World Day for Farmed Animals Date in the current year: October 2, 2024

World Day for Farmed Animals was launched in 1983 as a special campaign promoting the rights of farm animals and raising awareness of their needless suffering and deaths. The date of the observance was chosen to be October 2 to commemorate birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, a world renowned activist against cruelty in all of its forms and vegetarian.

Every year volunteers and over 500 nonprofit organizations in all 50 states of the USA and also in more than 20 different countries around the world organize vegetarian festivals and promote life without meat. They organize and encourage dialogs with local governors and mayors to issue special proclamations and measures to restrain cruelty towards animals. All animal lovers and those who care about the fate of farm animals can also participate in the event by spreading information about the observance and stopping eating meat. The main objective of the observance is the promotion of vegetarian or vegan lifestyle to ensure a safer life for all animals.