What is it about?
This article argues that Christian theological commitments give Christians strong faith-based reasons to avoid consuming products from the industrial farming of animals.
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Why is it important?
The industrial farming of animals subjects billions of animals to unnecessary cruelty. In the past, Christians recognized that their faith required the rejection of unnecessary cruelty towards animals, and campaigned against it. Christians today, however, often don't recognize the connection between their faith and concern for farmed animals. This article makes the case for the connection. Accepting its conclusions would have radical implications for what's on the menu for Christians.
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The challenge I present in this article is that Christians can properly disagree about whether it is ethical to kill other animals for food, but they should all agree that treating fellow creatures badly and then killing them for food is unchristian. I hope Christian ethicists, and the wider church, will take the challenge seriously and reflect on an appropriate response.
Professor David L. Clough
University of Chester
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This page is a summary of: Consuming Animal Creatures: The Christian Ethics of Eating Animals, Studies in Christian Ethics, February 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0953946816674147.
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