Does God Support Factory Farms? By PETA's Bruce Friedrich

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Does God Support Factory Farms?

Why You Should Care about the Faith-Based Arguments for (and against) Animal

Liberationby Bruce Friedrich

I’ve been a vegan for 15 years and a full-time animal advocate for more than 6

years. During this time, I’ve noticed that many animal activists are not as

well-versed as they might be in discussing vegetarianism and animal issues with

people of faith. I can understand this. Although a practicing Roman Catholic

with a degree in Religion and a continuing interest in Biblical exegesis, I’ll

admit that even I tire of the common faith-based arguments against animal rights

and vegetarianism. You know them: “God put animals here for our use,” “What

about animal sacrifice in the Bible?,” “But Jesus ate meat,” and so on.

 

It’s understandable (and easy enough) to simply throw up one’s hands and go

about the business of talking to all the people who don’t to the

monotheistic faiths. But I would like to suggest that the level of animal

suffering requires that we make pragmatic decisions, and that a dismissive or

disdainful attitude toward religion does our constituents, the animals, a grave

disservice.

 

According to polls, forty percent of Americans believe in strict creationism,

the Bible-based view that humans were created in final form by God, and are not

the product of evolution. Surely, I figured, this must be the more liberal

notion that, although humans evolved over time, God was involved in setting the

process in motion. But no; according to polls, forty percent of Americans

believe that evolution is wrong. Heck, even my own Catholic Church, no bastion

of liberal thought, accepts evolution.....

 

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