Religious people and atheists should team up to help animals - David Clough - Sentientism 239
About this episode
David Clough discusses the ethical implications of animal welfare and the need for collaboration between religious individuals and atheists.
David Clough is Professor and Chair in Theology and AppliedSciences at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Local Preacher in the Methodist Church. David is also co-president of the charity CreatureKind and he founded the DefaultVeg project, now part of the work of the Better Food Foundation . From 2018 to 2021 hewas Principal Investigator on the Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare (CEFAW) project. David is the author of "On Animals" volumes one and two. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 00:48 Welcome 02:45 David's Intro - Christian theology and ethics particularly re: non-human animals - Writing "On Animals" - "The moral emergency is the way that we're making use of other animals for food" - "That makes very little sense…
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