Animal Equality

Animal Equality
Founded 2006
Founder Sharon Núñez, Javier Moreno and Jose Valle
Focus Animal rights
Location
Area served
Spain, UK, India, Italy, Germany, Mexico and Venezuela
Method Education, investigation, open rescues
Key people
 President and International Spokesperson Sharon Núñez
Website www.animalequality.net

Animal Equality is an international non-profit animal rights organization whose aim is "to achieve equal consideration and respect for animals, and the abolition of animal slavery". This approach challenges the concept of speciesism, which considers animals as merely property and thereby of lesser value than humans.[1] Currently the organization is present in Spain, UK, India, Italy, Germany, Mexico and Venezuela. Their activities are concentrated in the cities of Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, Caracas, London, Rome and Purne.

Objectives

The objective of Animal Equality is "to raise awareness of the suffering and deaths of nonhuman animals as victims of speciesism and work towards the abolition of animal use through the promotion of veganism."[2]

Animal Equality does not support welfare reforms, or changes in the way animals are exploited, as the group believes that "reforms in animal treatment benefit exploiters by increasing efficiency and profit, and encourage the public to feel more comfortable about consuming animal products."[2]

Activities

Animal Equality organizes street demonstrations to promote respect for animals.[3] They have also carried out several other direct actions amidst some media coverage, such as human chain-link in from a slaughter house,[4] an open rescue of six pigs[5] and an investigation into the slaughter houses in Spain.[6] Members of the organization slipped down the Toro de Osborne building [7] and the bullring in Las Ventas.[8] In June 2008 they carried out two joint operations in the La Monumental bullring in Barcelona: while two activists slipped down from the façade, four more jumped into the ring after one of the bulls died.[9][10] According to the organization, the activists who jumped into the ring were attacked by the public and workers with the bullring. In July 2008 Animal Equality conducted an investigation in which several activists entered a farm belonging to the Campofrío company and recovered sixteen pigs' corpses which had previously been taken to the company's office.[11]

On 21 January 2009, on a program called "Diario de", Telecinco broadcast images of the assault on the Saragossa bullring carried out by Animal Equality and their raid on a warehouse with 40,000 hens, intended to expose the exploitation of these birds.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Javier Moreno: "No somos los propietarios de los animales" 28 October 2008 El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish)
  2. 1 2 Animal Equality. "Who we are". Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Actividades Igualdad Animal (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ La Policía obliga a unos vegetarianos a desencadenarse del matadero de Móstoles 19 April 2009 20 minutos (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ Ocho activistas se enjaulan en la Puerta del Sol para protestar por el maltrato a los animales El Mundo (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ Igualdad Animal denuncia torturas en los mataderos 27 February 2008 Público (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ Protesta antitaurina ante un toro de Osborne 27 April 2008 Madrid Diario (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ Activistas de Igualdad Animal intentan boicotear la Feria de San Isidro descolgándose por la fachada de Las Ventas 16 May 2008 Europa Press (in Spanish)
  9. ↑ Se descuelgan del tejado de la Monumental para boicotear una corrida de toros 15 June 2008 20 minutos (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ Una protesta antitaurina irrumpe durante una corrida de toros en Barcelona 15 June 2008 soitu.es (in Spanish)
  11. ↑ Llevan quince cerdos muertos a Campofrío contra el maltrato en sus granjas 15 July 2008 20 minutos (in Spanish)
  12. ↑ Desobediencia civil 18 January 2009 Diario de - Telecinco (in Spanish)
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