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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 | |
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Animal rights |
| Date | Last weekend of August |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Venue | Various locations worldwide |
| Country | Global |
| Years active | Since 2015 |
| Inaugurated | August 29, 2015 |
| Activity | Advocacy againstspeciesism |
| Leader | Variousanimal rights organizations |
TheWorld Day for the End of Speciesism (WoDES) is an international event aimed at denouncingspeciesism,[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]
The observance was initiated in 2015 by members of theSwiss association Pour l'Egalité Animale (PEA),[4] which coordinates the international day annually, providing support aids.
The core demand of the activists at this event is to overcome speciesist ideology, an ideology comparable toracism andsexism, 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 ofproperty status for animals, the introduction ofanimal welfare education in schools, the closure ofslaughterhouses, an permanent end tofishing, the removal of animals as subjects ofscientific experimentation, and for humans to stop consideringanimals as exploitable natural resources.
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