We humans, can be vocal about our rights, respect and dignity. However, we are still fighting for our rights, in terms of war, human rights violation and more. What about animals who cannot even speak for themselves. How do they convey their pains? We humans, have encroached their space i.e., jungles. We have made them our source of eating, entertainment, pet, farming and more. This earth is for everyone and we as humans, have an onus to live in harmony with all the creatures of this world. Therefore, this #WorldAnimalDay was brought into exitance, as there are few handfuls of people who are using animals for their benefits in a very cruel manner!
Through this post we would like to talk about some interesting facts about World Animal Day:
• The first time World Animal Day was celebrated on 24th March 1925 in #germany. Started by Heinrich Zimmermann, a cynologist, who organised the first celebration at the Sports Palace in Berlin, which was reportedly attended by over 5,000 people.
• #ecuador, a #southamerican country is the first country in the world to give legal rights to wild animals.
• The first person to talk and promote about animal rights was Henry Salt. He died in 1939, he was 88 years of age. For 55 years he was much vocal about animal rights and did a lot towards ethical veganism.
• Founder of modern animal rights is Peter Singer For the general information of the masses, the animals too have some rights. They are mentioned below:
• No experiments on animals.
• No breeding and killing animals for food or clothes or medicine.
• No use of animals for hard labour.
• No selective breeding for any reason other than the benefit of the animal. • No hunting.
• No zoos or use of #animals in #entertainment.