The 2011 WWAMs (World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat) had a large amount of participation. Close to two hundred public actions were organized around the world to raise awareness and demand the abolition of meat: in Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Peru, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

A series of events were carried out in the public domain so as to remind people of the widely-held precept according to which sentient beings must not be mistreated or killed unnecessarily, and therefore to demand an end to this carnage.

The actions were very diverse: there were presentations, debates, street performances, a collective exhibition of dozens of corpses of animals in public, leafleting events, information stands, vegan meals, and initiatives around giant "human meat packages" that imitate commercialized meat packages.
  

Antwerp, Belgium
photograph: biteback

The demand for abolition is progressing in the world: it is part of animal rights activism, it's mentioned in publications, and the media is talking about it...

The next WWAM will take place from 23 to 30 January 2012 and coincides with the World Day for the Abolition of Meat on 28 January 2012.

Rennes, France
photograph: nea

The demand for the abolition of meat is the logical political follow-up of one's commitment to vegetarianism and veganism. It is up to society as a whole to legislate regarding the question.

The activities that cause such a massacre do not belong to the liberty of individuals. We will continue to proclaim that the consumption of animal products is indefensible, that our societies must understand what they commit daily on a massive scale: such practices which defy all ethics and have devastating consequences must be abolished as quickly as possible!

May the 21st century see the questioning of the enslavement of animals and the banning of the products of hunting, fishing, and animal farming!

Do you wish to further the cause?

You can make a donation by sending a check payable to "Meat-Abolition.Org" to Meat-Abolition.Org, Ferme Mariveille, 26470 Bellegarde en Diois, France.

You can also order T-shirts, bags, pins, stickers and flyers from contact(at)meat-abolition.org...

... as well as send in your logo along with your website address, join us on Facebook and of course publish announcements for your actions.

Meat-abolition.org: Worldwide promotion of the demand for the abolition of the production and consumption of animal flesh;
that is to say, the prohibition of products that come from hunting, fishing and farming
because they require the exploitation, the suffering and the death of sentient beings.

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.


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