Animal Law LLM Seminar The limited influence of religious argument in the battle for a fairer legal status of animals used for food Introduction

The limited influence of religious argument in the battle for a fairer legal status of animals used for food Introduction “Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind’; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’” Genesis, The Beginning