The animals we eat
What does Christian faith mean for how we treat – and eat – animals? All God’s creatures should be able to flourish, says David Clough

WHEN DID YOU LAST HEAR farmed animals talked about in church? My guess is that answers to that question will range from “not recently” to “never”. And that’s a problem, because almost all animals alive today are farmed animals. The combined biomass – that is, the quantity – of all farmed animals is 24 times greater than that of wild land mammals globally. Domesticated chickens alone are now three times the biomass of all wild birds, for instance.
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