Fighting for protecting animals

As part of the ‘National Animal Rights Day’, hundreds of people gathered at Prasads IMAX over the weekend to create awareness about the cause.

A public speak-out was performed alongside the memorial, addressing species-ism - a form of discrimination fueling the exploitation sentient beings on the ethically irrelevant basis of their species.

“What we are doing to animals is analogous to the human slavery that we cringe at the thought of. Every year, we breed into existence billions of animals only to torture and murder them for our wants (not needs).

Had these victims been humans, we’d have called this an unprecedented genocide. And, this atrocity is being powered by us, the common people!” lamented a volunteer.

Manpreet Singh (Senior Manager, 3M) said, “I was raised non-vegetarian, but after realising the acute animal suffering that our choices cause, I went vegan. Animals want and deserve freedom just like us, so their use is nothing but abuse."

Chinmayee Hiremath who works at Google added, “Six years ago, it struck me that in addition to rejecting sexism, casteism and other social injustices, we must also shun and oppose ‘speciesism’, the discriminatory attitude that causes the exploitation of innocents just because they are not human."