To mark the International Day for Animal Rights Animal Equality organization has made ​​on Saturday December 10 at 12 delmediodía in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid a striking protest, in which 400 activists from several countries have held in his hands 400 carcasses of animals that have been victims of consumption for animal rights claim. Cats, rabbits, chickens, pigs, chickens, lambs … are some of the 400 animals that have been part of this protest. Containers collected from farms where they were stacked or removed from the interior of those farms where they died, these animals have gone from being exploited in life and finally discarded as trash to be the protagonists of a formal claim by demanding that the animal rights are respected.

If you’re interested in more of what Steven Pinker says about human violence to other animals (which you might not be) you could hear the seasonal episode of our internet radio show, “Peace on Earth?”. Peter Singer and Gary Francione, in the context of Steven Pinker’s book, talk about whether we animals will ever achieve it. Diana, naturally, asked Steven Pinker himself about it at a talk & via email.