Animal Rights

Animal Rights

Factory Farmimg
1. Advantages:
  1. More efficient
    1. costs less
2. Disadvantages:
  1. suffering and distress, threatens evironment
    1. small cages hormones for fast growth
Groups that protect animal rights
1. RSPCA
2. PETA
3. not buy animal products or fur
4. peaceful protests
5. leaflets, marches, writing to MPs
Do religious believers protect animals?
1. Some religions don't eat animals
2. Hindus -ahimsa, holy cow
3. Sikhs - not to abuse, vegetarian, kindness
Genetically modifying animals
1. Hindus - ahimsa
  1. Cycle of samsara - reincarnations
    1. Animals are important
      1. Against animal experiments
2. Buddhists - rebirth, all life is precious
  1. Against animal experiments
3. christians
  1. god gave animals for human use
    1. saving human lives
      1. for animal testing
Attitudes to eating meat
1. Buddhist- not refuse meat but cannot kill it
2. Christianity- God told people can eat animals
3. Hindus- vegetarian, ahimsa, circle of life

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	Created by laura southwell over 8 years ago