Sunday, April 01, 2007

A question that needs a better answer

In the current issue of Best Friends magazine, Best Friends Animal Society executive director Paul Berry asks a question I asked in this blog a year and a half ago: "Why don't churches preach compassion for animals?" The answer of course, isn't that obscure: To do so would require church members to oppose factory farming, change their diets, spay and neuter their pets, and take a close look at the use of laboratory animals. That would make them "extremists" or "crazy" as those of us involved in animal liberation are called on a daily basis.

Says Berry, "...the churches continue to treat concern for animals as a non-issue. Worse yet, the world of animal "rights" is often shunned by the evangelical movement as being "liberal"--even atheistic."

Berry also mentions Matthew Scully, George W. Bush's former speechwriters, who wrote Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy. What a pity that this book isn't a vital part of church study groups.

4 Comments:

With the exception of the Seventh Day Adventists, of course, who often provide small town America with its only vegetarian products in their shops.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:30 AM  

You are absolutely right. It still amazes me, though, that groups such as Farm Sanctuary, HSUS and PETA are considered "hard-line." Of course, PETA gets all the mud slung at it, but all three groups, plus DDAL, have the same values.

By Blogger Diane, at 1:44 PM  

Coincidentally, I just spotted this post on a liberal message board:

It's sad when people treat animals as the moral equal to people....

... it points to the existence of a gaping lack in their lives.

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