Contemporary Activism
Primatt and Tolstoy may seem ahead of their time, but Christianity’s 2000-year-old Scripture provides a solid moral base for anymal liberation. It is a joy to see the warmhearted responses of contemporary Christians to the cruelty and indifference of anymal industries. Some congregations provide food for companion anymals in their church pantries, protect and provide for wildlife on church grounds, offer sermons that focus on anymal concerns, openly support legislation that relieves anymal suffering, and include services that bless anymals or allow for grieving closure with lost companion anymals. Some churches have anymal action groups that hold film screenings, book discussions, Bible studies, or engage in activism online or in their communities. Christian anymal activists might work to assure that vegan foods are offered in their community, whether in their local hospitals, schools, or restaurants.
Our job is to share glimpses of the difference Christ makes. Our job is to demonstrate the radically impractical conviction that one lamb’s rescue is worth any cost.
— Theologian
An activist takes a stand for fishes. (We Animals Media)
In Spain, an anymal activist rescues God’s hens from suffering and premature death in the egg industry—serving God amid creation. (We Animals Media)
One of the single most effective things that Christians can do to steward God’s creation is to adopt a vegan diet.
— Christian anymal activist
Living up to core Christian ethics, following the example of Jesus, honoring what Scriptures tell us about creation, two activists in Spain celebrate rescuing two goats from the milk and meat industries before delivering them safely to a vegan anymal sanctuary. (We Animals Media)
[Give] churches no peace until they take up the cause of animal welfare as a normal and essential part of their work.
— Retired Bishop
Animal activists speaking up on behalf of anymals. (Canada, We Animals Media)
We lifted the freed hens out of the box and set them in the hay. They took small steps and looked around at their new home.... When animals are set free and slaughterhouse equipment is rendered useless, the iniquitous violence against animals is made visible, while our utopia—a society that takes hens and pigs seriously—is rendered clear and concrete, albeit on a small scale. When we act in this way, our means and our ends coincide.
— Christian activist rescuing hens from the food industry
Three activists with hens freshly rescued from an egg industry in Spain. (We Animals Media)