World Day for the End of Speciesism

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The World Day for the End of Speciesism
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World Day for the End of Speciesism 2015, Montreal, Canada
StatusActive
Genre Animal rights
Date(s)Last weekend of August
FrequencyAnnual
VenueVarious locations worldwide
CountryGlobal
Years activeSince 2015
InauguratedAugust 29, 2015
ActivityAdvocacy against speciesism
LeaderVarious animal rights organizations

The World Day for the End of Speciesism (WoDES) is an international event aimed at denouncing speciesism, [1] which is discrimination against non-human animals on the basis of their species. [2] WoDES has been held annually at the end of August since 2015. [3]

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The observance was initiated in 2015 by members of the Swiss association Pour l'Egalité Animale (PEA), [4] which coordinates the international day annually, providing support aids.

Demands

The core demand of the activists at this event is to overcome speciesist ideology, an ideology comparable to racism and sexism, which uses species as the criterion by which individuals are discriminated against. According to Yves Bonnardel, similar suffering should be considered similarly, regardless of the species of the individual suffering. [5] [6]

More specifically, the World Day for the End of Speciesism calls for the abolition of property status for animals, the introduction of animal welfare education in schools, the closure of slaughterhouses, an permanent end to fishing, the removal of animals as subjects of scientific experimentation, and for humans to stop considering animals as exploitable natural resources.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pendyala, Sweta (27 August 2018). "Hyderabadi vegans join hands to end speciesism". ETimes. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "World Day for the End of Speciesism". Animal Ethics . 14 August 2021. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Previous editions". World day for the end of speciesism. 4 April 2018. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Une journée pour en finir avec le spécisme [A day to end speciesism]". lematin.ch (in French). 27 August 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Yves Bonnardel, companion in the 1990s of the magazine Les Cahiers antispécistes (2018). "La révolution antispéciste". PUF.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Alice Develey (25 August 2018). "«L'antispécisme veut abolir la discrimination envers les animaux»". Le Figaro . Retrieved 7 August 2020.
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