What Inside You Makes You Wince?

This blog is part of a series. For the previous posting in the series, please click here.

What do you think? What did God mean when he gave humans “dominion“over Creation?

Scully suggests humans have an instinctive connection with animals.

From a young age, we wince at the sight of animal suffering (hurt dogs, deer hit by cars, abandoned baby birds etc.). We may even feel a natural inclination to intervene to help creatures in need.

Even so, many of our food production practices, which cause unnecessary suffering to animals occur out of sight.

The result?

Our ability to sense our natural response (likely sympathy or maybe even outrage) is removed. So society accepts extreme measures from food producers…without even knowing it (ex: hormone therapy to mature cows an entire lifetime in one year).

Want to read more reflections from Dominion? Check out the next blog in the series here.

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