Pope
Benedictus XVI
Pope
Benedictus XVI is a ray of hope for the animals. At a
common meal with modern youth from all over the world Pope
Benedictus declined fish, meat and poultry. Instead the
party used a vegetarian meal and the Pope said:
"The right way for Catholics to fight such horrible
instutionalized animal torture is not to eat God's
creatures and to nourish on vegetarian food instead".
Note from Action Against Poisoning: Although belated
hopefully our wish for 2003 comes true!
OUR WISH
FOR 2003
A CLEAR DECLARATION FROM THE CHURCH IN THE MATTER OF ANIMAL
PROTECTION
In many more or less civilized countries animal rights and
protection laws are non existent or disregarded due to
cultural and economical reasons. Consequently animals are
in peril of being neglected, hurt or painfully killed
without any repercussion for the culprits. The issue has
rock bottom priority on the political agenda. So we can not
depend on the political system for effective laws and law
enforcement.
We experienced that in Portugal people refer to their
religion when they refuse to sterilize their cats and dogs:
"we should not interfere in nature's course / God's
creation". It is remarkable that by the same people
deliberate poisoning of animals is accepted as a fact of
life. Obviously this example shows a susceptibility for
religious authority and a failing moral concept of animal
rights.
It is sad to notice that the church - the herald on moral
issues regarding creatures - is not heard on the issue of
animal abuse.
If politicians fail to establish a better life for animals,
the clerical leaders should take the moral stand. The
animals deserve a honest and human judgement.
Please speak out! You might be their only hope.
Papst Benedikt
XVI
Ein Lichtblick
ist Papst Benedikt XVI. Bei einem gemeinsamen Essen mit
Jugendlichen aus aller Welt verzichtete Papst Benedikt auf
Fisch, Fleisch und Geflügel. Statt dessen wurde vegetarisch
gegessen, und der Papst sagte:
„Der beste Weg, wie Katholiken gegen eine solch
entsetzliche, institutionalisierte Tierquälerei angehen
können, ist der, Gottes Geschöpfe
nicht zu essen und sich stattdessen vegetarisch zu
ernähren.“
