International Animal Rights Day (IARD) aims to serve the same purpose as it does every year – reminding human beings that every creature on the planet deserves to be treated with equal kindness and respect.
ANIMAL RIGHTS ON WTBA 12/09 KRNN JUNEAU FM 102.7: You are invited to join us for blues music to mark Animal Rights Day on the eve thereof.
“Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.”
― César Chávez
“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
― Abraham Lincoln
A sentient animal is one for whom feelings matter
Professor John Webster, University of Bristol.