August 29, 2026 was the 12th World Day for the End of Speciesism.

Once again, numerous animal advocacy groups around the world organized demonstrations to denounce speciesist discrimination. The World Day promotes five central demands to bring about an animal-inclusive society, including abolishing the property status of animals and shutting down slaughterhouses. Speciesism is an ideology that considers the lives and interests of animals as not worthy of respect simply because they belong to another species. The notion of speciesism can be understood by analogy with racism or sexism; speciesism tends to place animals outside the range of moral consideration. Anti-speciesism is simply the rejection of the use of the species of a sentient being as an argument for disregarding its interests and its life.

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World Day for the End of Speciesism