of animals for their flesh. Nevertheless, the number of victims of exploitation is growing exponentially: even more animals are being raised in factory farms, even more fish are being caught...

photograph: Colin Gildas / SIPA

The World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat are a chance to publicly state that the consumption of animal products is not a personal choice: indeed, the suffering and death that we inflict on myriads of other sentient beings challenge the very morals of our society.

The moral legitimacy of the exploitation of animals that are raised, hunted, and fished should become the object of a society-wide debate.

We maintain that no convincing argument can justify this permanent massacre: the most extensive bloodshed to have ever existed on our planet must be stopped.

We shall act without pause, until the debate rises to public attention and until our societies make the resulting political decisions.

We wager that the XXIst century will see the abolition of "meat," that is to say, the prohibition of the products of animal breeding, hunting, and fishing.


For in-depth information:
http://meat-abolition.org/
http://meatabolition.blogspot.com/


Contact:
contact(at)meat-abolition.org 
meat.abolition(at)gmail.com