(CN) CAPN Report of 2008 World Animad Week Event

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Please download our English report for the World Animad Week Event (Sep - Oct

2009)

 

full document

http://www.capn.ngo.cn/WAW2008China_en.doc

 

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2008 World Animal Week (WAW) Event

March 2009

 

The Report of our WAW event

 

In commemorating World Vegetarian Day (Oct 1st), World Farm Animals Day (Oct

2nd) and World Animal Day (Oct 4th), Chinese Animal Protection Network

organized 2008 ¡°World Animal Week¡± (WAW) event with the main message ¡°Reduce

Meat Consumption¡± in the first week of October. The slogan of the event ¡°For

Earth, for animals, for myself: reduce meat¡± has been widely circulated, and

was supported by many groups and individuals by various activities. All those

materials and events are published via one of our online project 'Animal Rights

in China' (http://www.arc.ngo.cn).

 

Background & Significance

55 billion farm animals were butchered all over the world to produce meat, eggs

and dairy products.[3] The foundation of ¡°World Farm Animals Day¡± was for

revealing, mourning and memorializing the innocent animals that suffered and

died from unnecessary consumption [1].

 

Though caring for farm animal and avoid meat eating had deep roots in the

Chinese tradition through Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism [2], up to the

date, modern Chinese advocacy community had limited awareness or action on far

animal protection. And Chinese meet consumption is increasing over the years.

As a group pioneered many area of animal protection in the past several years ,

we are long aware the gap of farm animal protection in the country. Thus we

decided to focus on farm animals on our WAW events. This 2008 WAW event was the

first national wide event for farm animal protection that is organized by

native Chinese animal protection organizations. We wished to use this

opportunity to revitalize the positive aspects of Chinese tradition.

Educational booklet (right)

We produced an educational booklet for this event. The booklet covers the

background of event, why reduce meat consumption, how to start, in depth

introduction of World Farm Animal Day, animal rights, vegetarianism, In Vitro

Meat, and a stories of animal activist, those articles were written by our

researchers and staff. The booklet played a vital role in the popularization

and promotion of the event.

Distribution of the open letter and educational booklet

We emailed the educational booklets and the event announcment directly to more

than 20,000 supporters...

 

Acknowledge

Official webpage of our WAW event (Chinese only): http://www.arc.ngo.cn/waw

 

We thank Compassion for Animals Foundation for the funding of printing cost of

the booklet; we thank everyone who has helped us to spread the message of WAW

in China.

 

 

Endnote

 

[1]Farm Animal Consumption in Different Parts of the World in Relation to

Mainland China

Data is retrieved from meat consumption report of United States Department of

Agriculture

Download the full report:

http://www.fas.usda.gov/dlp/circular/2007/livestock_poultry_04-2007.pdf

 

 

[2] For more inform of the Chinese traditional concepts over nature and animals

please see following resources

 

Buddhism on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

Taoism and environmental ethics:

http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3047:1

Nature philosophy in Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism:

http://www.lmcfood.dk/fileadmin/lmc_files/food/Naturephilosophy_Perseminar.pdf

 

[3] http://www.wfad.org/

 

 

WAW event team

Chinese Animal Protection Network

http://www.capn.ngo.cn