Animal Rights: the Debate explores the issues around around our relationship with animals with hosts Martyn Ford and David Thomas.
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In the Bible we are given a vision of a vegan world: ‘God said: ‘See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food’ [Genesis 1:29]. And elsewhere in the Bible there are positive statements about, and positive images of, our relationship with animals that encourage compassion towards them. Jesus is, after all, born in a cowshed surrounded by animals.
So why are the Jewish and Christian traditions regarded by many – including Anglican bishops – as justifying the exploitation and killing of animals for food? We discuss these and other issues with Joyce D’Silva, a scholar, and author of Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice.
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