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December 21, 2012

Food & Faith: Learn about Food Issues

Consider farm animal welfare issues and alternatives from a faith perspective

The first step in developing a faithful position regarding the treatment of farm animals is to consider the issues of industrial animal agriculture and its and alternatives.

From a faith perspective we ask, "How can we be better stewards of God's creatures?"

The following resources can help faith communities get started, whether in small group discussions or congregation-wide settings.

 

In the guide and more

 

Recommended books:

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, Little, Brown, 2009

• Read an interview with Jonathon Safron Foer
• Learn more about the book

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, by Matthew Scully, St. Martins Griffin, 2002

• Preview the book
• Read "A Religious Case for Compassionan for Animals," an essay by Matthew Scully

Animal Factory, by David Kirby, St. Martins Press, 2010

• Read a four-part series featured in All Animals magazine
• Learn more about the book 

Connection to environmental impacts and public health

 

• Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America [PDF]
• HSUS studies & fact sheets on Environmental Impacts of Factory Farming
• Environmental impacts of factory farming

 

More ideas

 

Videos

 

• Eating Mercifully
• A Pig's Tail
• Food Inc.
• Video channel: factory farming

Visit a farm sanctuary

 

• Visit farm animals at a sanctuary on this list provided by Farm Sanctuary