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Beyond Belief: Animals

04/03/2013

Animals

BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Belief, Animals

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the place of animals in the religions of East and West.

Ernie Rea and a panel of guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives discuss the place of animals in the religions of East and West.

The revelation that horse meat has found its way into supermarket products, and that Muslim prisoners have been fed meals containing pork has highlighted again the way food is produced and animals treated.

Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the place of animals in the religions of East and West are Shimon Cohen, Director of Shechita UK, an organisation which defends the Jewish method of slaughtering animals for food; Barbara Gardner, a trustee of the RSPCA and author of The Compassionate Animal; and Shaunaka Rishi Das a Vaisnav priest from the Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies.

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