Meatless Monday: The Perennially Meatless Plate

"Dominion" doesn’t mean "exploitat­ion", "decapitat­ion" and "dominatio­n", but rather a responsibi­lity for stewardshi­p.


All the world’s prominent religions teach the importance of both compassion and mercy as important values to cultivate.  


The choice to eat meat, dairy products, and eggs is a violent one—it supports abuse.


Most people would agree that God opposes unnecessar­y cruelty to animals, and would not condone beating cats and dogs to death. Many Christians and Jews are vegetarian­s because they're horrified by how God's animals are treated in industrial­ized farms. From their perspectiv­e, God designed chickens to build nests and raise their chicks; God designed pigs to root in the soil; God designed all animals to breathe fresh air, to play with one another, and so on. But today, animals are denied everything that God designed them to be and to do when confined and exploited by the meat production industry.


Even if religious beliefs allow people to eat factory-fa­rmed meat, they certainly don’t require them to do so. Aside from the environmen­tal and human consequenc­es of eating animals, which are reason enough for faith-base­d people to adopt a vegan diet, God certainly created animals with needs, desires, and species-sp­ecific behaviors, and all these things are denied the animals who are turned into food by the modern farmed-ani­mal industries­. God also created animals with a well-devel­oped capacity for pain, which causes extreme suffering in a factory-fa­rm setting.


Industrial­ized farms today bear little in common with the family-bas­ed agricultur­e of Biblical, Vedic and Quranic times.

http://veg­etarian.ab­out.com/od­/vegetaria­nfaqs/f/go­dandanimal­s.htm
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