![]() Among these is the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which highlights that right next to the Bible’s text on dominion is a passage saying that God created plants, seeds and fruits to be human food, and therefore human diets should be entirely plant-based ( Genesis 1:29). Several Christian communities teach that instead of ruling and dominating, humans should think of themselves as having stewardship over the planet and every creature. However, there have been some contemporary challenges to this interpretation. For centuries, this text was used to justify slaughter and meat consumption by many who understood it to imply rulership. According to the book of Genesis (1:26), God entrusted humans with dominion over the animal kingdom. The Bible’s depiction of human-animal relations has been used to justify this position. Many proclaim liberty to consume animal flesh as they assume animals to be a gift created for food by God. ![]() You can be the caretaker God has asked you to be.Christianity is often regarded as a staunch opponent of veganism – after all, most Christian denominations are highly carnivorous in their dietary ethics. If what you’ve read here isn’t compatible with your idea of compassion or creation care, order our free vegan starter kit by filling out the form below. come from factory farms, where they are genetically manipulated, mutilated, and denied the fulfillment of every God-given desire and instinct. Ninety-eight percent of animals raised and killed for food in the U.S. Many cows are still conscious and able to feel pain when their limbs are cut off and the skin is ripped from their bodies. ![]() Many cows are still conscious and able to feel pain when their throats are slit. Slaughterhouses are terrifying, dirty places, and slaughter lines never slow. A cow’s natural lifespan is about 25 years, but cows used by the dairy industry are killed after only four or five years.īy the time they are killed, nearly 40 percent of dairy cows are lame because of the intensive confinement, the filth, and the strain of being almost constantly pregnant and giving milk. According to the industry’s own figures, between 30 and 50 percent of dairy cows suffer from mastitis. God made mother cows to produce the right amount of milk to feed her baby.īut because we want more and more milk, she gets mastitis, a painful inflammation of her udder. People who live close to dairy farms say they can hear mothers crying for their babies for days after they are taken.īut she’s been genetically manipulated and drugged to produce about four and a half times as much milk as she would naturally feed her calves. God made cow’s milk to feed baby cows.īut on dairy farms, mother cows are artificially impregnated and their calves are taken from them within a day of birth. God made cows to roam and forage for grasses, but we confine them to feces- and mud-filled feedlots and feed them a highly unnatural diet.Īnd when the conditions make the cows sick, we drug them to make them grow faster and keep them alive long enough to make it to the slaughterhouse. Male calves’ testicles are ripped from their scrotums, and the horns of cows raised for beef are cut or burned off. God made cows, but we mutilate them (without even the small mercy of painkillers). Ranchers restrain cows and press hot irons into their flesh, causing third-degree burns, as the cows bellow in pain and attempt to escape. Cows are God’s, but we mark them as ours. And then humans were told to take care of cows (and the rest of God’s creation).ĭoes this look like caretaking to you? 1.
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