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Animal Rights Sound Bites
For Conversations with Religious Christians
CLC = Christian Lacking Compassion, AR = Animal Rights
CLC: You should be concerned with the killing of little human babies, not animals.
AR: If you eat the flesh of God's creatures, you cannot call yourself "prolife." You could call yourself "antiabortion," but not "prolife."
AR: Advocating compassion for animals is part of my "prolife" position. I, unlike yourself, am prolife. Prolife = anti-death penalty, antiabortion, and anti-meat eating.
CLC: I am prolife, just prolife for humans.
AR: So your definition of "prolife" means abuse, torture, and killing of all species on earth is permissible, except for one; that's not much of a prolife stance.
AR: The term "prolife" insinuates that you have a deep respect and reverence for the sanctity of life, if you eat the flesh of God's creatures, you condone torture and killing simply for selfish pleasure (taste). It is really disingenuous for an antiabortion meat eater to try to take the moral high ground by calling themselves prolife.
AR: Ex 20:13, "Thou shalt not kill." We eat meat only for pleasure. What other commandments would you break for pleasure? Would you commit adultery or steal?
AR: Religion is a celibration of life. We should attempt to protect and preserve life whenever possible.
CLC: You know, you could really help a lot of humans if you did not waste your time on animal issues.
AR: Compassion is not a zero sum game. Just because one has compassion for God's creatures, does not mean they cannot have compassion for humans. The money I give to animal rights and welfare organizations does not take food from the mouth of a starving child anymore than if someone pays to go to a movie, eats dinner out, or goes on vacation.
AR: We are fortunate that we have people like yourself to help people. I am doing God's work just like Noah did to ensure that "birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground- so they can multiply on earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."
AR: You should be concerned that starving children could eat the grains that are fed to livestock to support your meat based diet.
AR: Luke 12:6: Are not 5 sparrows sold for two pennies? And {yet} not one of them is forgotten or uncared for in the presence of God.
AR: You know, you could help a lot of animals if you just ate a vegan diet.
AR: We share this earth and according to Lev. 19:18, we should love our neighbor as ourselves.
CLC: You should be helping starving children rather than animals
AR: People who have dedicated their lives to helping others typically do not label ANYcharitable acts or contributions as misdirected. However, in the big picture, relative to the truly needy, one could label extravagant expenditures like expensive cars, houses, or vactions as misdirected charity.
AR: Contributing to animal welfare and animal rights causes is charity. Extravagant expenditures like expensive cars, houses, or vacations is misdirected charity.
AR: Misdirected charity are contributions that do not go to the truly needy, like the excess funds spent on vacations, jewelry or expensive cars.
AR: If you use that logic giving money to your local fire department, church, or Scout Troop will not save starving children either. The answer is not to take contributions away from one charity and give to another, the answer is to give more.
AR: If you truly believe that giving money to animals takes away from humans, then give your maximum charitable contribution to human charities. Then the next time you consider purchasing something extravagant for yourself, consider being compassionate to animals.
CLC: You are out of line. Eating meat is necessary for food.
AR: We have no nutritional requirement for meat, we can actually live a more healthy life by only eating a variety of fruits, legumes, vegetables, and grains. People eat meat only for selfish pleasure (taste). We enjoy the primitive practice of putting dead animal body parts in our mouth and are too selfish to consider the suffering and killing that occurs as a consequence of our primitive diet.
AR: If a vegan diet is not a sin, help me understand how eating meat can be morally justified?
AR: We should substitute ethics for morality whenever it makes us more compassionate.
AR: We can be healthy and compassionate each time we sit down to dinner; simply allow your heart to overrule your desire for meat.
CLC: If we could find a cure to AIDS by animal testing, wouldn't it be worth it?
AR: If we could find a cure to AIDS by testing on prisoners, would you think it was worth it?
AR: Would you be willing to offer me your child for medical experiments if it could mean a chance at discovering a cure for AIDS, diabetes, or leukemia?
AR: If I acknowledge that some useful information has been obtained from animal testing, will you acknowledge that today eating meat is not necessary?
AR: The mother of a thalidomide baby would argue that we should not rely on animal testing.
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