FRIDAY, March 29, 2024
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The global slavery still thriving and accepted

The global slavery still thriving and accepted

No doubt I will be accused by Dr Frank of “hijacking” another international day (“One cow and a load of bullocks on IWD”, Letters, March 11) but, as I flicked through the list of International Days in March, I couldn’t help noticing that March 20 was Day of Happiness.

On the website I read, “Since 2013, the United Nations has celebrated the International Day of Happiness as a way to recognise the importance of happiness in the lives of people around the world.”
But “people” aren’t the only ones to whom happiness is important. It’s important to all sentient beings, including the billions of animals cruelly deprived of their freedom and incarcerated inside our grim, sunless, stinking factory farms. Tragically, most of them die without ever experiencing one moment of happiness in their entire lives.
But another important commemoration date, on March 25, also caught my eye – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
On a website dedicated to the remembrance we are told that the enslavement of the 15 million victims of the black African slave trade was “one of the darkest chapters in human history”.
Hopefully, in the not too distant future, we will look back at man’s cruel enslavement and killing of billions of innocent, sensitive, life-loving animals, and acknowledge that this too was “one of the darkest chapters in history”.
Jenny Moxham
Victoria, Australia

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