The Bible Says Animals are Friends Not Food

Evangelical leader Franklin Graham’s new vegan pledge inspired this thought-provoking article in the Washington Post, which explains why all Christians should be vegan. 

If you want to help your place of worship go vegan, join our Interfaith Vegan Coalition! We are a group of vegan religious and spiritual groups and individuals working together to provide animal liberation materials, resources, and support to activists. We help groups and individuals find ways to show spiritual leaders and people of faith how their religions mandate harmlessness to animals. We offer concrete tools, achievable goals, and public recognition to spiritual and religious communities as they bring their scriptural and heart-centered values of love and compassion into alignment with their daily actions, worship practices, holiday rituals, prayers, and community activities.

Our goals are to:

• Create a declaration from the Interfaith Vegan Coalition that would call upon all people of faith to commit to the highest spiritual ideal of harmlessness to all sentient beings and to creating a world of peace and freedom for all.
• Create or assemble materials for individuals who want to help their places of worship to adopt vegan values including workbooks, flyers, films, lists of suggested speakers, and more for religious education, sermons, workshops, potlucks, and other faith-based activities.
• Organize a free, online conference with multi-day presentations by well-known vegan spiritual leaders. The event would synchronize with the release of Thomas Jackson’s documentary, “The Compassion Project.”

To join our Interfaith Vegan Coalition, please email sustainableactivism@idausa.org. We welcome your ideas, participation, and help to meet the goals outlined above. We will send you the login details for our next online meeting on Monday, January 23, 5-6pm PST (8-9pm EST). This is a wonderful opportunity to unite our efforts to veganize our religious and spiritual communities!