RE - Short Course - Animal Rights

Sanctity of Life: all life is sacred because it is God-given

Dominion: power over animals.

Sterwardship: humans have the sacred duty to care for the world as God created it.

Factory Farming: raising animals intensively for higher profit.

Free Range: raising animals so they roam freely and live a more natural life.

GM: animals that have been genetically altered in a lab.

Cloning: creating an oraganism that is the exact genetic copy of another.

Fur Trade:

• over 55 million animals are killed for fur
• fur farms keep animals in small cages to save fur from damage, preventing animals from living natural life.made illegal in england and wales in 2000.
• no endangered species are sued
• renewable resouce

Ivory Trade:

• ivory from elephant tusks
• poachers kill elephants for sale in NIgeria
• only dead animals or killed becaese of overpopulation
• poaching funds war

- Christianity:

• "righteous man cares for the needs of his animals"  dominion BUT stewards

- Islam:

• "All false excuses leading to damage should be repudiated" remain complacent to the killings of animals for fur etc.

- Judaism:

• “The righteous person regards the life of his beast” considers they have feelings and a right to a decent life.

-  Buddhism:

• “thou shall not kill” the First Precept is a belief in ‘ahisma’ (no causing harm to self or others)

- Christianity:

• “five sparrows sold for two pennies...not one of them is forgotten by God” birds and animals all valuable to God

- Islam:

• “man who kills even a sparrow ..., without its deserving it” will be punished àcures but minimal sufferiing (sentient beings)

- Hinduism:

• “as a man casts off his clothes, so does the embodied soul" part of the great wheel of samsara (cycle of life, death and rebirth)

- Sikhism:

• “Lord is everywhere and in everyone” Guru Granth Sahib: present in all beings

- Islam:

• “eat from that upon which God's name has been pronounced” Halal,  "Carrion, blood and flesh of swine” forbidden to eat (Haram)

- Christianity:

• God told Noah that “Everything that lives and moves will be food for you” he can eat meat "But must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it”.

- Hinduism:

• “Thou shall not kill” Cows are sacred and are allowed to roam free in India

- Sikhism:

• “All food is pure; for God has provided it for our sustenance” Guru Granth Sahib teaches that all food is pure as God provided it.

- Islam:

• "you may ride on some... may derive food from"  provide us with food and transport. Therefore need to be respected.

- Hinduism:

• "Among the animals the cow was given the most sacred place" à cows give life by providing milk, fuel for heating and transport

-Christianity:

• "righteous man cares for the needs of his animals" dominion BUT stewards

- Buddhism:

• “All living things fear being beaten with clubs” scriptures forbid hunting animals and consider it as abuse.

Sanctity of Life: all life is sacred as it is God-given and should not be destroyed

WMD: biological, chemical and nuclear weapons that kill large numbers of people

War: when countries cannot settle their differences by peaceful means

Peace: absence o conflict/ fellings of wellbeing

Just War:  last resort to prevent real evil

Holy War: religious aims/goals authorised by God or religous leader.

Jihad: struggle against non believers

Karma: somethings bad happening on account of something else

Pacifism: violence against another human being is wrong. War is never justified.

Christianity:

Islam: